small modular reactors, SMRs. And they're going to build all these mini reactors and they found some new technology to increase their output and make them even better.

So now these factory-built reactors, did you hear that? Factory-built reactors. They're going to build a nuclear power plant in a factory and then ship it to the location. Do you know how big a deal that is? That's everything. That's everything. That's the end of climate change as a problem if they can pull this off. And apparently it aims to bring 10 mini nuclear reactors into use by 2035 with the first one coming in around 2030.

Now of course things get delayed but if you're building your reactor in a factory you're going to be able to at least build it on time or on time-ish. And I wouldn't think that they would build it unless they knew that they could get it approved and had a location for it. So I feel like this is some of the biggest news in the world. Like I'll go further. This is some of the biggest news in human civilization. Some of the biggest news in human civilization if they can pull this off.

Yeah, Paul, well portable I think is maybe overstating it but it looks like they can build it in a factory, maybe move one part at a time to where it needs to be and then assemble it. But if they pull this off, I mean seriously this would be like the discovery of electricity. It's that big. Because it changes climate change. It changes pollution. It would change wars. I mean it would change the balance of power. It would allow us to, you know, it's probably just the fact that we're getting this good at nuclear energy would allow us to populate space because you need small nuclear reactors for space. And you need lots of people who are trained to build them which you need a domestic industry to get that.

Now this is happening over in Great Britain I believe. Yeah in the UK. But certainly if they're doing it over there and they will prove that these factory-built generators work that could be huge.

Michael Smerconish over on CNN, and I've often told you that on CNN he's one of the two or three most objective people on that network, and he says there was a survey and a tweet. He said survey on whether Donald Trump deserves any thanks for the speed of the vaccine. Now what do you think? Somebody saying that NuScale is building some reactors in Idaho so the United States is doing a lot with small nuclear reactors too.

But do you think, what do you think? Do you think that people in the country believe that Trump should get credit for how fast the vaccines came out? And when I saw that I said to myself, wait a minute, are you telling me that there's anybody who wouldn't give him credit for that? Anybody? You could find, are you serious? You can find one person, even one person in the whole world? Can you even find me one person who would say that Trump was not directly responsible for the speed of vaccines? Just find me one person.

Let's see how the poll went. Half of the people say no. I'm sort of rounding but basically half of the country says no he doesn't get credit for that. What? And it turns out that the exact numbers, you know it's roughly half and half, but the exact numbers line up really really close to the 2020 election results. So basically even the simplest truth, the simplest truth that Trump did make a difference on the speed of the vaccines, the most unambiguous simplest truth reported exactly the same on every network, like even MSNBC I think, correct me if I'm wrong but I think even MSNBC would say yeah Trump got us vaccines faster. Don't they? Do they even argue with that?

How in hell do half of the country not know that's true? How in hell? And the answer is they just, they voted for their team. That's all that has nothing to do with any information or facts or anything. It's just people voted for their team.

Rasmussen poll polled people to find out if people thought that Trump or Biden had better policies about Israel. What do you think people said? Do you think that conservatives thought Trump was better on Israel or Biden? Surprise, conservatives thought Trump was better about Israel. But how about liberals? Well big surprise, the liberals say that Trump was worse in dealing with Israel.

Now again yeah there's always room for disagreement and it's definitely an opinion but I don't feel like this one is close. I don't feel that this was a close call. I'm positive that Trump did better with Israel in terms of policy. I don't think there's any question about that. The Abraham Accords of course being a big context for that. It's just amazing that there's a disagreement on that which is further proof that we don't use facts or data.

So you all remember the story of the CEO of Coca-Cola getting a little extra woke and going public with his opinions on the election. And today there's the first Dilbert cartoon on Dilbert's CEO deciding to get more political because he thinks it'll be good for business. Maybe it won't be. So you've got a few days of Dilbert's CEO being inspired by the CEO of Coca-Cola.

Now how many of you know Elon Musk's one of his rules for work? This has been widely reported that Elon Musk has a, let's say a philosophy for how Tesla should be managed. And he explicitly says this, I'm paraphrasing but he explicitly says this, that if you're doing, if you have a company rule that could show up in a Dilbert comic maybe you shouldn't do it. A very simple rule. If you look at the rule and you say to yourself oh that could end up in a Dilbert comic strip, maybe don't do that rule. Maybe that's a rule you should rethink. So that's the Elon Musk theory.

And the CEO of Coca-Cola will be testing out that concept because he did just become a character in a Dilbert comic. We'll see how that works out for him.

All right that is pretty much what I want to talk about. Just checking my many notes. All right is there anything I forgot to talk about today? Mustafa says we can colonize Mars but your printer won't work when we get there. Yeah yeah that's probably true.

All right anything else I forgot? All right we should talk about the teachers unions. Let me ask you this. Is it my imagination or have the teachers unions completely destroyed all their credibility now? They still have tons of power so maybe that won't change at all but I feel as though the teachers unions were a lot more popular a year ago. And I've been hammering on them for a year. Corey DeAngelis has been doing an amazing job hammering on the teachers unions trying to get school choice a little bit more accepted. And I feel as if there's been a big change.

Now I've been trying for a long time to paint the teachers unions as the primary source of systemic racism because they are. If you fixed education everything else would go better, right? There'd still be racism. You can't eliminate that sort of thing totally. But if everybody got a fair shot at an education which they don't have now I feel like the problem of systemic racism would get a lot less even though it would never go to zero.

So I'm getting lots of suggestions here for how to destroy my printer. I like the trebuchet. Yeah I might have to build a trebuchet just to see how far I can, did I pronounce that right, to see how far I can toss my printer.

All right let's see. My sense is the teachers unions are still big but now very brittle. Yeah I think so. I feel as if we're getting close to the breaking point now. Apparently there is more of a waiting list for classic charter schools than there are spaces. So there's that. Didn't make sense but there's a waiting list for charter schools and as long as there is that pressure is going to continue. And I think there are a lot more prominent people willing to take on the teachers unions.

You know have I told you that the government gets to be in charge until they just can't do their job and then the citizens are in charge? Now that's not written in the Constitution right? And nowhere in the Constitution does it say if your leaders are incompetent you can just take over and just make the decisions for them. Doesn't say that but it's true sometimes. There's just for whatever reason our leaders just can't lead.

For example in the coronavirus, leaders can't lead the way we want them to because leaders have to focus on safety over lifestyle. Makes sense. You don't want them to change that. But it requires that toward the end of the pandemic that the citizens take control. And I'll tell you in my town it looks like it's already happening. I mean the masks were pretty much off yesterday. It's a lot of, you want to see my printer be destroyed? I'm just watching the comments go by.

Anyway my point is on with the teachers unions. Neither the Republicans nor the Democrats can go as hard against them as they'd like because the teachers unions are too strong. So they could fund you to be removed from office if you go against them. So politicians are the wrong tool for fixing school choice because they're too weak compared to the teachers unions. But I don't have that problem. The teachers unions can't hurt me. I mean they could try but what are they going to do? The teachers unions can't hurt Corey DeAngelis. The teachers unions can't hurt any blue check person who retweets anything they hear me say about the teachers unions.

And so I would say that this is yet again another case where by design, you know what it is that it means to be a leader in America and how you get your money and how you get reelected, by design our political leaders can't help us on this. It's sort of going to have to come from the parents and the public. So I think the public has just got to take control of this decision. At some point there's going to be enough public force that the politicians will just have to cave. So we have to be more powerful than the teachers unions or the teachers unions get everything they want.

So what does social media give you? How many times have I told you that our current form of government is no longer a republic? This is real. We're not a republic anymore. We are something closer to an influencer-based democracy. Meaning that we let the public, we let the leaders pick up the garbage and make sure we have the military and do the basic stuff right. But the moment our leaders can't do a decision, they're just the wrong tool for the job as they are with coronavirus once it gets to the end of it anyway, the public just takes over.

And when I say the public takes over there are usually some influencers, some handful of influencers who have enough influence that pretty soon they start moving the numbers. If you look at the school choice preference polling, you look at it today compared to a year ago, pretty big move right? There's way more interest in school choice than it was even one year ago. Where did that come from? None of it came from our leaders. Correct me if I'm wrong but name the leader who's always talking about school choice. Who now, I know that Republicans talk about it all the time but it's usually just in a list. Like there's no leader you can say oh there's the school choice person in the way that you could say AOC is sort of a climate change leader like it or not. I mean she's associated with it. But who is the leader who's going against the teachers unions? They just talk about it. Trump talks about it a little bit. He doesn't really try too hard right.

So my point is that the public does run the country at this point via influencers via social media which eventually will push the news business which will eventually push the politicians. But for these complicated ones it's the public. The public is already in charge.

You used to be Betsy DeVos. Yeah but Betsy DeVos when you have that job you just don't get much attention if you're in the cabinet. Yeah all the Republicans talk about it but it's not like a big theme. You know it's not like climate change or anything. It should be but it's not.

Did you hear the story? There was just a massive amount of fentanyl that got captured at the border. Massive amount. Now you know that that mostly comes from China. So now we know that China is killing us with fentanyl intentionally. And we know that the coronavirus came from the Wuhan lab. We don't know the details of that. But would it be fair to say that we are already losing a chemical and biological war to China?

So China is polluting our atmosphere which will cause us to spend massively on climate change because they're polluting it, sending us fentanyl and coronavirus. It's basically full-scale World War Three. Chemical warfare, chemical biological warfare. We're in it. I mean we're in the middle of a gigantic war that just took half a million casualties this year but we just act like it's something else.

So I'm not on the side that says that China released any kind of virus intentionally. I think that would be crazy. Like even if you could imagine they had some kind of a way they could come out ahead by doing it I just don't see any leader doing that. Just don't see it.

That would be fair to say. Tell me, are you saying Paul that I'm going into too much hyperbole? That's how the big lie works bro. What is how the big lie works? How many of you believe the big lie meaning that it's proven that the election was fair and untainted and that anybody who suggests it is not is part of the big lie? How many of you watching this video buy into the notion that that's the big lie? How many of you? Because that's pure brainwashing if you buy into that phrase the big lie. You've bought into one of the most blatant pure brainwashing persuasion plays of all time.

Because you can't really know what happened in the thing you didn't look for or you haven't looked for completely. You can't know something isn't there if you didn't look. So the certainty with which the big lie is branded as you know we know this to be true that it's a lie, it's amazing. It's amazing that that's even legal. Let me go further. It shouldn't be legal to use the phrase the big lie. Shouldn't be legal because it does make a claim that's not true. And that not true claim that we know for sure what the result was either fair or unfair. My take is that we couldn't know. It's unknowable given that nobody was looking for it and it wasn't transparent.

So it feels like it should be illegal to just blatantly do fake news like that.

The great thing about education is the teachers unions are being hollowed out by local individual decisions. That's right. There will be enough people who are going to homeschool that two things are going to happen. One it's going to make it more obvious that the schools need to compete or fail. And number two the homeschooling, if you get more and more people homeschooling then the technology and the systems which do homeschooling will just get better. And apparently they're really good now so they'll just keep getting better.

All right yes teachers are good and unions, teachers unions are bad. Not unions are bad but teachers unions are bad.

Somebody says the big lie is Biden won. That's no more smart. You know it if you're gonna say that we know for sure either way that's just not where the smart people should be. The smartest, the smart people, here's the smartest opinion because it's mine. Defenestrate the printer. Maybe I will. The smartest opinion on the election credibility is t