Episode 2986 CWSA 10/12/25

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Well, I'm going to start my new tradition of starting off with a reframe from my book, Reframe Your Brain.

It's full of reframes to make your life better.

And I'm just going to give you maybe one or two a day.

All right, here's one.

Uh, have you ever had somebody that you know needed your advice and you wanted to give them your advice?

So, your your normal frame is, hey, here's somebody who needs my valuable wisdom and advice.

I better give it to them.

How does that work out?

I've got a better frame.

Instead of saying the person needs your advice, say this person might need some information, some empathy, or some help organizing their thoughts.

But what they don't need is advice.

In the real world, nobody takes advice.

People follow their own advice.

So you can modify their advice to themselves by changing what they know.

if you have some information.

Maybe they just need some empathy and they didn't need any advice at all.

You know, that would be in a relationship that's often the case.

So, when you think somebody needs your advice, slow down, slow your roll.

They might not need your advice.

They might need something else.

So, that's the reframe.

I'll have another one at the end of the show.

It'll change your life.

I wonder if there's any science that didn't need to be done.

Hm.

Oh, here we go.

Eric Dolan at Writing in Cypos says there's a study in the Journal of Emotion, which you didn't even know existed probably.

The Journal of Emotion um says that boredom will encourage people to seek new experiences.

Really?

Are we just finding that out?

Now, how much science did we employ to find out that bored people will look for a new experience?

I'm pretty sure I could have answered that question without any science at all.

Scott, what do you do when you're bored?

Oh, the same thing I always do to make me bored.

No, I look for a new thing.

But uh the but what they're adding here is that people will even choose a negative emotion like disgust as long as it doesn't bore them.

Now let me give you another way to look at that.

The only way you know you're alive is unpleasant things, especially unpleasant things you weren't expecting.

Nothing else makes you feel alive.

If you got everything you wanted with no effort whatsoever, your consciousness would disappear because you wouldn't need it.

Consciousness wouldn't have any purpose.

You just had everything you wanted like a clam.

So, uh yeah, bored people do things.

So, so yesterday I tried to do um three simple things in a modern world.

Number one was I bought a Apple Watch as a gift for a family member and uh I had it delivered by Uber to my house.

How do you think that went?

All All I had to do is drive it across town from the Apple store to my house and I got to track it.

But for some reason, you couldn't contact the Uber guy.

Like none of the contacts worked.

And I would just watch him sitting around town with my with my Apple Watch.

and he never came to my house.

And eventually he marked it delivered without delivering it.

So now I have to figure out, do I call Uber?

No way to reach them.

Do I call Apple?

Well, you can reach them, but then Apple has no way to reach Uber, apparently.

But but so they're they're trying to track it down.

So what was the only thing I could do?

What was the only thing I could do?

It was a birthday present.

I had to buy another one.

So, I just have to buy another one.

So, I don't even know how to cancel the payment because I paid uh an Apple Pay.

So, now I have to go research how to cancel an Apple Pay because it wasn't, you know, regular credit card kind of thing.

So, just the simplest thing, deliver this to my house.

Now, you might say, "But Scott, you can prove it wasn't delivered because you could look at your security camera and see if somebody put anything in front of your door that maybe somebody else stolen." Except I've got two security cameras, two complete different systems watching my front door.

Both of them glitched.

Both of them glitched.

I I've I've got just darkness around that time.

So, that was the first thing.

Second thing I tried to do was I was trying to do something with Amazon um that would allow me to sell my calendar online.

And one of the things I need to do is the detail doesn't matter, but I need to find a menu choice that looks like a little uh gear and then click on it and then do a thing.

But if I don't find that gear and click on it and do the thing, then I won't be able to sell my calendar.

So, how hard would that be?

They tell you what page to go to.

They even show you a picture of the page and and even circle the gear.

Do you think that worked?

No.

Because there's no page like that.

I can find no page whatsoever that has any little gear on it.

Nor can anybody apparently tell me where to find it.

There's no URL.

So, so I just go back and forth with screenshots.

All right.

Well, here's what I'm looking at.

You tell me where's the gear.

And then that's the end of the trail.

I don't even know if we can get there from here.

So then I decide that I had a little time yesterday.

So I'm going to sign up for Sora 2.

That's the uh OpenAI version of the image maker that does the little videos and stuff.

And I thought to myself, huh, about we're finally at the point where I could do at least small little moving almost still pictures but animated that could be like chapter starts for my God's debris book because I wanted to see if I could kind of quickly turn it into some kind of a You.

Tube but still an audio book.

Do you know how hard it is just to use an AI that you haven't used before?

You have to start out with trying to figure out their business model because the AI apps aren't like regular apps.

So, the first thing I have to figure out is how do I get to Sorro because somebody had given me a uh an activation account so I could get early access.

So, first of all, I had to know it's early access.

But I don't know where to sign up.

Is it an app store?

Is it a browser?

Is it both?

If I already have Open AI, do I already have Sora?

If I have Open AI and I have Sora, do I have to sign up for Sora 2?

So, you have this whole host of questions that you've never dealt with, you know, unless you've been pretty deeply into the AI world.

So, so I go to Google and I'm looking for the homepage for Sora 2 or something that tells me where to sign up.

Then the next thing you find is that most of the top entries are fake.

there are other companies that are pretending to be Sora 2.

And then I thought, okay, maybe the business model is that sometimes you use the Sora 2, but other times you could use some other app that's just using that API and it would be just as good.

So I signed up for the one that was on the top.

I thought, well, it's at the top.

It's something called Art List, which may or may not use the Sora engine, but it seems like add some other engines.

So, I put down about $600 for a month of something called Art List that I thought was giving me full access to Sora 2.

It doesn't.

So, do you know what I needed to do?

I needed to find the menu choice in our list to cancel my payment.

So, what do you think happened?

Do you think I looked all over and found the button to cancel?

No, I found that nobody knew how to cancel.

It was a major problem.

So, Art List, apparently, as far as I can tell, is I don't even know if it's a real company.

It looks like just a trick to get your your Sora 2 money.

So, they have my money.

So, I contact them through, you know, they had a customer support thing.

What do you think the customer support told me about how to cancel?

Do you think they told me to go to a web page that doesn't exist and click on a uh click on a menu choice that also doesn't exist?

That's right.

That's exactly what they did.

Because everybody who's trying to tell you how to use something gives you instructions for something that doesn't exist, is not on the page you're looking at, is not on the URL you're at, and maybe has never been there.

So, I I was impressed that they got back to me so quickly.

So I thought, whoa, maybe I have something here.

So I immediately sent back a screenshot and said,"Well, I don't have that page.

Could you tell me where that page is?" Then what do you think happened next?

Never heard from him, right?

Never heard from him.

So I've got $600 a month that I'm spending and I have no way to figure out how to get rid of it.

I guess I have to work through my bank, maybe close my checking account.

I don't know what the I need to do.

I've got a phone that may or may not come to me on the second try or the Uber guy is going to steal a second phone from me and claim he didn't.

I'm just trying to do the simplest things.

The simplest things and they're just undoable in the modern world.

Anyway, if anybody knows anybody at the company Art List, could you ask them to give me back my money because they clearly appear to be criminals.

Um, oh, and then so then once I got I got the real Sora working.

So I finally got to the real one here.

Here's what their uh their user interface is.

You you tell it what your video will look like and then you'll get a chance to iterate it and change it if you don't like what it presents.

except once you submit your video, the one that you want it to create, it doesn't tell you how long it will take.

It just says it's entered a Q.

And I sit there and I think a Q, does that mean it'll be ready in a minute, so I should sit and wait?

Or does that mean it'll be ready in 2 hours?

Or does that mean sometimes it's a minute and sometimes it's 2 hours?

And so I sit there like an idiot with nothing happening and nothing happening and nothing happening until eventually you think maybe it didn't work.

So you just redo it.

But redoing it makes you pay a bunch of money because every single time you ask for something you have to pay tokens which you paid money to get.

And unless you've done all the math, you don't even know how much you're spending for every iteration.

Now let me tell you something about art.

Art is iteration.

If your thing won't if the thing you're using to make your art, in this case Sora 2, doesn't do rapid iteration, it's not a tool.

It's a nothing.

It's a piece of It's a complete waste of money and waste of time.

It has to iterate quickly, as in, okay, do it again, but darker.

All right, give that guy a beard.

If it could do that, wow, and it could remember it and be consistent, then you'd have something.

It can't do that.

Here, here's me using it.

Click.

What do I do now?

Should I take up a hobby?

Should like I got to leave it open.

So, should I set an alarm and check back in an hour?

Yeah, there there's actually no way to use that product.

So where AI is at this point in the cycle completely it's just completely unusable but someday maybe Elon Musk says that his macro hard project which is literally a company that's making fun of Microsoft will basically replace everything that can be done with software anywhere including all the things that Microsoft Office does.

Uh and he says a goal is to create a company that can do anything short of manufacturing physical objects directly, but they'll be able to do that too indirectly the way everybody else does by hiring somebody to do it.

So is this really the company of all companies?

Is it the company that would replace all companies that you can just design and make anything?

Yeah.

I'll tell you when Elon Musk thinks big, he really thinks big.

This is so big I can't even wrap my head around it.

It's like really it'll be one company and just sort of makes everything maybe.

I do think that he will make a phone or he'll have somebody make a phone and that that phone will be an AI phone that is just sort of a blank phone until you start telling it what you want and then it will form into the user interface you need on the fly.

Speaking of uh Elon Musk, he also says that Neurolink's endgame because he agreed with somebody who said this on on X uh is that the real vision is symbiosis with AI.

So it's not just to help people who have uh physical disabilities that the neurolink can help them with.

That's first.

But eventually uh the idea will be I think to get a AI chip into everybody's head so that we can compete with the AIS because we will be the AIS.

So we will be cyborgs with AI.

Uh I think he's right on that too.

He's probably 20 years ahead on that.

But that's what he does 20 years ahead.

There was a uh study Karina Petrova of Cypos is writing about that uh believe it or not there are major IQ differences in identical twins if their schooling was very different.

So if one of them had a really high quality of schooling they will present with a higher IQ but um I'm not sure that we learned anything new in this because the IQ still limits the range.

You know, if the twins have the same IQ, or if the twins are identical, they'll be in the same range, but one of them might be at the bottom of the range and the other's at the top of the range.

So, IQ gets you in the neighborhood and then your specific school gets you to the front door of, you know, a better house or a lesser house.

So, that's not really surprising, is it?

But it does it does suggest that the quality of schooling uh will determine your economy.

Right?

If the quality of the school makes this much difference on identical twins, it's definitely telling you that our um our let's say our failure to educate our children is causing a probably a gigantic IQ deficit that didn't have to happen.

That's going to catch up with us.

Do you remember a couple years ago when AI was so new, uh, we didn't even know Open AI was a thing yet?

There was an app called Replica that I told you that I'd used, uh, to see if I could become less lonely, and I didn't know that it was.

I think it was using the Open AI engine at the time, but they hadn't revealed it yet.

So, Replica continues to, you know, improve as its base AI improves.

And now China did a study using it and they found that full-time college students could uh cure some of their severe loneliness using the app.

But um I believe there have been other studies that found exactly what I found when I tried using it, which is when you first use it, you know, takes a while to figure out what it can and cannot do.

So, you know, it's a little awkward at first.

Then you get into this mode where you know how to talk to it in ways that it will understand and talk back and and for a while it feels like you've got a little friend and you think to yourself, whoa, I might I might actually want to use this more.

So you use it a little bit more and it's even better because you you you learn how to use it better and it gets to know you.

At the time it didn't remember you.

So that was a big buzzkill.

I think now it can, but I'm not sure.

So, if it didn't remember you from the last conversation, you would lose interest really fast.

But I believe that the the nature of all these AI replica type friends is that I think everybody's going to get tired of them.

So that even if you did have a best friend who is an AI, uh it might last 3 months, but I just don't think that you'll be continually um surprised by them.

They they're just not surprising.

You need a little surprise or else, you know, you'll get right back to that boredom thing.

So I'm not worried about people preferring them.

I think it'll wear off.

Well, the big news in the week was that China made big threats about uh closing off access to their rare earth materials, which would crash the entire economy of the United States, if not the world.

Uh but today they some are say that they're backing off or softening their stance.

Other people are saying we don't really understand what their stance is yet, so you can't say it's softened.

But there there does seem to be some um at least they're making some noise in China that is oh no you you misinterpreted this.

We're we are we are uh um putting more controls on those rare earth exports.

So we're definitely doing that but it's it's really a limited thing and it's not that different from what it was.

and they're they're just trying to make sure it doesn't get used for military uses and you know we'll hardly even notice the difference and other people will say no you liars you're just saying that these export controls are no big deal but you definitely plan to use them for negotiating and turning off our economy if if it ever comes to that.

So some people are expecting Monday that the market will recover.

you know, crypto took a big dump.

Uh, too, uh, but I think it's early, it's sort of early to say that.

My guess is this will all get worked out, but don't make any don't make any investments based on my guess.

It's just a guess.

I mean, I assume that China needs things to work out with the US as much as the US needs things to work out with China economically.

So given that both sides have enormous um incentive to make it work to get some kind of a deal done, I feel like both countries are sane and both countries are capable.

So if you're sane and capable and you have the same objective, which is to make sure you don't kill either country, we'll work it out.

I just don't know if it'll be Monday anyway.

So, we'll see what the details are on that.

Kyle Bass, who's a uh famous China watcher, China critic with me.

Um, he said that Trump holds the trump card with China because we can quote remove them from the USD system altogether.

So, they wouldn't be able to buy and trade with other countries as easily.

I'm not sure that we really do have that leverage because again that would be sort of a u mutually assured destruction weapon.

If if we remove them from the USD system, wouldn't they immediately just reproduce a system they could use or join bricks or however that works?

I don't even know how that works.

But I feel like that would be a a six-month really big problem followed by they would get off the US dollar and then we would have a big problem.

So I'm not sure we really have that leverage.

That's not as simple as it looks.

Anyway, and then uh also according to Kyle Bass says last night it was revealed that China was blackmailing other countries to not export goods to the United States.

And I guess one of the countries shared the letter with the United States.

So we know we know this for sure that China was working against us, blackmailing other countries.

Anyway, um and then there was that big crypto meltdown that happened on Friday.

That's starting to look uh like there might be a mystery involved here because apparently some whales, as they call them, big investors, came in and seemed to know ahead of time that there was going to be a big event that would drive crypto down cuz some people bought unusually large uh uh shorts, meaning that if the price went down, they'd made money.

And I think one person made $192 million in an hour or something.

Somebody put a $23 million short just ahead of the announcements.

Um, like they knew.

Now, here's the thing.

It's not illegal to uh do insider trading with Bitcoin.

Did you know that it's not illegal?

If you had insider information, you knew the government was going to do something and you made your bet based on the thing that you knew that other people didn't know.

Totally legal.

The exception would be if you're if you're owning Bitcoin indirectly through a fund because a stock fund can't do insider trading.

So, you know, I I've got some um I've got some Bitcoin directly that I own.

Um I could trade that.

But if I traded what was in my um my stock fund, which is a fund that holds some Bitcoin or it tries to match Bitcoin, I don't know.

I don't know what they hold, but they they match Bitcoin.

Um, if I did it in there, the exact same trade, I could go to jail.

So, somebody was smart enough probably to know that they didn't have any risk.

They they had the information.

They didn't have risk.

It was just free money.

So, that's not ideal.

Um, I saw a Mario post.

He does these great summaries of the news.

So, I get a lot of my stuff from Mario.

Uh, but I don't know how old this is.

You see, he says that Doge just cut 214 billion in government fat, but did they just do it?

And does it really get cut this time?

I I'm not sure I believe anything about Doge cuts.

The the one thing I do believe and and this is great credit to Elon and all the Doge people.

I think they made Doge a permanent thing.

So if you're looking at, you know, the individual claims or the individual wins or the individual cost cuts, you know, you you might get too excited about what's happening at any given time.

But I do believe this became permanent and that the the way the the leaders in government are thinking is they're thinking how can I reduce costs and that they've just got Doge brain now.

That's good.

I love the fact that that people are thinking how do I reduce instead of thinking how do I build my empire?

That's completely different.

And I and that's entirely Elon Musk's um persuasion that we think Doge and we think that's the way we get rewarded now.

Oh, the way I get rewarded is by cutting costs.

Got it.

That that's the Doge reframe.

That the reward is saving the world by cutting costs.

The reward is not you introduced a new project.

Oh, look how I did on my new expensive project.

Now, that's the old way.

Now, you're going to have to get rid of that project if you want to impress us.

JB Pritzker, governor of Illinois, um he's out there making noise and uh now he's complaining that uh quote another thing that's happened with very few people paying attention is they meaning the Trump administration demanded our voter data.

Not just ours in Illinois, every state's voter data.

Why?

They won't tell us why.

So Steven Miller told him why the DOJ asked you to remove illegal alien voters from the roles and you refused.

Oh well that's pretty good reason.

That's a pretty good reason.

So here's my problem with JB Pritsker and a number of what I call the designated liars.

Have you noticed that when Democrats lie they smile?

And when uh Republicans lie, if they do, they're not smiling.

And usually I think Democrats are I'm sorry, Republicans.

Republicans are more likely just to, you know, tell you the thing.

It may or may not be true, but they're not smiling when they lie.

But I I think that there's genuinely some kind of uh what do they call it?

cluster B kind of thing going on where the liar is enjoying the lie.

If you look at Pritsker when he lies like this, he's got that hitting grin that he can't get off his face.

He appears to love lying more than he likes eating.

And if you notice that uh that the other designated liars like that, too.

Jamie Rascin, if you see Rascin lying, he's smiling, isn't he?

Creepy smile.

How about uh uh Adam Schiff when he's lying?

Creepy smile.

How about uh Hillary Clinton?

Oh yeah.

When she lies, creepy smile.

So when you see that creepy smile, it's it's illuminating something on the inside of them, which I think is narcissism.

You know, I'm no expert, so don't take my word for it.

But it looks like they get internal delight from lying right in front of you.

And I don't see that from Republicans.

I don't.

Do you?

If you have any example of a Republican who smiles when he lies, uh, let me know.

Yeah.

Look.

Well, Jimmy Kimmel is a comedian, so allegedly, so you can't you can't count that.

But the actual politicians creepy smiles.

Wow.

All right.

So, uh, put it all together and I was I was trying to think of all the advantages the Republicans have gained recently.

So, here are the Republican advantages.

There are also Democrat advantages of course, but the Republicans ones uh better policies that are more popular with the people, more more 8020 and 6040 policies, better candidates for sure.

Now, normally that'd be enough, right?

Better candidate, better policies, that'd be enough to win the midterms.

Well, except it never works that way.

But they have other they have other advantages.

One is I think the pendulum is still swinging.

So, you know how people just get tired of whatever the old way was and they just need a new way.

I think woke is still still being uh decreased.

So, I think that the pendulum swing is still toward conservatives, although that could end, you know, that could reverse before the midterms.

Um, the Democrats have to explain why they were in favor of the trans issue that mostly the public was not.

Um, let's say trans and sports specifically and trans for children stuff specifically.

Um, closing government.

I think they'll get a little bit of blame, but that'll go away before the midterms.

Supporting crime.

The Democrats appear to be supporting crime.

That's not a not a very good advantage.

And now they're uh kicking off reparations in California.

I'll talk about that.

But on top of that, now a uh alleged Republican, lifetime Republican has bought the Dominion voting machines.

Now, I don't think that that means that the Republicans will use them to cheat.

I don't think that.

But they're definitely going to make sure the Democrats don't use them to cheat.

So, if you believe that the voting machines were ever rigged, well, that problem might be solved at least for these machines.

Now, I don't have any information that they were rigged.

So, I'm not saying they are.

I'm just saying kind of took away that risk maybe.

Um, so the then Republicans are trying to scrub the voter roles, whichever ones they can get a hold of to get rid of the uh non-citizens.

That should be good.

There should be some more redistricting going on.

You know, that whole story that should turn out positive for the Republicans probably.

Um there's I guess the Supreme Court is looking at removing the redistricting set aides that I didn't even know existed, but some existed just for uh I think mostly for black Americans to make sure they had some representation.

that might go away, which would be a plus for Republican districts.

Um, the last election, uh, Laura Trump and, uh, company had lots of lawyers observing things.

They'll probably do that again.

And I suspect that having that many lawyers observing elections makes a difference.

I think that makes a difference.

Uh and then of course uh uh Republican allies are going to own Tik Tok already own X, CBS News, maybe CNN.

So the the entire media landscape has turned podcaster friendly and major media unfriendly gigantic advantage for Republicans.

And uh MSNBC audience continues to shrink.

They keep embarrassing themselves and becoming less and less important.

And meanwhile, all the big tech platforms, probably all of them, are pro-chump at this point because he's the free speech guy and they really really need a free speech guy or they can't even do business in Europe.

So, that's just Oh, then uh I know that uh the Republicans are trying to get rid of mail-in ballots.

I don't know if that'll be successful, but if they do, well, that would be another advantage.

And then uh this whole Nobel Peace Prize thing.

Um you know, obviously it was a little too late for Trump to get it this year.

I think they I think the reason for not giving it to him this year is good enough because it really was past the deadline.

Um but it's going to be in the air.

If if if Trump solves Ukraine, which is possible before the midterms, he's going to have two Nobel Prize nominations for two completely different wars.

Uh you know, maybe by then the tariffs are working and the trade deals are done, Gaza is being rebuilt.

What do the Democrats have?

Reparations.

I mean, it it's starting to become such a uh such a monstrous um imbalance.

The imbalance is incredible.

And that's without me even saying the obvious that all the best people are on the same side now.

All the smartest people are on one side.

Yeah, the I don't think it could be said enough that Trump would not be where he is if a whole bunch of Democrats who are important like RFK Jr.

and Tulsi and uh you know was it was who are some other ones?

I mean you you could name a bunch of others me Joe Rogan uh Elon Musk probably some of the all-in pod guys.

I'm not sure.

But uh there were a whole bunch of people that were in my opinion the smartest people who all ended up on the same side.

And that's big.

That's really big because they're the ones who can make things happen.

Anyway, over in Israel, I guess Jared and Wickoff are there and Trump's going to be there today or is it tomorrow?

So, there's some thought that maybe some of the uh the hostages might be released today, which would be a day ahead of the plan.

But I always wondered, why do you really need to wait till Monday?

Isn't that the crulest thing you've ever heard?

Imagine if you're one of the hostages and it's Friday and on Friday they say, "Hey, looks like we're going to release you on Monday." What would how would you feel?

I mean, you'd feel good that you get you could get released, but wouldn't you say, "What about now?

How about right now?

Do I really have to stay in this tunnel for two and a half more days because that's the deadline?

How about now?

For God's sakes, how about now?" So, I think a little bit of that might be happening.

So, maybe we'll see a few people trickling out today, which should be awesome.

But what's interesting is that when Jared and Wikoff were doing their little talk in front of a uh very happy crowd of Israelis, Netanyahu got booed and Trump got enthusiastically cheered.

Netanyahu got booed in his own country and people were wearing uh Make America Great Again hats.

You not all of them, but apparently it was acceptable.

Um, so that's happening.

We'll we'll see if everything goes smoothly.

So at at this point, we are expecting things to go smoothly with the prisoner handoff.

And I think the head of Hamas actually reaffirmed that uh that they're not looking to have any kind of leadership or power after the, you know, this is all sorted out.

That was the big thing.

The big thing was would Hamas agree to not be in power?

Apparently they have.

Apparently they have.

You know, I mentioned yesterday that uh Jared Kushner had read my book Wooden Bigley, which teaches you how to negotiate and persuade the way Trump does.

And that after reading it, he got the Abraham Accords done and then they brought him in to be the finisher on this.

And I wasn't sure if he did a lot on the Gaza deal or if he just sort of came in at the end to wrap up things, but apparently he did a lot.

So he was he was deeply involved doing what appeared to be impossible, which is what I what I teach in the book Wooden Biggley.

But what I didn't remember is that back in 2020, he had told author Woodward that uh that book Winley was one of the four books you should read to understand Trump.

So I didn't know that he went public with that, but he had.

So I don't feel so bad saying that he read my book because he recommends it for understanding Trump.

I recommend it for understanding persuasion the way Trump does it.

So you it's not just about the person, it's about the technique as well.

Did it make a difference?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Well, in other news, the largest teachers union, which I think is the NEA, sent out a map to its uh members that erased Israel from the map.

It just showed Palestine.

And uh New York Post is reporting on this.

The teachers union says, "Whoops, that wasn't us.

That was the third party vendor that we used and we we didn't like it when they did that.

We're going to talk to them." But can you imagine that they actually paid for that and it got sent out and nobody caught it?

That Israel had been erased from the map.

Oh my god.

That's your teachers union.

But they blame somebody else.

I guess Trump is doing some workarounds to try to get the troops paid while the government's closed and other people are not being paid.

And uh would you believe that the Democrats are complaining about paying the troops?

Of course.

He trapped the Democrats into being against paying the troops because they would complain about, you know, what bucket he took it out of or something like that.

So once again, Democrats tricked into taking the dumbest position you could possibly take.

Well, there's a new book out, I think it's new, called Stolen Elections by Ralph Pizzoulo.

Now, I'm going to give you a warning before I talk about this.

You're gonna you're gonna get a big dose of what I call the documentary effect because I'm going to tell you that this book has a point of view about the integrity of our elections that uh I'm going to tell you what they say, but since I won't be presenting the critics to it or the counterpoint, it's going to be really really persuasive.

But it shouldn't be, right?

It's just the documentary effect.

If you hear one point of view without the other side and you listen to it enough, you'll think it's real.

Just because you only heard one point of view.

So that's what's going to happen now.

So be be aware.

I'm going to give you one point of view and it will be persuasive.

Doesn't mean it's true.

Got that?

Okay.

So the Raspen pole people have been on this forever.

uh the Georgia election and the 2020 irregularities as as people would say.

But this book is adding a bunch and Rasmuson is calling out some of the interesting excerpts from the book.

Again, it's called Stolen Elections by Ralph Pazulo.

So on page 50, Rasmuson points out that the book says the US is divided into about 3,400 counties of election districts.

In one of the recent briefings given by the whistleblowers, yes, there are whistleblowers.

Uh they were asked by a former head of US military intelligence, in how many counties did you need to tamper with the vote in order to steal a national election?

Now remember, there are 3,400 counties.

How many do you have to tamper to steal the election?

The answer was 8 to 10.

That's all they needed, just 8 to 10.

And then they were asked how many people were needed to execute the seal allegedly.

And the answer was five.

Five.

And they say it would take about a year to plan it.

So there you have whistleblowers who are telling you how it was done, when it was done, and by how many people.

Does that mean it was done?

No.

No.

Remember documentary effect.

How many of you just said, "Well, that's true." Maybe it is, maybe it isn't.

Remember, you're you're already in the documentary effect.

So, you should be turning up your your doubting thing should be turned up, not your believing thing.

So, turn down the gullibility.

Turn up the skepticism.

It might all be true, but you should be going into this with some real skepticism.

Okay?

That would be the proper frame for it.

But there's more.

There's more.

On page 245, according to Rasperson people, they say the book Stolen Elections, Ralph Bazulo says the following.

In the final weeks of the 2024 presidential election, engineers recruited by the whistleblowers collected strong evidence that the criminal cartel led by Venezuela was about to steal the election for the Democratic Party candidate Kla Harris.

They also suspected that the cyber security and infrastructure security agency SISA a component of the department of homeland security couldn't be trusted to identify and stop the fraud because of their poor performance during the 2020 ele presidential election.

With the help of other cyber security experts, the engineers were able to stop the illegal altering of election results by shutting down the servers that the criminal cartel were using in Serbia and other countries, thus preserving the integrity of the 2024 election.

Did you wonder how Trump won in 2024 but lost in 2020?

Well, I don't know if this is the answer, but it's alleged.

And then uh on page 230, it gets even saucier.

Uh source number one said, quote, "You can't do this without the complicity of certain officials in the United States.

Some of them need to be bought." And then the question was, "Do you have any idea who these officials are?" Source one said, "For one, the governor of the state of Georgia.

He won't allow for the software of Dominion to be updated even though he knows that the software is flawed and allows for third-party access.

Why is that?

All right.

Now, did I tell you that if I read this, you would be completely convinced that Georgia was a rigged election?

You are right.

I'll bet every one of you is not 100% convinced that Georgia was stolen.

They do have people who were whistleblowers telling you how it was done in a lot of detail.

Does that mean it was stolen?

Unfortunately, it does not.

So, I'm going to say it one more time.

Unfortunately, you can't be sure that these whistleblowers or any of these sources are real.

You just can't.

We just don't live in a world where you can trust people like that.

But it is a complete it is a complete picture and it does look like we'll have access to maybe knowing the real picture because now Dominion is owned by some Republican friendly guy.

So maybe that helps him dig into the software look for things.

I don't know.

So we'll find out.

But maybe the problem is solved if Republican has it.

All right.

Here's another topic.

Al this is also Rasmmanson.

Rasmmanson's having a good week.

I think Rasmmanson is just can't stop laughing because the things they've been the buttons they've been pressing for I don't know years now.

All look like they're the real buttons.

Maybe not.

Maybe yes, maybe not.

But it sure looks like they're being it's looking like Rasmuson is being completely validated and vindicated.

But we'll see.

So on a separate topic but also Rasmuson pointing it out.

They call it the fall of the machines.

Um do you know that there was a polling company called 538 that's now shut it's now shut down but they were sort of the pollsters ranking entity.

So, they would not just do a poll, but they would tell you what other polls were um were real and which other polls were a BS.

Now, if you could control if you wanted to control what people thought in the United States, what would be the best way to do it?

Well, you would if you could manipulate opinion polls, you could manipulate a lot of stuff in the United States, but you don't want to manipulate them directly because you don't have control over all those polls are owned by different people.

So, instead, you build like a fact checker.

Does this sound familiar?

Whenever the Democrats have a fact-checking entity, is it real?

No, it's never real.

It's it's just a way to uh manage the truth so that you don't see it as much.

So 538 Nate Silver started it, but he sold it I think to New York Times or somebody.

But uh here's what Rasman says, which I don't fully understand, but they say that Disney apparently spent $100 million over a dozen years to fund losses uh at the uh pollster grading company 538.

But as soon as Doge arrived at USAID, 538 was closed.

and controlling the narrative um probably was expensive.

Now, this one's more of a little smoking gun situation, but the suggestion had been that polls are typically rigged, but only when it matters, right?

They wouldn't be rigged for just, you know, ordinary stuff during the year.

But when it comes to determining who becomes your president, the allegation was that they were always rigged.

And this would be more smoking gun sort of evidence that maybe it was, but I would say short of proof.

Short of proof.

I don't know what the Disney connection is, but maybe somebody does.

Do they own 538?

I thought the New York Times bought it.

or did they buy it from the New York Times?

So, who owned 538 when it got closed?

So, the question is, did 538 get some government funding because it was doing devious things for one part of the government?

I don't know.

Don't know.

But I've never trusted the polls when it comes to the um presidential races.

Um, and then you want one more just to uh just round it out.

This is also from Rasmusent Rasperson polls.

And uh they're reminding us that in September 2023, they did a survey to find out who people voted for in Georgia.

Do you remember Georgia, the state that Trump narrowly lost in 2020?

He lost Georgia.

So when they asked people who they voted for, 46% said they voted for Trump in 2020 and only 39% said they voted for Biden.

So when they counted the votes, Biden had more.

When uh Rasmuson did a poll to say who did you vote for, Trump had way more.

It's not even close.

Now, some of that could be false memories and stuff like that, but not that far away.

You know, 2% could have been a false memory.

Not this much.

That's that's a big that's a big difference.

People don't forget who they voted for.

And they're not and they're also not they're not embarrassed.

I mean, were they embarrassed to say they voted for Biden?

Probably not.

So, what do you make of the fact that the election didn't match the poll?

Well, how would you deal with that if you were the bad guys?

I'll tell you how you do it.

You would go to 538 that ranks the pollsters and you say, "Quick, make sure that Rasmuson gets ranked low so that even if people see this, we'll be able to say, "Oh, it's just Rasmuson." I mean, look at 538.

They ranked them as I think.

Come on, it's just racism.

And that's what they did.

When you find out how things really work, it's pretty scary, isn't it?

All right.

Um, I guess a federal appeals court said Trump can federalize Illinois National Guard but cannot deploy them into Chicago.

Terrific.

Um, you remember Keith Ellison?

Is he currently the AG of Minnesota?

Do I have that right?

Well, back in 2018, he happily held up a book called the Antifa um Handbook.

So, that was 2018.

So, he wanted you to know that he was on board with Antifa and is showing you their book.

What's he say today?

There's no such thing as Antifa.

He his his own son had declared publicly declared support for Antifa.

The thing he says doesn't exist.

His his son is a member apparently.

And he held up the book.

Now, I was thinking, how many other things are Democrats claiming are hallucinations or they're just hallucinating?

All right, let's start with that.

Uh, so the Democrats are hallucinating that Republicans are the ones keeping the government closed.

Even Jake Tapper doesn't buy that.

He's like, uh, they have a continuing resolution.

Every one of them says they'll sign to open the government right now.

You're the ones not signing it.

So, they've got this hallucination about who's keeping the government closed.

They think Antifa doesn't even exist even though they they get like massive crowds and they've got a guide book and we know where the funding is coming from but they don't exist.

Um they think that white supremacist is the big problem really where um they think that uh there's not really any violence in cities that needs any extra help.

They think they have the violence in the major cities under control.

Do you?

Uh they think they thought the border was secure when it was totally open.

They thought that Trump is stealing your democracy.

When we when we look at what happened with the election in 2020, maybe somebody was stealing your democracy, but it wasn't the January 6 people.

They weren't trying to steal your democracy by trespassing in a building for a few hours.

That doesn't really happen.

Uh the climate alarm, of course, was a fantasy.

And um and then I'm going to add this one just because we're going to talk about reparations and the the belief that white people are the reason that blacks are not succeeding.

Do you do you believe that the reason that black people are nicely seating is that white people are holding them back or the white people have all the systemic advantages?

Okay.

Um we'll talk about reparations a little bit.

So Katie Porter, who thought she was running for governor of California, but apparently after those video clips of her being a uh super Karen came out, uh her popularity went down from 40% chance of being being governor to 16.

So I c I guess you can't be a horrible to your staff and to other people and get that on video.

And uh people didn't like that.

So, looks like she's out.

But what about that uh Virginia Democrat attorney general nominee who got caught with some private messages that said things like he wish his opponent, you know, would get shot in the head and somebody would pee on their grave and he thinks, you know, maybe his policies would be better if his family got hurt.

And so, he's just said terrible, terrible things.

So, let's see.

How are his polls doing?

No movement.

His polls are exactly the same.

So apparently you can say and it can get out in public that you want great violence to happen to a Republican and his family and his family and your Democrat uh supporters will say that's fine.

You know private message that's fine.

Okay.

Um Mark Beni off the founder owner of Salesforce CEO um he's uh he's calling for Trump to send in the National Guard to San Francisco.

That's where their headquarters is because it's turned into a uh turned into a fentinel dump.

But he lives in Hawaii so he doesn't have to deal with it.

But when he visits his building apparently it's a nightmare.

So, uh, Mark Benning off.

Now, the reason that's important is that Benningoff would be the most, uh, famously woke CEO of all time.

I'm going to defend him a little bit.

Uh, I spent a little bit of time chatting with him once a few years ago, and I thought he was the real deal.

Like, I think Betting off actually wants to make the world a better place while he's making his money.

and he was dead serious about that during the meeting that that I attended.

I was a speaker, so I got to see some of the other interactions.

He was very serious about that.

That that wasn't just for a show.

He he's the real deal.

Um and he was getting on his people for not fully buying into the, you know, the charitable part of the company.

Um, however, he's also really smart and he knows that you can't have, you know, uncontrolled crime in your in your business environment.

So, he's a he's a common sense guy.

In other news, allegedly 10,000 US troops are being deployed in the Caribbean around area of Venezuela.

Uh, that probably is telling us that something's going to happen, but we're not ruling out that they're just doing exercises.

I don't think so.

I think they're getting ready for a land attack.

Um, and uh, some say it's just to pressure Maduro to make it look like we might get more military.

I think if we go into Venezuela, we're not going to attack the military so much.

Uh, only what is protecting Maduro.

I feel like the only thing we would do there would be a decapitation strike.

I don't think we would do a, you know, move the whole military in and uh try to control the country while Maduro is an absent absentee leader or something.

I think they would have to know where he is, take him out hard, and then go in with support for the Venezuelan government that's sort of in waiting.

uh the one that the one that complimented him over the uh Nobel.

So I think that's going to come for sure.

And uh uh let's see.

And also Hagsath announced that they've formed a counter narcotics task force in the Caribbean that will be launching.

All right.

So so now that they've formed the task force, that task force is for the purpose of boots on the ground.

It's not a task force to read memos, right?

This isn't on the ground stuff.

So, yeah, there's there will be ground war, big or small, I don't know.

When I say ground war, in a perfect world, we would take out the leadership with a missile or a bomb and then the the ground would just be mopping up.

Ideally, we'll see what happens.

I guess Charlie Kirk will receive the uh highest civilian honor inostumously.

Um the presidential medal of honor, medal of freedom that happens today.

I think we all agree with that.

Have you listened to Rob O'Neal, the Seal Team Six member who shot uh Bin Laden?

Have you heard him talking about his opinion of whether we correctly have analyzed what happened to Charlie Kirk?

because he's very clear that we don't have the right story.

He says he's killed a number of people up close and he can tell you for sure that that's no entry wound.

Now, if that's no entry wound, everything we've been told is a lie.

That doesn't mean that Israel was behind it.

There's nothing.

I'm not suggesting that.

I'm just saying that if that wasn't an entry wound, we really don't know.

And the other thing that Rob O'Neal talks about is uh allegedly the the microphone that he was wearing was immediately removed from his body and removed from the site.

Uh as if maybe somebody thought that the microphone was part of the kill shot because there's some people who say the microphone might have been like a secret little gun that shot a shot something into him.

I don't know about that.

don't know about that.

Um, but when you hear somebody that qualified say with such certainty that this was not a gunshot from the front, I do believe him.

Do you remember the story of the magic bullet um for Kennedy?

Somebody found the bullet on the gurnie.

What are the odds that the bullet would be laying on the gurnie next to the body?

And then the the bullet that supposedly went through two completely different people uh was still intact.

Now, it was it was flattened, but the entire mass of the bullet in the Kennedy situation, the entire mass of the bullet was still there and sort of identifiable, but just flattened like it had gone through some soft tissue, but not like it had gone through any bones at all.

So, I talked to uh uh one expert on wounds.

Apparently, there are people who are experts on gunshot wounds.

And uh one of the things I learned is, you know, on TV uh on TV when there's a crime show, they'll analyze the bullet and find out what gun it came out of.

Apparently, in the real world, that almost never can happen.

If if the bullet goes into a human being, the bullet becomes so destroyed, you couldn't possibly match it back to a particular barrel.

And that that's pure fantasy.

Um, so in this situation, not only did Rob O'Neal say that if the if the gun that is implicated was the one used, it would have taken his whole head off.

So there's that.

Um, and uh, what else?

Um, oh, and then there's the bullet probably would have been uh, broken up if it especially if it hit bones.

Probably would have been broken up.

And there might be a maybe a trace of, you know, part of the bullet still in him.

But what the the doctor said is that Charlie had magic bones and it stopped the bullet and the bullet was still in him.

Apparently that doesn't make any sense at all.

It wouldn't be intact and it definitely wouldn't be in him if it came from that gun and it definitely wouldn't have left that hole.

Now, I hate that every single freaking thing that looks like it's simple turns into a conspiracy theory, but how do you get past those facts coming from somebody as qualified as Rob O'Neal?

Which one of you is going to say, "Oh, based on my own Steel Team Six up close murders, not murders, but kills." Uh, based on my own uplose, you know, that that looked like an entry wound to me.

As far as I know, 100% of military and hunters, military people and hunters, correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe 100% of them have said that was no entry wound.

Am I right?

100%.

like everyone every single person who knows what they're talking about.

I've now heard one person who say, "Oh, yeah, that that could be an entry wound, you know, maybe under these situations." Not one.

So, I'm not going to go full Israel on this cuz I don't see that evidence.

But there's something there's something wrong with this.

There's something wrong.

Uh I don't know.

Um, here's some uh fun science stuff.

Scientists just split sound particles.

Did you know that sound had a minimum uh I guess frequency length or something?

Very tiny.

But apparently they can now break one sound.

What I guess it's like a photon for sound.

What's it called?

A phonon.

And they can break it and send it in two paths.

And if you can do that, which apparently they can do, it might create a path for really efficient quantum computers you could fit in your pocket.

So that they might be able to power things by breaking light, but also breaking sound and somehow that would help them do something with quantum.

That's kind of cool.

That's a ways away.

Won't be happening tomorrow.

Uh scientists allegedly according to user Masimo who found this study in the New New England Journal of Medicine uh found a cure for type 1 diabetes.

A cure.

Apparently they took a guy with type one and they uh they tweaked his genes with using crisper.

They edited three genes and then they stuck him back in him and he started creating his own insulin and he doesn't have diabetes anymore.

Now, could he reproduce that?

I mean, they had to edit three genes, but they know exactly which genes to edit and they know how to do it.

Did diabetes just get cured?

I don't know.

I don't know.

Maybe I've told you about this before, but here's a little update.

You know that if we could access the geothermal energy, which is just the extreme heat and the inner core of the world that we would have more electricity than we would ever need for the end of time, including for AI.

But getting to it is hard because you would have to dig a hole really deep.

and uh that really deep hole.

We don't really quite have the technology to to do that economically, but turns out there's a lot of action happening there.

Uh there are so-called closed loop systems.

There's a carbon-f free heat engine uh that that drills down.

So, they're using u um using technology from fusion research and all kinds of other things.

Looks like one of them might be a giant laser kind of thing.

But anyway, there there are a number of schemes to try to economically get into that heat.

If we ever do that, even once, if we can even once figure out how to get deep enough to, you know, get into that heat, that changes everything.

If we can do it economically, I'm surprised that Elon Musk isn't building a uh something with the boring machine that can go straight down and get to the the geothermal.

It would be completely different technology, but it seems like exactly the kind of technology he'd be into cuz it's such a moonshot.

I mean, it would just replace everything.

It looks doable in the long run.

I it's hard for me to imagine that in the long long run humans would not be able to go that deep and to get that energy.

I I feel like that's just a guarantee, but it might be 20 years away.

Interesting.

Engineering had that story.

Well, I was looking for the gentleman who was on You.

Tube talking about this, but it agrees with what I've said, so I'll just say that there's another smart person saying it.

And it goes like this that Ukraine actually has a uh they're turning the corner on having an advantage in the war.

The advantage is that now that it's seems to be purely a robot war, you know, drones mostly, that whoever does the best on drones will win the war so long as they can stay in business long enough to do that.

Now, it does look like the human deaths on the front line may be lessened because they're just doing drone on drone on drone stuff.

I don't hear too much about people dying on the front line anymore, so I assume the numbers are smaller.

And it really is turning into drones against energy production in both directions.

It's their drones against energy, their drones against energy.

Uh so that's what it is.

But the Ukraine advantage, according to this one gentleman whose name I didn't write down because I'm a bad person, um is that the freer market system of Ukraine will guarantee that they have uh the better drones over time and that's happening now.

So that we're just turning the corner, you know, at at first first two years um Ukraine is just desperately trying to get some kind of anything that works.

So they're, you know, using whatever drones they can get.

You know, they're not good ones, but they keep upgrading the drones.

So the Ukrainian drones are getting to the point and they're right at the point where they won't be jammable by GPS and they'll be able to make unlimited numbers of them.

Once they're not jammable and they can just darken the sky with them, then you'd say, "Oh, but Russia will just catch up." So they'll have better better things for shooting them down.

they'll have their own drones, you know, their own drones will be that powerful.

But Russia has not um modernized their drones as fast.

And the reason given is that they have a system which does not reward entrepreneurship the same way we do or the same way Ukraine does.

So the Ukrainians are trying to get rich and also save their country.

And they have the freedom to get rich in whatever way can make the best drones.

And the Russians are just going to get a paycheck.

You know, if if they work on trying to make a better drone and they succeed, just a paycheck doesn't really save the country.

They're not going to get rich.

So the theory is that the uh the incentives for the Ukrainian side is to uh rapidly innovate and that will be the most important factor for how the war goes and that we're just turning the corner where Ukraine is is going to turn on the afterburners for um for innovation in drones and that that will turn the corner.

Now, of course, Russia has the big advantage in human power, the big advantage in missiles and all that.

So, a lot of this is psychological.

It's not so much which each what each side could do because what Russia could do is nuke all of Ukraine if they wanted to.

So, Russia, you know, clearly has the weapons to, you know, just pave the place if they want to.

But would they want to?

Because what would happen to them?

So, it looks like uh Axios is reporting that Trump is going to be talking to Zalinski about uh Tomahawk missiles and if the US provides them that would be paid for by the Europeans.

Uh because Trump has cleverly gotten us out of the paying.

The fact that Trump got us out of paying for Ukraine is one of the great accomplishments.

I don't think he gets enough credit for that because as long as we're not paying for it and we're we're selling things instead of buying things, I feel a lot better about it.

You if there has to be a war, might as well might as well profiter.

Um it'd be better without the war, of course.

But um Trump's made the decision, I think, to give them tomahawk missiles, but he wants to talk about to them about how they use them.

And what I think he means by that is if you use these tomahawks to take out their energy structure, I'll let you have them because that's just more of what you're already doing.

And he's doing the same thing to you.

So that would look like that would look like something that wouldn't necessarily escalate things too much because it's sort of what you're already doing, attacking the energy infrastructure.

But imagine if Zalinski said, "Aha, I've got some tomahawk missiles.

I'm going to lob these into the Kremlin and take out the leadership." That I believe would be a big big problem for the United States because we're not ready for that.

So, I assume that what he's going to do is say if you could limit these to taking out energy resources, you might be able to wrap this up quickly because if you took out probably, I'm just going to guess if you took out another 20% of uh Russia's domestic gas production, they'd want to talk.

And probably these Tomahawk missiles could make that happen.

No, obviously Russia would, you know, increase their own attacks uh on the energy infrastructure of Ukraine, but maybe they're already maxed out there.

There's no reason they wouldn't be maxed out already, so maybe they don't have much to go.

All right.

Um, Zero Edge is reporting that uh the mainstream media um was trying to hide the Nazi tattoos on some of the Ukrainian Azoff regimen people.

So, I guess there's a movement to try to uh normalize or accept the the overtly racist Nazi parts of Ukraine because I guess they figure it's, you know, better to keep the country together than to deal with that.

Um Trump has suggested that Spain be expelled from NATO because they're not willing to step up to that 5% annual 5% of GDP annual spending.

And he said uh we had one lagard.

It was Spain.

He said they have no excuses not to do this, but that's all right.

Maybe we should throw them out of NATO.

Frankly, now that shouldn't be news because the entire point of NATO membership is if you don't pay, you're not in.

So they don't pay.

So Trump says, "Well, maybe you're not in." So, you know, nobody else would say that directly, but you should say that.

That's why you pay to be in.

If you don't pay, not in.

It's really simple.

All right.

And apparently there's, according to Remix, uh, over in Belgium, the authorities stopped a jihadist plot that looked like they were going to try to build a assassination drone to take down some leaders of the country, but they stopped it.

My question is, how do we ever go out with side again?

Aren't we maybe one year away from any individual being able to send a unjammable unjammable drone into any location they want and make it explode?

How how could you ever have an outdoor political event one year from now?

There would always be a terrorist who's within two miles who can just open a door or open a window, throw a a drone out the window and and tell it to go to the exact location and then of course it' be jammed.

You know, if it's some important president or something, it' be jammed, but then it would just switch over to GPS and visual and just finish the job.

How would we stop that?

Now, if it were only one, you know, we would have other mechanisms to, you know, shotgun it out of the sky and stuff like that.

But what if what if 20 came at the same time?

Is there really any chance we would stop all 20?

If if we couldn't jam them, maybe.

If they came in low, though, you wouldn't even have time to to laser them.

So, I guess it depends how low they are when they they do the final mile.

Anyway, uh over in Germany, CEO of a big uh big company I never heard of, but I guess this big big company, uh Ivonic, the CEO, is calling for the end of the what he calls the CO2 cult.

And it's a wakeup call for Europe's economy.

Zero Hedge is writing about that.

So, Germany, of course, is the big woke.

Everything's got to be green.

And apparently they have decided that climate change and CO2 not necessarily a hoax, but maybe you ought to back off a little bit if you want to survive.

All right.

Um and uh meanwhile, let's talk about reparations.

So, uh, Governor Nuome has decided to sign something that would create a, uh, some kind of entity in California to look into reparations.

Uh, what do you call it?

Create a state agency for reparations.

Now, I've told you before that uh, Nome has been smart about reparations.

He can't say no, but he can say we should study it.

So he keeps saying, "Well, how about we study it?" So this uh this state agency seems like more of that.

It's like just the next thing he's doing that would funnel some money to the reparations people cuz who do you think's going to be in the state agency for reparations?

Do you think it'll be people who are on the committee that we're doing reparations?

Of course it is.

Some of them.

So, this seems to be just another way to funnel uh tax money to reparations advocates without ever getting any reparations.

So, I don't believe this will lead to reparations cuz even even Gavin doesn't think that's a good idea.

Uh but it will lead to people who want reparations getting paid and that should shut them up.

So, there's that.

But let's talk about reparations.

I believe I'm the most qualified person to do this.

given my my public reputation.

Let me say this as clearly as possible.

If I were going to give advice to the uh the black Americans, uh what's the first thing I should do if I wanted to give advice on success to black Americans?

What's the first thing I should do?

Shut the up.

That's what I should do.

What?

Why do I think I can advise black Americans?

Didn't I just read you a reframe that says even if people ask for advice or you think they need it, you it never helps.

And and I learned this because I actually spent quite a bit of my time in treasure trying to figure out what would be the best way to help black Americans.

And then when I thought I was making like a little progress, I was informed by black Americans that they don't need any help.

They might need some money.

They might need some funding to get things done, but they don't need any advice.

To which I say, you know what?

You're completely right about that.

Advice is what you give people who you believe are somehow below you.

I hate to say that, but somehow they need advice and you don't.

How did how did you come up with that?

Why did they need the advice and you're not the one who needs the advice?

Why would you even think that?

So, I think that when you offer people advice and help, you infantilize them and you take away some of their agency.

I believe that the best thing that you could do for black America is say, "We're not going to give you anything.

How about nothing?" Oh, but but the unfairness of the past.

Yeah, it was very unfair.

What's your point?

Well, well, because of the unfairness of the past, we should be compensated.

to which I say that's that doesn't connect.

There's all kinds of unfair things in the past.

Doesn't mean you get paid.

No, no, but because it was so unfair and we know, you know, which group of people did it to which other group, that would be reparations.

To which I say, why?

What's the logic there?

There's no connecting logic.

There's something that happened with other people who were not us and you didn't like it.

So, do I get reparations for being born short?

Do I get reparations for being bald and nearsighted?

Do you get reparations if you're born dumb?

Because you can't get much done if you're born dumb.

No, there there is no world in which people are better off if we can say, "Oh, somebody needs to pay somebody else because they have bigger problems." There are no special problems.

Black people don't have special problems.

They have problems.

They're real.

I think systemic racism is real.

That's a real problem.

But if you tell people, you know, you can just overcome that problem by doing the same thing that everybody does to overcome that problem.

Wait, what?

Yeah.

Everybody who overcomes the problem of poverty does it the same way.

What?

But what if there's discrimination?

There's not discrimination.

There's discrimination in favor of you.

Every company wants to hire you if you'll just go get an education, get a little training.

They all want to hire you.

You could find mentors so easily because they want to do it.

You have everything you need to succeed, but you have to do it the way everybody does it.

You can't do it a magic way.

You have to do it the way everybody does it.

Stay in a jail.

Stay off drugs.

keep your family together, uh, get the best education you can.

There is no other way.

Reparations, even if we gave you a big pile of money, what would you do with it?

Do you think if you check back in 5 years, everybody would be okay?

Oh, we got a reparations.

That fixed everything.

No, there's no chance of that.

There's no chance of that.

That's never worked for anybody.

You probably would just blow through it and be glad you had it for a year and then it would be gone and it would have no impact on your life after you, you know, bought a car and, you know, although if you needed the car for work, that might have might have helped a lot.

Yeah, lottery winners don't exactly become uh successful and uh happy after they win the lottery.

So, there's your reframe.

The reframe is not um how much reparation should you pay.

The reframe is nobody has a special problem.

That your problem isn't special.

And the only person or let me say it another way.

The only way black America can save can fix their problems is if black Americans decide to fix their problems doing the exact same thing that everybody else did to fix their problems.

There's no other path.

Nobody, nobody can give you a leg up on that there.

There's no secret password.

There's nothing.

You just do what everybody else did.

And if that doesn't work, well, I'm sorry.

That's all we have.

All we have is what everybody does.

There's nothing else.

So, there's your reframe for reparations.

All right, everybody.

That's all I got for today.

That's all you needed.

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Thanks for coming.

I will see you again tomorrow.

Same time, same place.

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Well, I'm going to start my new

tradition of starting off with a reframe

from my book, Reframe Your Brain. It's

full of reframes to make your life

better. And I'm just going to give you

maybe one or two a day.

All right, here's one. Uh, have you ever

had somebody that you know needed your

advice and you wanted to give them your

advice? So, your your normal frame is,

hey, here's somebody who needs my

valuable wisdom and advice. I better

give it to them. How does that work out?

I've got a better frame. Instead of

saying the person needs your advice, say

this person might need some information,

some empathy, or some help organizing

their thoughts. But what they don't need

is advice.

In the real world, nobody takes advice.

People follow their own advice. So you

can modify their advice to themselves by

changing what they know. if you have

some information. Maybe they just need

some empathy and they didn't need any

advice at all. You know, that would be

in a relationship that's often the case.

So, when you think somebody needs your

advice,

slow down, slow your roll. They might

not need your advice. They might need

something else. So, that's the reframe.

I'll have another one at the end of the

show. It'll change your life. I wonder

if there's any science that didn't need

to be done. Hm. Oh, here we go. Eric

Dolan at Writing in Cypos says there's a

study in the Journal of Emotion, which

you didn't even know existed probably.

The Journal of Emotion

um says that boredom will encourage

people to seek new experiences.

Really?

Are we just finding that out? Now, how

much science did we employ to find out

that bored people will look for a new

experience?

I'm pretty sure I could have answered

that question without any science at

all. Scott, what do you do when you're

bored? Oh, the same thing I always do to

make me bored. No, I look for a new

thing.

But uh the but what they're adding here

is that people will even choose a

negative emotion like disgust as long as

it doesn't bore them. Now let me give

you another way to look at that. The

only way you know you're alive is

unpleasant things,

especially unpleasant things you weren't

expecting.

Nothing else makes you feel alive. If

you got everything you wanted with no

effort whatsoever, your consciousness

would disappear because you wouldn't

need it. Consciousness wouldn't have any

purpose. You just had everything you

wanted like a clam.

So, uh yeah, bored people do things. So,

so yesterday I tried to do um three

simple things in a modern world. Number

one was I bought a Apple Watch as a gift

for a family member and uh I had it

delivered by Uber to my house. How do

you think that went? All All I had to do

is drive it across town from the Apple

store to my house and I got to track it.

But for some reason, you couldn't

contact the Uber guy. Like none of the

contacts worked. And I would just watch

him sitting around town with my with my

Apple Watch. and he never came to my

house. And eventually he marked it

delivered without delivering it. So now

I have to figure out, do I call Uber?

No way to reach them. Do I call Apple?

Well, you can reach them, but then Apple

has no way to reach Uber, apparently.

But but so they're they're trying to

track it down. So what was the only

thing I could do? What was the only

thing I could do? It was a birthday

present. I had to buy another one. So, I

just have to buy another one. So, I

don't even know how to cancel the

payment because I paid uh an Apple Pay.

So, now I have to go research how to

cancel an Apple Pay because it wasn't,

you know, regular credit card kind of

thing. So, just the simplest thing,

deliver this to my house. Now, you might

say, "But Scott, you can prove it wasn't

delivered because you could look at your

security camera and see if somebody put

anything in front of your door that

maybe somebody else stolen." Except I've

got two security cameras, two complete

different systems watching my front

door. Both of them glitched.

Both of them glitched. I I've I've got

just darkness around that time. So, that

was the first thing. Second thing I

tried to do

was I was trying to do something with

Amazon

um that would allow me to sell my

calendar online. And one of the things I

need to do is the detail doesn't matter,

but I need to find a menu choice that

looks like a little uh gear and then

click on it and then do a thing. But if

I don't find that gear and click on it

and do the thing, then I won't be able

to sell my calendar.

So, how hard would that be? They tell

you what page to go to. They even show

you a picture of the page and and even

circle the gear. Do you think that

worked? No. Because there's no page like

that. I can find no page whatsoever that

has any little gear on it. Nor can

anybody apparently tell me where to find

it. There's no URL.

So, so I just go back and forth with

screenshots. All right. Well, here's

what I'm looking at. You tell me where's

the gear. And then that's the end of the

trail. I don't even know if we can get

there from here. So then I decide that I

had a little time yesterday. So I'm

going to sign up for Sora 2. That's the

uh OpenAI version of the image maker

that does the little videos and stuff.

And I thought to myself, huh, about

we're finally at the point where I could

do at least small little moving almost

still pictures but animated that could

be like chapter starts for my God's

debris book because I wanted to see if I

could kind of quickly turn it into some

kind of a YouTube but still an audio

book.

Do you know how hard it is just to use

an AI that you haven't used before? You

have to start out with trying to figure

out their business model because the AI

apps aren't like regular apps. So, the

first thing I have to figure out is how

do I get to Sorro because somebody had

given me a uh an activation account so I

could get early access. So, first of

all, I had to know it's early access.

But I don't know where to sign up. Is it

an app store? Is it a browser? Is it

both? If I already have Open AI, do I

already have Sora? If I have Open AI and

I have Sora, do I have to sign up for

Sora 2? So, you have this whole host of

questions that you've never dealt with,

you know, unless you've been pretty

deeply into the AI world. So, so I go to

Google and I'm looking for the homepage

for Sora 2 or something that tells me

where to sign up. Then the next thing

you find is that most of the top entries

are fake. there are other companies that

are pretending to be Sora 2. And then I

thought, okay, maybe the business model

is that sometimes you use the Sora 2,

but other times you could use some other

app that's just using that API and it

would be just as good. So I signed up

for the one that was on the top. I

thought, well, it's at the top. It's

something called Art List,

which may or may not use the Sora

engine, but it seems like add some other

engines. So, I put down about $600

for a month of something called Art List

that I thought was giving me full access

to Sora 2.

It doesn't.

So, do you know what I needed to do? I

needed to find the menu choice in our

list to cancel my payment.

So, what do you think happened? Do you

think I looked all over and found the

button to cancel? No, I found that

nobody knew how to cancel.

It was a major problem. So, Art List,

apparently, as far as I can tell, is I

don't even know if it's a real company.

It looks like just a trick to get your

your Sora 2 money. So, they have my

money. So, I contact them through, you

know, they had a customer support thing.

What do you think the customer support

told me about how to cancel? Do you

think they told me to go to a web page

that doesn't exist and click on a uh

click on a menu choice that also doesn't

exist? That's right. That's exactly what

they did. Because everybody who's trying

to tell you how to use something gives

you instructions for something that

doesn't exist, is not on the page you're

looking at, is not on the URL you're at,

and maybe has never been there. So, I I

was impressed that they got back to me

so quickly. So I thought, whoa, maybe I

have something here. So I immediately

sent back a screenshot and said,"Well, I

don't have that page. Could you tell me

where that page is?" Then what do you

think happened next? Never heard from

him, right? Never heard from him. So

I've got $600 a month that I'm spending

and I have no way to figure out how to

get rid of it. I guess I have to work

through my bank, maybe close my checking

account. I don't know what the I

need to do. I've got a phone that may or

may not come to me on the second try or

the Uber guy is going to steal a second

phone from me and claim he didn't.

I'm just trying to do the simplest

things. The simplest things and they're

just undoable in the modern world.

Anyway,

if anybody knows anybody at the company

Art List, could you ask them to give me

back my money because they clearly

appear to be criminals.

Um, oh, and then so then once I got I

got the real Sora working. So I finally

got to the real one here. Here's what

their uh their user interface is. You

you tell it what your video will look

like and then you'll get a chance to

iterate it and change it if you don't

like what it presents. except once you

submit

your video, the one that you want it to

create, it doesn't tell you how long it

will take. It just says it's entered a

Q.

And I sit there and I think a Q, does

that mean it'll be ready in a minute, so

I should sit and wait? Or does that mean

it'll be ready in 2 hours? Or does that

mean sometimes it's a minute and

sometimes it's 2 hours? And so I sit

there like an idiot with nothing

happening and nothing happening and

nothing happening until eventually you

think maybe it didn't work. So you just

redo it. But redoing it makes you pay a

bunch of money because every single time

you ask for something you have to pay

tokens which you paid money to get. And

unless you've done all the math, you

don't even know how much you're spending

for every iteration. Now let me tell you

something about art. Art is iteration.

If your thing won't if the thing you're

using to make your art, in this case

Sora 2, doesn't do rapid iteration, it's

not a tool. It's a nothing. It's a piece

of It's a complete waste of money

and waste of time. It has to iterate

quickly, as in, okay, do it again, but

darker. All right, give that guy a

beard. If it could do that, wow, and it

could remember it and be consistent,

then you'd have something. It can't do

that. Here, here's me using it. Click.

What do I do now? Should I take up a

hobby?

Should like I got to leave it open. So,

should I set an alarm and check back in

an hour? Yeah, there there's actually no

way to use that product.

So where AI is at this point in the

cycle completely it's just completely

unusable

but someday maybe Elon Musk says that

his macro hard project which is

literally a company that's making fun of

Microsoft

will basically replace everything that

can be done with software anywhere

including all the things that Microsoft

Office does. Uh and he says a goal is to

create a company that can do anything

short of manufacturing physical objects

directly, but they'll be able to do that

too indirectly the way everybody else

does by hiring somebody to do it.

So is this really the company of all

companies?

Is it the company that would replace all

companies that you can just design and

make anything?

Yeah. I'll tell you when Elon Musk

thinks big, he really thinks big. This

is so big I can't even wrap my head

around it. It's like really it'll be one

company and just sort of makes

everything maybe.

I do think that he will make a phone

or he'll have somebody make a phone and

that that phone will be an AI phone that

is just sort of a blank phone until you

start telling it what you want and then

it will form into the user interface you

need on the fly.

Speaking of uh Elon Musk, he also says

that Neurolink's endgame because he

agreed with somebody who said this on on

X uh is that the real vision is

symbiosis with AI. So it's not just to

help people who have uh physical

disabilities that the neurolink can help

them with. That's first. But eventually

uh the idea will be I think to get a AI

chip into everybody's head so that we

can compete with the AIS because we will

be the AIS. So we will be cyborgs with

AI.

Uh I think he's right on that too. He's

probably 20 years ahead on that. But

that's what he does 20 years ahead.

There was a uh study Karina Petrova of

Cypos is writing about that uh believe

it or not there are major IQ differences

in identical twins if their schooling

was very different. So if one of them

had a really high quality of schooling

they will present with a higher IQ but

um I'm not sure that we learned anything

new in this because the IQ still limits

the range. You know, if the twins have

the same IQ, or if the twins are

identical, they'll be in the same range,

but one of them might be at the bottom

of the range and the other's at the top

of the range. So, IQ gets you in the

neighborhood and then your specific

school gets you to the front door of,

you know, a better house or a lesser

house. So, that's not really surprising,

is it? But it does it does suggest that

the quality of schooling uh will

determine your economy. Right? If the

quality of the school makes this much

difference on identical twins, it's

definitely telling you that our um our

let's say our failure to educate our

children is causing a probably a

gigantic IQ deficit that didn't have to

happen. That's going to catch up with

us. Do you remember a couple years ago

when AI was so new, uh, we didn't even

know Open AI was a thing yet? There was

an app called Replica that I told you

that I'd used, uh, to see if I could

become less lonely, and I didn't know

that it was. I think it was using the

Open AI engine at the time, but they

hadn't revealed it yet. So, Replica

continues to, you know, improve as its

base AI improves. And now China did a

study using it and they found that

full-time college students could uh cure

some of their severe loneliness using

the app. But um I believe there have

been other studies that found exactly

what I found when I tried using it,

which is when you first use it, you

know, takes a while to figure out what

it can and cannot do. So, you know, it's

a little awkward at first. Then you get

into this mode where you know how to

talk to it in ways that it will

understand and talk back and and for a

while it feels like you've got a little

friend and you think to yourself, whoa,

I might I might actually want to use

this more. So you use it a little bit

more and it's even better because you

you you learn how to use it better and

it gets to know you. At the time it

didn't remember you. So that was a big

buzzkill. I think now it can, but I'm

not sure. So, if it didn't remember you

from the last conversation, you would

lose interest really fast. But I believe

that the the nature of all these AI

replica type friends is that I think

everybody's going to get tired of them.

So that even if you did have a best

friend who is an AI, uh it might last 3

months,

but I just don't think that you'll be

continually

um surprised by them. They they're just

not surprising. You need a little

surprise or else, you know, you'll get

right back to that boredom thing.

So I'm not worried about people

preferring them. I think it'll wear off.

Well, the big news

in the week was that China made big

threats about uh closing off access to

their rare earth materials, which would

crash the entire economy of the United

States, if not the world. Uh but today

they some are say that they're backing

off or softening their stance. Other

people are saying we don't really

understand what their stance is yet, so

you can't say it's softened. But there

there does seem to be some um at least

they're making some noise in China that

is oh no you you misinterpreted this.

We're we are we are uh um putting more

controls on those rare earth exports. So

we're definitely doing that but it's

it's really a limited thing and it's not

that different from what it was. and

they're they're just trying to make sure

it doesn't get used for military uses

and you know we'll hardly even notice

the difference and other people will say

no you liars you're just saying that

these export controls are no big deal

but you definitely plan to use them for

negotiating and turning off our economy

if if it ever comes to that. So some

people are expecting Monday that the

market will recover. you know, crypto

took a big dump. Uh, too, uh, but I

think it's early, it's sort of early to

say that. My guess is this will all get

worked out, but don't make any don't

make any investments based on my guess.

It's just a guess. I mean, I assume that

China needs things to work out with the

US as much as the US needs things to

work out with China economically. So

given that both sides have enormous

um incentive to make it work to get some

kind of a deal done, I feel like both

countries are sane and both countries

are capable. So if you're sane and

capable and you have the same objective,

which is to make sure you don't kill

either country, we'll work it out. I

just don't know if it'll be Monday

anyway. So, we'll see what the details

are on that. Kyle Bass, who's a uh

famous China watcher, China critic with

me. Um, he said that Trump holds the

trump card with China because we can

quote remove them from the USD system

altogether. So, they wouldn't be able to

buy and trade with other countries as

easily. I'm not sure that we really do

have that leverage because again that

would be sort of a u mutually assured

destruction weapon. If if we remove them

from the USD system, wouldn't they

immediately just reproduce a system they

could use or join bricks or however that

works? I don't even know how that works.

But I feel like that would be a a

six-month really big problem followed by

they would get off the US dollar and

then we would have a big problem. So I'm

not sure we really have that leverage.

That's not as simple as it looks.

Anyway, and then uh also according to

Kyle Bass says last night it was

revealed that China was blackmailing

other countries to not export goods to

the United States. And I guess one of

the countries shared the letter with the

United States. So we know we know this

for sure that China was working against

us, blackmailing other countries.

Anyway,

um and then there was that big crypto

meltdown that happened on Friday. That's

starting to look uh like there might be

a mystery involved here because

apparently some whales, as they call

them, big investors, came in and seemed

to know ahead of time that there was

going to be a big event that would drive

crypto down cuz some people bought

unusually large uh uh shorts, meaning

that if the price went down, they'd made

money. And I think one person made $192

million in an hour or something.

Somebody put a $23 million short just

ahead of the announcements. Um, like

they knew.

Now, here's the thing. It's not illegal

to uh do insider trading with Bitcoin.

Did you know that it's not illegal? If

you had insider information, you knew

the government was going to do something

and you made your bet based on the thing

that you knew that other people didn't

know. Totally legal. The exception would

be if you're if you're owning Bitcoin

indirectly through a fund

because a stock fund can't do insider

trading. So, you know, I I've got some

um I've got some Bitcoin directly that I

own. Um I could trade that. But if I

traded what was in my um my stock fund,

which is a fund that holds some Bitcoin

or it tries to match Bitcoin, I don't

know. I don't know what they hold, but

they they match Bitcoin. Um, if I did it

in there, the exact same trade, I could

go to jail.

So, somebody was smart enough probably

to know that they didn't have any risk.

They they had the information. They

didn't have risk. It was just free

money. So, that's not ideal.

Um,

I saw a Mario post. He does these great

summaries of the news. So, I get a lot

of my stuff from Mario. Uh, but I don't

know how old this is. You see, he says

that Doge just cut 214 billion in

government fat, but did they just do it?

And does it really get cut this time? I

I'm not sure I believe anything about

Doge cuts. The the one thing I do

believe and and this is great credit to

Elon and all the Doge people. I think

they made Doge a permanent thing. So if

you're looking at, you know, the

individual claims or the individual wins

or the individual cost cuts, you know,

you you might get too excited about

what's happening at any given time. But

I do believe this became permanent and

that the the way the the leaders in

government are thinking is they're

thinking how can I reduce costs and that

they've just got Doge brain now. That's

good. I love the fact that that people

are thinking how do I reduce instead of

thinking how do I build my empire?

That's completely different. And I and

that's entirely Elon Musk's um

persuasion that we think Doge and we

think that's the way we get rewarded

now. Oh, the way I get rewarded

is by cutting costs. Got it. That that's

the Doge reframe. That the reward is

saving the world by cutting costs. The

reward is not you introduced a new

project. Oh, look how I did on my new

expensive project. Now, that's the old

way. Now, you're going to have to get

rid of that project if you want to

impress us.

JB Pritzker, governor of Illinois,

um he's out there making noise and uh

now he's complaining that uh quote

another thing that's happened with very

few people paying attention is they

meaning the Trump administration

demanded our voter data. Not just ours

in Illinois, every state's voter data.

Why? They won't tell us why.

So Steven Miller told him why the DOJ

asked you to remove illegal alien voters

from the roles and you refused. Oh well

that's pretty good reason.

That's a pretty good reason.

So here's my problem with JB Pritsker

and a number of what I call the

designated liars. Have you noticed that

when Democrats lie they smile?

And when uh Republicans lie, if they do,

they're not smiling.

And usually I think Democrats are I'm

sorry, Republicans. Republicans are more

likely just to, you know, tell you the

thing. It may or may not be true,

but they're not smiling when they lie.

But I I think that there's genuinely

some kind of uh what do they call it?

cluster B kind of thing going on where

the liar is enjoying the lie.

If you look at Pritsker when he lies

like this, he's got that hitting

grin that he can't get off his face. He

appears to love lying more than he likes

eating. And if you notice that uh that

the other designated liars like that,

too. Jamie Rascin,

if you see Rascin lying, he's smiling,

isn't he? Creepy smile. How about uh uh

Adam Schiff when he's lying? Creepy

smile. How about uh Hillary Clinton? Oh

yeah. When she lies, creepy smile. So

when you see that creepy smile, it's

it's illuminating something on the

inside of them, which I think is

narcissism. You know, I'm no expert, so

don't take my word for it. But it looks

like they get internal delight

from lying

right in front of you. And I don't see

that from Republicans. I don't. Do you?

If you have any example of a Republican

who smiles when he lies,

uh, let me know. Yeah. Look. Well, Jimmy

Kimmel is a comedian, so allegedly, so

you can't you can't count that.

But the actual politicians creepy

smiles. Wow.

All right. So, uh, put it all together

and I was I was trying to think of all

the advantages the Republicans have

gained recently. So, here are the

Republican advantages. There are also

Democrat advantages of course, but the

Republicans ones uh better policies that

are more popular with the people, more

more 8020 and 6040 policies, better

candidates for sure. Now, normally

that'd be enough, right? Better

candidate, better policies, that'd be

enough to win the midterms. Well, except

it never works that way. But they have

other they have other advantages. One is

I think the pendulum is still swinging.

So, you know how people just get tired

of whatever the old way was and they

just need a new way. I think woke is

still still being uh decreased.

So, I think that the pendulum swing is

still toward conservatives, although

that could end, you know, that could

reverse before the midterms. Um,

the Democrats have to explain why they

were in favor of the trans issue that

mostly the public was not. Um, let's say

trans and sports specifically and trans

for children stuff specifically. Um,

closing government. I think they'll get

a little bit of blame, but that'll go

away before the midterms. Supporting

crime. The Democrats appear to be

supporting crime. That's not a not a

very good advantage. And now they're uh

kicking off reparations in California.

I'll talk about that. But on top of

that, now a uh alleged

Republican, lifetime Republican has

bought the Dominion voting machines.

Now, I don't think that that means that

the Republicans will use them to cheat.

I don't think that. But they're

definitely going to make sure the

Democrats don't use them to cheat. So,

if you believe that the voting machines

were ever rigged, well, that problem

might be solved at least for these

machines. Now, I don't have any

information that they were rigged.

So, I'm not saying they are. I'm just

saying

kind of took away that risk maybe. Um,

so the then Republicans are trying to

scrub the voter roles, whichever ones

they can get a hold of to get rid of the

uh non-citizens. That should be good.

There should be some more redistricting

going on. You know, that whole story

that should turn out positive for the

Republicans probably. Um there's I guess

the Supreme Court is looking at removing

the redistricting set aides that I

didn't even know existed, but some

existed just for uh I think mostly for

black Americans to make sure they had

some representation. that might go away,

which would be a plus for Republican

districts. Um,

the last election, uh, Laura Trump and,

uh, company had lots of lawyers

observing things. They'll probably do

that again. And I suspect that having

that many lawyers observing elections

makes a difference. I think that makes a

difference.

Uh and then of course uh uh Republican

allies are going to own Tik Tok already

own X, CBS News, maybe CNN. So the the

entire media landscape has turned

podcaster friendly and major media

unfriendly gigantic advantage for

Republicans. And uh MSNBC audience

continues to shrink. They keep

embarrassing themselves and becoming

less and less important. And meanwhile,

all the big tech platforms, probably all

of them, are pro-chump at this point

because he's the free speech guy and

they really really need a free speech

guy or they can't even do business in

Europe. So, that's just Oh, then uh I

know that uh the Republicans are trying

to get rid of mail-in ballots. I don't

know if that'll be successful, but if

they do, well, that would be another

advantage. And then uh this whole Nobel

Peace Prize thing. Um you know,

obviously it was a little too late for

Trump to get it this year. I think they

I think the reason for not giving it to

him this year is good enough because it

really was past the deadline. Um but

it's going to be in the air. If if if

Trump solves Ukraine, which is possible

before the midterms, he's going to have

two Nobel Prize nominations for two

completely different wars. Uh you know,

maybe by then the tariffs are working

and the trade deals are done, Gaza is

being rebuilt.

What do the Democrats have? Reparations.

I mean, it it's starting to become such

a uh such a monstrous um

imbalance.

The imbalance is incredible.

And that's without me even saying the

obvious that all the best people are on

the same side now. All the smartest

people are on one side. Yeah, the I

don't think it could be said enough that

Trump would not be where he is if a

whole bunch of Democrats who are

important like RFK Jr. and Tulsi and uh

you know was it was who are some other

ones? I mean you you could name a bunch

of others me Joe Rogan uh Elon Musk

probably some of the all-in pod guys.

I'm not sure. But uh there were a whole

bunch of people that were in my opinion

the smartest people who all ended up on

the same side.

And that's big. That's really big

because they're the ones who can make

things happen. Anyway, over in Israel, I

guess Jared and Wickoff are there and

Trump's going to be there today or is it

tomorrow? So, there's some thought that

maybe some of the uh the hostages might

be released today, which would be a day

ahead of the plan. But I always

wondered, why do you really need to wait

till Monday? Isn't that the crulest

thing you've ever heard? Imagine if

you're one of the hostages and it's

Friday and on Friday they say, "Hey,

looks like we're going to release you on

Monday."

What would how would you feel? I mean,

you'd feel good that you get you could

get released, but wouldn't you say,

"What about now?

How about right now? Do I really have to

stay in this tunnel for two and a half

more days because that's the deadline?

How about now? For God's sakes, how

about now?" So, I think a little bit of

that might be happening. So, maybe we'll

see a few people trickling out today,

which should be awesome. But what's

interesting is that when Jared and

Wikoff were doing their little talk in

front of a uh very happy crowd of

Israelis, Netanyahu got booed and Trump

got enthusiastically cheered.

Netanyahu got booed in his own country

and people were wearing uh Make America

Great Again hats. You not all of them,

but apparently it was acceptable. Um,

so that's happening.

We'll we'll see if everything goes

smoothly. So at at this point, we are

expecting things to go smoothly with the

prisoner handoff. And I think the head

of Hamas actually reaffirmed

that uh that they're not looking to have

any kind of leadership or power after

the, you know, this is all sorted out.

That was the big thing. The big thing

was would Hamas agree to not be in

power? Apparently they have. Apparently

they have.

You know, I mentioned yesterday that uh

Jared Kushner had read my book Wooden

Bigley, which teaches you how to

negotiate and persuade the way Trump

does. And that after reading it, he got

the Abraham Accords done and then they

brought him in to be the finisher on

this. And I wasn't sure if he did a lot

on the Gaza deal or if he just sort of

came in at the end to wrap up things,

but apparently he did a lot. So he was

he was deeply involved doing what

appeared to be impossible, which is what

I what I teach in the book Wooden

Biggley. But what I didn't remember is

that back in 2020, he had told author

Woodward that uh that book Winley was

one of the four books you should read to

understand Trump.

So I didn't know that he went public

with that, but he had. So I don't feel

so bad saying that he read my book

because he recommends it for

understanding Trump. I recommend it for

understanding persuasion

the way Trump does it. So you it's not

just about the person, it's about the

technique as well. Did it make a

difference?

I don't know. I don't know.

Well, in other news,

the largest teachers union, which I

think is the NEA, sent out a map to its

uh members that erased Israel from the

map. It just showed Palestine.

And uh New York Post is reporting on

this. The teachers union says, "Whoops,

that wasn't us. That was the third party

vendor that we used and we we didn't

like it when they did that. We're going

to talk to them." But can you imagine

that they actually paid for that and it

got sent out and nobody caught it? That

Israel had been erased from the map.

Oh my god. That's your teachers union.

But they blame somebody else.

I guess Trump is doing some workarounds

to try to get the troops paid while the

government's closed and other people are

not being paid. And uh would you believe

that the Democrats are complaining about

paying the troops? Of course. He trapped

the Democrats into being against paying

the troops because they would complain

about, you know, what bucket he took it

out of or something like that. So once

again, Democrats tricked into taking the

dumbest position you could possibly

take.

Well, there's a new book out, I think

it's new, called Stolen Elections by

Ralph Pizzoulo. Now, I'm going to give

you a warning before I talk about this.

You're gonna you're gonna get a big dose

of what I call the documentary effect

because I'm going to tell you that this

book has a point of view about the

integrity of our elections that uh I'm

going to tell you what they say, but

since I won't be presenting the critics

to it or the counterpoint, it's going to

be really really persuasive.

But it shouldn't be, right? It's just

the documentary effect. If you hear one

point of view without the other side and

you listen to it enough, you'll think

it's real. Just because you only heard

one point of view. So that's what's

going to happen now. So be be aware. I'm

going to give you one point of view and

it will be persuasive.

Doesn't mean it's true. Got that? Okay.

So the Raspen pole people have been on

this forever. uh the Georgia election

and the 2020 irregularities as as people

would say. But this book is adding a

bunch and Rasmuson is calling out some

of the interesting excerpts from the

book. Again, it's called Stolen

Elections by Ralph Pazulo. So on page

50, Rasmuson points out that the book

says the US is divided into about 3,400

counties of election districts. In one

of the recent briefings given by the

whistleblowers,

yes, there are whistleblowers.

Uh they were asked by a former head of

US military intelligence, in how many

counties did you need to tamper with the

vote in order to steal a national

election? Now remember, there are 3,400

counties. How many do you have to tamper

to steal the election? The answer was 8

to 10.

That's all they needed, just 8 to 10.

And then they were asked how many people

were needed to execute the seal

allegedly.

And the answer was five.

Five.

And they say it would take about a year

to plan it.

So there you have whistleblowers who are

telling you how it was done, when it was

done, and by how many people.

Does that mean it was done? No. No.

Remember documentary effect. How many of

you just said, "Well, that's true."

Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. Remember,

you're you're already in the documentary

effect. So, you should be turning up

your your doubting thing should be

turned up, not your believing thing. So,

turn down the gullibility.

Turn up the skepticism. It might all be

true, but you should be going into this

with some real skepticism. Okay? That

would be the proper frame for it. But

there's more. There's more.

On page 245,

according to Rasperson people, they say

the book Stolen Elections, Ralph Bazulo

says the following. In the final weeks

of the 2024 presidential election,

engineers recruited by the

whistleblowers collected strong evidence

that the criminal cartel led by

Venezuela

was about to steal the election for the

Democratic Party candidate Kla Harris.

They also suspected that the cyber

security and infrastructure security

agency SISA a component of the

department of homeland security couldn't

be trusted to identify and stop the

fraud because of their poor performance

during the 2020 ele presidential

election. With the help of other cyber

security experts, the engineers were

able to stop the illegal altering of

election results by shutting down the

servers that the criminal cartel were

using in Serbia and other countries,

thus preserving the integrity of the

2024 election. Did you wonder how Trump

won in 2024 but lost in 2020?

Well, I don't know if this is the

answer,

but it's alleged.

And then uh on page 230, it gets even

saucier.

Uh source number one said, quote, "You

can't do this without the complicity of

certain officials in the United States.

Some of them need to be bought."

And then the question was, "Do you have

any idea who these officials are?"

Source one said, "For one, the governor

of the state of Georgia. He won't allow

for the software of Dominion to be

updated even though he knows that the

software is flawed and allows for

third-party access. Why is that?

All right. Now, did I tell you that if I

read this, you would be completely

convinced that Georgia was a rigged

election? You are right.

I'll bet every one of you is not 100%

convinced that Georgia was stolen. They

do have people who were whistleblowers

telling you how it was done in a lot of

detail. Does that mean it was stolen?

Unfortunately, it does not.

So, I'm going to say it one more time.

Unfortunately,

you can't be sure that these

whistleblowers or any of these sources

are real. You just can't. We just don't

live in a world where you can trust

people like that.

But it is a complete it is a complete

picture and it does look like we'll have

access to maybe knowing the real picture

because now Dominion is owned by some

Republican friendly guy. So maybe that

helps him dig into the software look for

things. I don't know. So we'll find out.

But maybe the problem is solved if

Republican has it. All right. Here's

another topic. Al this is also

Rasmmanson. Rasmmanson's having a good

week. I think Rasmmanson is just can't

stop laughing because the things they've

been the buttons they've been pressing

for I don't know years now. All look

like they're the real buttons. Maybe

not. Maybe yes, maybe not. But it sure

looks like they're being it's looking

like Rasmuson is being completely

validated and vindicated. But we'll see.

So on a separate topic but also Rasmuson

pointing it out. They call it the fall

of the machines.

Um do you know that there was a polling

company called 538

that's now shut it's now shut down but

they were sort of the pollsters

ranking entity. So, they would not just

do a poll, but they would tell you what

other polls were um were real and which

other polls were a BS.

Now, if you could control if you wanted

to control what people thought in the

United States, what would be the best

way to do it?

Well, you would if you could manipulate

opinion polls, you could manipulate a

lot of stuff in the United States, but

you don't want to manipulate them

directly because you don't have control

over all those polls are owned by

different people. So, instead, you build

like a fact checker.

Does this sound familiar?

Whenever the Democrats have a

fact-checking entity, is it real? No,

it's never real. It's it's just a way to

uh manage the truth so that you don't

see it as much. So 538 Nate Silver

started it, but he sold it I think to

New York Times or somebody. But uh

here's what Rasman says, which I don't

fully understand, but they say that

Disney apparently spent $100 million

over a dozen years to fund losses

uh at the uh pollster grading company

538. But as soon as Doge arrived at

USAID, 538 was closed.

and controlling the narrative

um

probably was expensive. Now, this one's

more of a little smoking gun situation,

but the suggestion had been that polls

are typically rigged, but only when it

matters, right? They wouldn't be rigged

for just, you know, ordinary stuff

during the year. But when it comes to

determining who becomes your president,

the allegation was that they were always

rigged. And this would be more smoking

gun sort of evidence that maybe it was,

but I would say short of proof. Short of

proof.

I don't know what the Disney connection

is, but maybe somebody does. Do they own

538? I thought the New York Times bought

it. or did they buy it from the New York

Times?

So, who owned 538 when it got closed?

So, the question is, did 538 get some

government funding because it was doing

devious things for one part of the

government? I don't know. Don't know.

But I've never trusted the polls when it

comes to the um presidential races.

Um, and then you want one more just to

uh just round it out. This is also from

Rasmusent Rasperson polls. And uh

they're reminding us that in September

2023, they did a survey to find out who

people voted for in Georgia. Do you

remember Georgia, the state that Trump

narrowly lost in 2020? He lost Georgia.

So when they asked people who they voted

for, 46% said they voted for Trump in

2020 and only 39% said they voted for

Biden.

So when they counted the votes,

Biden had more.

When uh Rasmuson did a poll to say who

did you vote for,

Trump had way more. It's not even close.

Now, some of that could be false

memories and stuff like that, but not

that far away. You know, 2% could have

been a false memory.

Not this much. That's that's a big

that's a big difference. People don't

forget who they voted for. And they're

not and they're also not they're not

embarrassed.

I mean, were they embarrassed to say

they voted for Biden? Probably not.

So, what do you make of the fact that

the election

didn't match the poll? Well, how would

you deal with that if you were the bad

guys? I'll tell you how you do it. You

would go to 538 that ranks the pollsters

and you say, "Quick, make sure that

Rasmuson gets ranked low so that even if

people see this, we'll be able to say,

"Oh, it's just Rasmuson." I mean, look

at 538. They ranked them as I think.

Come on, it's just racism.

And that's what they did.

When you find out how things really

work, it's pretty scary, isn't it?

All right. Um,

I guess a federal appeals court said

Trump can federalize Illinois National

Guard but cannot deploy them into

Chicago. Terrific.

Um, you remember Keith Ellison? Is he

currently the AG of Minnesota? Do I have

that right? Well, back in 2018, he

happily held up a book called the Antifa

um Handbook. So, that was 2018. So, he

wanted you to know that he was on board

with Antifa and is showing you their

book. What's he say today? There's no

such thing as Antifa.

He his his own son had declared publicly

declared support for Antifa. The thing

he says doesn't exist. His his son is a

member apparently.

And he held up the book. Now, I was

thinking, how many other things are

Democrats claiming are hallucinations or

they're just hallucinating?

All right, let's start with that. Uh, so

the Democrats are hallucinating that

Republicans are the ones keeping the

government closed. Even Jake Tapper

doesn't buy that. He's like, uh, they

have a continuing resolution. Every one

of them says they'll sign to open the

government right now. You're the ones

not signing it. So, they've got this

hallucination about who's keeping the

government closed. They think Antifa

doesn't even exist even though they they

get like massive crowds and they've got

a guide book and we know where the

funding is coming from but they don't

exist. Um they think that white

supremacist is the big problem

really

where

um

they think that uh there's not really

any violence in cities that needs any

extra help. They think they have the

violence in the major cities under

control.

Do you?

Uh they think they thought the border

was secure when it was totally open.

They thought that Trump is stealing your

democracy.

When we when we look at what happened

with the election in 2020,

maybe somebody was stealing your

democracy, but it wasn't the January 6

people. They weren't trying to steal

your democracy by trespassing in a

building for a few hours.

That doesn't really happen. Uh the

climate alarm, of course, was a fantasy.

And um and then I'm going to add this

one just because we're going to talk

about reparations and the the belief

that white people are the reason that

blacks are not succeeding.

Do you do you believe that the reason

that black people are nicely seating is

that white people are holding them back

or the white people have all the

systemic advantages?

Okay. Um we'll talk about reparations a

little bit. So Katie Porter, who thought

she was running for governor of

California, but apparently after those

video clips of her being a uh super

Karen came out, uh her popularity went

down from 40% chance of being being

governor to 16. So I c I guess you can't

be a horrible to your staff and to

other people and get that on video. And

uh people didn't like that.

So, looks like she's out. But what about

that uh Virginia Democrat attorney

general nominee who got caught with some

private messages that said things like

he wish his opponent, you know, would

get shot in the head and somebody would

pee on their grave and he thinks, you

know, maybe his policies would be better

if his family got hurt. And so, he's

just said terrible, terrible things. So,

let's see. How are his polls doing?

No movement. His polls are exactly the

same. So apparently you can say and it

can get out in public that you want

great violence to happen to a Republican

and his family and his family and your

Democrat uh supporters will say that's

fine. You know private message that's

fine.

Okay.

Um Mark Beni off the founder owner of

Salesforce CEO

um he's uh he's calling for Trump to

send in the National Guard to San

Francisco. That's where their

headquarters is because it's turned into

a uh

turned into a fentinel dump. But he

lives in Hawaii so he doesn't have to

deal with it. But when he visits his

building apparently it's a nightmare.

So, uh, Mark Benning off. Now, the

reason that's important is that

Benningoff

would be the most, uh, famously woke CEO

of all time.

I'm going to defend him a little bit.

Uh, I spent a little bit of time

chatting with him once a few years ago,

and I thought he was the real deal.

Like, I think Betting off actually wants

to make the world a better place while

he's making his money. and he was dead

serious about that during the meeting

that that I attended. I was a speaker,

so I got to see some of the other

interactions. He was very serious about

that. That that wasn't just for a show.

He he's the real deal. Um and he was

getting on his people for not fully

buying into the, you know, the

charitable part of the company.

Um, however, he's also really smart and

he knows that you can't have, you know,

uncontrolled crime in your in your

business environment. So, he's a he's a

common sense guy.

In other news, allegedly 10,000 US

troops are being deployed in the

Caribbean around area of Venezuela. Uh,

that probably is telling us that

something's going to happen, but we're

not ruling out that they're just doing

exercises. I don't think so. I think

they're getting ready for a land attack.

Um,

and uh, some say it's just to pressure

Maduro to make it look like we might get

more military. I think if we go into

Venezuela, we're not going to attack the

military so much. Uh, only what is

protecting Maduro. I feel like the only

thing we would do there would be a

decapitation strike. I don't think we

would do a, you know, move the whole

military in and uh try to control the

country while Maduro is an absent

absentee leader or something. I think

they would have to know where he is,

take him out hard, and then go in with

support for the Venezuelan government

that's sort of in waiting. uh the one

that the one that complimented him over

the uh Nobel. So I think that's going to

come for sure. And uh

uh let's see. And also Hagsath announced

that they've formed a counter narcotics

task force in the Caribbean that will be

launching. All right. So so now that

they've formed the task force, that task

force is for the purpose of boots on the

ground. It's not a task force to read

memos, right? This isn't on the ground

stuff. So, yeah, there's there will be

ground war,

big or small, I don't know. When I say

ground war, in a perfect world, we would

take out the leadership with a missile

or a bomb and then the the ground would

just be mopping up.

Ideally, we'll see what happens.

I guess Charlie Kirk will receive the uh

highest civilian honor inostumously.

Um the presidential medal of honor,

medal of freedom that happens today. I

think we all agree with that. Have you

listened to Rob O'Neal, the Seal Team

Six member who shot uh Bin Laden? Have

you heard him talking about his opinion

of whether we correctly have analyzed

what happened to Charlie Kirk? because

he's very clear that we don't have the

right story.

He says he's killed a number of people

up close and he can tell you for sure

that that's no entry wound. Now, if

that's no entry wound, everything we've

been told is a lie. That doesn't mean

that Israel was behind it. There's

nothing. I'm not suggesting that. I'm

just saying that if that wasn't an entry

wound, we really don't know. And the

other thing that Rob O'Neal talks about

is uh allegedly the the microphone

that he was wearing was immediately

removed from his body and removed from

the site. Uh as if

maybe somebody thought that the

microphone was part of the kill shot

because there's some people who say the

microphone might have been like a secret

little gun that shot a shot something

into him. I don't know about that.

don't know about that. Um,

but when you hear somebody that

qualified say with such certainty that

this was not a gunshot from the front, I

do believe him.

Do you remember the story of the magic

bullet um for Kennedy? Somebody found

the bullet on the gurnie.

What are the odds that the bullet would

be laying on the gurnie next to the

body?

And then the the bullet that supposedly

went through two completely different

people

uh was still intact.

Now, it was it was flattened, but the

entire mass of the bullet in the Kennedy

situation, the entire mass of the bullet

was still there and sort of

identifiable, but just flattened like it

had gone through some soft tissue, but

not like it had gone through any bones

at all. So, I talked to uh uh one expert

on wounds. Apparently, there are people

who are experts on gunshot wounds. And

uh one of the things I learned is, you

know, on TV

uh on TV when there's a crime show,

they'll analyze the bullet and find out

what gun it came out of. Apparently, in

the real world, that almost never can

happen. If if the bullet goes into a

human being, the bullet becomes so

destroyed, you couldn't possibly match

it back to a particular barrel. And that

that's pure fantasy. Um, so in this

situation, not only did Rob O'Neal say

that if the if the gun that is

implicated was the one used, it would

have taken his whole head off.

So there's that. Um, and uh,

what else? Um, oh, and then there's the

bullet probably would have been uh,

broken up if it especially if it hit

bones. Probably would have been broken

up. And there might be a maybe a trace

of, you know, part of the bullet still

in him. But what the the doctor said is

that Charlie had magic bones and it

stopped the bullet and the bullet was

still in him. Apparently that doesn't

make any sense at all. It wouldn't be

intact

and it definitely wouldn't be in him if

it came from that gun and it definitely

wouldn't have left that hole. Now, I

hate that every single freaking thing

that looks like it's simple turns into a

conspiracy theory,

but how do you get past those facts

coming from somebody as qualified as Rob

O'Neal?

Which one of you is going to say, "Oh,

based on my own Steel Team Six up close

murders, not murders, but kills." Uh,

based on my own uplose, you know, that

that looked like an entry wound to me.

As far as I know, 100% of military and

hunters, military people and hunters,

correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe

100% of them have said that was no entry

wound. Am I right? 100%. like everyone

every single person who knows what

they're talking about. I've now heard

one person who say, "Oh, yeah, that that

could be an entry wound, you know, maybe

under these situations." Not one. So,

I'm not going to go full Israel on this

cuz I don't see that evidence.

But there's something there's something

wrong with this.

There's something wrong.

Uh I don't know.

Um,

here's some uh fun science stuff.

Scientists just split sound particles.

Did you know that sound had a minimum uh

I guess frequency length or something?

Very tiny. But apparently they can now

break one sound. What I guess it's like

a photon for sound. What's it called? A

phonon. And they can break it and send

it in two paths. And if you can do that,

which apparently they can do, it might

create a path for really efficient

quantum computers you could fit in your

pocket. So that they might be able to

power things by breaking light, but also

breaking sound

and somehow that would help them do

something with quantum. That's kind of

cool. That's a ways away. Won't be

happening tomorrow.

Uh scientists allegedly according to

user Masimo who found this study in the

New New England Journal of Medicine uh

found a cure for type 1 diabetes.

A cure.

Apparently they took a guy with type one

and they uh they tweaked his genes with

using crisper. They edited three genes

and then they stuck him back in him and

he started creating his own insulin and

he doesn't have diabetes anymore.

Now, could he reproduce that? I mean,

they had to edit three genes, but they

know exactly which genes to edit and

they know how to do it.

Did diabetes just get cured?

I don't know.

I don't know. Maybe

I've told you about this before, but

here's a little update. You know that if

we could access the geothermal energy,

which is just the extreme heat and the

inner core of the world that we would

have more electricity than we would ever

need for the end of time, including for

AI. But getting to it is hard because

you would have to dig a hole really

deep. and uh that really deep hole. We

don't really quite have the technology

to to do that economically, but turns

out there's a lot of action happening

there. Uh there are so-called closed

loop systems. There's a carbon-f free

heat engine uh that that drills down.

So, they're using u um using

technology from fusion research and all

kinds of other things. Looks like one of

them might be a giant laser kind of

thing. But anyway, there there are a

number of schemes to try to economically

get into that heat. If we ever do that,

even once, if we can even once figure

out how to get deep enough to, you know,

get into that heat, that changes

everything. If we can do it

economically, I'm surprised that Elon

Musk isn't building a uh something with

the boring machine that can go straight

down and get to the the geothermal. It

would be completely different

technology, but it seems like exactly

the kind of technology he'd be into cuz

it's such a moonshot. I mean, it would

just replace everything. It looks doable

in the long run. I it's hard for me to

imagine that in the long long run humans

would not be able to go that deep and to

get that energy. I I feel like that's

just a guarantee, but it might be 20

years away. Interesting. Engineering had

that story.

Well, I was looking for the gentleman

who was on YouTube talking about this,

but it agrees with what I've said, so

I'll just say that there's another smart

person saying it. And it goes like this

that Ukraine actually has a uh they're

turning the corner on having an

advantage in the war. The advantage is

that now that it's seems to be purely a

robot war, you know, drones mostly, that

whoever does the best on drones

will win the war so long as they can

stay in business long enough to do that.

Now, it does look like the human deaths

on the front line may be lessened

because they're just doing drone on

drone on drone stuff. I don't hear too

much about people dying on the front

line anymore, so I assume the numbers

are smaller. And it really is turning

into drones against energy production in

both directions. It's their drones

against energy, their drones against

energy. Uh so that's what it is. But the

Ukraine advantage, according to this one

gentleman whose name I didn't write down

because I'm a bad person, um is that the

freer market system of Ukraine will

guarantee that they have uh the better

drones over time and that's happening

now. So that we're just turning the

corner, you know, at at first first two

years um Ukraine is just desperately

trying to get some kind of anything that

works. So they're, you know, using

whatever drones they can get. You know,

they're not good ones, but they keep

upgrading the drones. So the Ukrainian

drones are getting to the point and

they're right at the point where they

won't be jammable by GPS and they'll be

able to make unlimited numbers of them.

Once they're not jammable and they can

just darken the sky with them, then

you'd say, "Oh, but Russia will just

catch up." So they'll have better better

things for shooting them down. they'll

have their own drones, you know, their

own drones will be that powerful. But

Russia has not um modernized their

drones as fast. And the reason given is

that they have a system which does not

reward entrepreneurship the same way we

do or the same way Ukraine does. So the

Ukrainians are trying to get rich and

also save their country.

And they have the freedom to get rich in

whatever way can make the best drones.

And the Russians are just going to get a

paycheck.

You know, if if they work on trying to

make a better drone and they succeed,

just a paycheck doesn't really save the

country.

They're not going to get rich. So the

theory is that the uh the incentives for

the Ukrainian side is to uh rapidly

innovate and that will be the most

important factor for how the war goes

and that we're just turning the corner

where Ukraine is is going to turn on the

afterburners for um for innovation in

drones and that that will turn the

corner. Now, of course, Russia has the

big advantage in human power, the big

advantage in missiles and all that. So,

a lot of this is psychological.

It's not so much which each what each

side could do because what Russia could

do is nuke all of Ukraine if they wanted

to. So, Russia, you know, clearly has

the weapons to, you know, just pave the

place if they want to. But would they

want to? Because what would happen to

them? So, it looks like uh Axios is

reporting that Trump is going to be

talking to Zalinski about uh Tomahawk

missiles and if the US provides them

that would be paid for by the Europeans.

Uh because Trump has cleverly gotten us

out of the paying.

The fact that Trump got us out of paying

for Ukraine is one of the great

accomplishments. I don't think he gets

enough credit for that because as long

as we're not paying for it and we're

we're selling things instead of buying

things, I feel a lot better about it.

You if there has to be a war, might as

well might as well profiter. Um it'd be

better without the war, of course.

But um Trump's made the decision, I

think, to give them tomahawk missiles,

but he wants to talk about to them about

how they use them. And what I think he

means by that is if you use these

tomahawks to take out their energy

structure, I'll let you have them

because that's just more of what you're

already doing. And he's doing the same

thing to you. So that would look like

that would look like something that

wouldn't necessarily

escalate things too much because it's

sort of what you're already doing,

attacking the energy infrastructure. But

imagine if Zalinski said, "Aha, I've got

some tomahawk missiles. I'm going to lob

these into the Kremlin and take out the

leadership." That I believe would be a

big big problem for the United States

because we're not ready for that. So, I

assume that what he's going to do is say

if you could limit these to taking out

energy resources, you might be able to

wrap this up quickly because if you took

out probably, I'm just going to guess if

you took out another 20%

of uh Russia's domestic gas production,

they'd want to talk. And probably these

Tomahawk missiles could make that

happen.

No, obviously

Russia would, you know, increase their

own attacks uh on the energy

infrastructure of Ukraine, but maybe

they're already maxed out there. There's

no reason they wouldn't be maxed out

already, so maybe they don't have much

to go. All right. Um, Zero Edge is

reporting that uh the mainstream media

um was trying to hide the Nazi tattoos

on some of the Ukrainian Azoff regimen

people. So, I guess there's a movement

to try to uh normalize or accept the the

overtly racist Nazi parts of Ukraine

because I guess they figure it's, you

know, better to keep the country

together than to deal with that.

Um

Trump has suggested that Spain be

expelled from NATO because they're not

willing to step up to that 5% annual 5%

of GDP annual spending. And he said uh

we had one lagard. It was Spain. He said

they have no excuses not to do this, but

that's all right. Maybe we should throw

them out of NATO. Frankly, now that

shouldn't be news because the entire

point of NATO membership is if you don't

pay, you're not in. So they don't pay.

So Trump says, "Well, maybe you're not

in." So, you know, nobody else would say

that directly, but you should say that.

That's why you pay to be in. If you

don't pay, not in. It's really simple.

All right. And apparently there's,

according to Remix, uh, over in Belgium,

the authorities stopped a jihadist plot

that looked like they were going to try

to build a assassination drone to take

down some leaders of the country, but

they stopped it. My question is, how do

we ever go out with side again?

Aren't we maybe one year away from any

individual being able to send a

unjammable

unjammable

drone into any location they want and

make it explode?

How how could you ever have an outdoor

political event one year from now? There

would always be a terrorist who's within

two miles who can just open a door or

open a window, throw a a drone out the

window and and tell it to go to the

exact location and then of course it' be

jammed. You know, if it's some important

president or something, it' be jammed,

but then it would just switch over to

GPS and visual and just finish the job.

How would we stop that? Now, if it were

only one, you know, we would have other

mechanisms to, you know, shotgun it out

of the sky and stuff like that. But what

if what if 20 came

at the same time? Is there really any

chance we would stop all 20? If if we

couldn't jam them, maybe. If they came

in low, though, you wouldn't even have

time to to laser them. So, I guess it

depends how low they are when they they

do the final mile.

Anyway, uh over in Germany, CEO of a big

uh big company I never heard of, but I

guess this big big company, uh Ivonic,

the CEO, is calling for the end of the

what he calls the CO2 cult. And it's a

wakeup call for Europe's economy.

Zero Hedge is writing about that. So,

Germany, of course, is the big woke.

Everything's got to be green. And

apparently they have decided that

climate change and CO2

not necessarily a hoax, but maybe you

ought to back off a little bit if you

want to survive.

All right. Um

and uh meanwhile,

let's talk about reparations. So, uh,

Governor Nuome has decided to sign

something that would create a, uh, some

kind of entity in California to look

into reparations.

Uh, what do you call it? Create a state

agency for reparations. Now, I've told

you before that uh, Nome has been smart

about reparations. He can't say no,

but he can say we should study it. So he

keeps saying, "Well, how about we study

it?" So this uh this state agency seems

like more of that. It's like just the

next thing he's doing that would funnel

some money to the reparations people cuz

who do you think's going to be in the

state agency for reparations? Do you

think it'll be people who are on the

committee that we're doing reparations?

Of course it is. Some of them. So, this

seems to be just another way to funnel

uh tax money to reparations advocates

without ever getting any reparations.

So, I don't believe this will lead to

reparations cuz even even Gavin doesn't

think that's a good idea. Uh but it will

lead to people who want reparations

getting paid and that should shut them

up. So, there's that. But let's talk

about reparations. I believe I'm the

most qualified person to do this. given

my my public reputation.

Let me say this as clearly as possible.

If I were going to give advice

to the uh the black Americans,

uh what's the first thing I should do if

I wanted to give

advice on success to black Americans?

What's the first thing I should do? Shut

the up. That's what I should do.

What? Why do I think I can advise black

Americans? Didn't I just read you a

reframe that says even if people ask for

advice or you think they need it, you it

never helps. And and I learned this

because I actually spent quite a bit of

my time in treasure trying to figure out

what would be the best way to help black

Americans. And then when I thought I was

making like a little progress, I was

informed by black Americans that they

don't need any help. They might need

some money. They might need some funding

to get things done, but they don't need

any advice. To which I say, you know

what? You're completely right about

that. Advice is what you give people who

you believe are somehow

below you. I hate to say that, but

somehow they need advice and you don't.

How did how did you come up with that?

Why did they need the advice and you're

not the one who needs the advice? Why

would you even think that? So, I think

that when you offer people advice and

help, you infantilize them and you take

away some of their agency.

I believe that the best thing that you

could do for black America is say,

"We're not going to give you anything.

How about nothing?" Oh, but but the

unfairness of the past. Yeah, it was

very unfair. What's your point? Well,

well, because of the unfairness of the

past, we should be compensated. to which

I say that's that doesn't connect.

There's all kinds of unfair things in

the past. Doesn't mean you get paid. No,

no, but because it was so unfair and we

know, you know, which group of people

did it to which other group, that would

be reparations. To which I say, why?

What's the logic there? There's no

connecting logic. There's something that

happened with other people who were not

us and you didn't like it.

So,

do I get reparations for being born

short?

Do I get reparations for being bald and

nearsighted?

Do you get reparations if you're born

dumb? Because you can't get much done if

you're born dumb.

No, there there is no world in which

people are better off if we can say,

"Oh, somebody needs to pay somebody else

because they have bigger problems."

There are no special problems.

Black people don't have special

problems. They have problems. They're

real. I think systemic racism is real.

That's a real problem. But if you tell

people, you know, you can just overcome

that problem by doing the same thing

that everybody does to overcome that

problem. Wait, what? Yeah. Everybody who

overcomes the problem of poverty does it

the same way. What? But what if there's

discrimination? There's not

discrimination. There's discrimination

in favor of you. Every company wants to

hire you if you'll just go get an

education, get a little training. They

all want to hire you. You could find

mentors so easily because they want to

do it. You have everything you need to

succeed, but you have to do it the way

everybody does it. You can't do it a

magic way. You have to do it the way

everybody does it. Stay in a jail. Stay

off drugs. keep your family together,

uh, get the best education you can.

There is no other way. Reparations, even

if we gave you a big pile of money, what

would you do with it? Do you think if

you check back in 5 years, everybody

would be okay? Oh, we got a reparations.

That fixed everything. No, there's no

chance of that. There's no chance of

that. That's never worked for anybody.

You probably would just blow through it

and be glad you had it for a year and

then it would be gone and it would have

no impact on your life after you, you

know, bought a car and, you know,

although if you needed the car for work,

that might have might have helped a lot.

Yeah, lottery winners don't exactly

become uh successful and uh happy after

they win the lottery. So, there's your

reframe. The reframe is not um how much

reparation should you pay. The reframe

is nobody has a special problem. That

your problem isn't special. And the only

person or let me say it another way. The

only way black America can save can fix

their problems is if black Americans

decide to fix their problems doing the

exact same thing that everybody else did

to fix their problems. There's no other

path.

Nobody, nobody can give you a leg up on

that there. There's no secret password.

There's nothing. You just do what

everybody else did. And if that doesn't

work, well, I'm sorry. That's all we

have. All we have is what everybody

does. There's nothing else.

So, there's your reframe for

reparations. All right, everybody.

That's all I got for today. That's all

you needed. I'm going to say hi to the

uh special people on locals and uh the

rest of you. Thanks for coming. I will

see you again tomorrow. Same time, same

place. Locals, my beloveds, coming at

you now.

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