r but you're sort of my competitor in this company because if you get the promotion I can't. So I'll be glad to help you because I'm a team player. How about Wally? You can have him as long as you want.

Yeah, so the qualification of the vice president continues.

I saw a tweet from somebody named Andy Petro. He said this is a great tweet: All the imaginary people who think slavery was okay are the worst. All the real people who think the imaginary people are real are the second worst. Summer news.

You know, if anybody takes summer news seriously, you're falling into their trap. What do you see somebody complaining about any of this stuff? Just say summer news. Yeah, can't wait for the real stuff.

All right, here's one of my — there's a lot of funny news today. I mean I think it's all funny. So NPR has a headline talking about the right-wing conspiracy about eating bugs. So NPR is essentially demonizing the right part of the country for saying that the left part of the country is promoting the eating of bugs sometime soon for protein.

So while NPR is mocking the right wing for imagining there's some conspiracy about eating bugs, Stephen Miller on Twitter, the company formerly known as Twitter, he tweeted — yes, I'm calling it tweeted — he tweeted three headlines from NPR talking about the value of eating bugs.

So NPR is blaming the right wing for starting this bug-eating conspiracy theory at the same time NPR's own headlines, there's three of them recently, about the possible value of eating all the bugs. And I think Stephen Miller asked if NPR reads NPR or listens to — does NPR actually listen to NPR or do they know not to? Oh yeah, we produce content but God knows we're not going to listen to it. We don't want to get hypnotized.

So the clownishness of the world is the macro theme for today. So today's theme is American national incompetence. How many of you would agree with the statement that there's an incompetence crisis in America? How many of you would agree with that statement? And then competence crisis basically. You could call it incompetence crisis.

To me it seems obvious, and I'm going to talk about that more. But notice how the stories are all going to have that quality, right? We'll talk about the causes. That's coming up. But do you notice all the stories in the news? They don't really look like something just went wrong. They don't really look like we disagree on priorities. It's not looking like a difference of priorities or preferences. It doesn't look like there was a natural problem and people have solutions. It doesn't look like that at all. It looks like incompetence is the issue.

Let me say this in the cleanest way I can. Do we have a problem with climate change? Do we have a problem with inflation? Do we have a problem with let's say the Ukraine war? Well on some level you'd say yes. But wait a minute. Could there be one problem that caused all of those problems? Yes. And I don't mean it necessarily caused the war or caused climate change. I mean that the way we deal with all of these topics has left the realm of anything sensible, if ever we were there.

So we've upgraded to a realm of pure incompetence where the incompetence itself becomes the topic. So we're only talking about the incompetence. We don't have anything going on that's talking about making the problems better, right? We have an incompetence crisis where we've just repla