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a person in mental decline for president of the United States. The whole party must be in mental decline. Yes Jen, that is a normal smart reaction to what you observe. And boy does he stand out. All that normalness is looking crazy. But I would say it's not so much a mental decline in the way that Biden is mentally declining. I would say that there's a weird denial of reality that happens on the…

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rump should talk directly to some Democrat voters and get it on video. And I like the idea of a lunch where you edit it so it's not live. But Trump just shows up and talks to some Democrats and teaches them that he's not Hitler and they can ask anything they want and he'll just answer and just go right to the people. Because right now every Democrat is being filtered through their news and that's all they know. All they know is what their news tells them. They need to see a Democrat in the real world having a real conversation with a person who's definitely not Hitler because it doesn't take long to figure out he's not a Hitler. It takes like a second. So let's see if anything comes of that.

Here's something that sounds dangerous but it's the only thing that's keeping you safe probably. David Sacks is pointing out if we ever got in a war with China do you know what's the first thing they would do? They stop making our weapons for us. Did you know that nearly maybe all of our major weapon systems require parts from China and we can't even make that stuff? Just think about that. Our weapons are made by China. So if we got into any non-nuclear war that was going to last a while we'd have to ask them to keep making our weapons. Hey I know we're having a war with you guys but I don't think it's fair if we don't have weapons. So if you wouldn't mind could you send us those spare parts that we could put on our missiles because we got you know we can make part of a missile. We got part of a missile. Well we're kind of going to need those parts that you make because we don't know how to make that stuff.

So now you say to yourself but that's terrible Scott because that makes it more likely that China will go to war because they have control over our weapons. No it's opposite. It's opposite. It probably keeps us safe because the only war that you could have with China is nuclear. Do you get that? Because they make our conventional weapons and we can't make them without them and therefore we couldn't win a war of attrition. There's only one war we could win and nobody wins a nuclear war. So basically by making ourselves crippled to China that we can't even make our own weapons in sufficient quantity it eliminates the option that we're going to attack them. And do you know why they won't attack us? Because we're their biggest market. So the only kind of war you could ever have is a stupid war where you decided to go nuclear and both die. And since nobody wants to do that the odds of war with China are basically zero. Basically zero because our economies are just too tight and we're not going to nuke each other. So I would love to see Trump talk about the reality which is look there is no scenario in which the United States and China get into a war. There is none.

Now of course they might use their military in their local area to put a little muscle and try to nudge things that we might try to use our muscle to nudge them back. But we're not going to get in a war. Even if a war started the first thing we do is stop it. Say whoa whoa what are you doing? Stop that. Yeah there's no chance of a war with China. None.

All right, and I would say that China has introduced their first all-robot factory. So they have what they call a dark factory. Dark meaning literally they don't need to turn on lights because the robots don't need light. So they have many many robots building from scratch I think a phone device. I'm not sure. I think it was a phone but no humans. Now you say to yourself but Scott that's terrible because robots will take all our jobs. But I would argue the following. If robots can do the entire factory doesn't that mean that we could have entire factories making stuff that we can't normally make? The problem, the reason that we don't have American manufacturing is largely because we lost the skill. But if robots are learning to do that skill for us and AI can solve let's say the paperwork and get things approved because that's a pain in the ass, it could be the AI and robots brings manufacturing back to every country. So there's no country that needs to have some other country manufacture because the other country is just going to use robots. You can use robots locally. There's no minimum wage advantage. So as long as no people are involved and looks like China's going to put their own population out of work we can just have robot factories and get our manufacturing back. So I think that's going to happen.

I think America needs to become a vacation destination and needs to work on it fast because I think we're going to have some minimum income eventually because the robots will take all the jobs. And I think that people still need something to do. So if you said to people like me okay you're not going to have your normal job but how would you like to I don't know work in the restaurant that's on the bike path so that people visit the United States and they take a vacation. They're on their e-bike running across the country and they stop at your restaurant. I would say actually that sounds kind of fun. I'd do that. I'd run a restaurant on a bike path. I would enjoy getting up and going to work. So I think, and of course robots would do the hard work in the restaurant too but you still need some people in that environment. So to me it seems like we need to figure out how to become a vacation destination for the rest of the world because we're not going to have anything else that they need. Nobody will have anything to sell except experiences eventually. So we need to make America an experience and one that everybody has to go to like Mecca. Short of that I think we're in a lot of trouble because what else do you have to offer? Eventually nobody will have anything to offer anybody because the robots will bring the cost down so far. So either energy, we either have to be the biggest modular nuclear power company or AI or robot makers but there aren't that many jobs in the future anyway.

The Gaza pier that was a disaster is going to be taken down. That's the whole story. The problem is that that Gaza pier that the US built to deliver stuff to Gaza is visible and it was a failure. You don't want to do something that's both visible and a failure. So they finally just said all right we can't have more pictures of this thing being a debacle. We're going to have to clean it up and they're just going to take it away for another bazillion dollars.

All right ladies and gentlemen probably ran really long. Didn't mean to do it. I'm going to say bye to X and YouTube and Rumble and I'm going to talk to my beloved subscribers for a little bit privately. So see you tomorrow. Hope you enjoyed it. Bye for now.