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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 th…

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ced the topics with talking about our own incompetence because we don't even know how to get out of that loop. We're in a little bubble of our own incompetence.

All right, so Kamala Harris is obviously an example of an incompetence crisis. Joe Biden is clearly an example of a quality competence crisis. Clearly an example.

Do you know that we've got two candidates, the leading candidates, who may be running to stay in a jail at least in part right now? As much as you might want Trump to be president, has he ever done anything that might have technically violated some kind of law? I don't know. Maybe. Probably. Do they all do that? As someone, when you reach a certain level, are they all violating technical laws? I think so. My guess would be they're all violating some technical law that nobody cares about.

But how is it that we've got three, I would say three hyper-capable candidates, and they're fighting for second place in the primaries? They're not even fighting for second place in the general. So RFK Jr., clearly more qualified than Biden by a lot, fighting for even to be on the ballot and be a second choice, right?

If you look at the Republican side, I think Trump is very capable. He just causes people to lose their minds. If I had one problem with Trump, it's just that it just causes people to lose their minds. So that's not a competence problem. That's something that just comes with the whole program, I guess.

But you look at the capability of Vivek Ramaswamy. Oh my God, do I want that as the model for the future? I just want somebody who's just killing it with competence and everybody's watching and your kids are watching. They're like, did he really do that? Did he just sit down and play concert piano level and then he went off and played tennis at a college level and then he started startups and now he's running for president and making a big dent and changing the world? Is that all the same person? It's all the same guy. It's like one guy.

You don't think you want your kids to see that? The talent stack concept brought alive. I mean he brings alive the talent stack idea that if you layer enough talents, you know, by working on those talents you can create something extraordinary from the sum of it. Quite basic.

And I'll say for the DeSantis lovers, highly capable, highly capable, very admirable. You'd love to have a president who just demonstrated that level of skill. You know, you could disagree about his preferences and his policies and you might like somebody better, but is anybody calling DeSantis incapable? Nobody, right? I don't believe there's a single person who says, oh that DeSantis, he can't get anything done. It's not even part of the question.

So we do have super capable people who are trying, fighting to get out, right? I would also say that in the category that I call the internet dads, which includes women, I'm just using it as a label, but the internet dads are showing a level of capability that's just crazy, right? You know, the Jordan Petersons, you know, David Sacks, Elon Musk, Mike Cernovich. I can go on, but you know who they are. You know who the dads are.

And you know if you read just a week of Cernovich tweets your IQ goes up like five points, right? There's some super qualified people who are getting deeply into the process. It's just hard for them to break through past that top crust of, okay, incapable people. Tucker is another example. Highly capable.

All right, let's talk more about the same topic through UFOs. I saw Eric Weinstein. He had a tweet thread on the UFO mystery. I'll call it the — I thought he did a great job of summarizing the frustra

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tion of all the smart people. So I'm just going to read one part of his thread which was tremendous, and I recommend it just because I think he just does a great job of just summarizing what's going on with the whole UFO mystery. All right, but here he restated something I guess he said before. He goes, I stand by my statement something is wildly off. And then he gives you the options for what mi…

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