because it looks like propaganda. But we're not allowed to talk to people in other countries under what conditions? Are we not allowed to talk to other people? Because I'm not aware of any law that would prevent me from talking to anybody under any conditions. Who can tell me who I can talk to in another country? Is there a law about that?

You know if it's my job to go over there and influence them that's something. But I can't have a conversation where I learn things and they learn things that are not secrets. Yeah you know there's, it's one thing to be, I guess Kerry was kind of negotiating with Iran somebody said. So I mean that's the real kind that might be a problem. But if all Musk did is talk to a bunch of high-ranking Russians and they told him something that is a little bit obvious, you know that they would consider nukes under some situations, and then he acted on that, how is that wrong? Like what kind of law did that violate? Not wanting to be involved in starting World War III is doing your own foreign policy? That's quite a stretch.

So to me it looks like powers on the left are ganging up to take down Trump or to take down Musk. I think that they need him gone in order for their propaganda gaslighting machine to work. Because if you can't get the X platform to go along it's a little more obvious what you're up to.

Well let's talk about Nikki Haley whose prospects seem to be rising. A lot of people are liking her. But she is pro Ukraine and funding it. Whereas Trump and Vivek, to name two, would be a little more aggressive in trying to wind down that war and get us out of there. But she said a win for Russia in that war is a win for China. Do you see that? A win for Russia is a win for China. That feels like a weak reason doesn't it? There's something about that reason that makes me think she doesn't have a reason. Yeah it's like why do you have to stretch? You're giving billions of dollars for a war and you've got to come up with some third-party effect for why it's important. There's not a first-party effect as in people dying right now and it either does make us safer or not in terms of Russia. But the real concern is China.

Is she just bad at explaining things or is that her actual reason? I know I feel like her explanations of the Ukraine situation, I'm not saying that they're wrong but they're at the very least poorly explained. And I don't think you could have a war that's poorly explained. Like that feels like really important to explain it accurately. So yeah this whole win for Russia is a win for China that's a little too thin. That's some weak soup right there. Which is different from saying we should or should not fund them. All right I have my opinions on that. But what we're talking about now is just this explanation just doesn't even feel real. It sounds like somebody had to sit down and think it up.

All right can you come up with a reason why we're funding this war? Well Russia well uh we'll let's see we'll be safer from Russia. Now we're not going to be safer from Russia. We'll actually be in more danger from Russia. So the reason would be to save Ukraine. Well now Ukraine's totally destroyed so it's not about saving Ukraine. It's about making sure that NATO is not really, I mean it's not really about NATO. So I feel like it was somebody who had to come up with an essay for a college class and he had to say something that somebody hadn't said already. Oh I think I'll write an essay. Well let's say I'll talk about the third effect you know downstream. I mean it doesn't even, it just doesn't seem real. It sounds like CIA. Let's just say what it sounds like. It sounds like somebody in a propaganda job came up with this ridiculous, you know China is really about that. Russia is really about China and Ukraine is really about China. I'm sorry. Nope. Nope.

Yeah. Did you know what you'll never see? Now you'll definitely see somebody like Vivek say that you know we should be focusing on China and it's not helping us to be focused over here. That's a lot different than saying a win for Russia is a win for China. Those don't sound the same to me. But I get the fact that our focus is in the wrong place. But wait a minute I've got this backwards. So Vivek is saying we should get out because being there is good for China. And Nikki Haley is saying we should stay there and fund it because getting out would be good for China. So there are two major Republicans who can't even tell you for sure, well one of them's right but we don't know which one's right. I'm not smart enough. So we can't even tell if a war is good or bad for our main let's say competition in China. That's a pretty fundamental problem.

Do you know what I say when you can't decide if a war is good or bad for you? How do you handle it when you can't decide if it's good or bad for you? You don't do it. You don't do a war if you're not sure. Right? Unless it's a defensive war and then you're sure. But that's pretty scary. Even the Republicans don't know why we're there.

Yeah. Here's a little interesting tidbit. There's a drug called memantine that's given to adults with dementia. It's a memory drug. So it's already approved existing memory drug. And there's some newer studies that say it might be useful for reducing ADHD. But hold on. But you won't be able to find this in the news. Do you know why? Why would you not be able to find that there's an existing drug that maybe, and by the way you should not take any medical advice from me. I'm not making the claim that it works. I'm not making the claim that it works. How would I know? I'm not a doctor. Do not take any drugs because you heard it on the show. All right let's be clear. I'm just spitballing here. There's no medical advice. However there are at least some doctors who work in the field who are pretty sure that it's having some effect.

Why is it that if you did a search for it would be hard to find? Could it be that there's some other drug that makes a lot of money that is the current thing that works for ADHD? Could it be there's some other drug? So here's how you understand drug news. If you do a search and it says hey there's this one drug that everybody should use for this situation it probably means that whoever sells that drug did a good job of managing the search engine optimization so that their thing comes up and anything else doesn't come up.

Now as you know I gave you a direct example of this the other day where there's something I have personal knowledge of because I am in fact cured by surgery on my throat. But if you searched for my condition good luck going way down the search to find the known cure. Instead you will find out that Botox is the gold standard of treatment which in fact is by far a less good cure than the surgery. Now the surgery doesn't work for every person so there's some risk to it but the Botox doesn't work for every person either. So we do know with some certainty, I can tell you with personal experience, that the search engine optimization for drugs that work doesn't work. So that the search engines are all owned. They're essentially been neutered by the drug companies.

So if there were a drug, and I'm not saying there is, you wouldn't know about it. So your social media would prevent you from knowing about cures that would totally change your life. Like really change your life. Imagine having ADHD that wasn't properly treated and that you wouldn't know that there was something out there that could help you. Maybe. Again don't take my word for it. I'm not a doctor. But the level of evil that we're seeing because when it comes to medical stuff regular marketing shouldn't even be legal. Because the way you market a normal consumer product is you say ours is the best and the other person sucks and that doesn't even necessarily need to be true. You might not have the best one. It might be overpriced. Your competition might have a better one. But we're kind of used to that when it's just some consumer good.

But when it comes to life and death like that your quality of life is below the worth living point but it could be above it if you simply have this little information about what would make you better. And the search engines will just bury that. Not intentionally perhaps. It's just maybe gaming from