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's talk about the news. Today's Dilbert Reborn shows you, in the first panel, I posted it on X, you can see that I designed it with AI. So the first panel of the Dilbert comic, I used AI to tell me some interesting camera angles or perspectives for a guy on his computer when a dog walks into the room. Now AI can't produce my characters because it'll complain about copyright and stuff, but it can g…

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n robots that take another 25 percent off the price or something like that.

I tell you that if there's a way to invest in solar, I'm not recommending you invest in it because I don't make recommendations for investments, but it does seem like maybe there's something that's going to happen here that could be gigantic. You don't really think of robots influencing energy except to use it. You know, they use a lot of energy. But they're going to be building the solar panels and the solar plants and the solar everything and probably the nuclear power plants too soon.

All right, so there's a story that we don't know what the real story is, but Alex Jones is going through something that looks bad. Now he's saying that the feds came to his door and they were trying to lock him out and take all of his stuff and close him down. But he was also acting, let's say I'm going to say emotional. If it were somebody I didn't like, I would use other words. But since I like him, you know, he was nice to me, he's had me on the show, and when somebody's nice to me in person, I can't really just go in public and then trash him. Like, it just, I'm just not built that way. So because I've met him in person and he was very generous to me, I'll say that he's having an emotional reaction that we don't quite understand. Some people say it's mental health. Some people say it's substance. Some people say it's both. Some people say get an MRI. But I think his staff has backed him up. By the way, his staff is on the same page. So it's not just him. Whatever is going on, his staff seems to have witnessed it as well. So I don't know who these feds were or what exactly they were trying to do, except that it's in the context of everybody who is pro-Trump getting a hit. So I don't know what's going on, but keep an eye on it. He may need some help in any variety of ways. We don't know what the problem is, but he's clearly in a crisis situation. And so if you have any interest in either his operation or him as a human being, have a little bit of empathy and keep an eye on that. Maybe there's a way you can help one way or another.

All right. Mexico. Here's a story that snuck up on me. Imagine finding this out today. This is kind of mind-blowing. The next president of Mexico is likely to be a Jewish woman. Is this the first time you're hearing that? I heard it today. So apparently they're having an election. The sitting president can't run again. They have one-term presidents, six years. And the mentor, somebody who's worked closely with the current president, so he's recommending her. And that's the reason she's getting her push. Claudia Sheinbaum, a Jewish woman with a PhD in energy engineering. That's about as perfect as you can get, isn't it? How would you like to be the president of Mexico? You're coming in with a PhD in energy engineering. But it gets better. She's bilingual. She used to live in the Bay Area. She used to live in the Bay Area. She's bilingual. The current president of Mexico is not bilingual. Do you think that makes a difference? Hell yes. Hell yes. Language is the big uniter, right? If you can talk to somebody in the same language, it's a whole different experience, right? That's how you bond. You don't really bond with Putin if he can't speak your language or she. But wouldn't it be nice to have somebody we could work with in the same language who's a PhD in energy engineering?

Now we all assume that the cartels have undue influence on the government, so there's that. But are you also surprised that Mexico would be even considering, apparently she's way ahead in the polls, it looks like it's a lock, very popular. Did you see a female president of Mexico coming anytime soon? It's kind of interesting and impressive. And this is the DEI you want, you know what I mean? This is diversity done correctly as far as I can tell. The only reason she's being considered is that she's overwhelmingly qualified. So how about that? How about just being overwhelmingly qualified and then getting the top job? Okay, I'm good with that. So at least on paper she looks like exactly the person that America would want in that job as well as the Mexicans. So maybe something good's coming out of that.

And there is talk that Mexico's going to have an economic boom like you've never seen before because, remember, the manufacturing is moving toward it. That's a good sign. And they've got some major infrastructure things like maybe a railroad and some other stuff that will connect the resorts and turn it into more of a well-engineered destination. So all that's happening if the cartels don't derail things. There's something good that could happen.

Now I've said this before, but here's what I think is the only hope for living with Mexico. I'm seeing somebody mocking me for quote believing in solar. Let's pretend that you know what you're talking about. Now, did you think I was unaware that there's a waste problem? Of course there is. Of course there is. Am I unaware that people are not good at calculating the relative cost and benefits in the future of different technological options? I used to do that work. I know it can't be done. It used to be my job to calculate expenses in the future. You can't really do that. It was my job, but I couldn't do it and nobody can do it. So do I think that, do I know what the economics of solar power will be next year? No, I don't. You know what? But do you know what I do know? That the person who is mocking me, you don't know. No, you're an idiot who thinks you know the expenses of technologies you've never been involved with because you read an article somewhere, right? I'm smart enough to know that I don't know what will be the competing cost structures 20 years from now, which is what you have to think about, right? It's not what it is today. It's if you start a project, what does your nuclear power plant cost in 10 years when you're done with it? You know, what is your solar plant and your gigafactory or your giga storage thing? What does it cost in 10 or 20 years? Nobody knows that. If you think you know it, dear troll commenter, well, you're the smartest person in the world according to you because you know what can't be known. Good for you.

Did you know about this story about the technology that would lower the cost of solar? Did you read that this mornin

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g before I did? All right, enough about you. Tucker Carlson's being really outspoken on his video recently. Said nothing is ever about our safety and that all the big political stuff is clearly about the interests of the people in power. He said this country and the world only changes when we eliminate the CIA. It'll take someone willing to be assassinated. He gives examples. He said you open the…

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