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which is what adults know. By the time you're my age you know everything is a lie all the time. Everything is a lie all the time. Kids don't know that. They still think there's a true version and a fake version. So yeah, you could totally deprogram them if you had full control of the schools. Apparently it looks like Israel, I don't know if the US helped, but they did a drone attack and they took…

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hey just want to poke them and the US needs to respond so they're going to respond. So everybody's getting what they want. Iran's going to poke, we're going to respond. Israel is going to kill any generals that leave Iran. I don't know that that leads to war because it's sort of like people getting what they wanted in the short run. That doesn't seem to me that that would escalate. But I could be very wrong about that. We'll see.

I saw a report from Joel Pollock in Breitbart that Israel has seized 30,000 explosives in Gaza strapped, that includes rockets I guess. So we don't know how much of that is rockets but 30,000 explosives. That would do some damage. But the amazing thing to me is that Gaza is still launching rockets.

Yeah, I'm being asked here if I think Jesus was the greatest human persuader ever born into mankind. I'd say no because he didn't write the Bible. So it was the writing of the Bible that, you know, there's something about the way it's written. This seems to be the persuasive part. So I would say the historical Jesus, if we assume there was a real Jesus, was probably very persuasive. Very persuasive. But the real persuasion was the book because most of us never met Jesus but we saw the book.

Anyway, so that's what's happening over there. A bunch of protests planned. I guess there's a protest planned for the Holocaust Museum. So the pro-Palestinians are allegedly going to protest at the Holocaust Museum. Does that sound true to you? That doesn't sound true. You know what it sounds like? It sounds like an op. It sounds like maybe somebody who's pro-Israel, possibly an American, somebody who's pro-Israel has put together a fake protest marketing saying, "Hey everybody, meet at the Holocaust Museum to protest it." Because I can't think of anything that would be more pro-Israel and pro-Jew than tricking the Palestinians into protesting the Holocaust Museum. Can you think of anything that would be more pro-Israel than that? That would be the single best op I've ever seen. How hard would it be to put together a fake protest? You maybe bribe one person who's an organizer or something, or maybe you just do it yourself. Just put up the signs. Because if you're just a protester you don't know who put up the sign, do you? You don't know who started the viral thing on TikTok to show up at the Holocaust Museum. I think the whole thing might be a trick because I'm trying to imagine the organizers who are actually the pro-Palestinian organizers. I can't imagine them thinking that's a good idea. What? It would be obvious that's the worst thing to do. Like really, really obvious. Yeah, like Unite the Right. Absolutely it's exactly like that. Yep, yep. Somebody said in the comments, "Is it like Unite the Right?" That was the Charlottesville, the "fine people" march. Yeah, that "fine people" march has op written all over it. Definitely. They were real racists but the organization part, that was a little too on the nose. A little too on the nose. I don't believe that was organic. But that's just me.

And I guess there were protests planned for New Year's Eve and there were protests on Christmas. But I saw the protests in New York City described as hundreds. Hundreds of pro-Palestine protesters. Are we too worried about hundreds? Hundreds doesn't sound like a lot. They're getting a lot of attention but it's hundreds. It's a low 100. I just don't know how big this is. It might not be that big.

Elon Musk has weighed in on the UBI question, the universal basic income. And what Musk says, so the idea is that the government at some point in our history might need to just give people money, a basic income without working, just so they can buy stuff, otherwise they die. But Musk says the

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re will be universal high income, not basic, in a positive AI future. So he thinks AI will get us to a point where you would not only have income but you'd have high income. You could kind of buy whatever you wanted in the ordinary living space anyway. Couldn't necessarily buy a luxury car but you could buy everything you needed in the general quality of life area. And Musk says there'll be no sca…

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