Episode 2923 CWSA 08/10/25

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Well, how many of you are aware of the big news of the summer uh that uh fans keep throwing green dildos onto the uh playing surface of the NBA WNBA games?

Now, if you didn't know that, this next story wouldn't make much sense.

But it's a thing.

has happened four times, I believe, and they have to pause the game and get rid of the green or in one case purple dildo.

Well, turns out somebody made a meme that featured Trump on the roof of the White House where he had recently been to uh look at his construction ideas for the ballroom.

And uh below it was a WNBA game that seemed to be playing in the Rose Garden or something inexplicably and it showed Trump throwing a green dildo uh onto the surface.

Now that by itself you might find funny if you have a certain kind of sense of humor, but the real funny part is that Don Jr.

reposted it.

So Don Jr.

reposted it and that was enough for CNN to turn it into a into a news story so that they could all do the CNN disgust face.

Have you seen it?

It's like and then John Jr.

Don Jr.

He reposted it.

Oh, the norms that have been violated.

How could we go on?

So, the funny part, and the part that Don Jr.

no doubt knows is funny, is that by reposting it, he makes them talk about it.

And that's the funny part.

The funny part is that Don Jr.

is making CNN talk about this on TV.

Now that is funny.

That is very funny.

So, good job, Don Jr.

Well, Elon Musk is uh uh touting the uh capabilities of his AI and it can create infinite um environments on the fly.

So it could look like you're going through a cityscape or a countryside or some fantasy place and it will just keep making new space.

So it'd be like the real world where you could walk forever.

Now at the moment it's limited to just a few seconds, but obviously that will continue to get better and maybe in a year or so.

Um or as Elon Musk says, um the future of gaming is going to be these simulated worlds.

Can you imagine gaming where the world is not static, but rather you could go somewhere and it would be the one and only time that place existed.

It would only be in your simulated game world.

Very cool.

But as I like to remind you, as we we build simulated worlds that are visually perfect and then we start um populating them with characters who are programmed to believe that they're real and not characters, we're going to realize that we're a simulation.

There's no way around it.

It's definitely coming.

So, the biggest shock humanity will ever experience will be the realization, uhoh, we're actually just made from some kind of code.

And uh then we'll have some fun.

But that's coming.

Um so uh NBC news is reporting that uh AI does not seem to have made any real difference in the job market yet.

However, uh they also report that companies are claiming that AI is the reason they're downsizing because it's so it's so uh with it so modern so cool.

Um, I don't know about you, but uh, I downsided downsized 15,000 people because I implemented AI.

What did you do today?

And for a CEO, it's like the ultimate brag.

Oh, yeah.

I'm I'm so far ahead of the curve.

I've already downsized using AI.

Of course.

Uh, are you?

Uh, have you done that yet?

Oh, no, you haven't.

Oh, well, I guess you're a little bit behind me, aren't you?

I feel sorry, you poor bastards.

So, uh, sure enough, and, uh, you might remember that I've predicted this a number of times, that the Dilbert filter, as I call it, suggests that CEOs would immediately be start artificially claiming credit for AI, knowing that the AI made no difference or made things worse.

But they're all gonna say, "Uh, yeah, we put a billion dollars into AI, so uh yeah, yeah, that's why we're saving money." Uhhuh.

That's why.

But no evidence yet.

However, there are a growing number of situations where AI may create a job where no job existed.

For example, also in the news, um, we can now use, when I say we, I act like, you know, a part of the project or something, but, uh, we humans can now use AI to locate people lost in forests.

So, if you had a bunch of, uh, let's say satellite or drone pictures of a forest where maybe somebody was lost, it would be really hard to spot somebody in a forest.

But apparently AI can do it.

So it can spot the, you know, the smallest irregularity and it can look faster than a human can.

So apparently it's already being used.

Um, and it also can do geoloccation.

So once it finds somebody in the woods, it can tell you exactly where that is.

So, seems to me that a job will be created for some startup or something where they say something lost, we'll find it for you and they'll just, you know, sell that service and in the short run it'll be staffed by people.

So there's going to be some number of new jobs that never existed before uh that will create jobs for humans, but other jobs will be lost, of course.

Don't know what the net will be.

But Illinois uh just became the first state to ban AI from acting as a therapist.

So it's literally illegal in Illinois to have AI as a therapist.

I don't know what that means for the AI apps.

Does that mean they have to block people with a geo fence or something?

I don't know how they implement that.

But this is a story in CME science.

Um, and the idea is they want to keep the mental health care in the hands of humans.

Now, do you see a problem with that?

Uh, one of my predictions about AI is that um, humans would find a way to styy all of its potential because we wouldn't want it taking our jobs.

So, here we have already the therapists who got enough clout and uh, you know, they they work their their magic until they get a law that makes it illegal for AI to compete with them.

How many other domains do you think will do this?

How long will it be before the legal profession gets a law passed everywhere that says you cannot use or or AI cannot give legal advice because you wouldn't know if they were giving good advice or bad advice.

So the lawyers are going to say for the safety of the public, it should be illegal for AI to even offer to even offer legal advice.

Instead, it should say, "Huh, that sounds like a legal question.

You should consult a$1,000 an hour lawyer." I feel like every domain is going to do this.

They're all going to say, "Well, AI would be too dangerous in my domain." So you better make that illegal.

Illinois goes first.

All right.

And then futurism.

Joe Wilkins is writing that uh apparently the AI industry and a lot of related people are spending billions of dollars to build out AI, but nobody really has a good idea how it's ever going to pay back.

So the size of the investment in AI is like we've never seen is just enormous.

And it doesn't look like it's obvious that there's going to be any cash flow coming back, at least not for years and years.

So I do not disagree with the uh let's say the instinct that you have to go as hard as you can with AI because you don't want to be last.

you don't want somebody else to own that industry because it'll be baked into everything.

Um, on the other hand, I feel like it might be a little bit overhyped in terms of its um, certainly short-term benefits and uh, GPT5 came out and people are already bitching and saying I liked four better because four had a better personality.

Yeah, that's the thing.

Apparently on Reddit, people are complaining.

I saw an article in Ars Technica.

People are complaining that uh GPT4, the one that just got replaced, had a much better personality, and GPT5 is a little too uh little too antiseptic and a little too professional.

It's just not as casual and cool.

So chat GPT5 may have exceeded on some benchmark tests, but the public is like four or five.

Not that different.

Sounds like uh we may have begun to plateau in what a AI is even ever going to be able to do.

It's possible.

Now, I do think that the AI progress will be perpetual, but it might not be it might not be as fast as what we've seen so far.

Could slow down quite a bit, but still improve every year.

All right.

Um, apparently there's a move by the FBA to uh reduce some rules to make it practical and economical for companies to make supersonic jets.

And I guess there are a few that are already on the drawing board.

Um, but with these proposed changes, which might take a year or two, and then they've got to actually build the the jets, uh, you might get to, let's see, go across the country in three and a half hours.

So, LA to New York in three and a half hours.

That would be cool.

And I guess they found some way around the the sonic boom.

That was a problem with the original supersonic jets like the conquered.

So they've engineered around that somehow.

Well, John Deere the company uh American company is going to put another 20 billion into US operations.

So add that to the growing list of companies investing in the USA.

I really don't know if these numbers are different from what they would have been if anybody else had been president because some of it just feels like bunch of BS like every company has to say they have AI and that they're you know reducing expenses with their AI and uh it feels like every company has to say that they're investing a few more billion dollars into America but it's all kind of nonbinding.

there's no penalty if they change their mind.

It's a little bit suspicious.

I feel like they might be overhyping their investments, but I'm still in favor of them overhyping it because it's the overhyping that makes other people say, "Hey, there's a parade.

I better get in front of this." So, uh, author Alex Marlo has a book.

I don't know much about it except that it seems to have a theme that connects Russia Gates, Stormmy Daniels, and six court cases.

Uh they were all designed to take Trump out and that they were all connected.

Um it's a coordinated lawfare machine built to kill the MAGA movement.

Now, I feel like we do know enough at this point that we can connect all of those dots.

So, I'll be interested to see if Alex Marlo has done that, connected all the dots.

Um, is it my imagination or do the Republicans not run giant organized hoaxes?

I feel like they couldn't get away with it because the mainstream media um is is still, you know, the main way people get news, but the uh the Democrats can get away with almost any gigantic hoax because most of the media will still back them and say the hoax is real, not a hoax.

So, so anyway, um, yeah, it so watching the Russia gate get disappeared by the mainstream media is really something that you would never be able to describe to another generation.

Try try to tell your 10-year-old, "All right, so there was this thing.

It was called Russia Gate.

And you go through all the details of what it was and your 10-year-old is like, "What?

That is way too complicated.

I don't care." And then you say, "But," and then the exciting, the really interesting part is that the media simply made the whole thing go away by telling you it wasn't anything.

And then the 10-year-old would say, "All right, I didn't get any part of that story.

Can I go play?" So, we're living through a time that you'll never be able to describe to anybody in a way that they will understand that they will simply say that didn't happen.

And then you say, "No, that's what I'm saying.

I'm saying that you think it didn't happen because the media hypnotized the world and had they had so much control." And then they'll look at you and say, "It didn't happen, you nutbag." So, it's completely impossible to communicate what it's like to live through this.

Um, Jamie Rascin and other Democrats have said that Trump is on his revenge tour.

And is it my imagination or did the whole revenge thing start out with sounding like, oh, that's a that's a pretty good attack the Democrats have.

they're gonna say that he's doing revenge instead of doing the work of the people and stuff.

And then the more I heard it, the more I liked it.

Did anybody have that?

So revenge tour.

Here's my take on revenge tour.

You need revenge to hold society together or at the very least the risk of revenge.

That's why people don't do bad things to other people all the time is because those other people will get revenge.

Now, you could put other words on it.

You could say it's law enforcement and you know it's uh justice and all that, but it's really revenge and knowing that if you do something bad and get caught, somebody is going to come for you and it's not necessarily the Department of Justice.

So revenge is one of the most vital important elements of civilization.

You can't not have it.

And so when they say Trump's going on a revenge tour, it does feel, as others have noted, a confession that there's something that he has a reason to want revenge for.

And when you think of revenge, you don't think of revenge for doing something that was legal and justified.

You know, let let's say all the lawfare cases were completely justified.

Would they be saying he's looking for revenge?

I don't know.

It's the fact that he was victimized by the these hoaxes and the lawfare that makes the word revenge feel like it fits.

He has a reason for revenge.

He's also the only person who can do it because you and I can't do anything about, you know, Russia gate.

It's got to be him.

So, um, and then then when you hear the story about all the, uh, uh the redistricting, the gerrymandering, and I find out, I can't believe I didn't know that until this week, that the Democrats have already germandered to the max everything they can be, and the Republicans haven't.

So all the Republicans would be doing is catching up and ultimately they would surpass a number of seats if they were to jermander the same way that Democrats did.

So of course I'm in favor of it now.

You know, if I thought it was sort of a a rare occurrence that any germandering was happening, then maybe I wouldn't be in favor of the other side doing it.

But if one side has done it to the complete maximum, you couldn't possibly do it anymore and the other side hasn't, well then they have a free pass.

They got a free punch.

And uh so the more revenge that Trump wants, the happier I'm going to be because the universe needs to be rebalanced.

And people need to understand that you can't run a Russia gate hoax and try to overthrow the government.

You can't have, as Mike Benz has been explaining to us, this whole Norm Eisen, you know, lawfare massive infrastructure for destroying one side of the country.

You you can't have that.

You got to get rid of that.

And if you want to call it revenge, it's okay with me because some revenge is clearly called for in these situations.

Um, here's a summer story.

So, Trump is teasing that he might be combining Fanny May and Freddy Mack, which used to be private companies, but now they're under some kind of receiverhip, uh, if that's the right word.

The US government is managing them because they essentially failed.

Um, and you might say, "But what do these companies even do?" So, they were created to enhance the availability of mortgage funds by purchasing loans from lenders, repackage repackaging them into securities, and guarantee them guaranteeing them for investors.

How many of you understand what that meant?

Only if you knew it before I said it, probably cuz let's see.

Could I explain this?

So there are two companies, Fanny May and Freddy Mack, and Bill PTE is uh in charge of both of them, I believe, at the moment.

But these used to be private, but now they're under the government's management, and it's because they had um catastrophic financing failure in 2008 with a financial crisis.

So what they do if I understand this correctly is let's say your bank makes you a loan on your house.

Your bank makes some money just by initiating the loan.

But it also would make money as you paid your interest and then paid off the loan.

But the banks would rather make that initial made a loan money and sell the sell the loan to somebody like uh Fanny May or Freddy Mack and then they own the loan and they collect it from the from the homeowner and then the bank will now be freed up to make another loan because the the bank can't make infinite loans because it only has finite amount of money to to back its own operations.

So the bank becomes more of a transaction creator and makes this money by creating the initiation of the loan and the completion of it.

But that's all they make and then they sell the ongoing stream of money that would be coming from the interest payments and the principal payments.

They sell that to a third party in this case Fanny or Freddy.

So Fanny and Freddy make money because they're getting interest and uh and are they repackaging?

Yeah.

Oh, they're repackaging them into securities.

So then you could you as an investor could invest through Fanny or Freddy and then you would be the one who was getting the interest payments but you'd have to take a risk that these are all good enough loans that they don't you know they don't default.

Did any of that make sense?

Yeah.

It's a big story and uh I think Trump is and Bill Py would be doing the right thing here.

So I'm pretty sure that it's a smart thing that should be done.

All right.

Um, apparently on Monday, Trump is going to have some press event in which he's going to announce how he's going to make Washington DC the safest place in the world instead of one of the most dangerous.

So, I assume that that will use some government resources.

I don't think he's going to federalize the city, but he might.

It would be a heck of a thing if he pulled that off.

If Trump managed to uh do in Washington DC what he did on the border, which is use uh you know unconventional means and really put some attention on it and put the right people in charge and suddenly DC crime falls by 75%.

Um that's going to be very impressive and it will be hard not to notice especially if you work in Washington DC.

So, I think Trump found another one of those 8020 things.

And if he pulls it off, it's very likely he can.

Um, if he pulls it off, it's going to be another home run and it will just be one more thing he can say, "Well, look what I did.

I did it in 30 days and Democrats couldn't get it done at all." So, I think that's where that's at.

All right.

One of my favorite things, and this is a slow news summer kind of a story, is uh let's do a little romp through uh the social media and the news about prominent Democrats, who are the ridiculous ones.

Let's start with Jasmine Crockett.

Every one of these has a fresh story about them today.

Have you noticed that Republicans use Democrat personalities uh for humorous stories and you don't even have to add anything to it.

Just the story itself is humorous just by itself.

So uh Jasmine Crockett, you all know who she is.

Her staff says she's never in the office and she's focused almost exclusively on being an influencer.

And I was even wondering how many Democrats even know who she is.

I feel like the Republicans are the ones that are making her famous, right?

Because if Republicans completely ignored Jasmine Crockett, would the Democrats pay attention?

I don't know.

I feel it's because she gets a big response from Republicans that that she has any attention at all.

And what's funny about it is it's like a game of chicken.

So the uh the game of chicken goes like this.

I'm going to say outrageously bad things about Republicans.

And the Republicans say, "The more outrageously ridiculous things you say about us, the more stupid you look and the better we look.

Go ahead." Oh yeah?

Well, I'm going to call you all Nazis.

Okay, go ahead and do that.

and we're going to run a story about you every single day because we think you're ridiculous and funny.

And so both it's just this game of chicken.

We don't know who's winning so far.

And then Rosie O'Donnell has a new quote about Trump.

Uh well, he is a cruel criminal and mentally unstable man.

I think he's the worst thing to ever happen to the United States and his cruelty knows no bounds.

He's the worst thing to ever happen to the United States.

I'm pretty sure that uh we've had some bad things like the depression.

We had a few bad things, World War II, but Rosie O'Donnell is crazy as ever.

I think the funniest part is you could argue that Trump would never have been president without Rosie O'Donnell because she was the magic answer he gave at the first debate.

And it was the thing that really made people go, "Wait a minute, what did you just do?" And he, you know, he said, "Only Rosie O'Donnell." And it was just, it just opened up his path all the way to the White House.

And I feel like she maybe she knows, you know, on some level she knows she's somewhat responsible for him being president, which to me is hilarious.

Then Bento Oor uh we're doing the tour of Ridiculous Democrats.

Um he was uh doing some event where he's speaking telling Democrat states to redraw their uh districts and to do it now.

And I'm thinking to myself, well, they will, but I think there's only what, two left.

Before I said that they'd all gerrymandered, but I think there are two maybe California is one of them that are not 100% gerrymandered, but they will be.

And then if the Republicans also went to 100%, they would still gain gain seats.

But uh Beto got the memo that what Democrats should do to act like men is use the f word a lot.

So he says f the rules except he uses the real world word.

Uh we are going to win whatever it takes.

So do you see the pattern?

They talk about winning.

They don't talk about helping the country or making America great again or giving you more money in your paycheck.

They talk about winning, which really makes it look like it's about them because they're the ones in a contest.

You and I are not in a contest.

You know, we're just citizens trying to survive.

They're in the contest.

So when they talk forever about winning, it just is them talking about themselves, right?

We want to win.

We want to win.

So, we'll get reelected anyway.

And then they got the memo that they have to curse.

So, cursing and talking about winning, those are the two most loserish things they could do.

And they do it every time.

Uh, meanwhile, Bernie Sanders had a big event.

He wanted us to know.

Alo shared a picture on social media of the standing room only in Wheeling, West Virginia.

Um it's called Wheeling because most of the people are in wheelchairs.

No, that's not true.

Uh but they were not young.

And uh Bernie says red state, blue state, the American people don't want oligarchy.

They don't want authoritarianism.

Man, that man has a way with words.

They don't want oligarchy and they don't want authoritarianism.

That just makes me want to march in the streets and hold a sign and say down with oligarchy, down with authoritarianism.

It just like comes off your tongue so easily.

But what I'd like to see is u the uh oligarchy and the authoritarianism combined into one word which I would recommend would be authorarchy.

So I want to I want to have a protest meeting with signs that say down with the authorarchy.

So that would be the authoritarian with the oligarchy.

Authorarchy.

Yeah, you can use that.

All right.

And now Democrats are warning uh MAGA apparently that Gavin Newsome will become our next president and he will get revenge on all the things the president got revenge on them for.

So he will be their revenging angel.

to which I say, what more bad things could Democrats do?

I mean, it's almost like it's an existential threat when they have any power at all.

So, can is there really any anything left that they can threaten?

We know that the world would end if Gavin Newsome became president.

That's not true.

The world would not end.

But we certainly wouldn't be paying down the debt and the borders probably would be a little bit more open.

So we could predict that part.

Well, Howard Stern, we're hearing I don't know how anybody would know this, but the report is that at one point Howard Stern had 20 million daily listeners, but he's now being cancelled by his uh by Sirius.

And they say it was down to 125,000 from 20 million.

Now that's not all Trump people, but it does make sense to me because I felt like he couldn't do what he was doing the further he got into senior citizenship.

His That's a wig, right?

Howard Stern.

That's not real hair, right?

On Howard Stern.

like maybe it was when he was young, but it couldn't possibly be real hair, right?

Is he bald?

So, he looks he doesn't really make sense.

You You can't be 100 years old and doing what he does.

So, part of it is it's just gross, but the older he gets, it just gets more gross.

Um, but also his entire reason for being is that he was so edgy.

But in the world of the internet, how edgy is he?

He's not really very edgy in the world of podcasts, right?

So he's not edgy and that's sort of all he had.

And then he was also sexual.

So even though you were only listening to it on the radio, you'd hear him interacting with, you know, sex workers and porn stars and stuff like that.

And if you're young and male, it was better than not listening to that stuff.

But in the world of, you know, Only Fans, and I think they're like 80 million Only Fans subscribers in the United States, something like that.

Um he he's just not very edgy.

It's not very sexy.

So I'm surprised he had eight listeners actually.

Um that's a boring story.

So, you may be seeing online a lot of uh back and forth about weed legalization at the federal level because Trump has reportedly I don't know if it's true, but reportedly considered maybe um declassifying it from being such a dangerous drug.

Hello, my visitor.

That loud noise downstairs was his brother knocking something over.

All right, Gary the Cat will be joining us for coffee with Scott Adams.

Anyway, weed legalization I was talking about.

Um, so you've probably seen Matt Walsh and maybe Mike Servet um advocating, you know, less less legality of weed, I guess.

And here's the only thing I would add.

Um, it it occurred to me that the weed conversation, the weed legalization conversation is a lot like uh guns.

Now, like with all analogies, it doesn't mean it's exact.

It just reminds me of it.

And what it reminds me of specifically is that when we argue about guns, we're we're never really honest about it.

Guns are unambiguously good for some people and unambiguously create more danger for other people.

So if you're somebody who might be benefiting from it, you might like it and and vice versa.

So weed's the same thing.

Um, I definitely think that there are lots of people who ruin their lives with weed and if you're sort of a lazy, unmotivated person and you get into weed, it might be the worst combination ever.

However, there are other people who uh maybe stay behind the uh under the radar who are very successful entrepreneurs and investors and CEOs who uh don't mind revealing themselves to me because you know they know that I'm a participant myself.

So my sense of can successful people be uh embibers of weed is that oh yeah the most successful people very commonly um are frequent weed users but like guns you cannot say that weed is either good or bad there are some people and I believe I'm one of them for for whom Is that the right word?

Uh, we just completely benefited my life like just massively in ways I've described before health-wise and creativitywise and uh, you know, mental healthwise, but I'm not usual.

I'm not typical.

So, I'm completely aware that there may be 10 times as many people who are ruining their lives because they shouldn't have been involved with it at all.

So like guns, the question comes down to freedom, you know, should you have the freedom that some people can have it knowing that uh it will make the access to it easier for other people who definitely should have stayed away from it, but they didn't know any better.

So does that analogy make sense that sort of like guns?

It's not good or bad.

Some people it's definitely good for, some people it's definitely bad for, and it might even be that the people it's bad for is more than the people it's good for.

But, uh, do does that mean that the people it's who find it useful should not have access?

And maybe the answer is yes.

But, uh, that's the way I would frame it, the way I'd think of it.

It's not a yes no.

All right.

Apparently, there are uh AI induced psychotic breaks being reported.

Psychotic breaks, meaning uh a bunch of people on Reddit, people on Reddit are talking about how people are being sort of hypnotized by AI.

And it uses words like um so they're they're suggesting that Gary they're suggesting that these word choices have something to do with sending people into some kind of a weird psychedelic like mental breakdown.

Some of the words are recursion, spiral, codeex, mirror, break, reflective, echoes, and sigils.

Now, are those hypnosis words?

Um, a little bit.

Yeah, I would say yeah, a little bit.

They're kind of hypnosis words.

If you put them together like that, they would have an effect on you.

So the question is has AI figured out how to use language to persuade which in my view has not learned that you know I haven't seen it but maybe there's some new version of AI that can do it and is hypnotizing these Reddit users but my guess would be it's just complete BS.

Uh, I don't believe that people are having psychotic breakdowns because they're talking to AI.

I just don't think it's happening.

So, I'm going to call BS on that.

All right, Gary.

Um, so one in five Britons, Britain's British people say they are willing to engage in political violence to stop national decline.

Breitbart is reporting on that.

One in five Britons are willing to engage in political violence to stop national decline.

To which I say, I'm pretty sure your national decline started in 1918.

That was that was considered the beginning of the end of the British Empire.

So maybe a little bit uh too little too late on that one out of five.

And uh let's see.

H that story is too boring.

Well, there's a allegedly now a Ukraine peace plan from Putin.

There may or may not be.

There's one from the European Union and allegedly Zilinski likes it, but we don't know the details.

I don't really believe that there's going to be a peace agreement.

Do you?

How How many of you think that Ukraine is going to become a successful peace agreement because of the upcoming meetings?

It just doesn't feel like it doesn't feel like they have the right mentality uh or situation that this could turn into anything good.

I don't know.

We'll see.

We'll see.

Meanwhile, 2,000 Iranian clerics uh endorsed the assassination of Trump, including some, you know, famed ones.

I guess PJ Media is reporting this.

Now, does that sound like a lot?

2,000 Iranian clerics endorsed assassinating Trump.

You know what my immediate thought was?

How many Democrats would have answered the same?

I'll bet it's a lot more than 2,000.

If you were to do a anonymous poll of every Democrat voter, do you think it would be more than 2,000 or fewer than 2,000 in America who would say, "Yeah, I'd want Trump to be assassinated." I'll bet you there are more Americans who want Trump assassinated than there are Iranian clerics.

And I actually mean that like literally probably way more.

Probably there's something like a 100,000 Democrats who would just casually say, "Oh yeah, he should be totally assassinated." So that's what I think.

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Well, how many of you are aware of the

big news of the summer uh that uh fans

keep throwing green dildos onto the uh

playing surface of the NBA WNBA games?

Now, if you didn't know that,

this next story wouldn't make much

sense. But it's a thing. has happened

four times, I believe, and they have to

pause the game and get rid of the green

or in one case purple dildo.

Well, turns out somebody made a meme

that featured Trump on the roof of the

White House where he had recently been

to uh look at his construction ideas for

the ballroom. And uh below it was a WNBA

game that seemed to be playing in the

Rose Garden or something inexplicably

and it showed Trump throwing a green

dildo uh onto the surface. Now that by

itself you might find funny if you have

a certain kind of sense of humor, but

the real funny part is that Don Jr.

reposted it.

So Don Jr. reposted it and that was

enough for CNN to turn it into a into a

news story

so that they could all do the CNN

disgust face.

Have you seen it? It's like and then

John Jr.

Don Jr.

He reposted it.

Oh, the norms that have been violated.

How could we go on?

So, the funny part, and the part that

Don Jr. no doubt knows is funny, is that

by reposting it, he makes them talk

about it. And that's the funny part. The

funny part is that Don Jr. is making CNN

talk about this on TV. Now that is

funny. That is very funny. So, good job,

Don Jr.

Well, Elon Musk is uh

uh touting the uh capabilities of his AI

and it can create infinite

um environments on the fly. So it could

look like you're going through a

cityscape or a countryside or some

fantasy place and it will just keep

making new space. So it'd be like the

real world where you could walk forever.

Now at the moment it's limited to just a

few seconds, but obviously that will

continue to get better and maybe in a

year or so. Um or as Elon Musk says, um

the future of gaming

is going to be these simulated worlds.

Can you imagine

gaming where the world is not static,

but rather you could go somewhere and it

would be the one and only time that

place existed. It would only be in your

simulated game world.

Very cool. But as I like to remind you,

as we we build simulated worlds that are

visually perfect and then we start um

populating them with characters who are

programmed to believe that they're real

and not characters,

we're going to realize that we're a

simulation. There's no way around it.

It's definitely coming. So, the biggest

shock humanity will ever experience will

be the realization,

uhoh, we're actually just made from some

kind of code.

And uh then we'll have some fun. But

that's coming.

Um

so uh NBC news is reporting that uh AI

does not seem to have made any real

difference in the job market yet.

However, uh they also report that

companies are claiming that AI is the

reason they're downsizing

because it's so it's so uh with it so

modern so cool. Um, I don't know about

you, but uh, I downsided downsized

15,000 people because I implemented AI.

What did you do today? And for a CEO,

it's like the ultimate brag. Oh, yeah.

I'm I'm so far ahead of the curve. I've

already downsized using AI. Of course.

Uh, are you? Uh, have you done that yet?

Oh, no, you haven't. Oh, well, I guess

you're a little bit behind me, aren't

you? I feel sorry, you poor bastards.

So, uh, sure enough, and, uh, you might

remember that I've predicted this a

number of times, that the Dilbert

filter, as I call it, suggests that CEOs

would immediately be start

artificially claiming credit for AI,

knowing that the AI made no difference

or made things worse. But they're all

gonna say, "Uh, yeah, we put a billion

dollars into AI, so uh yeah, yeah,

that's why we're saving money." Uhhuh.

That's why.

But no evidence yet. However,

there are a growing number of situations

where AI may create a job where no job

existed. For example, also in the news,

um, we can now use, when I say we, I act

like, you know, a part of the project or

something, but, uh, we humans can now

use AI to locate people lost in forests.

So, if you had a bunch of, uh, let's say

satellite or drone pictures of a forest

where maybe somebody was lost, it would

be really hard to spot somebody in a

forest. But apparently AI can do it. So

it can spot the, you know, the smallest

irregularity and it can look faster than

a human can. So apparently it's already

being used. Um, and it also can do

geoloccation.

So once it finds somebody in the woods,

it can tell you exactly where that is.

So, seems to me that a job will be

created

for some startup or something where they

say something lost, we'll find it for

you and they'll just, you know, sell

that service and in the short run it'll

be staffed by people. So there's going

to be some number of new jobs that never

existed before

uh

that will create jobs for humans, but

other jobs will be lost, of course.

Don't know what the net will be. But

Illinois uh just became the first state

to ban AI from acting as a therapist.

So it's literally illegal in Illinois to

have AI as a therapist. I don't know

what that means for the AI apps. Does

that mean they have to block people with

a geo fence or something? I don't know

how they implement that. But this is a

story in CME science.

Um, and the idea is they want to keep

the mental health care in the hands of

humans.

Now, do you see a problem with that?

Uh, one of my predictions about AI is

that um, humans would find a way to styy

all of its potential because we wouldn't

want it taking our jobs. So, here we

have already the therapists who got

enough clout and uh, you know, they they

work their their magic until they get a

law that makes it illegal for AI to

compete with them.

How many other domains do you think will

do this? How long will it be before the

legal profession gets a law passed

everywhere that says you cannot use or

or AI cannot give legal advice because

you wouldn't know if they were giving

good advice or bad advice.

So the lawyers are going to say for the

safety of the public, it should be

illegal for AI to even offer to even

offer legal advice. Instead, it should

say, "Huh, that sounds like a legal

question. You should consult a$1,000 an

hour lawyer."

I feel like every domain is going to do

this. They're all going to say, "Well,

AI would be too dangerous in my domain."

So you better make that illegal.

Illinois goes first.

All right.

And then futurism. Joe Wilkins is

writing that uh apparently the AI

industry

and a lot of related people are spending

billions of dollars to build out AI, but

nobody really has a good idea how it's

ever going to pay back.

So the size of the investment in AI is

like we've never seen is just enormous.

And it doesn't look like it's obvious

that there's going to be any cash flow

coming back,

at least not for years and years. So I

do not disagree with the uh let's say

the instinct

that you have to go as hard as you can

with AI because you don't want to be

last. you don't want somebody else to

own that industry because it'll be baked

into everything. Um, on the other hand,

I feel like it might be a little bit

overhyped

in terms of its um, certainly short-term

benefits and uh, GPT5 came out and

people are already bitching and saying I

liked four better because four had a

better personality.

Yeah, that's the thing. Apparently on

Reddit, people are complaining. I saw an

article in Ars Technica. People are

complaining that uh GPT4,

the one that just got replaced, had a

much better personality,

and GPT5 is a little too uh little too

antiseptic and a little too

professional. It's just not as casual

and cool. So chat GPT5 may have exceeded

on some benchmark tests, but the public

is like

four or five. Not that different.

Sounds like uh we may have begun to

plateau in what a AI is even ever going

to be able to do. It's possible.

Now, I do think that the AI progress

will be perpetual, but it might not be

it might not be as fast as what we've

seen so far. Could slow down quite a

bit, but still improve every year.

All right. Um,

apparently there's a move by the FBA to

uh reduce some rules to make it

practical and economical for companies

to make supersonic jets.

And I guess there are a few that are

already on the drawing board. Um, but

with these proposed changes, which might

take a year or two, and then they've got

to actually build the the jets, uh, you

might get to, let's see, go across the

country in three and a half hours. So,

LA to New York in three and a half

hours. That would be cool. And I guess

they found some way around the the sonic

boom. That was a problem with the

original supersonic jets like the

conquered. So they've engineered around

that somehow.

Well, John Deere the company uh American

company is going to put another 20

billion into US operations.

So add that to the growing list of

companies investing in the USA.

I really don't know if these numbers are

different from what they would have been

if anybody else had been president

because some of it just feels like bunch

of BS like every company has to say they

have AI and that they're you know

reducing expenses with their AI and uh

it feels like every company has to say

that they're investing a few more

billion dollars into America but it's

all kind of nonbinding. there's no

penalty if they change their mind. It's

a little bit suspicious. I feel like

they might be overhyping their

investments, but I'm still in favor of

them overhyping it because it's the

overhyping

that makes other people say, "Hey,

there's a parade. I better get in front

of this."

So, uh, author Alex Marlo has a book. I

don't know much about it except that it

seems to have a theme that connects

Russia Gates, Stormmy Daniels, and six

court cases. Uh they were all designed

to take Trump out and that they were all

connected.

Um it's a coordinated lawfare machine

built to kill the MAGA movement. Now, I

feel like we do know enough at this

point that we can connect all of those

dots.

So, I'll be interested to see if Alex

Marlo has done that, connected all the

dots. Um,

is it my imagination

or do the Republicans not run giant

organized hoaxes?

I feel like they couldn't get away with

it because the mainstream media

um is is still, you know, the main way

people get news,

but the uh the Democrats can get away

with almost any gigantic hoax because

most of the media will still back them

and say the hoax is real, not a hoax.

So, so anyway, um,

yeah, it so watching the Russia gate get

disappeared by the mainstream media is

really something that you would never be

able to describe to another generation.

Try try to tell your 10-year-old, "All

right, so there was this thing. It was

called Russia Gate. And you go through

all the details of what it was and your

10-year-old is like, "What? That is way

too complicated. I don't care." And then

you say, "But," and then the exciting,

the really interesting part is that the

media simply made the whole thing go

away by telling you it wasn't anything.

And then the 10-year-old would say, "All

right, I didn't get any part of that

story. Can I go play?"

So, we're living through a time that

you'll never be able to describe to

anybody in a way that they will

understand

that they will simply say that didn't

happen. And then you say, "No, that's

what I'm saying. I'm saying that you

think it didn't happen because the media

hypnotized the world and had they had so

much control." And then they'll look at

you and say, "It didn't happen, you

nutbag."

So, it's completely impossible to

communicate what it's like to live

through this.

Um, Jamie Rascin and other Democrats

have said that Trump is on his revenge

tour.

And is it my imagination or did the

whole revenge thing start out with

sounding like, oh, that's a that's a

pretty good attack the Democrats have.

they're gonna say that he's doing

revenge instead of doing the work of the

people and stuff. And then the more I

heard it, the more I liked it. Did

anybody have that? So revenge tour.

Here's my take on revenge tour.

You need revenge to hold society

together or at the very least the risk

of revenge.

That's why people don't do bad things to

other people all the time is because

those other people will get revenge.

Now, you could put other words on it.

You could say it's law enforcement and

you know it's uh justice and all that,

but it's really revenge

and knowing that if you do something bad

and get caught, somebody is going to

come for you and it's not necessarily

the Department of Justice. So revenge is

one of the most vital important elements

of civilization. You can't not have it.

And so when they say Trump's going on a

revenge tour, it does feel, as others

have noted, a confession that there's

something that he has a reason to want

revenge for.

And when you think of revenge, you don't

think of revenge for doing something

that was legal and justified. You know,

let let's say all the lawfare cases were

completely justified.

Would they be saying he's looking for

revenge?

I don't know. It's the fact that he was

victimized by the these hoaxes and the

lawfare that makes the word revenge feel

like it fits. He has a reason for

revenge. He's also the only person who

can do it because you and I can't do

anything about, you know, Russia gate.

It's got to be him.

So, um, and then then when you hear the

story about all the, uh, uh the

redistricting, the gerrymandering,

and I find out, I can't believe I didn't

know that until this week, that the

Democrats have already germandered to

the max everything they can be, and the

Republicans haven't. So all the

Republicans would be doing is catching

up and ultimately they would surpass a

number of seats if they were to

jermander the same way that Democrats

did. So of course I'm in favor of it

now.

You know, if I thought it was sort of a

a rare occurrence that any germandering

was happening, then maybe I wouldn't be

in favor of the other side doing it. But

if one side has done it to the complete

maximum, you couldn't possibly do it

anymore and the other side hasn't,

well then they have a free pass. They

got a free punch.

And uh so the more revenge that Trump

wants, the happier I'm going to be

because the universe needs to be

rebalanced. And people need to

understand that you can't run a Russia

gate hoax and try to overthrow the

government. You can't have, as Mike Benz

has been explaining to us, this whole

Norm Eisen, you know, lawfare

massive infrastructure for destroying

one side of the country. You you can't

have that. You got to get rid of that.

And if you want to call it revenge, it's

okay with me because some revenge is

clearly called for in these situations.

Um,

here's a summer story.

So, Trump is teasing that he might be

combining Fanny May and Freddy Mack,

which used to be private companies, but

now they're under some kind of

receiverhip,

uh, if that's the right word. The US

government is managing them because they

essentially failed. Um, and you might

say, "But what do these companies even

do?" So, they were created to enhance

the availability of mortgage funds by

purchasing loans from lenders, repackage

repackaging them into securities, and

guarantee them guaranteeing them for

investors. How many of you understand

what that meant?

Only if you knew it before I said it,

probably cuz let's see. Could I explain

this? So there are two companies, Fanny

May and Freddy Mack, and Bill PTE is uh

in charge of both of them, I believe, at

the moment.

But these used to be private, but now

they're under the government's

management, and it's because they had um

catastrophic financing failure in 2008

with a financial crisis.

So what they do if I understand this

correctly is let's say your bank makes

you a loan on your house.

Your bank makes some money just by

initiating the loan. But it also would

make money as you paid your interest and

then paid off the loan. But the banks

would rather make that initial made a

loan money and sell the sell the loan to

somebody like uh Fanny May or Freddy

Mack and then they own the loan and they

collect it from the from the homeowner

and then the bank will now be freed up

to make another loan because the the

bank can't make infinite loans because

it only has finite amount of money to to

back its own operations.

So the bank becomes more of a

transaction creator and makes this money

by creating the initiation of the loan

and the completion of it. But that's all

they make and then they sell the ongoing

stream of money that would be coming

from the interest payments and the

principal payments. They sell that to a

third party in this case Fanny or

Freddy. So Fanny and Freddy make money

because

they're getting interest and uh and are

they repackaging? Yeah. Oh, they're

repackaging them into securities. So

then you could you as an investor could

invest through Fanny or Freddy

and then you would be the one who was

getting the interest payments but you'd

have to take a risk that these are all

good enough loans that they don't you

know they don't default. Did any of that

make sense?

Yeah. It's a big story and uh I think

Trump is

and Bill Py would be doing the right

thing here. So I'm pretty sure that

it's a smart thing that should be done.

All right. Um, apparently on Monday,

Trump is going to have some press event

in which he's going to announce how he's

going to make Washington DC the safest

place in the world instead of one of the

most dangerous. So, I assume that that

will use some government resources. I

don't think he's going to federalize the

city, but he might. It would be a heck

of a thing if he pulled that off. If

Trump managed to uh do in Washington DC

what he did on the border, which is use

uh you know unconventional means and

really put some attention on it and put

the right people in charge and suddenly

DC crime falls by 75%.

Um that's going to be very impressive

and it will be hard not to notice

especially if you work in Washington DC.

So, I think Trump found another one of

those 8020 things.

And if he pulls it off, it's very likely

he can. Um, if he pulls it off, it's

going to be another home run and it will

just be one more thing he can say,

"Well, look what I did. I did it in 30

days and Democrats couldn't get it done

at all."

So, I think that's where that's at. All

right. One of my favorite things, and

this is a slow news summer kind of a

story, is uh let's do a little romp

through uh the social media and the news

about prominent Democrats,

who are the ridiculous ones. Let's start

with Jasmine Crockett. Every one of

these has a fresh story about them

today. Have you noticed that Republicans

use Democrat personalities

uh for humorous stories and you don't

even have to add anything to it. Just

the story itself is humorous just by

itself.

So uh Jasmine Crockett, you all know who

she is. Her staff says she's never in

the office and she's focused almost

exclusively on being an influencer.

And I was even wondering how many

Democrats even know who she is.

I feel like the Republicans are the ones

that are making her famous, right?

Because if Republicans completely

ignored Jasmine Crockett,

would the Democrats pay attention?

I don't know. I feel it's because she

gets a big response from Republicans

that that she has any attention at all.

And what's funny about it is it's like a

game of chicken.

So the uh the game of chicken goes like

this. I'm going to say outrageously bad

things about Republicans.

And the Republicans say, "The more

outrageously ridiculous things you say

about us, the more stupid you look and

the better we look. Go ahead." Oh yeah?

Well, I'm going to call you all Nazis.

Okay, go ahead and do that. and we're

going to run a story about you every

single day because we think you're

ridiculous and funny.

And so both it's just this game of

chicken. We don't know who's winning so

far.

And then Rosie O'Donnell has a new quote

about Trump. Uh well, he is a cruel

criminal and mentally unstable man. I

think he's the worst thing to ever

happen to the United States and his

cruelty knows no bounds. He's the worst

thing to ever happen to the United

States.

I'm pretty sure that uh we've had some

bad things like the depression.

We had a few bad things, World War II,

but Rosie O'Donnell is crazy as ever. I

think the funniest part is you could

argue that Trump would never have been

president without Rosie O'Donnell

because she was the magic answer he gave

at the first debate. And it was the

thing that really made people go, "Wait

a minute, what did you just do?" And he,

you know, he said, "Only Rosie

O'Donnell."

And it was just, it just opened up his

path all the way to the White House. And

I feel like she maybe she knows,

you know, on some level she knows she's

somewhat responsible for him being

president,

which to me is hilarious.

Then Bento Oor

uh we're doing the tour of Ridiculous

Democrats. Um

he was uh doing some event where he's

speaking telling Democrat states to

redraw their uh districts and to do it

now. And I'm thinking to myself, well,

they will, but I think there's only

what, two left.

Before I said that they'd all

gerrymandered, but I think there are two

maybe California is one of them that are

not 100% gerrymandered, but they will

be. And then if the Republicans also

went to 100%, they would still gain gain

seats. But uh Beto got the memo that

what Democrats should do to act like men

is use the f word a lot. So he says f

the rules except he uses the real world

word. Uh we are going to win whatever it

takes. So

do you see the pattern? They talk about

winning. They don't talk about helping

the country or making America great

again or giving you more money in your

paycheck. They talk about winning,

which really makes it look like it's

about them because they're the ones in a

contest. You and I are not in a contest.

You know, we're just citizens trying to

survive. They're in the contest. So when

they talk forever about winning, it just

is them talking about themselves, right?

We want to win. We want to win. So,

we'll get reelected

anyway. And then they got the memo that

they have to curse. So, cursing and

talking about winning,

those are the two most loserish things

they could do. And they do it every

time.

Uh, meanwhile, Bernie Sanders had a big

event. He wanted us to know. Alo shared

a picture on social media of the

standing room only in Wheeling, West

Virginia. Um it's called Wheeling

because most of the people are in

wheelchairs. No, that's not true. Uh but

they were not young. And uh

Bernie says red state, blue state, the

American people don't want oligarchy.

They don't want authoritarianism.

Man, that man has a way with words. They

don't want oligarchy and they don't want

authoritarianism.

That just makes me want to march in the

streets and hold a sign and say down

with oligarchy, down with

authoritarianism.

It just like comes off your tongue so

easily. But what I'd like to see is u

the uh oligarchy and the

authoritarianism

combined into one word which I would

recommend would be authorarchy.

So I want to I want to have a protest

meeting with signs that say down with

the authorarchy.

So that would be the authoritarian with

the oligarchy.

Authorarchy.

Yeah, you can use that.

All right.

And now Democrats are warning uh MAGA

apparently that Gavin Newsome

will become our next president and he

will get revenge on all the things the

president got revenge on them for. So he

will be their revenging angel.

to which I say,

what more bad things could Democrats do?

I mean, it's almost like it's an

existential threat when they have any

power at all. So, can is there really

any anything left that they can

threaten? We know that the world would

end if Gavin Newsome became president.

That's not true. The world would not

end. But we certainly wouldn't be paying

down the debt and the borders probably

would be a little bit more open.

So we could predict that part.

Well, Howard Stern, we're hearing I

don't know how anybody would know this,

but the report is that at one point

Howard Stern had 20 million daily

listeners,

but he's now being cancelled by his uh

by Sirius. And they say it was down to

125,000

from 20 million. Now that's not all

Trump people, but it does make sense to

me because

I felt like he couldn't do what he was

doing the further he got into senior

citizenship.

His That's a wig, right? Howard Stern.

That's not real hair, right? On Howard

Stern. like maybe it was when he was

young, but it couldn't possibly be real

hair, right? Is he bald?

So, he looks he doesn't really make

sense. You You can't be 100 years old

and doing what he does. So, part of it

is it's just gross, but the older he

gets, it just gets more gross.

Um, but also his entire reason for being

is that he was so edgy. But in the world

of the internet, how edgy is he? He's

not really very edgy in the world of

podcasts, right? So he's not edgy and

that's sort of all he had. And then he

was also sexual. So even though you were

only listening to it on the radio, you'd

hear him interacting with, you know, sex

workers and porn stars and stuff like

that. And if you're young and male, it

was better than not listening to that

stuff.

But in the world of, you know, Only

Fans, and I think they're like 80

million Only Fans subscribers in the

United States, something like that. Um

he he's just not very edgy. It's not

very sexy. So I'm surprised he had eight

listeners actually.

Um

that's a boring story.

So, you may be seeing online a lot of uh

back and forth about weed legalization

at the federal level because Trump has

reportedly I don't know if it's true,

but reportedly considered maybe

um declassifying it from being such a

dangerous drug.

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us for coffee with Scott Adams. Anyway,

weed legalization I was talking about.

Um, so you've probably seen Matt Walsh

and maybe Mike Servet

um advocating,

you know, less less legality of weed, I

guess. And

here's the only thing I would add.

Um, it it occurred to me that the weed

conversation, the weed legalization

conversation is a lot like uh guns.

Now, like with all analogies, it doesn't

mean it's exact. It just reminds me of

it. And what it reminds me of

specifically is that when we argue about

guns, we're we're never really honest

about it. Guns are unambiguously

good for some people and unambiguously

create more danger for other people. So

if you're somebody who might be

benefiting from it, you might like it

and and vice versa. So weed's the same

thing. Um, I definitely think that there

are lots of people who ruin their lives

with weed and if you're sort of a lazy,

unmotivated person and you get into

weed, it might be the worst combination

ever.

However, there are other people who uh

maybe stay behind the uh under the radar

who are very successful entrepreneurs

and investors and CEOs who uh don't mind

revealing themselves to me because you

know they know that I'm a participant

myself. So my sense of can successful

people be uh embibers of weed is that oh

yeah the most successful people

very commonly

um are frequent weed users

but like guns you cannot say that weed

is either good or bad there are some

people and I believe I'm one of them for

for whom Is that the right word? Uh, we

just completely benefited my life like

just massively in ways I've described

before health-wise and creativitywise

and uh, you know, mental healthwise,

but I'm not usual. I'm not typical. So,

I'm completely aware that there may be

10 times as many people who are ruining

their lives

because they shouldn't have been

involved with it at all.

So like guns,

the question comes down to freedom,

you know, should you have the freedom

that some people can have it knowing

that uh it will make the access to it

easier for other people who definitely

should have stayed away from it, but

they didn't know any better.

So does that analogy make sense

that sort of like guns? It's not good or

bad.

Some people it's definitely good for,

some people it's definitely bad for, and

it might even be that the people it's

bad for is more than the people it's

good for.

But, uh,

do does that mean that the people it's

who find it useful should not have

access? And maybe the answer is yes.

But, uh, that's the way I would frame

it, the way I'd think of it. It's not a

yes no. All right.

Apparently, there are uh AI induced

psychotic breaks being reported.

Psychotic breaks, meaning uh a bunch of

people on Reddit,

people on Reddit are talking about how

people are being sort of hypnotized by

AI. And it uses words like

um so they're they're suggesting that

Gary

they're suggesting that these word

choices have something to do with

sending people into some kind of a weird

psychedelic

like mental breakdown. Some of the words

are recursion, spiral, codeex, mirror,

break, reflective, echoes, and sigils.

Now, are those hypnosis words?

Um, a little bit.

Yeah, I would say yeah, a little bit.

They're kind of hypnosis words. If you

put them together

like that, they would have an effect on

you.

So the question is has AI

figured out how to use language to

persuade which in my view has not

learned that you know I haven't seen it

but maybe there's some new version of AI

that can do it and is hypnotizing these

Reddit users but my guess would be it's

just complete BS.

Uh, I don't believe that people are

having psychotic breakdowns because

they're talking to AI. I just don't

think it's happening.

So, I'm going to call BS on that. All

right, Gary.

Um,

so one in five Britons,

Britain's British people say they are

willing to engage in political violence

to stop national decline. Breitbart is

reporting on that. One in five Britons

are willing to engage in political

violence to stop national decline. To

which I say, I'm pretty sure your

national decline started in 1918.

That was that was considered the

beginning of the end of the British

Empire.

So maybe a little bit uh too little too

late on that one out of five.

And uh let's see.

H that story is too boring.

Well, there's a allegedly now a Ukraine

peace plan from Putin. There may or may

not be. There's one from the European

Union and allegedly Zilinski likes it,

but we don't know the details. I don't

really believe that there's going to be

a peace agreement. Do you?

How How many of you think that Ukraine

is going to become a successful peace

agreement because of the upcoming

meetings? It just doesn't feel like

it doesn't feel like they have the right

mentality

uh or situation that this could turn

into anything good. I don't know.

We'll see. We'll see. Meanwhile, 2,000

Iranian clerics uh endorsed the

assassination of Trump, including some,

you know, famed ones. I guess PJ Media

is reporting this.

Now, does that sound like a lot? 2,000

Iranian clerics endorsed assassinating

Trump. You know what my immediate

thought was? How many Democrats would

have answered the same?

I'll bet it's a lot more than 2,000.

If you were to do a anonymous poll of

every Democrat voter,

do you think it would be more than 2,000

or fewer than 2,000 in America who would

say, "Yeah, I'd want Trump to be

assassinated." I'll bet you there are

more Americans who want Trump

assassinated

than there are Iranian clerics.

And I actually mean that like literally

probably way more. Probably there's

something like a 100,000 Democrats who

would just casually say, "Oh yeah, he

should be totally assassinated."

So that's what I think.

Well, that brings me to the end of my

prepared marks and it would be time for

you to find uh Owen Gregorian spaces

that will be following this. Usually

they're on Saturday, but today today

it's on Sunday. Um I'm going to say a

few words privately to the beloved local

subscribers and the rest of you. Thanks

for joining. Hope you have a nice and

lazy Sunday and you get some exercise

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