crats want to have them. And the face of can we kill our babies is Kamala Harris. And I look at Kamala Harris and I say so you want permission to kill your baby who would grow up to be like you? Okay, I don't want to think that the baby would necessarily be exactly like the parent. You know you can't blame the parent. Can't blame a baby for something the parent's doing. So it wouldn't be a fair thing. On the other hand my subconscious is telling me I do want less of you. Not for racial reasons, not for gender reasons, for political reasons only. So it's a weird sales thing where it's weirdly effective because the Republicans, the only ones who have to be convinced, are looking at it and go okay that's a pretty good argument. You probably do need less of you. One fetus at a time.

All right. Lloyd Austin. The news is reporting that Lloyd Austin the Defense Secretary is back to work. But I have a question. How can we be sure? Did he tell anybody? That's all I had on that. That's all I had. I have nothing else to say about that. Did he tell anybody? Or did he, I feel like it's a George Costanza situation where he just sort of shows up at work after he quit and people just sort of notice he's there. I feel like, did somebody see Lloyd? I feel like he's working. Did he mention it to anybody? Does anybody know? Anyway.

Has DeSantis backed down from the race yet? Some people said he was going to do it today. Apparently he canceled some interviews which make people suspicious. And it would be about the right time and people are calling for it. Vivek is calling for it, etc. But do you really think it would happen before New Hampshire? Oh he's in New Hampshire today. I feel like you wouldn't pull out before New Hampshire. That he wouldn't call it because he could at least take some votes away from Nikki Haley. Because shouldn't DeSantis, if he's going to drop out, shouldn't he at least let Trump do the best that Trump can do in New Hampshire by maybe keeping some voters from going from DeSantis to Haley? Or do I have the, is my analysis wrong? Trump would do better with him in the race, right? Or do I have that backwards? Would anybody say the opposite? That Trump would be better off with him in or out? 34 minute glitch. Yeah, better with him out. Oh better with him out because his votes would mostly go to Trump not Haley. So okay. I think either way he's going to win New Hampshire so we'll keep an eye on that.

Certainly the DeSantis energy all suggests that he's done. Would you agree? I feel like DeSantis is making no attempt to get like a big publicity hit. I think he's just going through the motions for his, I think he's just paying back his donors by saying well you gave me money I guess I better appear at these events because I haven't quit yet. So I feel sorry for him because I think he's just going through the motions.

There's a Vivek update. Sean Hannity asked him about possibly being a VP in a Trump administration. And because he's smart said quote there's a lot of ways to drive change in the country inside and outside the government. You know my only issue with a Vivek is he might be too qualified for a lot of the jobs that you keep suggesting he should have. I think he's too qualified to be a vice president because they're a little bit wasted in that job. He's also too qualified to be a spokesperson. You know if you think that Vivek's skill is that he's just a good talker I think you're missing the, you buried the lead. He's a good talker because he's insanely smart. It's the insanely smart part we like, not just the good talking. So would he be a good spokesperson? Yeah he'd be the best. He'd be the best there ever was. Is that a good place for him? No, no that would be a place for a good talker, right? Somebody who understands everything well enough to really communicate it well. But if you're strategically brilliant you need to be inside the room not just talking about what happened in the room. So we'll see where he goes.

Are you, how many of you are following this Ireland free speech situation which I was trying to ignore but now it's too big to ignore? So I don't know if I have this right yet because I'm only just wading into it today and I was kind of in a hurry this morning. So here's what I think I understand. So Ireland is considering some legislation that would ban so-called hate speech for anybody who's got an Ireland connection like a business or a citizen. Now you say to yourself well why do we care about that? That's just little Ireland. But it turns out that Ireland, little Ireland, has a lot of the big tech companies over there. So the thinking is that they could put pressure on the tech companies and it wouldn't be easy for them to move out of Ireland because there's quite a big presence there. Now the thought is that it's not really a hate speech issue at all. It's if you can get a hate speech bill passed in one little country then you can just say oh everything those Republicans are saying is hate speech. So you basically just close down the opposition speech. So that's what people worry. I'm reading Michael Shellenberger posts and stuff on this. People worry that the real play, that it's a Trojan horse. It's not about hate speech. It's about stopping the opposition speech and that it would be expanded.

But here's the part I don't get yet. Maybe somebody in the comments can fill me in if there's a quick way to do that. Why wouldn't the tech companies just say okay we're gone? Is it just cost? It'd just be too expensive? Is that the only reason? In taxes. So basically it's, oh so they have a big tax haven over there so it would be prohibitively expensive for them to leave. So it'd be easier for Google to say ah we like free speech but we don't like Republicans either so all right we'll give you what you want. Is that what's going to happen? That would be very dangerous if that's what's going to happen.

All right. And as Michael Shellenberger points out that people think it's an anti-Semitic sort of a conspiracy theory that George Soros is trying to buy influence and control the governments. But then he points out that Alex Soros, who's running the show at the moment, is always being photographed with the top leaders of all the countries. Do you know why anybody takes a picture with a top leader of another country? Do you know what that's all about? Well Michael Shellenberger's take is that it's so Alex Soros can show everybody who he bought. All right,