Episode 2740 CWSA 02/04/25

and here I am maybe we should do something how about a show anybody up for a show well let me check the stock market for a see well everything's coming back look at that green green green green green green green Green spies up a little bit tessel up 1.5 all right good strong day let me find my comments here then we've got a show stop it why is it playing I'm sure I can make this work all right this is uh Boomer trying to figure out the locals interface so there I am there's the top once you get lost then it's tough to find your way back all right all right we're good to go that's what I like to see I'm ready are you ready good morning everybody and welcome to the highlight of human civilization it's called coffee with Scott Adams and you've never had a better time but if you'd like to take it up to Doge levels you know what I mean all you need for that is a cup marker a glass of tanker taal toin a canteen Jugger flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee join me now for the unparallel pleasure the dope mean of the day the thing that makes everything better and uh happens right now it's called the simultaneous hip go so was so good there are two of them I don't think there are two of them or are there well let's see what's new uh Josh Holly Republican uh has introduced some legislation to make it illegal to use that new cheap AI from China called Deep seek now I think it's been tabled which means that it doesn't have much chance of coming to a vote but do you remember my prediction about deep seek and people said oh no China to figured out a cheaper way to do things and everybody's going to use this and it's going to destroy the American AI industry do you remember what I said I said no eventually there will be laws against it there'll be regulations there'll be tariffs there'll be some damn thing that the US government will have to protect our AI industry and the way we'll do it is make it somehow impractical or illegal to use the Chinese version and here we are now this particular um effort might not pass but you can see what's coming right the the government is not going to let you use a free Chinese AI That's just not going to happen and if they did it would be the dumbest thing that we ever did it would be the Tik Tock risk times a trillion I mean this isn't a tough decision it will be illegal or impractical or kneecapped or something or or has to run on an American server by the way did you see Trump the other day um I guess it was yesterday he was in the Oval Office and as he likes to do now he was signing an executive order but chatting with the reporters and then there were two visitors to his office who makes you wonder why they were there at the same time they just came in to watch the event one of them was Larry ellson and the other was uh uh rer Murdoch now these are two people that Trump knows pretty well um and Larry Ellison was also there not long ago so it seems like Larry ellon Larry Ellis seems like he's in the White House a lot recently what do you think that's about I'm going to go out on a limb and say it could be that the reason Ellis Larry Ellis and um rert Murdoch were there at the same time I wonder if they're going to invest in Tik Tock do you think that maybe they would be involved in that or at least Ellis so I've Got a Feeling there's going to be an announcement soon about some American entity buying the the Tik Tock assets but not the algorithm so look for that and I don't be surprised if you see some billionaires partner up to do that because it's expensive um so Trump apparently he's suing the Pulitzer Prize board members uh for what he would consider giving a prize for the fake news that was reporting on the Russia collusion hoax so imagine being the writers for the New York Times and you're writing about the Russia collusion like it's real turns out none of it was real but you missed the entire story everything that mattered about the story was that it wasn't real that was the story so the people who got the Pulitzer Prize I don't know how many people are involved but New York Times got pull it surprise one of the writers at least didn't get anything right and got a p it surprise so this seems a little extreme to go after the poit prize committee but on the other hand wouldn't you like to know how they made the decision wouldn't you like to know if the decision was entirely based on the quality of the writing or were there any other considerations such as well let's let's get that Trump guy we'll give an award to the people going after him I don't know I'd be interested I'd be interested to know but one thing we can say for sure is that the Pulitzer Prize is worth nothing um I've told you that before I'll quickly I'll I'll reiterate in case you don't know it sometime ago many years ago uh there was a nationally known reporter in my my apartment doing an interview with me about Dilbert and happened to mention that his spouse was on the Pulitzer Prize committee so she would be one of just a small group of people who would decide which books would win the pool at surprise and do you know what the system is they only look at the things that people submit so you have to submit your own work if you don't submit it it's not up for the consideration so they first of all are only looking at the people who submitted and then they just read the books and then they talk about which one they liked why in the world is that a prestigious prize what what is is that little group of book readers the best book readers of all time and their taste should extend to the rest of the world it's a ridiculous prize you know I do appreciate prizes where experts make the decisions experts or a prize where the entire public decides oh you're our favorite actor or actress I get that I mean that's a pretty that's a pretty good prize if the entire group voted for it but if you won three and votes in a five person committee that means nothing nothing you you know that they're going to be virtue signaling and saying oh here's one about a uh crippled black lesbian so this is the best book ever written you know it's like that right so no the bull surprise is a ridiculous thing while the US Navy according to the Daily Mail the US Navy has a a big old laser weapon they're testing and apparently they can just laser out of the sky uh a drone from 5 miles away now what used to be the problem with lasers is that they would use up all their energy and then you know you'd have to recharge them how you going to do that it's going to take while so they'd be vulnerable during the recharging stage but this particular laser is apparently powered by the power of the ship and the article didn't say it but um I think that means the ship is powered by a small nuclear reactor which means that it can kind of keep that weapon running the whole time so um I'm guessing the ship maybe the ship has to slow down maybe it doesn't I don't know maybe it can do both maybe it can navigate and also fire at the same time but it can very at the least it can fire all day long so it can just keep firing has infinite uh infinite ammunition because it's just energy and it's creating the energy where it sits so that's kind of amazing do you think we can get to the point where no I guess I think clouds are still a problem right if you're using a laser weapon can you use zap through a cloud if you if you can identify where something was I don't know about that maybe the laser can go through the cloud you just have to be able to identify where you're shooting by some other means but anyway that could be one of the biggest changes in all of military history moving from bows and arrows to guns to Rockets to lasers you we were always going to be with lasers it was always going to happen all right um it's called the helos system all right let's talk about all the hoaxes you ready for this you're not going to like it because not all the hoaxes are on one side that's just the way it is sorry all right uh do you remember the news that uh that the Doge people had found uh that there was a $50 million budget for uh condoms for Gaza do you remember I said that's not real and people said oh Scott you don't understand you don't understand how bad it is that's real and I said that's not real the the closest that could be to real is that there was money allocated for Reproductive health services and the News came out that there was money for Reproductive Health Services now you could argue that we shouldn't be spending it but if you're going to give Aid to Gaza and you said what's the thing they need most well I would think somewhere in the top three or top five would be reproductive health I that's got to be right near the top of anybody's requirements so the big question would be Aid or no Aid um if you're going to do the aid you might as well do the things that people need the aid for and that would include all manner of reproductive things condoms would be very low on the list but maybe it's better than unwanted pregnancies I suppose especially in that situation so I think uh Trump took the 50 million and took it up to 100 million just because he's Trump so he can um now there's there was also a separate story that the Gaza was not Gaza as in Israel's uh fight with Gaza but there's another place called Gaza in Africa have you heard of this part so apparently there was some Aid that may have also included reproductive Health which means it might have also included some condoms for a place called Gaza in Africa now I'm not sure if that's true or not but here's the thing there was never $50 million just for condoms for Gaza so if if you thought that was 100% true it wasn't 100% true but was it directionally true yes is meaning that if it's in the category of reproductive health and it's a lot of money and it was going to the to the Gins yeah I mean it's directionally true but it sounds pretty bad when you say it's just condoms so I don't mind when Trump exaggerates things that are directionally accurate which is we should take a look at why we're giving anybody any money for anything that's okay with me let's take a closer look do you remember when uh Trump uh turned on the spigots and uh created all that free water for California when we needed it the most do you remember what I said I said really really he he just said open the spigot then all the problems were solved that doesn't sound real to me so I've been looking into it and looking into it and then the next thing I found was that the water situation in California is way too complicated for anybody to understand and explain it's just too complicated but the best I can determine is that not all the water is connected so if even if you turn this spigot in one part of the state it doesn't mean that the firefighters in LA are getting any more water and indeed apparently they did not uh but but you're saying well that's okay as long as the farmers got more water there's no indication that any Farmers got more water but that's okay as long as we don't run out water for residents you know cuz sometimes we have to have to manage our water in California and we have to cut back so if at least solve that but there's no indication to solve that where' the water go and then there's some people saying that he made it worse because he released some water from some dams that we might need later in the year when things get too dry and then other people who know even more say no uh this is before the snow melts once the snow melts those dams that were already nearly full would be overfilled and they would have to release the extra water anyway so all Trump did was release the extra water a few weeks early to basically nothing so here's my challenge to you if you can find any evidence that Trump released some water to any body who could use it let me know okay CU I'm not aware of any water that went to anybody but does it make a great story it really does it's one of the best first CEO stories do I mind that Trump is creating a let's say a brand or reputation or I'm going to say Legend I mean at this point I think Trump has already passed that in politics he's sort of operating in leg territory you know you you can avoid the assassination attempts you avoid the jail you came back against all you know Against All Odds that's not politics right that that's Legend you know they're only a few figures who have ever been in this category um so as a legend he's much more effective meaning that he can get stuff for me and for you and for Americans that he wouldn't be able to do if he were a politician that would be the first term first term politician second term legend the legend can get way more than a non- Legend So if uh embellishing his early successes solidifies his Legend that's probably more good than bad but we still need to fix our water problem California I'm pretty sure that's not fixed so separate separate conversation do you remember the story about uh uh Trump is suing 60 Minutes for editing uh the comml Harris interview and apparently the edits made her look smarter than she was and the 60 Minutes defense is it was ordinary editing it was editing but it was the ordinary editing that they would do for anybody now I've heard this story and I've even talked about this story but you know what I haven't seen and haven't talked about I haven't seen the edit so apparently the full transcript has been released so that you know people digging into it can see exactly what she really said and then compare it to the um video CNN's take is that they've looked at the transcript and they've looked at the edit and it's just a normal edit so do you believe that do you believe CNN's take that it's a normal edit let me tell you something that you wouldn't know unless you've been interviewed lots of times like I have it is completely normal for um entities to change your what you said and put it in quotes let me say that again it's completely normal I'm not saying it's good good is separate we'll talk about whether it's a good it's completely normal for me to do an interview and for them to make up a quote put quotation marks around it and and assign it to me did you know that that's normal it's normal it's really weasy and and almost always they get a quote wrong meaning that when they make up their quote it's not what you would have said and it's not even something you'd agree with unfortunately that's normal now if the madeup quote is so bad you know maybe you'd have some action maybe you'd demand or you know some correction or something but I hate to tell you how normal that is now there's another kind of normal at it where they make you look smarter than you were but the reason they do that has more to do with being good TV it's it's not as much about um making you look good although they do like you to look good because then other people will come on your show if you're a show where you depend on people coming on and saying what they think you want to make them look good so that the next person you ask doesn't say well I saw what you did with the last one there's no way I'm going to go into that you know into that uh torture so you have to be good to your subjects in a fairly public way to stay in business so here here's what would seem to you like a very inappropriate eded and you could argue it is inappropriate but I'm going to only tell you the context how normal it is so let's say if uh if what Comm Harris did was stumble over a question but maybe she she circled back to it in another part of the interview this is not what happened I'm just giving you a for example so let's say the first time she maybe heard the question wrong or or she used a word wrong or she stumbled over a word but then a minute later she circled back because she knew she didn't give a good answer and then gave you nice tight answer well you could argue that showing both answers would be more true because you could see that she messed up one answer but then you'd see that she you know got a tight nice answer when she thought about it for a moment it would be completely normal for the editors to take out the muffed up answer because it makes a cleaner video oh this is what she thinks she said it once not so well she said it once well let's show the one where she said it well would that be do you get sued for that well maybe because in the ter in the context of a political race uh can this person think and talk at the same time is a real big question if it were a celebrity just let's say any Hollywood celebrity you would absolutely make that edit and it would be the right thing to do because you just want the right you want them to look good you want the audience to like it you don't want them to see all the uh you know tripping over their own words so yes that would be an appropriate edit so where it gets interesting is that the only context where that kind of tightening up editing is inappropriate or at least questionable is the exact thing that she would they were doing which is introducing the country to Kam Harris in a tense situation under that very specific situation the public kind of needs to see the whole thing because it's The Stumbling over the words that's that is the show that's the meat that that's not the the fluff that you cut off the top oh let's get rid of some fluff and get down to the meat no the meat would would be when she flubbed something cuz that's exactly what everybody was looking for so I think the the Trump people have an argument but I I think I'm going to side with 60 Minutes uh only on the sense that I don't think they can win if it went to court they might settle and that and that would be a win in itself but uh I don't think they could win in court because it's too close to normal too close to normal it isn't like like I said it's a special case but I don't think it's enough of a special case to to convince a jury well uh so uh Jake Tapper was uh talking to Democrat Chris Murphy and Chris Murphy was listing all the terrible things about I don't know Elon Musk and Trump or whatever but one of the things in his list Chris Murphy's list was that uh Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute and I'm watching this and I'm saying to myself is Jake Tapper going to let that go is he going to let him say that musk made a Nazi salute when we know that's not true and Jake Tapper knows that's not true is he going to let that stand to his credit Jake Tapper said at the end you he let he let uh he let Chris Murphy finish and he said just you know I'm paraphrasing but he said something like you know just to clarify um the Trump campaign says that was not a n Nazi salute but we haven't heard from Elon Musk what you haven't heard from Elon Musk because you think he's going to confirm it was a Nazi salute or you think there's some possibility it was one you piece of you piece of Jake Tapper you know it wasn't intended you know it wasn't and the reason you don't have a quote from Elon Musk is because it's too stupid to even consider answering it directly because nobody with a brain over IQ of 70 thinks that is real we all know it's a stupid question it's a stupid hoax it's like the fine people hoax it's despicable that you would even let that thing continue and it is a complete complete embarrassment to see Ann just a total embarrassment so remember uh the correct response to the did Elon give the uh Nazi salute the correct response is only a idiot would think that oh oh but oh but but did you see what his arm did yes and only a idiot would think he gave a Nazi salute at that time in history smartest guy we know standing in front of a crowd many crowds he's been in front of he knows how that works and you think you're so dumb you think he gave an intentional NY salute you're an idiot there's no other there's no other conversation to be had oh oh but his hand was definitely above his waist no you're a idiot end of story so then uh then right after that cuz I like watching CNN and imagining I'm telling people all the propaganda as it happens like I have this fantasy that I was um I'll get a hold of some college students or maybe some older high school kids in a class and say I want to show you CNN or MSNBC uh and I'm going to stop it every time it goes from news to propaganda stop okay you see where he's acting as if there's some ambiguity about the Nazi salute that's not news that's prop end of what you're watching all right turn it on the next thing they do is they go to a package where somebody's trying to make the case their correspondent that what Trump is doing is exactly what the 2025 uh project said he would do and and all the smart news people have been warning you they've been telling you they've been telling you he's going to use that 2025 as his guideline and now now two-thirds of the things he's done are right in line with the document 2/3 y 2/3 and so they smugly rest their stupid faces like got it we got them two we told you H yeah they denied it those lying Republicans denied it but two-thirds of what he did two-thirds look at my smug stupid face we got him I got him this time any of you have even been casually following the news you know that when Trump said you know I haven't read it that's not my that's not my document you know that everybody said that the document was mostly regular Republican stuff right don't all of you know that I'll bet everyone watching here knows bet every one of you every one of you probably knows that the document was always mostly ordinary Republican stuff and the argument was that there was some stuff in it that was you know a little more extreme than the ordinary Republican stuff and the argument from Trump was he hadn't seen it so he's not buying into that stuff that maybe people think is a little beyond what Republicans typically do and so what CNN discovered in their gotcha was exactly what the Republicans have been saying since the beginning most of that document is normal stuff that of course we agree with the things that you're talking about like a I think it was a national ban on abortion Trump is on record repeatedly saying he doesn't want it so that's just one example so they ended up proving exactly what Republicans claimed it's mostly mostly normal stuff and then there's a bunch of it that Trump doesn't endorse and he didn't do any of those things he didn't do any of those things that he didn't endorse that's in the document so they actually ran a piece that was pure propaganda in which their idiot viewers who are just kept in the dark about any kind of context believe that they saw a proof that the entire election the Republicans were lying about the 2025 and the news was right all along exactly the opposite happened unfuckingbelievable anyway um according to the uh BBC in the news uh the BBC they're uh they say they're confident according to their experts their experts are confident that the LA fires were being made worse by climate change H say how could you be confident about that was was it because one of your climate models said that La would have a fire this year no no there was no model that said that so if you don't have models that can predict what's going to happen in any one micro location why would you say that your models are telling you that that was going to happen in that micro location way do you find out about climate models I know many of you watching this are skeptical about climate change and the climate models in particular but way do you find out you know we're going to talk about us Aid and finding out you know the the deepest darkest most corrupt part of the government has been discovered and it probably blew your mind when you first started learning about us Aid way do you find out about the climate models it it's the only thing I can say with complete certainty oh there will be a day might not be that far away but someday is going to be a whistleblower and somebody who actually works on the models is going to tell you how they do it and you're not going to like it and and this is one that I could wait forever for you know sometimes I'll make a prediction it's like 20 years off and I'll be like I can wait all you can mock me for 20 years I'll just wait and there it is but yeah way till you find out about the models all right um so the other things that are sort of fake news is there's no Panama deal Panama uh made an offer to get rid of the Chinese um operators of the canal in two years when the the deal was going to expire when that was reported by many people as a big success um I said there's no deal that's an offer until Trump says there's a deal you don't have a deal that's just an offer and so what did Trump say when he was asked about it goes we'll see we'll see it's it's not everything I want so Trump was still negotiating so no we don't have a deal in Panama we have an offer the offer seems like a um I would say a good faith offer I hope so um but Trump may say good faith or not faith our you know our national interest requires something extra maybe something faster maybe something that involves I don't know could be something else so Trump being good at negotiating doesn't just say yes to the first offer he says that's a good start what else can you give me because you're not there yet so he knows how to do this so trust him he knows how to do it uh likewise the Mexico deal is not exactly a deal until until a lot of other things are decided but it does appear that Mexico says they're going to put 10,000 people on the border and Canada U may also not be the deal that we think it is meaning that uh they may not be able to do the things that they said there there was a whole bunch of offers that came out of Justin uh Trudeau's office he he posted it on X um he was going to do things like uh create task forces to work on fentanyl put uh lots of bodies on the border have a whole bunch of fental related you know legal efforts so it was a pretty long list and it looked pretty serious and it looked like kind of exactly what you'd want them to do and there was a budget attached and everything but apparently the Canadian government is in such disarray with Trudeau having resigned but still in the job that it's unclear whether they can budget and execute so they may have made a promise that they can't deliver or can't deliver right away or it'll depend can't deliver till the I know the government changes or or they do something to pass a new budget so that might be a little lost in the it might get a little lost in the bureaucracy we'll see um but that's why both Mexico and Canada have 30 days because they're not there yet the the reason Trump put put off the um put off the tariffs on Canada and Mexico for 30 days is because they were moving in the right direction not because they were there if they were there where where Trump needed them to be they wouldn't delay 30 days they would say Okay tariffs are off you gave me what I need but he also talks about tariffs being a you know source of income and he loves them so you maybe nothing makes them go away now on CNN one of their dumbest panelists I can't remember which one uh the one who always does the overt talking of Scott Jennings you know whenever he talks she goes and shakes her head like a bobblehead so that you can only look at her uh she said that Trump failed on Mexico and Canada and you would say wait what uh both of them offered him what you know at least some part of what he wanted and her argument on CNN was no all they offered was what they were going to do anyway so he didn't get anything what what what reporting is that based on now I mention it because it's in the realm of something that could be true meaning I don't reject it automatically but what reporting is she seeing I've seen no reporting that says Canada was going to do all those things anyway so all they did was tell you what you they were going to do anyway I think did she just make that up I I don't even understand how that could be on TV because if it's true then all the reporting would say that on CNN and MSNBC and they'd say haha he got nothing but is there only one if only one person believes it was going to happen anyway so nothing happened how do you keep that person on the air I mean that's just making up stuff isn't it but I I'm open to be wrong I I'm open to finding out there was something to that complaint I don't think so but I'll be open-minded for a minute or two anyway uh according to the Gateway pundit and other sources as well there's new survey KPMG survey that says that half of Canadian businesses 48% actually are planning to move production uh or Investments to the us to stay competitive uh let me put this in context so Trump says they would make a good state but you say to yourself oh Scott come on there they're not going to go from a country to a state like nobody's going to do that I mean it's so far away so far away from anything that's possible it's way outside the realm of possibility because they're a whole functioning country if you're a whole functioning country you're not just going to give yourself up to be a subset of some other Nation that's never going to happen did I mention that half of the Canadian businesses are looking are looking to move to America if half of your businesses are looking to move to America I'm going to whisper this in Biden fashion because it needs a Biden whisper if of your companies are considering moving out of your country uh you're already not a country uh you're more like a Schrodinger's Cat Country you you might be a country but there's just as good an argument that you're not one already because you can't even keep your businesses if half of your businesses are looking to get the hell out of your country and they have the ability to do so and they're operation they've already got plans and operations to move out of your country you're already closer to a state than a nation now I'm not going to predict that Canada will become a state but every time I think that things are a mile from possible and then Trump keeps talking and then something happens where I go really could this actually tip in the the direction of actually happening we're we're watching Trump just change reality right in front of us like what is possible I'll tell you but I I have mixed emotions about this one my common sense hahaa I don't have any um tells me there's no way that Canada becomes a state just no way but then I see stuff like that that half of the compan of the companies want to get out of there and then Trudeau's already resigned I don't know maybe they're not as much of a country as they think they are maybe it's closer than you think I'll still bet against that but uh Trump you know shaking the box that hard it always works for him Trump goes in and Shakes the entire box well we're going to make you a state no no no no no no well we're going to put a tariff on you oh no no no no oh no well how about you just do a whole bunch of things you weren't doing to secure the Border uhuh okay watching Trump shake that box until they will take absolutely any path that gets the box to stop shaking because the thing they can't stand is just shaking oh you got to stop shaking this box well what are you going to do for me well I'm not going to do anything for you shake shake shake shake shake shake shake hey I can do a little for you can you shake shake shake shake shake shake uh I can do a lot for you I can do a lot for you shake shake shake shake shake shake I can do more than I've ever said I could ever do for anybody shake shake shake shake shake shake I can do more than anybody in the whole world has ever done for anybody shake shake shake shake shake okay it's fun to watch one of the things that Trump does better than anybody when it comes to persuasion is creating a clear difference between making him happy and making him unhappy Nobody Does that better if you make me happy oh man I'm going to praise you your your career will look good you're going to get votes you're going to get funding you'll be nationally loved but if I don't like you I'm going to primary your ass I'm going to I'm going to look at charges I'm going to sue you I'm going to I'm going to basic take everything I have and put it against you I'm going to tarff you I'm going to put my military on your property that there is no better technique the single best technique is to make the widest gap between giving him what he wants and not giving him what he wants Nobody Does that better and that that is real basic persuasion if you don't get that part right you know who doesn't get that part right somebody like like Justin Trudeau right because he's the nice guy oh we're nice we're nice we're empathy we're nice we're nice we're nice oh oh we're going to fight back hard we don't like that but we're nice we're nice on the other things we're nice so be our friends oh oh we have a mild displeasure with that thing you're doing oh we don't like it there's no difference between Justin Trudeau being happy and being unhappy like you don't feel any insens to give him what he wants because he's a nice guy but you definitely feel an incentive to give Trump what he wants because the difference between happy and unhappy Trump is a really big difference that's good stuff that's the leader you want Marco Rubio uh went to El Salvador and got a nice surprise so uh buy head of El Salvador who as you know cleaned up the gang problem in El Salvador by building gigantic prison systems and just locking up everybody with a tattoo I'm exaggerating but only a little bit he pretty much locked up everybody with a face tattoo I'm sure they had other charges but I'm also sure that the face tattoo was plenty enough so did that work yes because the gang members put face tattoos on I'm exaggerating about the face tattoos to make a point that he just made sure he got everybody and then he makes an offer to the us through Rubio that if America has a bunch of criminals from other countries that he can take some of the criminals and put them in their prison system and uh they'll just charge us so he'll just charge a fee so we'll have a cheaper solution that keeps them in prison but not in our prisons and then I suppose when they get out then it would be El Salvador's problem about what to do with them I I guess they'd repatriate them I don't know they would have an option but that's a hell of a good offer isn't it yeah every every time you see bui's uh um actions they they have a trump-like quality to them don't they like you don't see a coming which is wonderful because then you you can't stop talking about him and thinking about him because he did something that other people don't do and you know he made a big he made a big point that El Salvador's most important relationship is United States biggest trading partner um they use the US dollar and he just wants to make it super clear that being friends with him is a good idea and being against him is a really bad idea huh huh where did you learn that so being against them means means that you're going to be locked up in prison being for him means uh getting some excellent suggestions like hey how about we take some of your excess prisoners you pay us we've got a prison system they'll fit right in that's what you need so here's the real deal who Kelly is in terms of persuasion all right if there's anything else that goes wrong with him I don't take responsibility the only the only thing I'll I'll take responsibility for is saying oh he's got the full game all right he has the whole package so he he does that thing where being his friend is a way better deal than not being his friend he gets all of it right speaking of getting it right um the big story on the Doge we'll talk about Doge is that there are uh some young people who have key roles uh I don't know how many older people there are who also have key roles but the ones we're talking about are four 20ish year- old kids I'll call them kids because I'm old who are literally Geniuses and we're not talking about uh somebody who just did well on their SATs right we all know somebody who did well on their SATs I know people who acce their SATs I know a guy who got one wrong on his SATs he was a he was a server at my old restaurant um young guy he got one wrong and he retook the SATs he retook them because he got one wrong one one thing he retook it got it all right now that's a really smart person and he's not anywhere in the same category as these four young people that Elan musk hired they're the real deal it's one thing to be able to Ace your SATs uh that's very impressive by the way I couldn't do it not I couldn't get anywhere near that but these guys and they're all guys they're in a whole different level I mean you've heard some stories about what they've done already and uh so of course the Democrats who don't know how anything works are all concerned that these young inexperienced people are looking at some of the most important things you know in the government and making decisions now they're not going to make final decisions but they're like a super weapon that can drill through any impenetrable topic they will not be stopped by complexity they will not be stopped by oh this is hard they will not be stopped by anything that that's what makes them who they are they just won't be stopped now here's the thing that um I don't understand but neither does anybody else and that's going to be my point if I said to you I'm going to take this guy who got um 100% of everything right on the SATs and I'm going to hire him as my lawyer could I predict how well he'll do yes yes you could you would predict that he's not going to forget anything important he's going to take the best arguments he's going to put in the work yeah that'd be quite predictable but it would be predictable within in the Ordinary World because they're ordinary lawyers who do good jobs and you say yeah he's going to be one of those I predict he'll do a good job and you'd be right you know what you can't predict Geniuses Geniuses and you can't predict the rate that they can do anything if you had somebody you know a Rubik's Cube and they're an expert they don't do it a little bit better than you did it's like they're a different animal it's like you're looking at a M you know nothing about you can't look at these four Geniuses and predict anything anything except they're going to get to the bottom of it I don't know how fast it might be faster and better than anything you've ever seen in your life they might be already building AI tools that didn't even exist just to solve a problem right that's how smart they are we're we're talking about Isaac Newton level like if he needs some calculus to solve a problem you invent calculus right that's what we're talking about these are not normal people so just the fact that they're on our side oh my God that's who you want on your side uh of course they've been doxed because the Democrats have one play which is huh you're smarter than us maybe we can kill you they got that one thing huh you're more capable than we are perhaps we can change the laws so you can't do that anymore huh you're really really good at what you do H maybe we need some Dei in there to stop that that that's really all they have is stopping good people from doing good things that's basically the Democrat Party yeah anyway um somebody named Dylan Patel was on a podcast talking about uh Elon musk trying to catch up in the AI world so um so Elon Musk got I guess you could call it the late start because he was early with funding open AI but then he you know pulled out of that effort and when open AI burst on the scene um he tried to be a fast follower but to overtake them as quickly as possible with a better game and his game is so good that he's already built the world's largest AI cluster 200,000 gpus those would be Nvidia boxes and I didn't know this apparently he bought a a factory in Memphis and he upgraded the substation tapped into a natural gas line is burning gas to generate power okay that's impressive but now he's building his own natural gas plant next door uh deploying Tesla megapacks for stable power and using industrial chillers for his water cooled chips so remember I told you that the thing you can't predict about the four Geniuses is how fast they can do anything that's the we don't understand it's like your dog trying to figure out why the light comes on when you enter the room the dog will never figure that out they just they can't get there so when you say Elon Musk is starting behind on AI it's Elon Musk of course ahead already of course he is because he can do stuff that you can't do so there it is and he hires people who can do stuff that you can't do too so yeah he's scaling up fast no doubt about it all right let's talk about us Aid now on one hand it's the hardest Topic in the world to talk about unless somebody's already a little bit up to speed like what the hell is it so it's a um it's something that the it's part of the government but it's a part of the government that works as a giant money laundering system for Democrats now that's not something I could have said with complete confidence until Doge got in there and found out that it's a giant money laundering thing for Democrats now it's not the only thing it does so what makes it complicated is that it's a mix of maybe some things you like maybe we funded some things in other countries and you say you know that made sense that's for that helps us uh and it's also good for the other country but it seems like maybe most of it or at least way too much of it was dedicated to absolutely corrupt Behavior just 100% corrupt and one of the things it could do is it could launder money through these NOS these would be a non-government organization of which there are thousands so if you let's see if I get this right um so if you're a Democrat and you support funding of us Aid the US Aid will give some money to let's say an NGO that's doing something you like and youd say oh okay there's my tax money it went to an organization that has a name at least the name is stuff I like but then that that organization has the ability to give some of their money to another NGO what how can it do that well it can there's nothing illegal about that and then that NGO can give money to a campaign of the Democrat who was in favor of funding the US Aid now I think I got that right now you're going to say to me they can't they can't just donate the money that the government gave them back to a camp no not unless they launder it they have to launder it through these organizations so that by the time the organization donates to something that helps the uh maybe to a pack or to something that helps the campaign it looks like it was just ordinary some kind of ordinary donation so it does seem at this point that it's a major money laundering thing and then you see people like Bill Crystal he's getting some money from it um some say the AOC was uh found by a process that was funded by the usaid where they were looking to find you know young Democrats and turn them into highlevel politicians she was part of a process it was like American Idol where where they interviewed lots of people and they said hey we could turn you into something so there are uh countless examples of what appear to be obvious corruption on top of what seems to be obviously bad ideas for funding but where you see the bad ideas for funding probably they're just it's just a way to laer money into something that they really want to do so now you might say to yourself Scott uh you don't need to get rid of it you could just get rid of the parts you don't like like fire some managers you know do do a reorg uh get some real Republican leadership in there but 98% of them appear to be Democrats which means that they're part of the resistance which means according to uh OMG the uh o'keef Media Group they just did an Undercovers thing and they got one of the USA employees to say on camera he was it was a hidden camera that they were to try to basically burrow in and uh thwart everything that Trump wants and just wait him out exactly what you thought was going to happen because basically the order can be given and then it gets into the bureaucracy and then the bureaucracy just slow walks it and says oh we can't do that or it's not in the budget or we don't have people or it's not our top priority or something so basically the bureaucracy says we're just going to thwart you now we only have you know one person on video but there were reports and Elon Musk confirmed that that is apparently the dominant opinion the dominant opinion is that they're going to um pretend that they're cooperating but thwart the administration so what do you do in that situation only one thing to do you got to close the entire thing down and that's what uh Trump's going to do just close the whole thing $50 billion some say 38 billion but it's it's many billions um of money that they're just going to say we're going to tuck that function temporarily uh under Marco Rubio he's got somebody assigned to it um so it's part of the state department whereas before it was sort of operating as doing stuff for the state department stuff for the Pentagon and stuff for the CIA but now it's going to be tucked under Rubio and uh he does understand that you can't just reform it most of it's just going to have to go away so if you didn't have people who understood that the only way to fix it is to break it uh you wouldn't have a leadership if you have leadership that's smart enough and ballsy enough to say we're going to just cut this down to nothing and the only things we're going to put back because they will put things back back are when the screaming is so loud and the argument is so good if you got a good argument and there there's a lot of energy we're going to look at it and maybe that one function gets added back but we'll keep it under the state department maybe and not under USA so it's perfect leadership what you're seeing it's messy it's violent not in the you know I'm using that hyperbolically not violence violence but it's violent in terms of the rhetoric uh the the the firings you know the the death threats the Doge team I was talking about that got doxed they already got death threats but fortunately the Trump doj has stepped in and said you're going to jail if you do that again if we catch anybody making death threats against these Doge guys you're going to jail yeah and then act blue the group that collects money for the Democrats somehow they were getting they were part of the money laundering operation that's the allegation I don't know the details on that but there's an allegation like that um how are the Democrats uh taking the loss of us Aid which appears to be the Beating Heart of most of their corruption how are they taking it well oh and then I should add that usaid was also the one as Mike Ben does a great job of explaining they funded uh external entities for the purpose of censoring us domestic people like me not cool at all USA so that basically USA did everything you don't want to happen if it's something you didn't want and it was corrupt somewhere in USA that was happening so it's like this grab bag of corruption um the way Elon uh described it was one of the best descriptions you'll ever hear of anything he said it it would be easy to think think it's like an apple that's got a worm in it so if you if you get rid of the worm you know you still have a pretty good apple and he says no it's a bowl of worms there's no apple that is one of the best visual persuasive things you'll ever hear because worms are you can't not see them if I say a bowl of worms you can see the bowl of worms and as soon as I say it's not an apple with one worm it's a bowl of worms you'll never forget that for the rest of your life you'll remember that analogy that's good now that is good I like the fact that Elon somehow he's also become an expert in Persuasion and I don't know to what extent he studies it or he's just picking it up by watching it done um if the only thing he did was hang out with Trump he would become incredible at persuasion you just have to watch what Trump does does watch the visual language you know watch the just watch it all yeah and you'll learn there's an account on X called aesthetica and um this aesthetica whoever runs the account I don't know who it is apparently has some friends that are connected in the Democrat world and they're panicking quite a bit about this USA thing now isn't that interesting that most of you never even heard of a USA didn't even know what it was but the Democrats are panicked why would they be panicked over this thing you never heard of until recently well let me tell you why according to aesthetica talk to a friend who has connections within the Democratic party and he said the level of panic over Trump and Elon shutting down us Aid is unlike anything he's ever seen and it goes on a direct quote this is worse than 911 for Democrats wow USA is the primary vessel they use to achieve their political Agenda USA is and always has been the primary source of funding for their influence pedaling schemes and for their indirect source of income indirect source of income everybody you see going public saying it's a terrible mistake almost all of them are getting funded by us a but it's hard to tell because it might go through a few a few different stages before it gets to him another text uh based on the reactions from within the party it seems to me that dismantling us8 is Trump's biggest political Victory to date it was his enemy's Golden Goose yep it's their Bank um and indeed it's a bigger Bank than Soros you thought Soros was their Bank he was their second biggest bank usaid was the big one even including funding the Soros prosecutors USA funded twice as much as Soros did for Soros prosecutors just imagine that Soros has a multiplier so that he doesn't have to spend all of his money the USA is sort of matching his donations so to speak wow um and then it goes on he said initial Plans by the Democrats is to have their people of usaid hide the partisan funding under uh unimpeachable initiatives so in other words uh funding AIDS prevention and then people go oh I can't get rid of that so um they will push back really hard on certain line items that on the face look like reasonable usaid expenditures so the thing you have to get rid of is the things that look the most like something you'd want to keep because that's where they're going to hide the good stuff um so that's where they'll hide their political spending exactly what I said now how do you fix that if you know the Insiders say they're going to try to hide their funding so that they can keep their influence uh budget intact you have to get rid of the whole thing there's no other way to play it you got to get rid of the whole thing and that's what's going to happen now I do worry uh and Mike Ben warns against this too I do worry that we celebrate too soon because every part of this octopus is going to be fighting like every arm is going to be and they're not started yet they haven't started yet um now let's see um now let's see who's against it now the beauty of the usaid thing like nothing I've ever seen before is that the people who are the most corrupt are the ones who are going to raise their head like prairie dogs and take the lead and saying it's a bad idea to close us Aid and you're going to be able to identify all of the bad guys meaning the people who are either literally corrupt or at least strong backers of a corrupt system so Joy reeda claims that Trump adding any oversight to USA is equivalent to staging a coup okay there you go so Joy Reed and MSNBC are part of the corruption that's all you need to know anybody who's taking the side of usaid now that we know it's a bowl of worms is a bowl of worms so all the worms in the bowl are like oh oh don't do it don't do it I'm a good worm I'm a good worm no Joy Reed all right so you've uh you've made yourself obvious Jen saki also an MSN MSNBC suggests that uh musk targeting usaid because he was uncomfortable how the agency combed corruption oh yeah it's not the corruption of the agency it's that they combat corruption yes what does that sound like it sounds like everything the Democrats ever say about everything whatever you accuse them of they go that's exactly what you're doing that's what you're doing it's all they do projection so yes Jen saki is part of the worms uh and then uh uh was it van Jones I think in CNN um said that uh that Donald Trump is saying by cutting us aid for all these valuable services that he's saying basically we don't care you go die that's the message from the United States government according to Van Jones do you think van Jones gets any indirect funding from USA I don't know but that would be my assumption or at least friends of his do or you know important interests do so van Jones we adding you to the prairie dogs who raised their head and wanted to back usaid see see how useful this is this is the most useful thing you've ever seen I I tell you all the time that if you know what happened you don't know anything because the what happened always has some context that's missing the narrative is always you know magical spinning anyway so if you only know what happened in this case several uh public figures said cutting USA is a bad idea that's what happened you wouldn't know anything but if I told you who did it well now you know everything as soon as you know who the players are well now you know everything I'll go on Jamie Raskin is taking the lead Rasin is like the symbol of the worst parts of the Democrat you know lying corrupt machine if he's involved than anybody else who's taking his side bow of worms bowl of worms AOC is taking a strong stand against cutting the US Aid huh huh bowl of worms um anyway so there's also a possibility that Congress especially some Republicans and this is something Mike Benz warns about um might not vote to close us Aid because there's some there's some conversation about whether Trump has the right to do what he's doing um but I say it's within the executive branch so yes he does but if Congress needs to vote on it or if they just vote on it um they could override the president so they could vote to keep it open for example and then he'd have a problem but it wouldn't happen unless some Republicans voted to keep it open so what's going to happen if some Republicans vote to keep it open now that we know it's a bowl of worms well it would certainly identify those Republicans as part of the corruption do you agree that there is no way any Republican can be in favor of keeping usaid at this point unless they're part of the corruption so what happens if they do what happens if they pop up and there's a few Republicans who say oh it's so important we got to keep it well you're going to have to do something about that because this is way too big to just say well that's their opinion that's the way our system works so we didn't get the votes all right too bad not in this one way too big if if if some Republicans break ranks on this Trump's going to have to finish him he's just going to have to put him into retirement or into jail now jail only if you know they broke some law but pretty much all of them are breaking some law I wouldn't want to start with a person that looked for the crime but probably in every case everybody already knows the crime and they just have to pursue it if they feel like it so if you're a Republican and you're thinking of voting to keep usaid at this point with as much as we know about it you're you better plan for retirement um or at least lower up because it's going to get real expensive and it would be the worst decision you ever made in your life so we hope that doesn't happen but it would reveal who on the democ on the Republican side is corrupt so we're just waiting for the little prairie dog heads to pop up so we can we can add them to the Rasin AOC MSNBC bowl of worms all right I know I'm going to get taken out of context for calling People worms let me just be clear people are not worms even the people I don't like are not worms it's just a good analogy so when I say they're in the bowl of worms they're not worms they're people I deeply disagree with who may or may not be corrupt but people are not worms all right uh confirmation update so the ones we're waiting on to see if they get confirmed would be RFK Jr telsey gabard cash Patel Pam Bondi at the moment the betting markets have all of them looking good do you think the betting markets are an accurate representation I don't think so in this case because I think that if any Republicans break ranks on any of these candidates um they'd be doing it for kind of personal corrupt reasons and I don't think the betting markets can identify people who have personal corrupt reasons so I worry that the betting Market is in no way predictive um we'll see all I can say is to remind people that uh uh if RFK Jr gets voted down by some Republicans again those are some Republicans who better be planning to retire right away cuz life's going to get really hard after that this this one we're not going to take like normal business uh saving children from chronic illnesses I'm sorry that's a little bit bigger than politics we're not going to treat it like politics you you're just going to have to leave the public scene if you're going to vote against this you can't be any part of the public conversation again that that's the end of your that's the end of your role in public one way or the other no violence of course obviously no violence but uh the push back's going to be brutal reputation wise all right um I saw a meme that I laughed about for I think 45 minutes straight I tried to get some work done but I couldn't I couldn't stop laughing about it and you've seen the meme where there's some nervously looking at two buttons and they only have two buttons and the meme gets repurposed for lots of different topics but it always makes me laugh but I saw one where it was the Democrats who only had two buttons and one of the buttons is labeled bring up eggs and the other one is labeled bring up Hitler now one of my favorite things in the realm of humor is when somebody summarizes something so well that the summary is hilarious this is a perfect summary the Democrats have so little left in the tank like they don't have anything to run on they literally bring up eggs or Hitler no matter what you're talking about huh eggs eggs or Hitler or eggs eggs or Hiller I I can't decide now that's funny and it's not too far off uh uh Greg geld on the five yesterday was was talking about how hard it's going to be for the Democrats to distinguish themselves from the party of common sense it's the ultimate High Ground so Trump just owns common sense it's why you won it's the ultimate meet in the middle how about we just do the things that make sense and we can argue about the other things separately common sense now in order to run against common sense you're either going to have to make some weird argument that only you have common sense and they don't but nobody's going to believe that uh or you going to have to argue that uh as as geld said If you're trying to find some distance between common sense and the Democrats the Democrats are going to have to start embracing beastality and Voodoo sacrifice because if you're if you're trying to make some contrast with common sense it's going to be it's going to be a tough task anyway um I would argue that all of the smart people are on the same side at this point the the smart people who are not on the same side are corrupt or hypnotized now some of them like I always talk about my smartest uh Democrat friend he is clearly just hypnotized he's clearly hypnotized would you like a a test to know if you're hypnotized all right do you believe that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute if you believe it you're hypnotized like actually literally hypnotized because that's not something any reasonable person would believe that's so far outside the bounds are reasonable if you ever believed if you ever believed that Trump said in public knowingly and intentionally those neo-nazis are fine people if you ever thought that really happened in the real world you're easily hypnotized you and you are hypnotized if you believe that Trump once said maybe we should drink some bleach or inject some household disinfectants into our body if you think he ever said any of those things or anything like it you're hypnotized right th those are things that you are more associated with cognitive distance you don't really need an argument to learn that those things didn't happen do you know why I said all those things didn't happen the moment the moment the rumor came up because if you're not hypnotized you don't even need to look at the details you just say oh no he wouldn't give Nazi salute no nobody's complimenting Nazis in public as from the presidency that never happened no nobody's nobody's suggesting ingesting household disinfectants you don't need to look at the details on the surface those could only be believed by people who are literally literally hypnotized now I don't mean that they sat in the chair and somebody you know did a hypnosis induction but they're not operating in the real world they're operating in in an imaginary world in their head and you can identify it by whether not they Embrace things like the fine people Oaks and the Nazi salute as soon as you find somebody who is it doesn't matter what their IQ is they're trapped because they can't use their IQ their IQ just gets turned off by the hypnosis so let me modify my statement I said that all the smart people are on one side meaning that even if they don't like everything about Trump they can recognize that what he's doing are exactly the things we need to have done even if it's messy and it will be messy and they know that cutting the government budget is not a want it's a necessity we have to do it and they know that cutting it in a way that's painful to a lot of people is unfortunately 100% required there's no way around it so all the smart people who are not hypnotized are on the same side now so you have to add the not hypnotized um let me give you an example so here's AOC just gave a little video in which she said I swear I'm not making this up she was talking about Elon Musk and she said about Elon Musk quote he is one of the most unintelligent billionaires I've ever met or seen then she added that Elon has a quote lack of intelligence and lack of expertise and is quote morally vacant but also just least knowledgeable about these systems that we really know of okay does that sound like a real person talking did do I need to give like the counterargument about how Elon Musk actually is smart no you could just look at this and say all right either you're completely corrupt and you're just trying to save the US Aid with a crazy argument or you're hypnotized or you're like my you know I use this example a lot when I enter a room the lights go on sometimes I use my voice to you know use it with my digital assistant sometimes I hit the switch on the wall sometimes the lights are you know motion detected and my dog doesn't know why the lights come on when I enter rooms the only thing my dog knows is that when she wants me to give her a treat which is every single time I walk past her and I don't give her a treat I must be stupid oh my God I must be the least intelligent human I've ever met or seen my dog thinks my lack of intelligence and lack of expertise in giving dogs treats is morally vacant but also I might be the least knowledgeable thing about the systems involving treats for my dog it it's just so entertaining why watching you know otherwise normal people go into complete retardation this is impressive Nicole Shanahan was on comic Dave Smith's podcast and said there's a there's some mystery about uh Bernie Sanders and she said I quote this is Nicole shanan I asked myself was Bernie a scop all along was he a deep state plant now uh she's just asking the question she's not saying that he is but the mystery is why does Bernie act the way he does especially lately like what's like what's behind it all was he always you know being run by somebody else is he still being run by somebody else and he's just a cutout for something now I don't know the answers to any of it but here's what I think is funny that we've narrowed down what's wrong with Bernie to four possibilities we meaning all of us four possibilities I don't know which would which it is one Bernie is a deep State scop and always was two he's an idiot with good intentions three he's an idiot with bad intentions or four he's a deep State s up and also an idiot with bad intentions those are the only possibilities you you can completely rule out he's an honest broker with good ideas that are different from yours yeah there's something going on and whatever it is it's bad so four choices well I didn't know there's a doge subcommittee in Congress but apparently Marjorie Taylor green is the house chair of the Doge Committee in subcommittee I guess and uh is going to invite in NPR's uh Katherine mayor that's the head of NPR and PBS's Paula ker to testify about their bias now this is in the context of one of the uh PBS is it PBS or NPR um I forget Yuri Berliner which is he NPR I think he's NPR um he was suspended because he complained about the bias in his employer and now he's uh apparently now resigned but he said that they his employer went from a liberal knee-jerk uh that went from being biased you know sort of liberal leaning which you know we understand everybody's biased so that's not the worst thing but it went from being just liberal to a knee-jerk activist scolds and he couldn't handle that anymore was that PBS or NPR the those are those are being conflated in my mind anyway doesn't matter because I'm sure it was the same at both places so we'll see what comes out of that um there are more Doge updates coming there's something about the Department of Education that's going to be gutted or removed uh the EPA might have a thousand employees could be gone there's something about the the Ned Ned probably going to hear three more things the the best thing that doge is doing uh besides the good work they're doing is that they're keeping that Overton window so rapid that the news can't use their main trick to brainwash the public the main trick of the news is repetition if they repeat something enough their viewers think it must be true I mean it couldn't be on the news every single night unless it's true like somebody would have at some point said hey this isn't true but if you're on CNN or MSNBC they don't bring on the opposite voices that often so although CNN does does a real effort to do it but it's it's always a minority voice um as long as they don't have too many people too often talking on the other side they can just keep hitting their hoaxes until you think they're true but they can't do that and also pretend they're a news organ ganization unless they cover all the new news because you're not going to turn on MSNBC if they're talking about what happened last month you're looking for the new news so as long as Doge and Trump keep creating new news and it's it's like a fire hose they have to spend time on it and so so their Trump and musk are using up all their shelf space you know they only have this this so much time and each show only has so much much time and they got to cover the news there's nothing left for the for the endless repeating of the hoaxes so if you take away their endless repeating of hoaxes it essentially neuters the entire monster because it's their main tool their main tool is repetition of things that aren't true it's the main tool and the Overton window takes it away it's brilliant I've never seen anybody do it like that before but it's brilliant um so here's where we're getting close to the line of what is too far and I do not mind when the Trump Administration gets close to the line of what's going too far because often that's the only place that works sometimes you got to be close to the line of what's going too far and that's exactly where you want to be and I would argue that in much of what's Happening getting real close to the line of going too far is Right Where I want them to be but I don't want them to go too far so with that context um apparently the uh the Trump Administration has gotten a hold of the names of all the FBI officials who worked on January 6 cases so they've all been identified I guess or five or 6,000 of them and there were 2400 cases now what the uh yeah there are 5,000 of them have been identified so here's the thing you need to know uh these are more the worker bees these are not the leadership so the the FBI officials who are working on a Case are the people who would work on other cases too and they would be very experienced or they wouldn't be in those jobs so if you lost 5,000 totally experienced people who were simply doing what their boss told them to do that would feel like too far if if their only crime was to go to work and do the assignment their boss told them too far but uh apparently they're they're all going to be given a chance to fill out a questionnaire in which you'll ask them what exactly did you do and my hope is that they look at each of them individually um I think it would be a mistake and obviously the Trump knows it would be a mistake to just fire them because again they were not the decision makers but I do imagine that if the questionnaire is correctly stated and let's say they're under oath to uh I don't know if they'd be under oath but uh they should it's at least a fireable offense if they lie on the document I would think government document so let's get them on record and if they ask the right questions and they're not gotcha questions I I will not put up with any gotcha questions the no fake questions on the questionnaire that's not good enough but if it identifies something like a strong bias and I'm not sure how they would um then maybe in some cases those people got to go uh if 4,000 of them get fired I'm not going to be delighted because I don't know that they really looked at them individually and found out something that was you know decision-making on their part but they might they might so this one is definitely right on the edge of too far uh the thing that makes me pull back is that they are going to look at them individually as long as you're looking at them individually and you tell us this needs to be transparent you need to tell us what criteria you're using IF of them are fired and I got to know that the criteria is being evenly applied and it's a criteria that passes the sniff test all right so remember what what I say over and over again which is if you supported Trump you're part of the team and part of that team means that you need to be a guard rail wherever a guard rail needs to be put up now we do like that you know Doge and Trump have a wide operating birth right you know that they can they can operate without being constrained but that's even more important why the supporters need to be the guardrail so let's make sure that we don't lose you know our own Center on this make sure that you're helpful because if you're in the fight you know and Trump's in the fight yeah elon's in the fight you could easily just accidentally you know lose sight of where that line is so let's make sure that doesn't happen um so one of one of the ideas that Trump came up with is The Sovereign wealth fund and I realize that not everybody knows what that is that requires a little bit of explanation uh interestingly Joel Pollock's book the agenda which came out in the summer the summary yeah um suggests this very thing to that the US should have a sovereign heal fund it's one of many suggestions in the book it's a book full of suggestions of what Trump could do in the you know in the beginning of his term and it was a great book you should see it um so here's what a sovereign wealth fund is it's basically uh where a country can make investments and then it just keeps in the fund and then the country has access to that fund for whatever they might need it for later um which could be more Investments so the types of things that would be in this fund would be for example let's say if Trump gets his way with Tik Tock and he said hey the government in the United States should own half of it because if I don't approve its sale it will be worth zero so if if the government has to be involved to make it have value we should keep part of the value so let's say that um the government gets a bunch of shares of Tik Tok and the sale goes through and maybe Elson or somebody buys it and then a few billion dollars worth of value just gets in stock gets put in this fund now we could sell it or we could ride it because if we think it's going up and it's a good investment well we keep it then here's another thing suppose uh suppose the Special Forces uh start making real progress against the cartels I'm told that one of the biggest things that the cartels do to fund their operation is gigantic pallets of cash because obviously they don't want to write checks for their illegal business so they have to move gigantic shipments of physical cash suppose uh the Special Forces go after the cartels and figure out where their giant bundles of cash are well who does that belong to does it belong to Meo does it belong to whoever finds it well I would say it belongs to the United States government so we take their big piles of cash and just put it in the Sovereign wealth fund and by the way these are just examples I'm not saying that any of this would happen um how about how about if there is a joint venture Beyond Tik Tock that would never work unless the government was involved for example let's say uh we wanted to uh create a mineral here's a good example uh one of the things Trump wants to do is keep the mineral rights for Rare Earth minerals in Ukraine as sort of a payback for the Military Support we give them in Ukraine now do you think that we could be safe in having a rare Earth mineral mining operation in Ukraine unless the US government was part of protect it in case you know Russia got aggressive well probably not you probably couldn't even have that business unless the US government was going to protect it with the military so shouldn't the US government get a share get a little share of that maybe it should maybe half right so you can imagine all these situations that only Trump could identify because he's the dealmaker where he would say you know what you'd better have something for the Sovereign fund or else you know we're not going to do that thing or you're not going to do that thing there's probably a whole bunch of those situations that Trump would see that other people just wouldn't even see I mean the Tik Tock thing where he says we should get half of it nobody else saw that the the idea of getting you know taking control of the rare earth in Ukraine nobody else saw that or at least they didn't mention it so he is uniquely able to see hey why aren why are we we not making money from that thing and you need a sovereign fund to sort of organize all of our thoughts around it so that then we understand it go oh he found another thing for The Sovereign fund oh The Sovereign fund is up 20% good job now keep in mind that The Sovereign fund would be an asset owned by the government our biggest problem is our debt if your debt stays the same this would be wildly optimistic but if our debt we could get under control and the asset started growing at some point the asset could be big enough that we could use it to pay off part of the debt so it's a The Sovereign wealth fund is actually also a debt relief mechanism because it gives you that option you don't have to use it for that but it gives you the option uh you could put a bunch of Bitcoin in it uh and there's probably a bunch of other things you could do so it's a good idea um there's a study according to S poost there's a study that the uh Tik Tock was better for uh Republicans than Democrats in this latest election so apparently there was more there were more Democrats who saw prot Trump stuff than there were Republicans who saw pro- Democrat stuff so that's being defined as being better for Republicans now like all studies it might be true but there are a lot of things that I have questions for if the only thing you knew is who saw what you don't really know anything it really matters what they saw if if uh the Democrats were saw more Trump stuff but the stuff they saw was the silly stuff like it's not the stuff that persuades anybody well then it doesn't matter how much they see they can see an infin amount of non-p persuasive stuff it wouldn't make any difference what matters is exactly what they see and this doesn't capture that so remember when the Russians tried to interfere with their troll their troll memes and the News treated it like that was real and it mattered and then you looked at the actual memes and they were just ridiculously bad they they look like a seventh grade school project I mean really they did seriously they look like a seventh grade school project now anybody who knows anything about persuasion would look at those and say oh that's the same as zero it's zero it just rounds to zero there's not even the slightest possibility that those handful of Russian memes that they put $100,000 into could have possibly moved our election that is not possible all right so I wouldn't trust any uh survey of Tik tok's influence because they leave out the influence they just count numbers and that's not how you do it all right um I promised you that I would uh some of you that I'd give you some ADHD hacks I was listening I was watching a big thread on X about it and you might know that ADHD is a goes two ways uh one is that it can you know be really hard to get anything done because your mind is going a million miles an hour and you got too many things in your mind but um those same people have the ability to really deeply concentrate but only on things they care about the difference seems to be that the ADHD people are searching for dopamine and if they can't find any their mind goes everywhere trying to look for it but those few things they really love uh give them dopamine hits when they spend time so they can go deeper into a single topic than normal people because they're really getting the dopamine hit but only if they like it now I didn't realize how bad my ADHD was until I saw the thread about an example of people with ADHD which is you can't walk out the door without forgetting something because your your brain is in too many places I can't walk out the door without forgetting something but um I'm also a high functioning professional so how could it be that I have uh obviously I have pretty bad ADHD how could that be when I'm also one of the most disciplined workers you've ever met seven days a week I'm always here unless I'm sick right so here's how I basically have a brain hack for every part of the ADHD that bothers me and I'll share you some of them it doesn't mean they'll work for you but what it does mean is you might be able to also come up with your own brain hacks now keep in mind I'm a hypnotist I'm a trained hypnotist and so I tinker with my own mind like a hypnotist would Tinker with somebody else's mind so many of the things that a hypnotist could do to another person's mind I can do to myself cu I have the skills and so I've hacked my own brain to take care of a lot of the ADHD things and you can too so let me give you some of the tricks number one uh when I'm leaving the house in the summer I can if if I just try to remember what I need I will not do it so instead I remember five the number five and when I walk toward my exit I think five and the reason I think it is because I've trained myself that whenever I see the exit I think five in the summer why five in the summer because in the summer you need your phone you need your key fob for your car you need if you're a bald guy you need a hat and you need sunscreen and in some cases I like to bring my headphones five you know if I'm going to the gym for example I'd want make sure I had my headphones so I walk to the door and go five phone oh I forgot the key then the second thing I do is I leave the things that I might forget really near the door so I don't have to walk upstairs ever everything's right by the door so it's either in my car already such as my sunglasses and my hat I keep my sunglasses cuz they're prescription I keep my sunglasses is in the car because even if I'm not going to drive I almost always walk past the car in the garage to leave my house even if I'm just taking a walk so I've found a hack that I can leave the house without 15 trips and I then I Chang the number in Winter because I don't need the sunscreen as much I probably should but I don't and and the hat Etc so that's one trick so you you find a number that tells you the things the number of things you have to remember before you open that door and then if you do it enough remember repetition repetition is persuasion you just have to repeat it repeat it repeat it repeat it until you can't forget it that's that's the hant district all right here's another one in the morning uh the one of the reasons I start at often 3:30 in the morning or 4: in the morning just whenever I'm awake is that uh my ad PhD is by far at the lowest so the first several hours of the morning I sit in complete darkness so I I darken all the lights I have the drapes pulled and the only light is my screen of my computer and a a little light I put on my keyboard so it's easier to see the see the keyboard and that's it and the reason I do that is that nobody's awake or at least nobody that would be getting you know getting in my way um the dog is asleep the noises are predictable there's not like daytime noises of you know there's no Gardener doing anything or anything uh phone isn't ringing I don't have anything else on my calendar and I'm doing something I want to do which is I love looking at the news and then talking about it so getting rid of all your distractions is the other hack I also if it's the afternoon and and I want to do something like write a check I can't do it do you know why I can't write a check because as hard as I try to concentrate I can't get any dopamine from that task I just desperately don't want to be writing little things on a piece of paper in the year 2025 desperately I don't want to do it and so my brain won't let me do it so if I start writing a check I I take like the whole checkbook and I leave it there and I start ripping up the checks as I make mistakes and it's always the same I'll be like all right concentrate concentrate date what is the date date is date write the date all right concentrate concentrate um I think I've got to go to the store today oh I just wrote my grocery list on the check rip it up try again and just over and over again because I can't concentrate all the way through writing a number that's how bad it is if I'm writing you know $425 I can get to maybe the two but by the five I'm thinking about uh five other things I can't finish that oh just lost my just lost my thing here all right I think I've lost you so let's see if I can reenter this let's see if you can hear me and see me I'm back all right I think I'm back your comments will catch up in a moment all right so what I do is I don't write checks I know I can't do it I have somebody else do it I just asked somebody else uh if you want a check you fill it out and I'll sign it so in 2025 I am so angered by anybody asking me for a little piece of paper I will not write a check I just say you write it I'll sign it here's the check if it doesn't work out I'll send I'll give you another one but I'm not going to do that I'm never going to write on that little piece of paper you write it I'll sign it so you have to come up with a whole bunch of little hacks uh this is also the reason I can't write dates down correctly you've noticed that my Comics are always misdated it's because I can't concentrate through all the way thinking through a date it's too boring so here's how I settle it in the afternoon uh a real good exercise routine so I do my exercise around you know lunchtime or noonish usually not too far after and that that settles my brain down because it gives me a dopamine thing that lasts a little while and then I can do some boring things uh the other thing I do is if I'm drawing I have to be absolutely medicated and watching a TV show because if I draw Dilbert one more time oh my god do you know how many times I've drawn Dilbert's head that's a lot that's a lot so maybe tens of thousands of times so those are some of my tricks the the other trick is chanting and I've told you this one if your ADHD is just an of control you chant the thing you're trying to do which is look for the file look for the file look for the file what's that dog doing no look for the file look for the file huh these steps need a little bit no look for the file look for the file I should really vacuum this no look for the file look for the file look for the file that actually works and I I've taught that to a number of people the the chanting sometimes it just gets so bad that if you're not chanting it you can't even walk across the room so try that but here's the bigger thing the bigger thing is that you could probably hack your brain to find workarounds for each of the little ADHD things that are bothering you and that's my advice on ADHD all right there's a biotech company that uh has now I guess a nasal spray that uses some molecular pilicide magic mushrooms that uh pretty much immediately helps people with hard to treat depression so they're in the middle of their clinical trial but so far it seems to be almost magically effective so it's a small ireland-based company GH research and it's an inhaled version so imagine that imagine if you could if you could just go and give yourself a little nasal spray or inhale it however however they inhale it maybe they inhale it a different way um and it just removes your depression but I also wonder would it give you dopamine I would think that you couldn't remove your depression without some dopamine being in the mix right so could it be possible that this removes your depression but also your ADHD because if it gives you dopamine with just one inhale maybe that's the dopamine I needed to write my check maybe that's the dopamine I needed to concentrate on writing the date correctly maybe so it could be that there's a cure for depression and ADHD at the same time just speculating trying to be optimistic that's my show for today I know it wouldn't way too long that's probably why I got cut off I'll say uh I'm going to say goodbye to everybody here so locals I usually spend time with you but I'm way over time so let's not let's not milk it any further than we need to I'll see you tonight locals in the man cave everybody else thanks for joining sorry I went long hope it was worth it by on X and You.

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mean of the day the thing that makes

everything better and uh happens right

now it's called the simultaneous hip

go so was so good there are two of them

I don't think there are two of

them or are

there well let's see what's new uh Josh

Holly

Republican uh has introduced some

legislation to make it illegal to use

that new cheap AI from China called Deep

seek now I think it's been tabled which

means that it doesn't have much chance

of coming to a vote but do you remember

my prediction about deep seek and people

said oh no China to figured out a

cheaper way to do things and everybody's

going to use this and it's going to

destroy the American AI industry do you

remember what I said I said

no eventually there will be laws against

it there'll be regulations there'll be

tariffs there'll be some damn thing that

the US government will have to protect

our AI industry and the way we'll do it

is make it

somehow impractical or illegal to use

the Chinese version and here we are now

this particular um effort might not pass

but you can see what's coming right the

the government is not going to let you

use a free Chinese AI That's just not

going to happen and if they did it would

be the dumbest thing that we ever did it

would be the Tik Tock risk times a

trillion I mean this isn't a tough

decision

it will be illegal or impractical or

kneecapped or

something or or has to run on an

American server by the way did you see

Trump the other day um I guess it was

yesterday he was in the Oval Office and

as he likes to do now he was signing an

executive order but chatting with the

reporters and then there were two

visitors to his

office who makes you wonder why they

were there at the same time they just

came in to watch the event one of them

was Larry

ellson and the other was uh uh rer

Murdoch now these are two people that

Trump knows pretty well um

and Larry Ellison was also there not

long ago so it seems like Larry ellon

Larry Ellis seems like he's in the White

House a lot recently what do you think

that's

about I'm going to go out on a

limb and say it could be that the reason

Ellis Larry Ellis and um rert Murdoch

were there at the same time I wonder if

they're going to invest in Tik

Tock do you think that maybe they would

be involved in that or at least Ellis so

I've Got a Feeling there's going to be

an announcement soon about some American

entity buying the the Tik Tock assets

but not the algorithm so look for that

and I don't be surprised if you see

some billionaires partner up to do that

because it's

expensive

um so Trump apparently he's suing the

Pulitzer Prize board members uh for what

he would consider giving a prize for the

fake

news that was reporting on the Russia

collusion hoax so imagine being the

writers for the New York Times and

you're writing about the Russia

collusion like it's real turns out none

of it was real but you missed the entire

story everything that mattered about the

story was that it wasn't real that was

the story so the people who got the

Pulitzer Prize I don't know how many

people are involved but New York Times

got pull it surprise one of the writers

at

least didn't get anything right and got

a p it surprise so this seems a little

extreme to go after the poit prize

committee but on the other hand wouldn't

you like to know how they made the

decision wouldn't you like to know if

the decision was entirely based on the

quality of the

writing or were there any other

considerations such as well let's let's

get that Trump guy we'll give an award

to the people going after him I don't

know I'd be interested I'd be interested

to know but one thing we can say for

sure is that the Pulitzer Prize is worth

nothing um I've told you that before

I'll quickly I'll I'll reiterate in case

you don't know it sometime ago many

years ago uh there was a nationally

known reporter in my my apartment doing

an interview with me about Dilbert and

happened to mention that his spouse was

on the Pulitzer Prize committee so she

would be one of just a small group of

people who would decide which books

would win the pool at surprise and do

you know what the system is they only

look at the things that people submit so

you have to submit your own work if you

don't submit it it's not up for the

consideration so they first of all are

only looking at the people who

submitted and then they just read the

books and then they talk about which one

they

liked why in the world is that a

prestigious prize what what is is that

little group of book readers the best

book readers of all time and their taste

should extend to the rest of the world

it's a ridiculous prize you know I do

appreciate prizes where experts make the

decisions experts or a prize where the

entire public decides oh you're our

favorite actor or actress I get that I

mean that's a pretty that's a pretty

good prize if the entire group voted for

it but if you won three and votes in a

five person

committee that means nothing nothing you

you know that they're going to be virtue

signaling and saying oh here's one about

a uh crippled black lesbian so this is

the best book ever written you know it's

like that right so no the bull surprise

is a ridiculous

thing while the US Navy according to the

Daily Mail the US Navy has a a big old

laser weapon they're testing and

apparently they can just laser out of

the sky uh a drone from 5 miles

away now what used to be the problem

with lasers is that they would use up

all their energy and then you know you'd

have to recharge them how you going to

do that it's going to take while so

they'd be vulnerable during the

recharging stage but this particular

laser is apparently powered by the power

of the ship and the article didn't say

it but um I think that means the ship is

powered by a small nuclear

reactor which means that it can kind of

keep that weapon running the whole time

so um I'm guessing the ship maybe the

ship has to slow down maybe it doesn't I

don't know maybe it can do both maybe it

can navigate and also fire at the same

time but it can very at the least it can

fire all day long so it can just keep

firing has infinite uh infinite

ammunition because it's just energy and

it's creating the energy where it sits

so that's kind of

amazing do you think we can get to the

point where no I guess I think clouds

are still a problem right if you're

using a laser

weapon can you use zap through a cloud

if you if you can identify where

something was I don't know about that

maybe the laser can go through the cloud

you just have to be able to identify

where you're shooting by some other

means but anyway that could be one of

the biggest changes in all of military

history moving from bows and arrows to

guns to Rockets to

lasers you we were always going to be

with lasers it was always going to

happen all right um it's called the

helos system all right let's talk about

all the

hoaxes you ready for this you're not

going to like it because not all the

hoaxes are on one

side that's just the way it is

sorry all right uh do you remember the

news that uh that the Doge people had

found uh that there was a $50 million

budget for uh condoms for

Gaza do you remember I said that's not

real and people said oh Scott you don't

understand you don't understand how bad

it is that's real and I said that's not

real the the closest that could be to

real is that there was money allocated

for Reproductive health

services and the News came out that

there was money for Reproductive Health

Services now you could argue that we

shouldn't be spending it but if you're

going to give Aid to

Gaza and you said what's the thing they

need most well I would think somewhere

in the top three or top five would be

reproductive health I that's got to be

right near the top of anybody's

requirements so the big question would

be Aid or no Aid um if you're going to

do the aid you might as well do the

things that people need the aid for and

that would include all manner of

reproductive things condoms would be

very low on the list but maybe it's

better than unwanted pregnancies I

suppose especially in that situation so

I think uh Trump took the 50 million and

took it up to 100

million just because he's Trump so he

can um now there's there was also a

separate story that the Gaza was not

Gaza as in Israel's uh fight with Gaza

but there's another place called Gaza in

Africa have you heard of this part so

apparently there was some Aid that may

have also included reproductive Health

which means it might have also included

some condoms for a place called Gaza in

Africa

now I'm not sure if that's true or not

but here's the thing there was never $50

million just for condoms for Gaza so if

if you thought that was 100%

true it wasn't 100% true but was it

directionally

true yes is meaning that if it's in the

category of reproductive health and it's

a lot of money and it was going to the

to the Gins yeah I mean it's

directionally

true but it sounds pretty bad when you

say it's just

condoms so I don't mind when Trump

exaggerates things that are

directionally accurate which is we

should take a look at why we're giving

anybody any money for anything that's

okay with me let's take a closer look do

you remember when uh Trump uh turned on

the spigots and uh created all that free

water for California when we needed it

the most do you remember what I said I

said

really

really he he just said open the

spigot then all the problems were solved

that doesn't sound real to me so I've

been looking into it and looking into it

and then the next thing I found was that

the water situation in California is way

too complicated for anybody to

understand and

explain it's just too complicated but

the best I can determine is that not all

the water is connected so if even if you

turn this spigot in one part of the

state it doesn't mean that the

firefighters in LA are getting any more

water and indeed apparently they did not

uh but but you're saying well that's

okay as long as the farmers got more

water there's no indication that any

Farmers got more water but that's okay

as long as we don't run out water for

residents you know cuz sometimes we have

to have to manage our water in

California and we have to cut back so if

at least solve

that but there's no indication to solve

that where' the water

go and then there's some people saying

that he made it worse because he

released some water from some dams that

we might need later in the year when

things get too dry and then other people

who know even more

say no uh this is before the snow melts

once the snow melts those dams that were

already nearly full would be overfilled

and they would have to release the extra

water anyway so all Trump did was

release the extra water a few weeks

early to basically

nothing so here's my challenge to you if

you can find any evidence that Trump

released some water to any body who

could use it let me know okay CU I'm not

aware of any water that went to

anybody but does it make a great story

it really does it's one of the best

first CEO stories do I mind that Trump

is creating a let's say a brand or

reputation or I'm going to say Legend I

mean at this point I think Trump has

already passed that in politics he's

sort of operating in leg territory you

know you you can avoid the assassination

attempts you avoid the jail you came

back against all you know Against All

Odds that's not politics right that

that's Legend you know they're only a

few figures who have ever been in this

category

um so as a legend he's much more

effective meaning that he can get stuff

for me and for you

and for Americans that he wouldn't be

able to do if he were a politician that

would be the first term first term

politician second

term legend the legend can get way more

than a non- Legend So if uh embellishing

his early

successes solidifies his

Legend that's probably more good than

bad but we still need to fix our water

problem

California I'm pretty sure that's not

fixed so separate separate

conversation do you remember the story

about uh uh Trump is suing 60 Minutes

for editing uh the comml Harris

interview and apparently the edits made

her look smarter than she was and the 60

Minutes defense is it was ordinary

editing it was editing but it was the

ordinary editing that they would do for

anybody now I've heard this story and

I've even talked about this story but

you know what I haven't seen and haven't

talked about I haven't seen the edit so

apparently the full transcript has been

released so that you know people digging

into it can see exactly what she really

said and then compare it to the um video

CNN's take is that they've looked at the

transcript and they've looked at the

edit and it's just a normal

edit so do you believe that do you

believe CNN's take that it's a normal

edit let me tell you something that you

wouldn't know unless you've been

interviewed lots of times like I have it

is completely

normal for um entities to change your

what you said and put it in quotes let

me say that again it's completely normal

I'm not saying it's good good is

separate we'll talk about whether it's a

good it's completely normal

for me to do an interview and for them

to make up a quote put quotation marks

around it and and assign it to me did

you know that that's

normal it's

normal it's really weasy and and almost

always they get a quote wrong meaning

that when they make up their quote it's

not what you would have said and it's

not even something you'd agree with

unfortunately that's normal now if the

madeup quote is so bad you know maybe

you'd have some action maybe you'd

demand or you know some correction or

something but I hate to tell you how

normal that is now there's another kind

of normal at it where they make you look

smarter than you were but the reason

they do that has more to do with being

good

TV it's it's not as much about um making

you look good although they do like you

to look good because then other people

will come on your show

if you're a show where you depend on

people coming on and saying what they

think you want to make them look good so

that the next person you ask doesn't say

well I saw what you did with the last

one there's no way I'm going to go into

that you know into that uh torture so

you have to be good to your subjects in

a fairly public way to stay in business

so here here's what would seem to you

like a very inappropriate eded and you

could argue it is inappropriate but I'm

going to only tell you the context how

normal it is so let's say if uh if what

Comm Harris did was stumble over a

question but maybe she she circled back

to it in another part of the interview

this is not what happened I'm just

giving you a for example so let's say

the first time she maybe heard the

question wrong or or she used a word

wrong or she stumbled over a word but

then

a minute later she circled back because

she knew she didn't give a good answer

and then gave you nice tight

answer well you could argue that showing

both answers would be more true because

you could see that she messed up one

answer but then you'd see that she you

know got a tight nice answer when she

thought about it for a moment it would

be completely

normal for the editors to take out the

muffed up answer because it makes a

cleaner video oh this is what she thinks

she said it once not so well she said it

once well let's show the one where she

said it well would that be do you get

sued for that well maybe because in the

ter in the context of a political race

uh can this person think and talk at the

same time is a real big question if it

were a celebrity just let's say any

Hollywood celebrity you would absolutely

make that edit and it would be the right

thing to do because you just want the

right you want them to look good you

want the audience to like it you don't

want them to see all the

uh you know tripping over their own

words so yes that would be an

appropriate edit so where it gets

interesting is that the only

context where that kind of tightening up

editing is inappropriate or at least

questionable is the exact thing that she

would they were doing which is

introducing the country to Kam Harris in

a tense situation under that very

specific

situation the public kind of needs to

see the whole thing because it's The

Stumbling over the words that's that is

the show that's the

meat that that's not the the fluff that

you cut off the top oh let's get rid of

some fluff and get down to the meat no

the meat would would be when she flubbed

something cuz that's exactly what

everybody was looking for so I think the

the Trump people have an argument but I

I think I'm going to side with 60

Minutes uh only on the sense that I

don't think they can win if it went to

court they might settle and that and

that would be a win in itself but uh I

don't think they could win in court

because it's too close to normal too

close to

normal it isn't like like I said it's a

special case but

I don't think it's enough of a special

case to to convince a

jury well uh so uh Jake Tapper was uh

talking to Democrat Chris Murphy and

Chris Murphy was listing all the

terrible things about I don't know Elon

Musk and Trump or whatever but one of

the things in his list Chris Murphy's

list was that uh Elon Musk gave a Nazi

salute and I'm watching this and I'm

saying to myself

is Jake Tapper going to let that go is

he going to let him say that musk made a

Nazi salute when we know that's not true

and Jake Tapper knows that's not true is

he going to let that stand to his

credit Jake Tapper said at the end you

he let he let uh he let Chris Murphy

finish and he said just you know I'm

paraphrasing but he said something like

you know just to clarify um the Trump

campaign says that was not a n Nazi

salute but we haven't heard from Elon

Musk what you haven't heard from Elon

Musk because you think he's going to

confirm it was a Nazi salute or

you think there's some

possibility it was one you piece of

you piece of Jake Tapper

you know it wasn't intended you know it

wasn't and the reason you don't have a

quote from Elon Musk is because it's too

stupid to even consider

answering it directly because nobody

with a brain over IQ of 70 thinks that

is real we all know it's a stupid

question it's a stupid

hoax it's like the fine people hoax it's

despicable that you would even let that

thing continue and it is a

complete complete embarrassment to see

Ann just a total

embarrassment so remember uh the correct

response to the did Elon give

the uh Nazi salute the correct response

is only a idiot would think that

oh oh but oh but but did you see what

his arm did yes and only a idiot

would think he gave a Nazi salute at

that time in history smartest guy we

know standing in front of a crowd

many crowds he's been in front of he

knows how that works and you think

you're so dumb you think he gave an

intentional NY salute you're an

idiot there's no other there's no other

conversation to be had oh oh but his

hand was definitely above his waist no

you're a idiot end of

story so then uh then right after that

cuz I like watching CNN and imagining

I'm telling people all the propaganda as

it happens like I have this fantasy that

I was um I'll get a hold of some college

students or maybe some older high school

kids in a class and say I want to show

you CNN or

MSNBC uh and I'm going to stop it every

time it goes from news to

propaganda stop okay you see where he's

acting as if there's some ambiguity

about the Nazi salute that's not news

that's prop end of what you're watching

all right turn it on the next thing they

do is they go to a package where

somebody's trying to make the case their

correspondent that what Trump is doing

is exactly what the

2025 uh project said he would do and and

all the smart news people have been

warning you they've been telling you

they've been telling you he's going to

use that 2025 as his guideline and now

now two-thirds of the things he's done

are right in line with the document 2/3

y 2/3 and so they smugly rest their

stupid faces like got it we got

them two we told you H yeah they denied

it those lying Republicans denied it but

two-thirds of what he did two-thirds

look at my smug stupid

face we got him I got him this

time any of you have even been casually

following the

news you

know that when Trump said you know I

haven't read it that's not my that's not

my

document you know that everybody said

that the document was mostly regular

Republican

stuff right don't all of you know that

I'll bet everyone watching here knows

bet every one of you every one of you

probably knows that the document

was always mostly ordinary Republican

stuff and the argument was that there

was some stuff in it that was you know a

little more extreme than the ordinary

Republican stuff and the argument from

Trump was he hadn't seen it so he's not

buying into that stuff that maybe people

think is a little beyond what

Republicans typically

do and

so what CNN discovered in their gotcha

was exactly what the Republicans have

been saying since the beginning most of

that document is normal stuff that of

course we agree with the things that

you're talking about like a I think it

was a national ban on abortion Trump is

on record repeatedly saying he doesn't

want it so that's just one example so

they ended up proving exactly what

Republicans claimed it's mostly mostly

normal stuff

and then there's a bunch of it that

Trump doesn't endorse and he didn't do

any of those things he didn't do any of

those things that he didn't endorse

that's in the

document so they actually ran a piece

that was pure propaganda in which their

idiot viewers who are just kept in the

dark about any kind of context believe

that they saw a proof that the entire

election the Republicans were lying

about the 2025 and the news was right

all along exactly the opposite happened

unfuckingbelievable

anyway

um according to the uh

BBC in the news uh the BBC they're uh

they say they're confident according to

their experts their experts are

confident that the LA fires were being

made worse by climate change H say how

could you be confident about that was

was it because one of your climate

models said that La would have a fire

this year no no there was no model that

said that so if you don't have models

that can predict what's going to happen

in any one micro

location why would you say that your

models are telling you that that was

going to happen in that micro

location way do you find out about

climate models I know many of you

watching this are skeptical about

climate change and the climate models in

particular but way do you find out you

know we're going to talk about us Aid

and finding out you know the the deepest

darkest most corrupt part of the

government has been discovered and it

probably blew your mind when you first

started learning about us Aid way do you

find out about the climate models it

it's the only thing I can say with

complete certainty oh there will be a

day might not be that far away but

someday is going to be a whistleblower

and somebody who actually works on the

models is going to tell you how they do

it and you're not going to like

it and and this is one that I could wait

forever for you know sometimes I'll make

a prediction it's like 20 years off and

I'll be like I can wait all you can mock

me for 20 years I'll just wait and there

it is but yeah way till you find out

about the models

all right

um so the other things that are sort of

fake news is there's no Panama

deal Panama uh made an offer to get rid

of the Chinese um operators of the canal

in two years when the the deal was going

to expire when that was reported by many

people as a big

success um I said there's no deal that's

an offer

until Trump says there's a deal you

don't have a deal that's just an offer

and so what did Trump say when he was

asked about it goes we'll see we'll see

it's it's not everything I want so Trump

was still negotiating so no we don't

have a deal in Panama we have an offer

the offer seems like a um I would say a

good faith offer I hope so um but Trump

may say good faith or not faith our you

know our national interest requires

something extra maybe something faster

maybe something that involves I don't

know could be something else so Trump

being good at negotiating doesn't just

say yes to the first offer he says

that's a good start what else can you

give me because you're not there yet so

he knows how to do this so trust him he

knows how to do it uh likewise the

Mexico deal is not exactly a deal

until until a lot of other things are

decided but it does appear that Mexico

says they're going to put 10,000 people

on the border and

Canada U may also not be the deal that

we think it is meaning that uh they may

not be able to do the things that they

said there there was a whole bunch of

offers that came out of Justin uh

Trudeau's office he he posted it on X um

he was going to do things like uh create

task forces to work on fentanyl put uh

lots of bodies on the border have a

whole bunch of fental related you know

legal efforts so it was a pretty long

list and it looked pretty serious and it

looked like kind of exactly what you'd

want them to do and there was a budget

attached and everything but apparently

the Canadian government is in such

disarray with Trudeau having resigned

but still in the job that it's unclear

whether they can budget and

execute so they may have made a promise

that they can't deliver or can't deliver

right away or it'll depend can't deliver

till the I know the government changes

or or they do something to pass a new

budget so that might be a little lost in

the it might get a little lost in the

bureaucracy we'll

see um but that's why both Mexico and

Canada have 30 days because they're not

there yet the the reason Trump put put

off the um put off the tariffs on Canada

and Mexico for 30 days is because they

were moving in the right direction not

because they were there if they were

there where where Trump needed them to

be they wouldn't delay 30 days they

would say Okay tariffs are off you gave

me what I need but he also talks about

tariffs being a you know source of

income and he loves them so you maybe

nothing makes them go away now on CNN

one of their dumbest panelists I can't

remember which one uh the one who always

does the overt talking of Scott Jennings

you know whenever he talks she goes and

shakes her head like a bobblehead so

that you can only look at her uh she

said that Trump failed on Mexico and

Canada and you would say wait

what uh both of them offered him what

you know at least some part of what he

wanted

and her argument on CNN was no all they

offered was what they were going to do

anyway so he didn't get

anything

what what what reporting is that based

on now I mention it because it's in the

realm of something that could be true

meaning I don't reject it automatically

but what reporting is she seeing I've

seen no reporting that says Canada was

going to do all those things anyway so

all they did was tell you what you they

were going to do anyway

I think did she just make that

up I I don't even understand how that

could be on TV because if it's true then

all the reporting would say that on CNN

and MSNBC and they'd say haha he got

nothing but is there only one if only

one person believes it was going to

happen anyway so nothing

happened how do you keep that person on

the air I mean that's just making up

stuff isn't it but I I'm open to be

wrong I I'm open to finding out there

was something to that complaint I don't

think so but I'll be open-minded for a

minute or

two anyway uh according to the Gateway

pundit and other sources as well there's

new survey KPMG survey that says that

half of Canadian businesses 48% actually

are planning to move production uh or

Investments to the us to stay

competitive

uh let me put this in

context so Trump says they would make a

good

state but you say to yourself oh Scott

come on there they're not going to go

from a country to a state like nobody's

going to do that I mean it's so far away

so far away from anything that's

possible it's way outside the realm of

possibility because they're a whole

functioning country

if you're a whole functioning country

you're not just going to give yourself

up to be a subset of some other Nation

that's never going to

happen did I mention that half of the

Canadian businesses are looking are

looking to move to America if half of

your businesses are looking to move to

America I'm going to whisper this in

Biden fashion because it needs a Biden

whisper if of your companies are

considering moving out of your

country uh you're already not a country

uh you're more like a Schrodinger's Cat

Country you you might be a country but

there's just as good an argument that

you're not one already because you can't

even keep your businesses if half of

your businesses are looking to get the

hell out of your country and they have

the ability to do so and they're

operation they've already got plans and

operations to move out of your country

you're already closer to a state than a

nation now I'm not going to predict that

Canada will become a state but every

time I think that things are a mile from

possible and then Trump keeps talking

and then something happens where I go

really could this actually tip in the

the direction of actually

happening we're we're watching Trump

just change reality right in front of us

like what is possible I'll tell you but

I I have mixed emotions about this one

my common sense hahaa I don't have any

um tells me there's no way that Canada

becomes a state just no

way but then I see stuff like that that

half of the compan of the companies want

to get out of there and then Trudeau's

already

resigned I don't know maybe they're not

as much of a country as they think they

are maybe it's closer than you think

I'll still bet against that but uh Trump

you know shaking the box that hard it

always works for

him Trump goes in and Shakes the entire

box well we're going to make you a state

no no no no no no well we're going to

put a tariff on you oh no no no no oh no

well how about you just do a whole bunch

of things you weren't doing to secure

the Border

uhuh

okay watching Trump shake that box until

they will take absolutely any path that

gets the box to stop shaking because the

thing they can't stand is just shaking

oh you got to stop shaking this box well

what are you going to do for me well I'm

not going to do anything for you shake

shake shake shake shake shake shake hey

I can do a little for you can you shake

shake shake shake shake shake uh I can

do a lot for you I can do a lot for you

shake shake shake shake shake shake I

can do more than I've ever said I could

ever do for anybody shake shake shake

shake shake shake I can do more than

anybody in the whole world has ever done

for anybody shake shake shake shake

shake

okay it's fun to

watch one of the things that Trump does

better than anybody when it comes to

persuasion is creating a clear

difference between making him happy and

making him

unhappy Nobody Does that better if you

make me happy oh man I'm going to praise

you your your career will look good

you're going to get votes you're going

to get funding you'll be nationally

loved but if I don't like you I'm going

to primary your ass I'm going to I'm

going to look at charges I'm going to

sue you I'm going to I'm going to basic

take everything I have and put it

against you I'm going to tarff you I'm

going to put my military on your

property that there is no better

technique the single best technique is

to make the widest gap between giving

him what he wants and not giving him

what he wants Nobody Does that better

and that that is real basic persuasion

if you don't get that part right you

know who doesn't get that part right

somebody like like Justin

Trudeau right because he's the nice guy

oh we're nice we're nice we're empathy

we're nice we're nice we're nice oh oh

we're going to fight back hard we don't

like that but we're nice we're nice on

the other things we're nice so be our

friends oh oh we have a mild displeasure

with that thing you're doing oh we don't

like it there's no difference between

Justin Trudeau being happy and being

unhappy like you don't feel any insens

to give him what he wants because he's a

nice guy but you definitely feel an

incentive to give Trump what he wants

because the difference between happy and

unhappy Trump is a really big difference

that's good stuff that's the leader you

want Marco Rubio uh went to El Salvador

and got a nice surprise so uh buy head

of El Salvador who as you know cleaned

up the gang problem in El Salvador by

building gigantic prison systems and

just locking up everybody with a tattoo

I'm exaggerating but only a little

bit he pretty much locked up everybody

with a face tattoo I'm sure they had

other charges but I'm also sure that the

face tattoo was plenty enough so did

that work yes because the gang members

put face tattoos on I'm exaggerating

about the face tattoos to make a point

that he just made sure he got everybody

and

then he makes an offer to the us through

Rubio that if America has a bunch of

criminals from other

countries that he can take some of the

criminals and put them in their prison

system and uh they'll just charge us so

he'll just charge a fee so we'll have a

cheaper solution that keeps them in

prison but not in our prisons and then I

suppose when they get out then it would

be El Salvador's problem about what to

do with them I I guess they'd repatriate

them I don't know they would have an

option

but that's a hell of a good offer isn't

it yeah every every time you see bui's

uh um

actions they they have a trump-like

quality to them don't they like you

don't see a coming which is wonderful

because then you you can't stop talking

about him and thinking about him because

he did something that other people don't

do and you know he made a big he made a

big point that El Salvador's most

important relationship is United States

biggest trading partner um they use the

US dollar and he just wants to make it

super clear that being friends with him

is a good

idea and being against him is a really

bad idea huh huh where did you learn

that so being against them means means

that you're going to be locked up in

prison being for him means uh getting

some excellent suggestions like hey how

about we take some of your excess

prisoners you pay us we've got a prison

system they'll fit right

in that's what you need so here's the

real deal who Kelly is in terms of

persuasion all right if there's anything

else that goes wrong with him I don't

take

responsibility the only the only thing

I'll I'll take responsibility for is

saying oh he's got the full game all

right he has the whole package so he he

does that thing where being his friend

is a way better deal than not being his

friend he gets all of it

right speaking of getting it right um

the big story on the Doge we'll talk

about Doge is that there are uh some

young people who have key roles uh I

don't know how many older people there

are who also have key roles but the ones

we're talking about are four 20ish year-

old kids I'll call them kids because I'm

old who are literally

Geniuses and we're not talking about uh

somebody who just did well on their

SATs right we all know somebody who did

well on their SATs I know people who

acce their SATs I know a guy who got one

wrong on his SATs he was a he was a

server at my old restaurant um young guy

he got one wrong and he retook the SATs

he retook them because he got one

wrong

one one thing he retook it got it all

right now that's a really smart person

and he's not anywhere in the same

category as these four young people that

Elan musk hired they're the real

deal it's one thing to be able to Ace

your

SATs uh that's very impressive by the

way I couldn't do it not I couldn't get

anywhere near that but these guys and

they're all guys they're in a whole

different level I mean you've heard some

stories about what they've done

already and uh so of course the

Democrats who don't know how anything

works are all concerned that these young

inexperienced people are looking at some

of the most important things you know in

the government and making decisions now

they're not going to make final

decisions but they're like a super

weapon that can drill through any

impenetrable topic they will not be

stopped by complexity they will not be

stopped by oh this is hard they will not

be stopped by

anything that that's what makes them who

they are they just won't be stopped now

here's the thing that um I don't

understand but neither does anybody else

and that's going to be my

point if I said to you I'm going to take

this guy who got um 100% of everything

right on the SATs and I'm going to hire

him as my

lawyer could I predict how well he'll do

yes yes you could you would predict that

he's not going to forget anything

important he's going to take the best

arguments he's going to put in the work

yeah that'd be quite predictable but it

would be predictable within in the

Ordinary World because they're ordinary

lawyers who do good jobs and you say

yeah he's going to be one of those I

predict he'll do a good job and you'd be

right you know what you can't

predict

Geniuses

Geniuses and you can't predict the rate

that they can do

anything if you had somebody you know a

Rubik's Cube and they're an

expert they don't do it a little bit

better than you

did it's like they're a different

animal it's like you're looking at a M

you know nothing about you can't look at

these four Geniuses and predict

anything anything except they're going

to get to the bottom of it I don't know

how fast it might be faster and better

than anything you've ever seen in your

life they might be already building AI

tools that didn't even exist just to

solve a problem right that's how smart

they are we're we're talking about Isaac

Newton level like if he needs some

calculus to solve a problem you invent

calculus right that's what we're talking

about these are not normal

people so just the fact that they're on

our side oh my God that's who you want

on your

side uh of course they've been doxed

because the Democrats have one play

which is huh you're smarter than us

maybe we can kill

you they got that one thing huh you're

more capable than we are perhaps we can

change the laws so you can't do that

anymore huh you're really really good at

what you do H maybe we need some Dei in

there to stop that that that's really

all they have is stopping good people

from doing good things that's basically

the Democrat

Party yeah anyway um somebody named

Dylan Patel was on a podcast talking

about uh Elon musk trying to catch up in

the AI world so

um so Elon Musk got I guess you could

call it the late start because he was

early with funding open AI but then he

you know pulled out of that effort and

when open AI burst on the scene um he

tried to be a fast follower but to

overtake them as quickly as possible

with a better game and his game is so

good that he's already built the world's

largest AI cluster 200,000 gpus those

would be Nvidia boxes and I didn't know

this apparently he bought a a factory in

Memphis and he upgraded the substation

tapped into a natural gas line is

burning gas to generate power okay

that's impressive but now he's building

his own natural gas plant next door uh

deploying Tesla megapacks for stable

power and using industrial chillers for

his water cooled chips

so remember I told you that the thing

you can't predict about the four

Geniuses is how fast they can do

anything that's the we don't understand

it's like your dog trying to figure out

why the light comes on when you enter

the room the dog will never figure that

out they just they can't get there so

when you say Elon Musk is starting

behind on

AI it's Elon

Musk of course ahead already of course

he is because he can do stuff that you

can't do so there it is and he hires

people who can do stuff that you can't

do too so yeah he's scaling up fast no

doubt about

it all right let's talk about us

Aid now on one hand it's the hardest

Topic in the world to talk about unless

somebody's already a little bit up to

speed like what the hell is it so it's a

um it's something that the it's part of

the

government but it's a part of the

government that works as a giant money

laundering system for

Democrats now that's not something I

could have said with complete confidence

until Doge got in there and found out

that it's a giant money laundering thing

for

Democrats now it's not the only thing it

does so what makes it complicated is

that it's a mix of maybe some things you

like maybe we funded some things in

other countries and you say you know

that made sense that's for that helps us

uh and it's also good for the other

country but it seems like maybe most of

it or at least way too much of it was

dedicated to absolutely corrupt Behavior

just 100% corrupt and one of the things

it could do is it could launder money

through these NOS these would be a

non-government organization of which

there are

thousands so if you let's see if I get

this right um so if you're a

Democrat and you support funding of us

Aid the US Aid will give some money to

let's say an NGO that's doing something

you like and youd say oh okay there's my

tax money it went to an organization

that has a name at least the name is

stuff I like but then that that

organization has the ability to give

some of their money to another

NGO

what how can it do that well it can

there's nothing illegal about that and

then that

NGO can give money to a

campaign of the Democrat who was in

favor of funding the US Aid now I think

I got that right now you're going to say

to me they can't they can't just donate

the money that the government gave them

back to a camp

no not unless they launder

it they have to launder it through these

organizations so that by the time the

organization donates to something that

helps the uh maybe to a pack or to

something that helps the campaign it

looks like it was just ordinary some

kind of ordinary donation so it does

seem at this point that it's a major

money laundering thing and then you see

people like Bill

Crystal he's getting some money from it

um some say the AOC was uh found by a

process that was funded by the usaid

where they were looking to find you know

young Democrats and turn them into

highlevel politicians she was part of a

process it was like American Idol where

where they interviewed lots of people

and they said hey we could turn you into

something so there are uh countless

examples of what appear to be obvious

corruption on top of what seems to be

obviously bad ideas for funding but

where you see the bad ideas for funding

probably they're just it's just a way to

laer money into something that they

really want to do so now you might say

to yourself Scott uh you don't need to

get rid of it you could just get rid of

the parts you don't like like fire some

managers you know do do a reorg uh get

some real Republican leadership in there

but 98% of them appear to be

Democrats which means that they're part

of the

resistance which means according to uh

OMG the uh o'keef Media Group they just

did an Undercovers thing and they got

one of the USA employees to say on

camera he was it was a hidden camera

that they were to try to basically

burrow in and uh thwart everything that

Trump wants and just wait him

out exactly what you thought was going

to happen because basically the order

can be given and then it gets into the

bureaucracy and then the bureaucracy

just slow walks it and says oh we can't

do that or it's not in the budget or we

don't have people or it's not our top

priority or something so basically the

bureaucracy says we're just going to

thwart you now we only have you know one

person on video but there were reports

and Elon Musk confirmed that that is

apparently the dominant

opinion the dominant opinion is that

they're going to um pretend that they're

cooperating but thwart the

administration so what do you do in that

situation only one thing to do you got

to close the entire thing down and

that's

what uh Trump's going to do just close

the whole thing $50 billion some say 38

billion but it's it's many billions um

of money that they're just going to say

we're going to tuck that function

temporarily uh under Marco Rubio he's

got somebody assigned to it um so it's

part of the state

department whereas before it was sort of

operating as doing stuff for the state

department stuff for the Pentagon and

stuff for the CIA

but now it's going to be tucked under

Rubio and uh he does understand that you

can't just reform it most of it's just

going to have to go

away so if you didn't have people who

understood that the only way to fix it

is to break

it uh you wouldn't have a

leadership if you have leadership that's

smart enough and ballsy enough to say

we're going to just cut this down to

nothing and the only things we're going

to put back because they will put things

back back are when the screaming is so

loud and the argument is so good if you

got a good argument and there there's a

lot of energy we're going to look at it

and maybe that one function gets added

back but we'll keep it under the state

department maybe and not under

USA so it's perfect leadership what

you're seeing it's messy it's violent

not in the you know I'm using that

hyperbolically not violence violence but

it's violent in terms of the rhetoric uh

the the the firings you know the the

death threats the Doge team I was

talking about that got doxed they

already got death threats but

fortunately the Trump doj has stepped in

and said you're going to jail if you do

that again if we catch anybody making

death threats against these Doge guys

you're going to jail yeah and then act

blue the group that collects money for

the Democrats somehow they were getting

they were part of the money laundering

operation that's the allegation I don't

know the details on that but there's an

allegation like

that

um how are the Democrats uh taking the

loss of us Aid which appears to be the

Beating Heart of most of their

corruption how are they taking it well

oh and then I should add that usaid was

also the one as Mike Ben does a great

job of explaining they funded uh

external entities for the purpose of

censoring us domestic people like

me not cool at all USA so that basically

USA did everything you don't want to

happen if it's something you didn't want

and it was corrupt somewhere in USA that

was happening so it's like this grab bag

of corruption um the way Elon uh

described it was one of the best

descriptions you'll ever hear of

anything he said it it would be easy to

think think it's like an apple that's

got a worm in it so if you if you get

rid of the worm you know you still have

a pretty good apple and he says no it's

a bowl of worms there's no

apple that is one of the best visual

persuasive things you'll ever hear

because worms are you can't not see them

if I say a bowl of worms you can see the

bowl of worms and as soon as I say it's

not an apple with one worm it's a bowl

of worms you'll never forget that for

the rest of your life you'll remember

that analogy that's good now that is

good I like the fact that Elon

somehow he's also become an expert in

Persuasion and I don't know to what

extent he studies it or he's just

picking it up by watching it done um if

the only thing he did was hang out with

Trump he would become incredible at

persuasion you just have to watch what

Trump does does watch the visual

language you know watch the just watch

it all yeah and you'll

learn there's an account on X called

aesthetica and um this aesthetica

whoever runs the account I don't know

who it is apparently has some friends

that are connected in the Democrat world

and they're panicking quite a bit about

this USA thing now isn't that

interesting that most of you never even

heard of a USA

didn't even know what it was but the

Democrats are

panicked why would they be panicked over

this thing you never heard of until

recently well let me tell you why

according to

aesthetica talk to a friend who has

connections within the Democratic party

and he said the level of panic over

Trump and Elon shutting down us Aid is

unlike anything he's ever

seen and it goes on a direct quote this

is worse than 911 for

Democrats wow USA is the primary vessel

they use to achieve their political

Agenda USA is and always has been the

primary source of funding for their

influence pedaling schemes and for their

indirect source of income indirect

source of

income everybody you see going public

saying it's a terrible

mistake almost all of them are getting

funded by us a but it's hard to tell

because it might go through a few a few

different stages before it gets to

him another text uh based on the

reactions from within the party it seems

to me that dismantling us8 is Trump's

biggest political Victory to date it was

his enemy's Golden

Goose yep it's their

Bank um and indeed it's a bigger Bank

than Soros you thought Soros was their

Bank he was their second biggest bank

usaid was the big one even including

funding the Soros

prosecutors

USA funded twice as much as Soros did

for Soros

prosecutors just imagine that Soros has

a multiplier so that he doesn't have to

spend all of his money the USA is sort

of matching his donations so to speak

wow um and then it goes on he said

initial Plans by the Democrats is to

have their people of usaid hide the

partisan funding under uh unimpeachable

initiatives so in other words uh funding

AIDS prevention and then people go oh I

can't get rid of that so um they will

push back really hard on certain line

items that on the face look like

reasonable usaid expenditures

so the thing you have to get rid

of is the things that look the most like

something you'd want to keep because

that's where they're going to hide the

good

stuff um so that's where they'll hide

their political spending exactly what I

said now how do you fix that if you know

the Insiders say they're going to try to

hide their funding so that they can keep

their

influence uh budget intact you have to

get rid of the whole thing

there's no other way to play it you got

to get rid of the whole thing and that's

what's going to happen now I do worry uh

and Mike Ben warns against this too I do

worry that we celebrate too soon because

every part of this octopus is going to

be fighting like every arm is going to

be and they're not started yet they

haven't started

yet um now let's see um now let's see

who's against it now the beauty of the

usaid thing like nothing I've ever seen

before is that the people who are the

most

corrupt are the ones who are going to

raise their head like prairie dogs and

take the lead and saying it's a bad idea

to close us Aid and you're going to be

able to identify all of the bad guys

meaning the people who are either

literally corrupt or at least strong

backers of a corrupt

system so Joy reeda claims that Trump

adding any oversight to USA is

equivalent to staging a coup okay there

you go so Joy Reed and MSNBC are part of

the

corruption that's all you need to know

anybody who's taking the side of usaid

now that we know it's a bowl of worms is

a bowl of worms so all the worms in the

bowl are like oh oh don't do it don't do

it I'm a good worm I'm a good worm

no Joy Reed all right so you've uh

you've made yourself obvious Jen saki

also an MSN MSNBC suggests that uh musk

targeting usaid because he was

uncomfortable how the agency combed

corruption oh yeah it's not the

corruption of the agency it's that they

combat

corruption yes what does that sound like

it sounds like everything the Democrats

ever say about everything whatever you

accuse them of they go that's exactly

what you're doing that's what you're

doing it's all they do projection so yes

Jen saki is part of the

worms uh and then

uh uh was it van Jones I think in

CNN um said that

uh that Donald Trump is saying by

cutting us aid for all these valuable

services that he's saying basically we

don't care you go die that's the message

from the United States government

according to Van Jones do you think van

Jones gets any indirect funding from

USA I don't

know but that would be my assumption or

at least friends of his do or you know

important interests do so van Jones we

adding you to the prairie dogs who

raised their head and wanted to back

usaid see see how useful this

is this is the most useful thing you've

ever seen I I tell you all the time that

if you know what happened you don't know

anything because the what happened

always has some context that's

missing the narrative is always you know

magical spinning anyway so if you only

know what happened in this case several

uh public figures said cutting USA is a

bad idea that's what happened you

wouldn't know anything but if I told you

who did it well now you know

everything as soon as you know who the

players are well now you know everything

I'll go on Jamie Raskin is taking the

lead Rasin is like the symbol of the

worst parts of the Democrat you know

lying corrupt machine if he's involved

than anybody else who's taking his

side bow of worms bowl of worms AOC is

taking a strong stand against cutting

the US Aid huh huh bowl of

worms

um

anyway

so there's also a possibility that

Congress especially some Republicans and

this is something Mike Benz warns about

um might not vote to close us Aid

because there's some there's some

conversation about whether Trump has the

right to do what he's doing um but I say

it's within the executive branch so yes

he does but if Congress needs to vote on

it or if they just vote on it um they

could override the president so they

could vote to keep it open for example

and then he'd have a problem but it

wouldn't happen unless some Republicans

voted to keep it open so what's going to

happen if some Republicans vote to keep

it open now that we know it's a bowl of

worms well it would certainly identify

those Republicans as part of the

corruption

do you

agree that there is no way any

Republican can be in favor of keeping

usaid at this point unless they're part

of the

corruption so what happens if they do

what happens if they pop up and there's

a few Republicans who say oh it's so

important we got to keep

it well you're going to have to do

something about that because this is way

too big to just say well that's their

opinion that's the way our system works

so we didn't get the votes all right too

bad not in this one way too big if if if

some Republicans break ranks on

this Trump's going to have to finish him

he's just going to have to put him into

retirement or into jail now jail only if

you know they broke some law but pretty

much all of them are breaking some

law I wouldn't want to start with a

person that looked for the crime but

probably in every case

everybody already knows the crime and

they just have to pursue it if they feel

like it so if you're a Republican and

you're thinking of voting to keep usaid

at this point with as much as we know

about

it you're you better plan for

retirement um or at least lower up

because it's going to get real

expensive and it would be the worst

decision you ever made in your life so

we hope that doesn't happen but it would

reveal who on the democ on the

Republican side is corrupt so we're just

waiting for the little prairie dog heads

to pop up so we can we can add them to

the Rasin AOC

MSNBC bowl of

worms all right I know I'm going to get

taken out of context for calling People

worms let me just be clear people are

not

worms even the people I don't like are

not

worms it's just a good analogy so when I

say they're in the bowl of worms they're

not

worms they're people I deeply disagree

with who may or may not be corrupt but

people are not

worms all right uh confirmation update

so the ones we're waiting on to see if

they get confirmed would be RFK Jr

telsey gabard cash Patel Pam Bondi at

the moment the betting markets have all

of them looking good do you think the

betting markets are an accurate

representation I don't think so in this

case because I think that if any

Republicans break ranks on any of these

candidates um they'd be doing it for

kind of personal corrupt

reasons and I don't think the betting

markets can identify people who have

personal corrupt reasons so I worry that

the betting Market is in no way

predictive um we'll see all I can say is

to remind people that uh uh if RFK Jr

gets voted down by some Republicans

again those are some Republicans who

better be planning to retire right away

cuz life's going to get really hard

after that this this one we're not going

to take like normal

business uh saving children from chronic

illnesses I'm sorry that's a little bit

bigger than politics we're not going to

treat it like politics you you're just

going to have to leave the public scene

if you're going to vote against this you

can't be any part of the public

conversation again that that's the end

of your that's the end of your role in

public one way or the other no violence

of course obviously no violence but uh

the push back's going to be

brutal reputation wise all

right um I saw a meme that I laughed

about for I think 45 minutes straight I

tried to get some work done but I

couldn't I couldn't stop laughing about

it and you've seen the meme where

there's some nervously looking at two

buttons and they only have two

buttons and the meme gets repurposed for

lots of different topics but it always

makes me laugh but I saw one where it

was the

Democrats who only had two buttons and

one of the buttons is labeled bring up

eggs and the other one is labeled bring

up

Hitler now one of my favorite things in

the realm of

humor is when somebody summarizes

something so well that the summary is

hilarious this is a perfect summary the

Democrats have so little left in the

tank like they don't have anything to

run on they literally bring up eggs or

Hitler no matter what you're talking

about huh eggs eggs

or Hitler or eggs eggs or Hiller I I

can't decide now that's funny and it's

not too far off uh uh Greg geld on the

five yesterday was was talking about how

hard it's going to be for the Democrats

to distinguish themselves from the party

of common

sense it's the ultimate High Ground so

Trump just

owns common sense it's why you won it's

the ultimate meet in the middle how

about we just do the things that make

sense and we can argue about the other

things separately common sense now in

order to run against common sense you're

either going to have to make some weird

argument that only you have common sense

and they don't but nobody's going to

believe that uh or you going to have to

argue that uh as as geld said If you're

trying to find some distance between

common sense and the Democrats the

Democrats are going to have to start

embracing beastality and Voodoo

sacrifice because if you're if you're

trying to make some contrast with common

sense it's going to be it's going to be

a tough

task anyway um I would argue that all of

the smart people are on the same side at

this

point the the smart people who are not

on the same side are corrupt or

hypnotized now some of them like I

always talk about my smartest uh

Democrat friend he is clearly just

hypnotized he's clearly hypnotized would

you like a a test to know if you're

hypnotized all right do you believe that

Elon Musk gave a Nazi

salute if you believe it you're

hypnotized like actually literally

hypnotized because that's not something

any reasonable person would believe

that's so far outside the bounds are

reasonable if you ever believed if you

ever

believed that Trump said in public

knowingly and

intentionally those neo-nazis are fine

people if you ever thought that really

happened in the real

world you're easily

hypnotized you and you are

hypnotized if you believe that Trump

once said maybe we should drink some

bleach or inject some household

disinfectants into our body if you think

he ever said any of those things or

anything like it you're

hypnotized right th those are things

that you are more associated with

cognitive distance you don't really need

an argument to learn that those things

didn't happen do you know why I said all

those things didn't happen the moment

the moment the rumor came up because if

you're not hypnotized you don't even

need to look at the details you just say

oh no he wouldn't give Nazi salute no

nobody's complimenting Nazis in public

as from the presidency that never

happened no nobody's

nobody's suggesting ingesting household

disinfectants you don't need to look at

the details on the surface those could

only be believed by people who are

literally literally hypnotized now I

don't mean that they sat in the chair

and somebody you know did a hypnosis

induction but they're not operating in

the real world they're operating in in

an imaginary world in their head and you

can identify it by whether not they

Embrace things like the fine people Oaks

and the Nazi salute as soon as you find

somebody who is it doesn't matter what

their IQ is they're trapped because they

can't use their IQ their IQ just gets

turned off by the

hypnosis so let me modify my statement I

said that all the smart people are on

one side meaning that even if they don't

like everything about Trump they can

recognize that what he's doing are

exactly the things we need to have done

even if it's messy and it will be

messy and they know that cutting the

government budget is not a want it's a

necessity we have to do it and they know

that cutting it in a way that's painful

to a lot of people is

unfortunately 100% required there's no

way around it so all the smart people

who are not hypnotized are on the same

side

now so you have to add the not

hypnotized um let me give you an example

so here's AOC just gave a little video

in which she said I swear I'm not making

this up she was talking about Elon Musk

and she said about Elon Musk quote he is

one of the most unintelligent

billionaires I've ever met or seen then

she added that Elon has a quote lack of

intelligence and lack of expertise and

is quote morally vacant but also just

least knowledgeable about these systems

that we really know of

okay does that sound like a real person

talking did do I need to give like the

counterargument about how Elon Musk

actually is smart no you could just look

at this and say all right either you're

completely corrupt and you're just

trying to save the US Aid with a crazy

argument or you're

hypnotized or you're like my

you know I use this example a lot when I

enter a room the lights go

on sometimes I use my voice to you know

use it with my digital assistant

sometimes I hit the switch on the wall

sometimes the lights are you know motion

detected and my dog doesn't know why the

lights come on when I enter rooms the

only thing my dog knows is that when she

wants me to give her a treat which is

every single time I walk past her

and I don't give her a treat I must be

stupid oh my God I must be the least

intelligent human I've ever met or seen

my dog thinks my lack of intelligence

and lack of expertise in giving dogs

treats is morally vacant but also I

might be the least knowledgeable thing

about the systems involving treats for

my

dog it it's just so entertaining why

watching you know otherwise normal

people go into complete

retardation this is

impressive Nicole Shanahan was on comic

Dave Smith's podcast and said there's a

there's some mystery about uh Bernie

Sanders and she said I quote this is

Nicole shanan I asked myself was Bernie

a scop all along was he a deep state

plant

now uh she's just asking the question

she's not saying that he is but the

mystery is why does Bernie act the way

he

does especially

lately like what's like what's behind it

all was he always you know being run by

somebody else is he still being run by

somebody else and he's just a cutout for

something now I don't know the answers

to any of it but here's what I think is

funny that we've narrowed down what's

wrong with Bernie to four possibilities

we meaning all of us four possibilities

I don't know which would which it is one

Bernie is a deep State scop and always

was two he's an idiot with good

intentions three he's an idiot with bad

intentions or four he's a deep State s

up and also an idiot with bad

intentions those are the only

possibilities you you can completely

rule out he's an honest

broker with good ideas that are

different from yours yeah there's

something going on and whatever it is

it's

bad so four

choices well I didn't know there's a

doge subcommittee in Congress but

apparently Marjorie Taylor green is the

house chair of the Doge Committee in

subcommittee I guess and uh is going to

invite in NPR's uh Katherine

mayor that's the head of NPR and PBS's

Paula ker to testify about their

bias now this is in the context of one

of the uh PBS is it PBS or

NPR um I forget Yuri Berliner which is

he

NPR I think he's NPR um he was

suspended because he complained about

the bias in his employer and now he's uh

apparently now resigned but he said that

they his employer went from a liberal

knee-jerk uh that went from being biased

you know sort of liberal leaning which

you know we understand everybody's

biased so that's not the worst thing but

it went from being just

liberal to a knee-jerk activist scolds

and he couldn't handle that anymore was

that PBS or

NPR the those are those are being

conflated in my mind anyway doesn't

matter because I'm sure it was the same

at both

places so we'll see what comes out of

that um there are more Doge updates

coming there's something about the

Department of Education that's going to

be gutted or removed uh the EPA might

have a thousand employees could be gone

there's something about the the Ned Ned

probably going to hear three more things

the the best thing that doge is

doing uh besides the good work they're

doing is that they're keeping that

Overton window so rapid that the news

can't use their main trick to brainwash

the public the main trick of the news is

repetition if they repeat something

enough their viewers think it must be

true I mean it couldn't be on the news

every single night unless it's true like

somebody would have at some point said

hey this isn't true but if you're on CNN

or MSNBC they don't bring on the

opposite voices that often so although

CNN does does a real effort to do it but

it's it's always a minority voice

um as long as they don't have too many

people too often talking on the other

side they can just keep hitting their

hoaxes until you think they're true but

they can't do that and also pretend

they're a news organ ganization unless

they cover all the new news because

you're not going to turn on MSNBC if

they're talking about what happened last

month you're looking for the new news so

as long as Doge and Trump keep creating

new news and it's it's like a fire hose

they have to spend time on it and so so

their Trump and musk are using up all

their shelf space you know they only

have this this so much time and each

show only has so much much time and they

got to cover the news there's nothing

left for the for the endless repeating

of the hoaxes so if you take

away their endless repeating of

hoaxes it essentially neuters the entire

monster because it's their main tool

their main tool is repetition of things

that aren't true it's the main tool and

the Overton window takes it away it's

brilliant I've never seen anybody do it

like that before but it's

brilliant um so here's where we're

getting close to the line of what is too

far and I do not mind when the Trump

Administration gets close to the line of

what's going too far because often

that's the only place that works

sometimes you got to be close to the

line of what's going too far and that's

exactly where you want to be and I would

argue that in much of what's Happening

getting real close to the line of going

too far is Right Where I want them to be

but I don't want them to go too far so

with that

context um apparently the

uh the Trump Administration has gotten a

hold of the names of all the FBI

officials who worked on January 6 cases

so they've all been identified I guess

or five or 6,000 of them and there were

2400 cases now what the uh

yeah there are 5,000 of them have been

identified so here's the thing you need

to

know uh these are more the worker bees

these are not the

leadership so the the FBI officials who

are working on a Case are the people who

would work on other cases too and they

would be very experienced or they

wouldn't be in those jobs so if you lost

5,000 totally experienced people who

were simply doing what their boss told

them to

do that would feel like too far if if

their only crime was to go to work and

do the assignment their boss told them

too far but uh apparently they're

they're all going to be given a chance

to fill out a questionnaire in which

you'll ask them what exactly did you

do and my hope is that they look at each

of them

individually um I think it would be a

mistake and obviously the Trump knows it

would be a mistake to just fire

them because again they were not the

decision

makers but I do imagine that if the

questionnaire is correctly stated and

let's say they're under oath to uh I

don't know if they'd be under oath but

uh they should it's at least a fireable

offense if they lie on the document I

would think government

document so let's get them on record and

if they ask the right questions and

they're not gotcha questions I I will

not put up with any gotcha questions the

no fake questions on the questionnaire

that's not good enough but if it

identifies something like a strong bias

and I'm not sure how they would um then

maybe in some cases those people got to

go uh if 4,000 of them get

fired I'm not going to be

delighted because I don't know that they

really looked at them individually and

found out something that was you know

decision-making on their part but they

might they might so this one is

definitely right on the edge of too

far uh the thing that makes me pull back

is that they are going to look at them

individually as long as you're looking

at them

individually and you tell us this needs

to be transparent you need to tell us

what criteria you're using IF of them

are

fired and I got to know that the

criteria is being evenly applied and

it's a criteria that passes the sniff

test all right so remember what what I

say over and over again which is if you

supported Trump you're part of the team

and part of that team means that you

need to be a guard

rail wherever a guard rail needs to be

put up now we do like that you know Doge

and Trump have a wide operating birth

right you know that they can they can

operate without being constrained but

that's even more

important why the supporters need to be

the guardrail so let's make sure that we

don't lose you know our own Center on

this make sure that you're helpful

because if you're in the fight you know

and Trump's in the fight yeah elon's in

the fight you could

easily just accidentally you know lose

sight of where that line is

so let's make sure that doesn't

happen

um so one of one of the ideas that Trump

came up with is The Sovereign wealth

fund and I realize that not everybody

knows what that is that requires a

little bit of explanation uh

interestingly Joel Pollock's book the

agenda which came out in the summer the

summary yeah um suggests this very thing

to that the US should have a sovereign

heal fund it's one of many suggestions

in the book it's a book full of

suggestions of what Trump could do in

the you know in the beginning of his

term and it was a great book you should

see it

um so here's what a sovereign wealth

fund is it's basically uh where a

country can make investments and then it

just keeps in the fund and then the

country has access to that fund for

whatever they might need it for later um

which could be more Investments so the

types of things that would be in this

fund would be for example let's say if

Trump gets his way with Tik Tock and he

said hey the government in the United

States should own half of it because if

I don't approve its sale it will be

worth zero so if if the government has

to be involved to make it have value we

should keep part of the value so let's

say that um the government gets a bunch

of shares of Tik Tok and the sale goes

through and maybe Elson or somebody buys

it and then a few billion dollars worth

of value just gets in stock gets put in

this fund now we could sell it or we

could ride it because if we think it's

going up and it's a good investment well

we keep

it then here's another thing

suppose uh suppose the Special

Forces uh start making real progress

against the

cartels I'm told that one of the biggest

things that the cartels do to fund their

operation is gigantic pallets of cash

because obviously they don't want to

write checks for their illegal business

so they have to move gigantic shipments

of physical cash

suppose uh the Special Forces go after

the cartels and figure out where their

giant bundles of cash are well who does

that belong to does it belong to Meo

does it belong to whoever finds it well

I would say it belongs to the United

States government so we take their big

piles of cash and just put it in the

Sovereign wealth fund and by the way

these are just examples I'm not saying

that any of this would happen um how

about how about if there is a joint

venture Beyond Tik Tock that would never

work unless the government was involved

for example let's say uh we wanted to

uh create a mineral here's a good

example uh one of the things Trump wants

to do is keep the mineral rights for

Rare Earth minerals in Ukraine as sort

of a payback for the Military Support we

give them in Ukraine now do you think

that we could be

safe in having a rare Earth mineral

mining operation in Ukraine unless the

US government was part of protect it in

case you know Russia got

aggressive well probably not you

probably couldn't even have that

business unless the US government was

going to protect it with the military so

shouldn't the US government get a share

get a little share of that maybe it

should maybe half right so you can

imagine all these situations that only

Trump could identify because he's the

dealmaker where he would say you know

what you'd better have something for the

Sovereign fund or else you know we're

not going to do that thing or you're not

going to do that thing there's probably

a whole bunch of those situations that

Trump would see that other people just

wouldn't even see I mean the Tik Tock

thing where he says we should get half

of it nobody else saw that the the idea

of getting you know taking control of

the rare earth in Ukraine nobody else

saw that or at least they didn't mention

it so he is uniquely able to see hey why

aren why are we we not making money from

that thing and you need a sovereign fund

to sort of organize all of our thoughts

around it so that then we understand it

go oh he found another thing for The

Sovereign fund oh The Sovereign fund is

up 20% good job now keep in mind that

The Sovereign fund would be an asset

owned by the

government our biggest problem is our

debt if your debt stays the same this

would be wildly optimistic but if our

debt we could get under control and the

asset started

growing at some point the asset could be

big enough that we could use it to pay

off part of the

debt so it's a The Sovereign wealth fund

is actually also a debt relief mechanism

because it gives you that option you

don't have to use it for that but it

gives you the option uh you could put a

bunch of Bitcoin in it uh and there's

probably a bunch of other things you

could do so it's a good idea

um there's a study according to S poost

there's a study that the uh Tik Tock was

better for uh Republicans than Democrats

in this latest election so apparently

there was more there were more Democrats

who saw prot Trump stuff than there were

Republicans who saw pro- Democrat stuff

so that's being defined as being better

for Republicans now

like all

studies it might be true but there are a

lot of things that I have questions for

if the only thing you knew is who saw

what you don't really know anything it

really matters what they

saw if if uh the Democrats were saw more

Trump stuff but the stuff they saw was

the silly stuff like it's not the stuff

that persuades anybody well then it

doesn't matter how much they see they

can see an infin amount of non-p

persuasive stuff it wouldn't make any

difference what matters is exactly what

they see and this doesn't capture that

so remember when the Russians tried to

interfere with their troll their troll

memes and the News treated it like that

was real and it mattered and then you

looked at the actual memes and they were

just ridiculously bad they they look

like a seventh grade school project I

mean really they did seriously they look

like a seventh grade school project now

anybody who knows anything about

persuasion would look at those and say

oh that's the same as

zero it's zero it just rounds to

zero there's not even the slightest

possibility that those handful of

Russian memes that they put $100,000

into could have possibly moved our

election that is not possible

all

right so I wouldn't trust any uh survey

of Tik tok's influence because they

leave out the influence they just count

numbers and that's not how you do

it all right

um I promised you that I would uh some

of you that I'd give you some ADHD hacks

I was listening I was watching a big

thread on X about it and you might know

that ADHD is a goes two ways uh one is

that it can you know be really hard to

get anything done because your mind is

going a million miles an hour and you

got too many things in your mind but um

those same people have the ability to

really deeply concentrate but only on

things they care about the difference

seems to be that the ADHD people are

searching for

dopamine and if they can't find any

their mind goes everywhere trying to

look for it but those few things they

really love uh give them dopamine hits

when they spend time so they can go

deeper into a single topic than normal

people because they're really getting

the dopamine hit but only if they like

it now I didn't realize how bad my ADHD

was until I saw the thread about an

example of people with ADHD which is you

can't walk out the door without

forgetting

something because your your brain is in

too many places

I can't walk out the door without

forgetting something but um I'm also a

high functioning professional so how

could it be that I have uh obviously I

have pretty bad ADHD how could that be

when I'm also one of the most

disciplined workers you've ever met

seven days a week I'm always here unless

I'm sick right so here's how I basically

have a brain hack for every part of the

ADHD that bothers me and I'll share you

some of them it doesn't mean they'll

work for you but what it does mean is

you might be able to also come up with

your own brain hacks now keep in mind

I'm a hypnotist I'm a trained hypnotist

and so I tinker with my own mind like a

hypnotist would Tinker with somebody

else's mind so many of the things that a

hypnotist could do to another person's

mind I can do to myself cu I have the

skills and so I've hacked my own brain

to take care of a lot of the ADHD things

and you can too so let me give you some

of the tricks number one uh when I'm

leaving the house in the summer I can if

if I just try to remember what I need I

will not do it so instead I remember

five the number five and when I walk

toward my exit I think five and the

reason I think it is because I've

trained myself that whenever I see the

exit I think five in the summer why five

in the summer because in the summer you

need your phone you need your key fob

for your

car you need if you're a bald guy you

need a

hat and you need

sunscreen and in some cases I like to

bring my

headphones five you know if I'm going to

the gym for example I'd want make sure I

had my headphones so I walk to the door

and go

five phone oh I forgot the key then the

second thing I do is I leave the things

that I might forget really near the door

so I don't have to walk

upstairs ever everything's right by the

door so it's either in my car already

such as my sunglasses and my hat I keep

my sunglasses cuz they're prescription I

keep my sunglasses is in the

car because even if I'm not going to

drive I almost always walk past the car

in the garage to leave my house even if

I'm just taking a walk so I've found a

hack that I can leave the house without

15

trips and I then I Chang the number in

Winter because I don't need the

sunscreen as much I probably should but

I don't and and the hat Etc so that's

one trick so you you find a number

that tells you the things the number of

things you have to remember before you

open that door and then if you do it

enough remember repetition repetition is

persuasion you just have to repeat it

repeat it repeat it repeat it until you

can't forget it that's that's the hant

district all right here's another one in

the morning uh the one of the reasons I

start at often 3:30 in the morning or 4:

in the morning just whenever I'm awake

is that uh my ad PhD is by

far at the lowest so the first several

hours of the morning I sit in complete

darkness so I I darken all the lights I

have the drapes pulled and the only

light is my screen of my computer and a

a little light I put on my keyboard so

it's easier to see the see the keyboard

and that's it and the reason I do that

is that nobody's awake or at least

nobody that would be getting you know

getting in my way um the dog is asleep

the noises are predictable there's not

like daytime noises of you know there's

no Gardener doing anything or anything

uh phone isn't ringing I don't have

anything else on my

calendar and I'm doing something I want

to do which is I love looking at the

news and then talking about it so

getting rid of all your distractions is

the other hack I also if it's the

afternoon and and I want to do something

like write a check I can't do it do you

know why I can't write a check because

as hard as I try to concentrate I can't

get any dopamine from that task I just

desperately don't want to be writing

little things on a piece of paper in the

year

2025 desperately I don't want to do it

and so my brain won't let me do it so if

I start writing a check I I take like

the whole checkbook and I leave it there

and I start ripping up the checks

as I make mistakes and it's always the

same I'll be like all right concentrate

concentrate date what is the date date

is date write the date all right

concentrate concentrate um I think I've

got to go to the store today oh I

just wrote my grocery list on the

check rip it up try

again and just over and over again

because I can't concentrate all the way

through writing a number

that's how bad it is if I'm writing you

know

$425 I can get to maybe the two but by

the five I'm thinking about uh five

other things I can't finish that

oh just lost

my just lost

my thing here

all right I think I've lost you so let's

see if I can reenter

this let's see if you can hear me and

see me I'm

back all right I think I'm back your

comments will catch up in a moment all

right so what I do is I don't write

checks I know I can't do it I have

somebody else do it I just asked

somebody else uh if you want a check you

fill it out and I'll sign it so in

2025 I am so angered by anybody asking

me for a little piece of paper I

will not write a check I just say you

write it I'll sign it here's the check

if it doesn't work out I'll send I'll

give you another one but I'm not going

to do that I'm never going to write on

that little piece of paper you

write it I'll sign it so you have to

come up with a whole bunch of little

hacks

uh this is also the reason I can't write

dates down correctly you've noticed that

my Comics are always

misdated it's because I can't

concentrate through all the way thinking

through a date it's too boring so here's

how I settle it in the

afternoon uh a real good exercise

routine so I do my exercise around you

know lunchtime or noonish usually not

too far after and that that settles my

brain down because it gives me a

dopamine thing that lasts a little while

and then I can do some boring things uh

the other thing I do is if I'm drawing I

have to be absolutely medicated and

watching a TV show because if I draw

Dilbert one more time oh my god do you

know how many times I've drawn Dilbert's

head that's a lot that's a lot so maybe

tens of thousands of times so those are

some of my tricks the the other trick is

chanting and I've told you this one if

your ADHD is just an of control you

chant the thing you're trying to do

which is look for the file look for the

file look for the file what's that dog

doing no look for the file look for the

file huh these steps need a little bit

no look for the file look for the file I

should really vacuum this no look for

the file look for the file look for the

file that actually works and I I've

taught that to a number of people the

the

chanting sometimes it just gets so bad

that if you're not chanting it you can't

even walk across the room so try that

but here's the bigger thing the bigger

thing is that you could probably hack

your brain to find

workarounds for each of the little ADHD

things that are bothering

you and that's my advice on

ADHD all right there's a biotech company

that uh has now I guess a nasal spray

that uses some molecular pilicide

magic mushrooms that uh pretty much

immediately helps people with hard to

treat

depression so they're in the middle of

their clinical trial but so far it seems

to be almost magically effective so it's

a small ireland-based company GH

research and it's an inhaled

version so imagine

that imagine if you could if you could

just go and give yourself a little nasal

spray or inhale it however however they

inhale it maybe they inhale it a

different way um and it just removes

your

depression but I also wonder would it

give you

dopamine I would think that you couldn't

remove your depression without some

dopamine being in the mix right so could

it be possible that this removes your

depression but also your

ADHD because if it gives you dopamine

with just one

inhale maybe that's the dopamine I

needed to write my check maybe that's

the dopamine I needed to concentrate on

writing the date correctly maybe so it

could be that there's a cure for

depression and ADHD at the same time

just speculating trying to be optimistic

that's my show for today I know it

wouldn't way too long that's probably

why I got cut off I'll say uh I'm going

to say goodbye to everybody here so

locals I usually spend time with you but

I'm way over time so let's not let's not

milk it any further than we need to I'll

see you tonight locals in the man cave

everybody else thanks for joining sorry

I went long hope it was worth it by on X

and YouTube and Rumble and everywhere

else I will see you all tomorrow