Episode 2924 CWSA 08/11/25

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Well, let's uh check in on the news first.

Technology.

Um Rice Mason of Noble is reporting that there's a new small study that they did in India and they found that blowing into a kunch c a kunch might help those with sleep apnea.

So they had people blow into this shell, you know, a conch shell, and those that did did not have nearly as much as sleep apnea.

Now, they did not report how the conch itself slept, but I feel like uh slept pretty well, if you know what I mean.

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Um, so I was telling you that uh chat GPT launched version five and people were not impressed and I've been predicting for some time that AI may have started to plateau and maybe won't get that much better that quickly.

It'll get better, but maybe not so quickly anymore.

Well, apparently there were enough complaints about GPT5 that they pulled it back and just said, uh, why don't you use four for a while again?

And I guess it was some specific technical problem that, um, they've identified and fixed.

So, it might be a very temporary thing, but GPT5 was underwhelming.

Apparently, it was dumber than four, but they know why, so they've already fixed it.

Um, that was embarrassing, but they are in the kind of business where, you know, going fast and making mistakes and fixing them is exactly what they probably need to be doing as long as it doesn't release a super intelligence into the world with no guardrails that will kill us all.

All right.

Um Harvard has announced a major breakthrough in the fight against dementia.

They say um they believe that micro doses of a new lithium compound will uh maybe just really make a big difference because apparently makes a big difference in dementia ridden mice.

Now, I believe I looked up on grock once how often a a drug that works with mice ends up working and being approved and everything for a human being.

What do you think is the ratio?

If it works with mice in a lab, what are the odds that it will also work on humans and be safe and, you know, get approved?

I feel like it was one in 14.

I think it was one in 14, but it might have been much worse than that.

Yeah, it's Yeah, not even 25%.

It's a very small number.

10%.

Yeah, maybe 10%.

All right.

Um, and I I saw on uh social media that Tesla is the only car company uh maybe it was American.

No, I think the only car company that's making cash.

So, uh Tesla produced something like $16 billion in cash.

So, that's not profitability because profitability could be, you know, just on paper.

Uh, but cash is what you care about.

If it's producing lots of cash, you have a really good company.

So, it's the only one.

All the other car companies are actually losing cash.

Did you know that?

That there's only one car company in the in the entire world that that operates profitably.

Well, uh, they might be the others might be profitable on paper, but only one of them produces cash, more cash than it uses.

Tesla.

Weird.

So, what else is happening as my papers stick together?

Solved.

There's uh also a report that Tesla might be trying to enter the uh Britain energy market.

I saw a Sawyer Merritt post on this and the idea is don't know the details but it looks like Tesla um at least a component of Tesla will be involved with maybe power walls and I don't know what else maybe solar panels but at least power walls and uh it feels like the market for power walls is almost unlimited doesn't it?

Because you know my my house I looked into it.

The only reason that I don't have a power wall is because the process of buying one is so bad that I gave up.

I I was sold like, oh yeah, I'm going to get a power wall.

And they made the processes so unpleasant of all the things I have to do and the information I have to give them and the scheduling and the phone calls and the phone calls and the follow-up phone calls for the follow-up meeting.

It's just an initial meeting for the followup.

Oh my god, it was just unbearable process.

So I just bailed out in the middle of it because I couldn't handle the incompetence.

But as a product, if you just had a normalsiz house, which I don't, um I would definitely get one.

I can't imagine that I wouldn't if I could afford it.

Well, Trump is pushing his uh IQ test idea for Jasmine Crockett and AOC.

Uh he um it's such a summer story again that uh Trump puts another true social post in which it's just this long uh complainy thing about AOC and AOC the other three that we never remember the squad and then uh Jasmine Crockett he's calling both of them low IQ and then he he clarifies Trump does when he says low IQ, he puts in parentheses very with lots of exclamation points.

Very.

They're not just low IQ in his opinion.

They're very uh all of which I find funny and sure enough.

But uh I love what it does.

It makes us wonder if the which one is dumber.

And instead of thinking, well, that's not very nice of him.

All I'm thinking is I wonder which one is dumber.

H if they took that IQ test, I wonder how that would come out.

I'm a little bit curious, I must say.

I don't think they're going to take an IQ test, but I do suspect both of them would do fine actually on an IQ test.

Um, if I had to guess, let's see.

If I had to guess, I would put them both at 120 IQ, which would be pretty solid.

You know, it'd be good enough to get elected to Congress.

That's what I think.

Anyway, um JD Vance said on a interview yesterday, he said that we're going to see a lot of people get indicted over Russia gate.

Do you believe that?

Do you believe that a lot of people will be indicted over Russia?

And would one of those people be Hillary Clinton and would one of those people be Barack Obama?

I feel as though Barack Obama would be the last who might be indicted.

I I can't imagine he being the first, you know, the beginning of the list.

It's possible, but I feel like they might want to tiptoe into it and make sure that they got a maybe make sure that they got something like a conviction on a lower level person.

Maybe somebody will flip on them.

Maybe maybe it just makes it easier to sell to the public if somebody's already been convicted as being on his team.

It makes it a little more obvious that if people are convicted, you know, for their participation with him, it wouldn't surprise you if he got indicted.

So, we'll see.

Um, but Hillary Clinton, how in the world do you avoid indicting her like right up front?

Because she's literally the the genesis for the entire Russia gay hoax.

Um, if she gets away with it, I don't know, we might see some prosecutors being murdered or or as Hillary likes to say, suicide again.

coincidentally.

We'll see.

Um, apparently Trump might be giving an announcement right now as I speak.

I'm not sure, but u he was going to tell us what he planned for Washington DC.

We believe according to the reporting that there will be FBI agents who maybe have already been assigned to help the DC police to prevent violent crime.

Now, the FBI agents would not be pulling people over and giving them tickets or anything like that, but they might be there to assist.

And then separately, um Trump is reportedly considering sending the National Guard into DC again for uh policing um but probably not doing what police do.

Not arresting people, just being a military presence and maybe a uh an assistant to the police, whatever they need.

So, uh, Trump seems very, uh, very determined to make Washington DC a livable city again.

I feel like this is a 9010 issue, not even 80 8020.

What do you think?

Now, I saw um, Christopher Rufo saying on social media that it's a timing um, it's going to be a timing challenge.

If Trump can solve Washington DC and just clean it up really quickly, then the bad guys won't have time to organize any kind of a, you know, counter message and it'll just be over.

It'll just be a safe place and they'll have to ignore it.

They'll have to pretend he he didn't accomplish that.

But if it takes him a while to get his act together, then the uh the bad people might move and maybe slow down and turned into he's being an authoritarian oligarchy guy or as I call it an authorarchy.

He's sort of an authorarchy guy.

Um, but it does seem to me that there'd be very few people who would complain about making the streets safer.

Apparently, the big problem, I don't know if you knew this, but in Washington DC, if you're a minor and you get caught stealing a car, you're basically you don't even get it on your record.

I think I think you just skate.

And so the a lot of the car thieves are organized groups of underage, you know, children who are willing to steal cars.

So a lot of it can't be helped by putting them in jail because it's not an option.

They don't stay there.

Um so maybe you just need somebody watching.

You know, somebody's got a big gun over their shoulder just watching all the time might be the only thing that works.

So, I'm watching or listening to I guess some video of RFK Jr.

and have you noticed that just very recently, and I mean maybe only the last week, has his voice improved?

because I heard a video of him talking where he had he had the raspiness he always has, but he didn't have all that catch in his voice where his voice would go fall apart.

It's feels like he's taken it up to the next level.

And I was sure that he could I was fairly sure that if he changed his uh voice production technique that he could smooth that out.

And I'm wondering um couple of possibilities.

One is that they're using AI on the video, which would be very smart, by the way, because they could clone his voice and then just dub his own voice in over his own voice and having the imperfect voice just replaced with a AI version of a a perfect one.

I feel like they could do that like really easily with AI.

So, it might be that because none of them were live.

They looked like they were pre-recorded.

The other possibility is that he's breathing differently and producing producing the voice differently.

Or maybe he just tried something else.

Maybe he found something else that works.

I don't know.

But, uh, it was kind of exciting for me just to watch his improvement.

Well, Bill Maher had Drew Barrymore on his show, his Club Random show, and uh uh Drew Barrymore said talking about all the censorship and sensitivities of people and stuff, she said it's just way too dangerous now to speak the truth.

But here's the thing.

When she said it's too dangerous to speak the truth, uh Bill Maher acted like they were on the same page.

And the problem was the left and all the wokeness.

But I feel like she might have been talking about the right.

Am I right about that?

I didn't see the whole clip, but it felt like she was saying that um with all the authorarchy going on that it would be too dangerous for somebody on the left to simply talk the truth.

And then Bill Bar, of course, you know, thinking everything's about him, turned it into how the left is always attacking him.

I don't feel like they were necessarily on the same topic.

Were they?

I don't know.

But, uh, Bill Morris said he had a, uh, a little thought that he plays when the left gets on him.

Is quote, "Just get the f off of me." Huh.

Just get the f off of me.

I don't know what that's reminding me of, but of something.

Well, the uh governor of Illinois, JB Pritsker, um he he's going on TV.

He is shamelessly going on TV and talking about other states, meaning Texas, um gerrymandering and acting like it's this big terrible um authorarchy kind of a thing to do.

So then he gets challenged with the fact that he was behind the gerrymandering of his own state.

and it's considered one of the most uh grotesqually germandian states of all the states.

And he has to respond to the fact he's complaining about the the exact thing he did.

The exact and not even it's not even like an approximate thing or something that reminds you of something.

It's the exact thing.

He he over gerrymandered his state to completely remove power from one side and that's why he's complaining about Texas.

And so what does he do when he's challenged and he's on camera is live and he has to answer to doing exactly exactly the thing that he's on camera to complain about the other people doing.

What's he do?

Word salad.

He goes totally word silent and he just starts talking and and words come out of his mouth and you're like what wait what what is that even related to the are you going to circle back to that but but are we on the same top this is English right and it was just hilarious with with no sense of shame whatsoever he just starts say saying a bunch of words and when you're done you're like oh my god All he did was chew up the time and he's completely shameless and he'll go on another he'll probably go on another interview and do the same thing and they let him get away with it because they ran out of time.

Well, Bernie Sanders is uh being a little bit mean to Kla Harris and uh apparently he's not expecting her to run for president anytime soon.

Um and apparently what uh what Bernie said to Dana Bash who was talking to him um and Bernie said quote one of the reasons in my view that Kla Harris lost this election is she had too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for the working class of this country.

Do you think that happened?

Do you think that behind closed doors there were too many billionaires who were warning comma no stop it don't don't speak up for the working class no don't do that don't speak up for the working class you know we we want to keep all that money does anybody believe that something like that happened I doubt it but that's that's the best Bernie can come up with uh and then even Dana Bash responded with ouch, you know, because she was being so pointed about Kaml Harris.

Uh and then Bernie goes, well, no, I think I mean uh uh I don't think that uh that uh I like her.

She's a friend of mine, but her core consultants, you know, were heavily influenced by very wealthy people.

Uh he goes, "How do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crisis facing working families?" Okay.

Um did Bernie Sanders recommend something specific?

Don't all the Democrats have the same problem and they're all blaming each other of that problem?

And that problem is they're not saying anything that could be implemented as in a policy that would be good for workingclass people.

They like talking about them.

They like saying that other people aren't talking about them enough.

They like saying that Republicans are stealing from them.

They like saying that Democrats need to focus on them more.

They like to say that they need to fight harder for the workingclass people, but what they don't say ever is what the hell they're going to do for the workingclass people.

And when they do, it's being said by Kami Mandami.

And everybody who knows anything about anything says, "Well, those are the worst ideas I've ever heard in my life." It's amazing to me that the Democrats even have a party.

Like, who goes to the party, the political party, and they don't have a single policy recommendation for the core group that they all believe everybody's ignoring too much except for them?

Got anything?

Anything on affordability?

Nope.

Um, and then, uh, Sanders said this, and I quote, "Well, but in a vague, I don't want to rehash that campaign." In other words, he didn't know what he was talking about.

U, but I think the clue to democratic victories is to understand you've got you've got to stand unequivocally with the working class.

Okay?

And what exactly does standing with them get you?

What is it you're asking for?

All right.

Do you ever see a uh title to an article and you knew you just didn't have to read it?

All right.

Uh the Wall Street Journal has an article in which the headline is President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy.

This is by Greg Ip.

Now, would you bother reading that article?

It's an article comparing Trump to the Chinese Communist Party.

Does it seem to you that that would be worth your time?

No.

If there's anything I've uh taught you, it's in the world of persuasion, it's only comparisons that matter.

That's why they say Trump is Hitler.

It's why they say uh Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party.

It's just all they're trying to do is find a way to smear him by association because they don't have enough actual policy preferences that would be better than whatever the hell he's doing.

So, no, I'm not going to read that Wall Street Journal.

That's crazy.

According to uh PG PG PJ Media and Matt Margolas, he's writing, "Did you know, I didn't know this, I learned this today, that Obama's rise to power was uh entirely based on gerrymandering." So he remember he was that junior senator from Illinois.

If if his state had not been super gerrymandered just for him, he didn't really have a chance of winning.

So Obama is a completely artificial candidate.

He was created by gerrymandering.

So that's interesting.

How did I not know that before?

Well, according to the New New York Post, Bethany Mandel is writing that new New Jerseys electric bill tripled this summer.

Tripled.

How does your electric bill triple?

Did they cancel some power plants or something?

There must be more to this story, but I didn't see it.

Anyway, but apparently uh New Jersey in general is getting more expensive.

Um, so besides that, property taxes are up 6%, car insurance up 15%, home insurance up 17%, and health insurance up 19%.

Now given that 60% of the country is living paycheck to paycheck, the numbers I just gave you, these are all the things that a middle class family just has to have, right?

They have to pay for gas, they have to have electricity, they have to have healthcare.

And these increases for New Jersey would make it completely unlivable for the middle class.

If they were already right at the edge and 60% of them could just barely, you know, get to the next paycheck, how in the world do they all handle insurance up 17, health insurance up 19% and etc, etc.

tripling of your electric costs?

How in the world can they afford that?

There something's getting ready to tip really hard.

And I don't think it's just voting.

you there will certainly be some you voting changes I would hope but um I don't understand how New Jersey can even still be a viable state with these increases like actually I don't know how they can be a viable state there must be something going on I don't know about um there's been a lot of chatter online about who invented slave slavery and the history of slavery.

And uh I saw a post that says that there was some survey and found out that most Hispanic, black, and Asian women think that quote white people invented slavery.

Is there even one person who's watching this podcast, even one, and of many, I don't know, thousands at this point, I'll bet there's not one of you who believes that white people invented slavery.

Am I right?

I'll bet not one of you.

That's pretty basic history is to know that slavery has been with us from the beginning of time and everybody did it, you know, pretty much everybody.

And the the movement against it according to Thomas Soul was uh not until the Quakers and some other religious groups went after it in the 18th century.

So mostly white people.

Now I feel as though people are trying to win an argument based on what happened hundreds of years ago.

So if you want reparations, you say those white people have been doing it for hundreds of years.

And if you uh if you wanted to go the opposite direction, you'd say everybody's been doing it forever.

White people were more associated with stopping it than, you know, promoting it.

However, I say I don't care.

I don't care what anybody uh any strangers relatives were doing hundreds of years ago.

Are you telling me that I should be somehow taxed or pay some money or something for something that strangers relatives did hundreds of years ago?

I don't care whose relatives they were, whether they're mine or anybody else's.

Has nothing to do with me.

So, I care about what's happening today and now.

And it might be true that there's, you know, some groups that are disadvantaged because the history of slavery.

To which I say, I don't care.

Everybody's got some problem.

I don't know anybody who doesn't have a problem.

Some people have health problems.

Some people are ugly.

Some people are addicted.

Some people, you know, uh have abusers in their life.

Some people have been victims of horrible crimes.

Some people have low IQ and they're trying to get by.

Everybody's got a problem.

Everybody.

And you can't tell me that I'm part of your problem.

I'm not part of anybody's problem.

I don't know any of those people.

I'm I'm just I'm not connected to this the story at all.

So, no.

Um it might be entirely true that some groups are disadvantaged by something that happened hundreds of years ago.

I don't care.

Why should that affect me?

All right.

Um, so, uh, apparently Nvidia and AMD, the chip makers, agreed with Trump to provide the US with 15% of revenue from their chip sales to China in return for the US government removing export controls on those high-end chips.

So once again, if this is true, so this is this morning's reporting, but if this is true, Trump has once again monetized a problem that was unsolvable.

The unsolvable problem was that we could try to prevent China from getting these chips, but they were going to get them anyway.

So they would just, you know, get them through cutouts and illegal ways.

and then maybe they would just, you know, try order to replace them with their own homegrown chips.

So Trump realizing here here I'm just speculating what he was thinking.

Trump realizing that you can't really stop China from getting the chips.

You know, you could work really hard at it.

You could ban them, but they're going to get the chips.

So instead he he simply says, "All right, you can sell them chips, but you have to give 15% to the government.

Uh we're basically your partner now." And apparently Nvidia and AMD agreed to that.

So once again, Trump finds a problem that he can't solve because it might be just unsolvable by its nature.

So he monetizes it.

He just finds a way to make a profit for the US government.

I don't hate this.

You know, even you could look at the individual situations and say, "I don't like that one or I don't like that one." But I kind of love what he's doing to reframe the role of the government that if the government is part of your success, well, the government gets a taste and you and I are the government, right?

So why why should you and I pay a bunch of taxes for, you know, American defense and American government, but it's just going to help some company that I don't own stock in.

Like why would I be doing that?

Doesn't it make more sense if we help you, you help us?

So that's all that's all Trump is doing.

He's saying if we're going to help you get, you know, get into this market and protect you, we should get a taste.

So maybe maybe it's a good idea.

Well, uh, Mexico's president has taken the side of Venezuela's Maduro, who has been attacked by, uh, Trump and the administration as being a a terrorist and a drug trafficker.

and he's being accused by the US government of being a leader of the cartel de las souls which is responsible for uh drug trafficking.

Now I've never really seen this before.

Maybe it's happened before but they're not even treating him like he's the he's the head of the government.

They're treating him like he's the head of the cartel that just happened to have conquered a government.

And um this will be interesting cuz once you say the guy's ahead of a cartel, it feels like there's nothing that we wouldn't be willing to do to him.

So if Maduro gets uh let's say taken out, you shouldn't be too surprised, right?

Um, China has been uh they began construction on the world's biggest hydro power project, water power.

Apparently, there's this enormous river in China and they they've got this uh almost unimaginably ambitious project to conquer it and turn it into an energy supply.

$167 billion facility and it's will be an engineering miracle if they can pull it off which people think they can.

But did you know that China imports nearly a quarter of its energy supply?

A quarter of its energy supply.

So they're trying to China is trying to become more self-sufficient.

Yeah.

No, it's bigger than the seven gorges.

I believe it's going to be bigger than that.

Um anyway, so it feels like the uh the war that China and the US are in is to see who can be become less dependent on the other the fastest.

And uh China's going to work on becoming energy dependent independent and we're going to work on having our own manufacturing I guess having our own uh what do you call it rare earth minerals.

Speaking of which, a startup called Vulcan Elements has raised $65 million in the US to create rare earth magnets.

So that that's what we're doing.

We're going as hard as we can on rare earth and they're going as hard as they can on energy because we live in this big connected world.

And I hate to say it, but it's the economic requirement that we all have to live off of each other that probably keeps us from going to war.

I'm a little bit afraid if the big powers become self-sufficient with everything because if we don't have a little bit of dependence on those other countries, it's going to be kind of easier to get into a war.

So, we'll see.

Um, according to the Atlantic, um, the world's population collapse, I'm sorry, is uh, let me take a drink.

I don't know what's wrong with my throat today.

H, that's better.

Um, the baby shortage is worse than you think and we we're going to have a worldwide collapse faster than the experts thought.

But did you know that Chile and Colombia um are only having one child per woman and Thailand is less than one.

So it's not just the rich countries.

So even Chile, Colombia and Thailand are not just not reproducing.

So why is that?

Because when I think of the um China and the US, I think, oh, it's just economic, you know, people can't afford it.

But is that true everywhere?

Did it suddenly become too expensive in every country at the same time?

Do they have a a housing problem in Thailand?

They might.

I don't know.

So, I don't know why it's happening everywhere.

So, there's a deeper mystery to the lack of babies.

And I would say again that if the problem is the cost of living that we should build freedom cities that are optimized for having a family.

because uh I've told you this a number of times, but until it gets solved, I'll just keep saying it.

The ultimate place to live if you have a young family is where there are other young families and you you can't do better than that because you can take turns watching kids and you know they have sleepovers and with your friend, etc.

So, it's way easier to raise kids if you're around other people raising kids.

So, if you build a freedom city that's optimized for a low cost of living and a high quality contact with other people in the same age range and same interests, it would be amazing.

You could build it tomorrow that, you know, it would just be you just need approvals basically.

Um, apparently colleges are having a tough time scrambling to fill their roles because of all the uh foreign students who are staying home or have been banned from their colleges.

And uh apparently it's a pretty big deal.

Uh there's going to be a 30 to 40% decline in new international student enrollment.

So 150,000 fewer international students in this country.

So, uh, people who were much deeper on the wait list, in other words, people who didn't get in will be getting it.

So, that's good.

Um, that's boring.

Um, so there's a new synthetic opioid that's way worse than even fentinyl and even way worse in that the narcan which can save you if you if you have a fentinyl overdose doesn't work on this.

So what is it called?

Nidazine.

Ni t a ze nazine.

So watch out for that.

uh kids are already dropping dead taking a pill that they think is one thing.

It turns out to be filled with nazine.

So don't take that.

So allegedly Putin and Trump are going to meet and talk about Ukraine, but uh I don't think there's any chance this will work because um Zalinski is making a video saying that there's no possibility of Ukraine giving uh land away for peace and that's really the only deal.

And he says that Zilinski says that the constitution of Ukraine prevents him from even having that conversation because he doesn't have the power to give anything away.

Now, will Trump come back and say, "I got a deal, and your part of the deal is you got to do a constitutional convention and vote on whether or not we can end the war by giving away this property." Would he do it?

I feel like Zalinski is going to go all the way.

And as long as he's in office, he's never going to say yes to peace.

I feel like and so it might be that Trump has to get rid of Zilinski before anything productive can happen.

We'll see.

But uh we'll watch that.

I I feel like the odds of this producing a three-way agreement for peace are basically zero.

Don't you?

Basically zero.

So, but I'll be surprised.

I would love to be wrong.

Well, Israel um bombed an El Jeazera reporter who was in Gaza and killed him as well as four of his co-workers who were also Alier Zera reporters because they said that the one guy they said the one guy was actually a Hamas operator.

Now, I don't know if that's true, but they killed him and his whole team intentionally.

Um, four confirmed dead.

So, maybe him and three others.

Now, does that seem a little convenient to you that whenever there's people reporting on Gaza, which is the last thing that Israel would want to happen, that they're also working with Hamas, so you better kill them all.

I don't know.

So, here's my warning about the war zone.

100% of the information coming out of the war zone is not credible.

Some of it might be true, but it's not credible.

You can't believe it's true just cuz it showed up in the newspaper.

So, do we know that this Al Jazer guy was really working for Hamas?

We don't know that.

Could it be that Israel just decided to kill him because the last thing they want is any living reporters in the area?

Possibly.

I don't have any information to to suggest that's the case, but possibly.

So, I would say this is exactly the kind of story you should say to yourself.

Okay, it's a total show over there.

People do terrible things on both sides.

This is probably more of that, but we don't know which side was doing the terrible thing.

Obviously, if the three people who were with him were innocent reporters, that would be pretty bad.

Um, I guess Australia has decided to rec recognize a Palestinian state.

What exactly do they think that looks like?

Do do they think that You know, Israel is just going to suddenly say, "Oh, all right.

Gaza is a Palestinian state now.

Go ahead, you guys.

You know, you can have Gaza and the West Bank and we'll get rid of all of our settlements." Do they really think any of that's going to happen?

I don't believe it.

Um, and Bernie Sanders is now saying that Netanyahu is a war criminal.

um just as much as the head of Hamas is a war criminal.

So he's now basically acting like they're morally similar or at least legally similar in terms of war crimes.

You can pick your war criminal.

Pick your preference.

The the only thing I have to say about that is that I try not to impose my own ethical or moral standard on a uh situation which does not operate on ethics or morality is purely self-interest of the countries and uh if I observe that Israel is I'll say effectively pursuing their own national self-interest what else am I to say about it?

The only thing that I have to say about is whether the US should be funding any part of that and I'm not a big fan of that.

So I observe that Israel seems to be getting what they want at the moment and it would be unlikely that they would say you know what we've decided that uh we're just going to do the opposite of everything we've said we would do before.

So I think uh as long as Israel has the power to get what they want, they will just keep getting what they want.

And that's the whole analysis right there.

U about the US.

Uh EJ.

Oh, it's EJ.

I thought it was a I thought it was a serious person.

Uh but it's just my troll.

Um, obviously I don't have to say the obvious parts cuz then the troll Well, never mind.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is a very slow news day, but I think Trump will pick it up a little bit.

It might get really newsy really fast.

Uh, but I'm going to talk to my local subscribers privately and the rest of you.

Thanks for joining.

We'll see you back here tomorrow.

Same time, same place.

All right, locals.

I will be private with you in 30 seconds.

little glitch, but now I'm ready to go.

Just checking on your stocks.

Um, Tesla's up, Nvidia's down. That's

all you need to know.

Everything else is a little bit flat

today

so far.

All right, locals,

let me make sure I can see your

comments.

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YouTube is working now. All right,

YouTubers. Thanks for being uh so

patient. Well, let's uh check in on the

news first. Technology.

Um Rice Mason of Noble is reporting that

there's a new small study that they did

in India and they found that blowing

into a kunch c

a kunch might help those with sleep

apnea.

So they had people blow into this shell,

you know, a conch shell, and those that

did did not have nearly as much as sleep

apnea. Now, they did not report how the

conch itself slept, but I feel like uh

slept pretty well, if you know what I

mean. All right, you'll have to think

about that one for a little bit.

Take your time. Take your time and now

good. Okay. Um,

so I was telling you that uh chat GPT

launched version five and people were

not impressed and I've been predicting

for some time that AI may have started

to plateau and maybe won't get that much

better that quickly. It'll get better,

but maybe not so quickly anymore.

Well, apparently there were enough

complaints about GPT5 that they pulled

it back and just said, uh, why don't you

use four for a while again?

And I guess it was some specific

technical problem that, um, they've

identified and fixed. So, it might be a

very temporary thing, but

GPT5

was underwhelming. Apparently, it was

dumber than four, but they know why, so

they've already fixed it. Um, that was

embarrassing,

but they are in the kind of business

where, you know, going fast and making

mistakes and fixing them is exactly what

they probably need to be doing

as long as it doesn't release a super

intelligence into the world with no

guardrails that will kill us all.

All right. Um Harvard has announced a

major breakthrough in the fight against

dementia. They say

um they believe that micro doses of a

new lithium compound

will uh maybe just really make a big

difference because apparently makes a

big difference in dementia ridden mice.

Now, I believe I looked up on grock once

how often a a drug that works with mice

ends up working and being approved and

everything for a human being. What do

you think is the ratio?

If it works with mice in a lab, what are

the odds that it will also work on

humans and be safe and, you know, get

approved? I feel like it was one in 14.

I think it was one in 14, but it might

have been much worse than that. Yeah,

it's Yeah, not even 25%. It's a very

small number. 10%. Yeah, maybe 10%.

All right. Um,

and I I saw on uh social media that

Tesla is the only car company uh maybe

it was American. No, I think the only

car company that's making cash.

So, uh Tesla

produced something like $16 billion in

cash. So, that's not profitability

because profitability could be, you

know, just on paper. Uh, but cash is

what you care about. If it's producing

lots of cash, you have a really good

company. So, it's the only one. All the

other car companies are actually losing

cash.

Did you know that? That there's only one

car company in the in the entire world

that that operates profitably.

Well, uh, they might be the others might

be profitable on paper, but only one of

them produces cash, more cash than it

uses. Tesla.

Weird.

So, what else is happening

as my papers stick together?

Solved.

There's uh also a report that Tesla

might be trying to enter the uh Britain

energy market. I saw a Sawyer Merritt

post on this and the idea is don't know

the details but it looks like Tesla

um at least a component of Tesla will be

involved with maybe power walls and I

don't know what else maybe solar panels

but at least power walls and uh it feels

like the market for power walls is

almost unlimited doesn't it? Because you

know my my house I looked into it. The

only reason that I don't have a power

wall is because the process of buying

one is so bad that I gave up. I I was

sold like, oh yeah, I'm going to get a

power wall. And they made the processes

so unpleasant of all the things I have

to do and the information I have to give

them and the scheduling and the phone

calls and the phone calls and the

follow-up phone calls for the follow-up

meeting. It's just an initial meeting

for the followup. Oh my god, it was just

unbearable process. So I just bailed out

in the middle of it because I couldn't

handle the incompetence.

But as a product, if you just had a

normalsiz house, which I don't, um I

would definitely get one. I can't

imagine that I wouldn't if I could

afford it.

Well, Trump is pushing his uh IQ test

idea for Jasmine Crockett and AOC. Uh he

um it's such a summer story again that

uh Trump

puts another true social post in which

it's just this long uh complainy thing

about AOC and AOC the other three that

we never remember the squad and then uh

Jasmine Crockett he's calling both of

them low IQ and then he he clarifies

Trump does when he says low IQ, he puts

in parentheses very with lots of

exclamation points. Very.

They're not just low IQ in his opinion.

They're very

uh all of which I find funny

and sure enough. But uh I love what it

does. It makes us wonder if the which

one is dumber.

And instead of thinking, well, that's

not very nice of him. All I'm thinking

is I wonder which one is dumber. H if

they took that IQ test, I wonder how

that would come out. I'm a little bit

curious, I must say. I don't think

they're going to take an IQ test, but I

do suspect both of them would do fine

actually on an IQ test.

Um, if I had to guess, let's see. If I

had to guess, I would put them both at

120

IQ,

which would be pretty solid. You know,

it'd be good enough to get elected to

Congress.

That's what I think. Anyway,

um JD Vance said on a interview

yesterday, he said that we're going to

see a lot of people get indicted over

Russia gate. Do you believe that?

Do you believe that a lot of people will

be indicted over Russia?

And would one of those people be Hillary

Clinton and would one of those people be

Barack Obama?

I feel as though Barack Obama would be

the last who might be indicted. I I

can't imagine he being the first, you

know, the beginning of the list. It's

possible,

but I feel like they might want to

tiptoe into it and make sure that they

got a maybe make sure that they got

something like a conviction on a lower

level person. Maybe somebody will flip

on them. Maybe maybe it just makes it

easier to sell to the public if

somebody's already been convicted as

being on his team. It makes it a little

more obvious that if people are

convicted,

you know, for their participation with

him, it wouldn't surprise you if he got

indicted. So, we'll see. Um, but Hillary

Clinton,

how in the world do you avoid indicting

her like right up front? Because she's

literally the the genesis for the entire

Russia gay hoax. Um, if she gets away

with it, I don't know, we might see some

prosecutors being murdered

or

or as Hillary likes to say, suicide

again. coincidentally. We'll see. Um,

apparently Trump might be giving an

announcement right now as I speak. I'm

not sure, but u he was going to tell us

what he planned for Washington DC. We

believe according to the reporting that

there will be FBI agents who maybe have

already been assigned to help the DC

police to prevent violent crime. Now,

the FBI agents would not be pulling

people over and giving them tickets or

anything like that, but they might be

there to assist.

And then separately, um Trump is

reportedly considering sending the

National Guard into DC again for uh

policing

um but probably not doing what police

do. Not arresting people, just being a

military presence and maybe a uh an

assistant to the police, whatever they

need.

So, uh, Trump seems very, uh,

very determined to make Washington DC a

livable city again. I feel like this is

a 9010 issue, not even 80 8020. What do

you think? Now, I saw um, Christopher

Rufo

saying on social media that it's a

timing

um, it's going to be a timing challenge.

If Trump can solve Washington DC and

just clean it up really quickly, then

the bad guys won't have time to organize

any kind of a, you know, counter message

and it'll just be over. It'll just be a

safe place and they'll have to ignore

it. They'll have to pretend he he didn't

accomplish that. But if it takes him a

while to get his act together,

then the uh the bad people might move

and maybe slow down and turned into he's

being an authoritarian

oligarchy guy or as I call it an

authorarchy.

He's sort of an authorarchy guy. Um,

but it does seem to me that there'd be

very few people who would complain about

making the streets safer. Apparently,

the big problem, I don't know if you

knew this, but in Washington DC, if

you're a minor and you get caught

stealing a car, you're basically you

don't even get it on your record. I

think I think you just skate. And so the

a lot of the car thieves are organized

groups of underage, you know, children

who are willing to steal cars. So a lot

of it can't be helped by putting them in

jail because it's not an option. They

don't stay there. Um so maybe you just

need somebody watching. You know,

somebody's got a big gun over their

shoulder just watching all the time

might be the only thing that works.

So, I'm watching

or listening to I guess some video of

RFK Jr. and have you noticed that just

very recently, and I mean maybe only the

last week, has his voice improved?

because I heard a video of him talking

where he had he had the raspiness he

always has, but he didn't have all that

catch in his voice where his voice would

go fall apart. It's feels like he's

taken it up to the next level. And I was

sure that he could I was fairly sure

that if he changed his uh voice

production technique that he could

smooth that out. And I'm wondering um

couple of possibilities. One is that

they're using AI on the video, which

would be very smart, by the way, because

they could clone his voice and then just

dub his own voice in over his own voice

and having the imperfect voice just

replaced with a AI version of a a

perfect one. I feel like they could do

that like really easily with AI. So, it

might be that because none of them were

live. They looked like they were

pre-recorded.

The other possibility

is that he's breathing differently and

producing producing the voice

differently. Or maybe he just tried

something else. Maybe he found something

else that works. I don't know. But, uh,

it was kind of exciting for me just to

watch his improvement.

Well, Bill Maher had Drew Barrymore on

his show, his Club Random show, and uh

uh Drew Barrymore said talking about all

the censorship and sensitivities of

people and stuff, she said it's just way

too dangerous now to speak the truth.

But here's the thing. When she said it's

too dangerous to speak the truth,

uh Bill Maher acted like they were on

the same page. And the problem was the

left and all the wokeness.

But I feel like she might have been

talking about the right.

Am I right about that? I didn't see the

whole clip, but it felt like she was

saying that um with all the authorarchy

going on that it would be too dangerous

for somebody on the left to simply talk

the truth. And then Bill Bar, of course,

you know, thinking everything's about

him, turned it into how the left is

always attacking him. I don't feel like

they were necessarily on the same topic.

Were they? I don't know.

But, uh,

Bill Morris said he had a, uh, a little

thought that he plays when the left gets

on him. Is quote, "Just get the f off of

me." Huh.

Just get the f off of me.

I don't know what that's reminding me

of, but of something.

Well, the uh governor of Illinois, JB

Pritsker,

um he he's going on TV. He is

shamelessly going on TV and talking

about other states, meaning Texas, um

gerrymandering

and acting like it's this big terrible

um authorarchy kind of a thing to do. So

then he gets challenged with the fact

that he was behind the gerrymandering of

his own state. and it's considered one

of the most uh grotesqually germandian

states of all the states.

And he has to respond to the fact he's

complaining about the the exact thing he

did. The exact and not even it's not

even like an approximate thing or

something that reminds you of something.

It's the exact thing. He he over

gerrymandered his state to completely

remove power from one side and that's

why he's complaining about Texas. And so

what does he do when he's challenged and

he's on camera is live and he has to

answer to doing exactly exactly the

thing that he's on camera to complain

about the other people doing.

What's he do? Word salad.

He goes totally word silent and he just

starts talking and and words come out of

his mouth and you're like what wait what

what is that even related to the are you

going to circle back to that but but are

we on the same top this is English right

and it was just hilarious with with no

sense of shame whatsoever he just starts

say saying a bunch of words and when

you're done you're like oh my god

All he did was chew up the time and he's

completely shameless and he'll go on

another he'll probably go on another

interview and do the same thing and they

let him get away with it because they

ran out of time.

Well, Bernie Sanders is uh being a

little bit mean to Kla Harris

and uh apparently he's not expecting her

to run for president anytime soon. Um

and apparently what uh what Bernie said

to Dana Bash who was talking to him um

and Bernie said quote one of the reasons

in my view that Kla Harris lost this

election is she had too many

billionaires telling her not to speak up

for the working class of this country.

Do you think that happened? Do you think

that behind closed doors there were too

many billionaires

who were warning comma no stop it don't

don't speak up for the working class no

don't do that don't speak up for the

working class you know we we want to

keep all that money does anybody believe

that something like that happened

I doubt it but that's that's the best

Bernie can come up with

uh and then even Dana Bash responded

with ouch, you know, because she was

being so pointed about Kaml Harris. Uh

and then Bernie goes, well, no, I think

I mean uh uh I don't think that uh that

uh I like her. She's a friend of mine,

but her core consultants, you know, were

heavily influenced by very wealthy

people.

Uh he goes, "How do you run for

president and not develop a strong

agenda which speaks to the economic

crisis facing working families?"

Okay. Um

did Bernie Sanders recommend something

specific?

Don't all the Democrats have the same

problem and they're all blaming each

other of that problem? And that problem

is they're not saying anything that

could be implemented as in a policy that

would be good for workingclass people.

They like talking about them. They like

saying that other people aren't talking

about them enough. They like saying that

Republicans are stealing from them. They

like saying that Democrats need to focus

on them more.

They like to say that they need to fight

harder for the workingclass people, but

what they don't say ever is what the

hell they're going to do for the

workingclass people. And when they do,

it's being said by Kami Mandami. And

everybody who knows anything about

anything says, "Well, those are the

worst ideas I've ever heard in my life."

It's amazing to me that the Democrats

even have a party.

Like, who goes to the party, the

political party, and they don't have a

single policy recommendation for the

core group that they all believe

everybody's ignoring too much except for

them? Got anything? Anything on

affordability?

Nope.

Um, and then, uh, Sanders said this, and

I quote, "Well, but in a vague, I don't

want to rehash that campaign." In other

words, he didn't know what he was

talking about. U, but I think the clue

to democratic victories is to understand

you've got you've got to stand

unequivocally with the working class.

Okay?

And what exactly

does standing with them get you? What is

it you're asking for?

All right. Do you ever see a uh title to

an article and you knew you just didn't

have to read it? All right. Uh the Wall

Street Journal has an article in which

the headline is President Trump is

imitating the Chinese Communist Party by

extending political control ever deeper

into the economy.

This is by Greg Ip.

Now, would you bother reading that

article?

It's an article comparing Trump to the

Chinese Communist Party.

Does it seem to you that that would be

worth your time?

No. If there's anything I've uh taught

you, it's in the world of persuasion,

it's only comparisons that matter.

That's why they say Trump is Hitler.

It's why they say uh Trump is imitating

the Chinese Communist Party. It's just

all they're trying to do is find a way

to smear him by association

because they don't have enough actual

policy preferences that would be better

than whatever the hell he's doing. So,

no, I'm not going to read that Wall

Street Journal. That's crazy.

According to uh PG PG PJ Media and Matt

Margolas, he's writing, "Did you know, I

didn't know this, I learned this today,

that Obama's rise to power was uh

entirely based on gerrymandering."

So he remember he was that junior

senator from Illinois. If if his state

had not been super gerrymandered just

for him, he didn't really have a chance

of winning.

So Obama is a completely artificial

candidate. He was created by

gerrymandering.

So that's interesting. How did I not

know that before?

Well, according to the New New York

Post, Bethany Mandel is writing that new

New Jerseys electric bill tripled this

summer.

Tripled.

How does your electric bill triple? Did

they cancel some power plants or

something? There must be more to this

story, but I didn't see it.

Anyway, but apparently uh New Jersey in

general is getting more expensive.

Um, so besides that, property taxes are

up 6%, car insurance up 15%, home

insurance up 17%, and health insurance

up 19%.

Now given that 60% of the country is

living paycheck to paycheck, the numbers

I just gave you, these are all the

things that a middle class family just

has to have, right? They have to pay for

gas, they have to have electricity, they

have to have healthcare.

And

these increases for New Jersey would

make it completely unlivable

for the middle class. If they were

already right at the edge and 60% of

them could just barely, you know, get to

the next paycheck, how in the world do

they all handle insurance up 17, health

insurance up 19% and etc, etc. tripling

of your electric costs? How in the world

can they afford that? There something's

getting ready to tip really hard. And I

don't think it's just voting.

you there will certainly be some you

voting changes I would hope but um

I don't understand how New Jersey can

even still be a viable state with these

increases like actually I don't know how

they can be a viable state there must be

something going on I don't know about

um

there's been a lot of chatter online

about who invented slave slavery and the

history of slavery. And uh I saw a post

that says that there was some survey and

found out that most Hispanic, black, and

Asian women think that quote white

people invented slavery.

Is there even one person who's watching

this podcast, even one, and of many, I

don't know, thousands at this point,

I'll bet there's not one of you who

believes that white people invented

slavery. Am I right? I'll bet not one of

you.

That's pretty basic history is to know

that slavery has been with us from the

beginning of time and everybody did it,

you know, pretty much everybody.

And the the movement against it

according to Thomas Soul was uh not

until the Quakers and some other

religious groups went after it in the

18th century. So mostly white people.

Now

I feel as though people are trying to

win an argument based on what happened

hundreds of years ago. So if you want

reparations, you say those white people

have been doing it for hundreds of

years. And if you uh if you wanted to go

the opposite direction, you'd say

everybody's been doing it forever. White

people were more associated with

stopping it than, you know, promoting

it.

However, I say I don't care.

I don't care what anybody uh any

strangers relatives were doing hundreds

of years ago. Are you telling me that I

should be somehow

taxed or pay some money or something for

something that strangers relatives did

hundreds of years ago? I don't care

whose relatives they were, whether

they're mine or anybody else's. Has

nothing to do with me. So, I care about

what's happening today and now. And it

might be true that there's, you know,

some groups that are disadvantaged

because the history of slavery. To which

I say, I don't care. Everybody's got

some problem. I don't know anybody who

doesn't have a problem. Some people have

health problems. Some people are ugly.

Some people are addicted. Some people,

you know, uh have abusers in their life.

Some people have been victims of

horrible crimes. Some people have low IQ

and they're trying to get by.

Everybody's got a problem.

Everybody. And you can't tell me that

I'm part of your problem. I'm not part

of anybody's problem. I don't know any

of those people.

I'm I'm just I'm not connected to this

the story at all. So, no. Um it might be

entirely true that some groups are

disadvantaged by something that happened

hundreds of years ago. I don't care. Why

should that affect me?

All right. Um,

so, uh, apparently Nvidia

and AMD, the chip makers, agreed with

Trump to provide the US with 15% of

revenue from their chip sales to China

in return for the US government removing

export controls on those high-end chips.

So once again, if this is true, so this

is this morning's reporting, but if this

is true, Trump has once again monetized

a problem that was unsolvable.

The unsolvable problem was that we could

try to prevent China from getting these

chips, but they were going to get them

anyway. So they would just, you know,

get them through cutouts and illegal

ways. and then maybe they would just,

you know, try order to replace them with

their own homegrown chips.

So Trump realizing here here I'm just

speculating what he was thinking. Trump

realizing that you can't really stop

China from getting the chips. You know,

you could work really hard at it. You

could ban them, but they're going to get

the chips. So instead he he simply says,

"All right, you can sell them chips, but

you have to give 15% to the government.

Uh we're basically your partner now."

And apparently Nvidia and AMD agreed to

that.

So once again, Trump finds a problem

that he can't solve because it might be

just unsolvable by its nature. So he

monetizes it. He just finds a way to

make a profit for the US government.

I don't hate this.

You know, even you could look at the

individual situations and say, "I don't

like that one or I don't like that one."

But I kind of love what he's doing to

reframe the role of the government

that if the government is part of your

success, well, the government gets a

taste and you and I are the government,

right? So why why should you and I pay a

bunch of taxes for, you know, American

defense and American government, but

it's just going to help some company

that I don't own stock in. Like why

would I be doing that? Doesn't it make

more sense if we help you, you help us?

So that's all that's all Trump is doing.

He's saying if we're going to help you

get, you know, get into this market and

protect you, we should get a taste. So

maybe

maybe it's a good idea.

Well, uh, Mexico's president

has taken the side of Venezuela's

Maduro, who has been attacked by, uh,

Trump and the administration as being a

a terrorist and a drug trafficker.

and he's being accused by the US

government of being a leader of the

cartel de las souls which is responsible

for uh drug trafficking.

Now I've never really seen this before.

Maybe it's happened before but they're

not even treating him like he's the he's

the head of the government. They're

treating him like he's the head of the

cartel that just happened to have

conquered a government.

And

um

this will be interesting cuz once you

say the guy's ahead of a cartel,

it feels like there's nothing that we

wouldn't be willing to do to him. So if

Maduro gets

uh let's say taken out,

you shouldn't be too surprised, right?

Um, China

has been uh they began construction on

the world's biggest hydro power project,

water power. Apparently, there's this

enormous river in China and they they've

got this uh almost unimaginably

ambitious project to conquer it and turn

it into an energy

supply. $167 billion facility and it's

will be an engineering miracle if they

can pull it off which people think they

can.

But did you know that China imports

nearly a quarter of its energy supply?

A quarter of its energy supply. So

they're trying to China is trying to

become more self-sufficient.

Yeah. No, it's bigger than the seven

gorges. I believe it's going to be

bigger than that.

Um

anyway, so

it feels like the uh the war that China

and the US are in is to see who can be

become less dependent on the other the

fastest.

And uh China's going to work on becoming

energy dependent independent and we're

going to work on having our own

manufacturing I guess having our own uh

what do you call it rare earth minerals.

Speaking of which, a startup called

Vulcan Elements has raised $65 million

in the US to create rare earth magnets.

So that that's what we're doing.

We're going as hard as we can on rare

earth and they're going as hard as they

can on energy because we live in this

big connected world. And I hate to say

it, but it's the economic requirement

that we all have to live off of each

other that probably keeps us from going

to war. I'm a little bit afraid

if the big powers become self-sufficient

with everything because if we don't have

a little bit of dependence on those

other countries, it's going to be kind

of easier to get into a war. So, we'll

see.

Um, according to the Atlantic,

um, the world's population collapse,

I'm sorry, is uh, let me take a drink.

I don't know what's wrong with my throat

today.

H, that's better.

Um, the baby shortage is worse than you

think and we we're going to have a

worldwide collapse faster than the

experts thought.

But did you know that Chile and Colombia

um are only having one child per woman

and Thailand is less than one. So it's

not just the rich countries. So even

Chile, Colombia and Thailand are not

just not reproducing.

So why is that?

Because when I think of the um China and

the US, I think, oh, it's just economic,

you know, people can't afford it. But is

that true everywhere?

Did it suddenly become too expensive in

every country at the same time? Do they

have a a housing problem in Thailand?

They might. I don't know. So, I don't

know why it's happening everywhere. So,

there's a deeper mystery to the lack of

babies.

And I would say again that if the

problem is the cost of living that we

should build freedom cities that are

optimized for having a family.

because uh I've told you this a number

of times, but until it gets solved, I'll

just keep saying it. The ultimate place

to live if you have a young family is

where there are other young families and

you you can't do better than that

because you can take turns watching kids

and you know they have sleepovers and

with your friend, etc.

So, it's way easier to raise kids if

you're around other people raising kids.

So, if you build a freedom city that's

optimized for a low cost of living and a

high quality contact with other people

in the same age range and same

interests, it would be amazing. You

could build it tomorrow that, you know,

it would just be you just need approvals

basically.

Um, apparently colleges are having a

tough time scrambling to fill their

roles because of all the uh foreign

students who are staying home or have

been banned from their colleges. And uh

apparently it's a pretty big deal.

Uh there's going to be a 30 to 40%

decline in new international student

enrollment. So 150,000 fewer

international students in this country.

So,

uh, people who were much deeper on the

wait list,

in other words, people who didn't get in

will be getting it. So, that's good.

Um,

that's boring. Um,

so there's a new synthetic opioid that's

way worse than even fentinyl and even

way worse in that the narcan which can

save you if you if you have a fentinyl

overdose doesn't work on this. So what

is it called?

Nidazine.

Ni t a ze nazine.

So watch out for that. uh kids are

already dropping dead taking a pill that

they think is one thing. It turns out to

be filled with nazine.

So don't take that.

So allegedly

Putin and Trump are going to meet and

talk about Ukraine, but uh I don't think

there's any chance this will work

because um Zalinski is making a video

saying that there's no possibility of

Ukraine giving uh land away for peace

and that's really the only deal. And he

says that Zilinski says that the

constitution of Ukraine prevents him

from even having that conversation

because he doesn't have the power to

give anything away. Now, will Trump come

back and say, "I got a deal, and your

part of the deal is you got to do a

constitutional convention and vote on

whether or not we can end the war by

giving away this property."

Would he do it?

I feel like Zalinski is going to go all

the way. And as long as he's in office,

he's never going to say yes to peace.

I feel like and so it might be that

Trump has to get rid of Zilinski before

anything productive can happen. We'll

see.

But uh we'll watch that. I I feel like

the odds of this producing a three-way

agreement for peace are basically zero.

Don't you? Basically zero. So, but I'll

be surprised. I would love to be wrong.

Well, Israel um bombed an El Jeazera

reporter who was in Gaza and killed him

as well as four of his co-workers who

were also Alier Zera reporters because

they said that the one guy

they said the one guy

was actually a Hamas operator. Now, I

don't know if that's true, but they

killed him and his whole team

intentionally.

Um, four confirmed dead. So, maybe him

and three others.

Now, does that seem a little convenient

to you that whenever there's people

reporting on Gaza, which is the last

thing that Israel would want to happen,

that they're also working with Hamas,

so you better kill them all. I don't

know.

So, here's my warning about the war

zone. 100% of the information coming out

of the war zone is not credible. Some of

it might be true, but it's not credible.

You can't believe it's true just cuz it

showed up in the newspaper. So, do we

know that this Al Jazer guy was really

working for Hamas?

We don't know that. Could it be that

Israel just decided to kill him because

the last thing they want is any living

reporters in the area? Possibly. I don't

have any information to to suggest

that's the case, but possibly. So, I

would say this is exactly the kind of

story you should say to yourself. Okay,

it's a total show over there.

People do terrible things on both sides.

This is probably more of that, but we

don't know which side was doing the

terrible thing. Obviously, if the three

people who were with him were innocent

reporters, that would be pretty bad.

Um,

I guess Australia has decided to rec

recognize a Palestinian state. What

exactly do they think that looks like?

Do do they think that

You know, Israel is just going to

suddenly say, "Oh, all right. Gaza is a

Palestinian state now. Go ahead, you

guys. You know, you can have Gaza and

the West Bank and we'll get rid of all

of our settlements."

Do they really think any of that's going

to happen?

I don't believe it.

Um,

and Bernie Sanders is now saying that

Netanyahu is a war criminal.

um just as much as the head of Hamas is

a war criminal. So he's now basically

acting like they're morally similar or

at least legally similar in terms of war

crimes. You can pick your war criminal.

Pick your preference. The the only thing

I have to say about that is that I try

not to impose my own ethical or moral

standard on a uh situation which does

not operate on ethics or morality is

purely self-interest of the countries

and uh if I observe that Israel is I'll

say effectively pursuing their own

national self-interest

what else am I to say about it? The only

thing that I have to say about is

whether the US should be funding any

part of that and I'm not a big fan of

that. So I observe

that Israel seems to be getting what

they want at the moment and it would be

unlikely that they would say you know

what we've decided that uh we're just

going to do the opposite of everything

we've said we would do before.

So I think uh as long as Israel has the

power to get what they want, they will

just keep getting what they want. And

that's the whole analysis right there.

U about the US.

Uh EJ. Oh, it's EJ. I thought it was a I

thought it was a serious person.

Uh but it's just my troll.

Um, obviously

I don't have to say the obvious parts

cuz then the troll Well, never mind.

All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is a

very slow news day, but I think Trump

will pick it up a little bit. It might

get really newsy really fast. Uh, but

I'm going to talk to my local

subscribers privately and the rest of

you. Thanks for joining. We'll see you

back here tomorrow. Same time, same

place.

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