just two smart guys. They're two smart guys that smart guys look to to figure out how to be smart guys. That's big because they are people who shape opinion. They're not just people with opinions. If you didn't know that you would think this is a small story. But when these two guys go public on the same side and unambiguously endorsing Trump, after you've seen Bill Ackman go, you've seen now there's a pretty long list of VCs who have gone public, come out of the closet. And of course Elon Musk. And Jamie Dimon, he's not supporting Trump as far as we know, but even he said recently some of these criticisms about Trump are a little overblown. So you're seeing people come out of the closet.

Mike Cernovich said in these words today, you can now operate in legitimate society while supporting Trump. Hard to overstate the implications of this for the 2024 election and future. Yep, it is hard to overstate how important that is. It's really hard to overstate it. And of course it was the assassination attempt that gave everybody the fake because that was the ultimate permission. It's like, okay, now we're seeing the things have gone way too far. We can come out under the cover of the, you know, hey, can't be in favor of an assassination. So that's good.

But I would like to thank Cernovich for being one of the biggest fighters for legitimizing the ability to just have an opinion. And I would like to thank everybody who got cancelled, everybody who had been maligned, everybody who lost a job, everybody who went first. Because although Cernovich is correct in pointing out the bravery of the people who were coming out, he was first, right? Like he didn't wait. There are people who ran into the fight first. And you know it's very magnanimous of him to give credit to the people who are coming on board now. They did have big reputations and lots to protect and you understand that it's a, in the real world you have to take care of yourself a little bit. You can't just run into danger. But there are some people who saw the bigger picture faster. And the people who saw the bigger picture faster in many cases made some pretty big sacrifices. And Cernovich is the leading general in that. And I think that has to be called out because you have to look at the whole arc of his work and the level of influence he's had to make this all possible. He was the biggest voice that I saw advocating for JD Vance. I think it made a difference. I definitely think his voice made a difference there.

So there are people that in my mind feel like founders. Because I feel in a very real sense that something like the founding of the country is rehappening. You know, people said we're a dying republic and America, we had our good 200 years and now we're dying. You know what? They were right except they didn't have the timing right. We already died. The founders are reforming the country now. Democrats aren't going to want to hear this, but I don't think it's a coincidence that God saved Trump at the same time that people who look like they're the reincarnation of the founders have just arisen. You know when you've got a Vivek who reminds me of Jefferson, you've got an Elon Musk who reminds you of Ben Franklin. You've got basically you could go down the line and you could map the founders to the current bunch of people. You would map George Washington to Trump. When you saw Trump put his hand up, what was the first thing you thought from history? The first thing I thought was that iconic painting of George Washington crossing the Delaware. And you know Washington is standing up on the boat as if he would stand up on that little boat. But you know, and I'm sure it's not based on a literal picture, but do you feel that America actually did die? I don't think we're trying to recover. I think we died. I think that the Republic was dead. I think that we've been run by some people in the background now for decades and just imagined we had some kind of country.

I do think that the founders have been reformed. There is some kind of larger force that's making things happen that it's just hard to explain in any other filter. Now I remind you I'm not a believer myself, but the filter that fits the best is that God formed America in the first place, didn't like how it was going, let it die, but the economy kept cooking along. And then it was time to reform it. And I'm seeing a new America. I'm not just seeing make America great again. It just looks like it's being reformed almost from scratch, from first principles let's say. From first principles. If you look to Vivek, he's a first principles guy, says it all the time. If you look at Elon Musk, first principles kind of guy, says it all the time. What do all of the venture capitalists, the Andre Horowitz people, what do they all have in common? First principles kind of people. They're basically, wait, let's back it up to what the basic situation is and then reason it from there. Don't just get caught in the rhetoric and the narrative and stuff like that. Let's take it back.

We've never had this many capable people line up on the same side since the actual American Revolution. There's an insane amount of talent that just found each other. Does that feel like a coincidence to you? I mean there's something happening here that's just way bigger than all of us. And it could be just an emergent intelligence. It could be an emerging intelligence. I do believe that humans collectively form a meta intelligence that's bigger than the collection. And it doesn't happen often because it doesn't need to. If you don't have a problem that is existential, you don't need people to form a larger consciousness. We can just all do our own thing, which is what I think we've been doing for a few hundred years, largely doing our own thing. Oh you've got a World War II thrown in there and you better come together for that. But I think that the larger intelligence, which is the combination of all the smartest people who know how to think, not the people who are just the crazy people but the people who know how to think, are finding each other. They're finding the truth and they're going to put massive amount of money behind it and massive amount of reputational risk. And they've decided, you know how I always tell you about the difference between wanting and deciding. There was a lot of wanting of Trump to win. There was a lot of wanting. There wasn't enough deciding. Because deciding means you're going to do whatever it takes. Musk just put his whole life on the line literally. Let me say that again. Elon Musk put his life on the line. That's not an exaggeration because he knows, I mean he's had two attempts on his life just recently. He knows what kind of risk this is. He's not doing this blind. He put his life on the line. That's a decision. That's not, oh you know I'd rather have this candidate. No, that's a decision. He's putting forty-five million dollars a month into the PAC. That's not wanting. That's a decision.

All right. So I think a lot of people have just decided. And if you look at who the deciders are, they're not your average people. There's a lot of deciding going on right now.

All right. Let's see. Ken Dilanian for NBC News. I saw him reporting on this alleged Iranian assassination plot which has been bubbling for a while now. So this is not new news. It's a background news. So it's sort of like context. Context is that US officials have had intel about Iran trying to assassinate Trump for his assassination of Soleimani when he was in office. And allegedly that background threat had prompted the Secret Service to enhance Trump's protection. So what you saw on the day that he was shot was their enhanced protection against Iranian super killers. So their enhanced protection against highly trained Iranian assassins didn't stop the twenty-year-old who borrowed his dad's gun and got a ladder. So if that's the extra super beefed up security against the Iranian super assassins who one imagines would be quite well trained, I think they need a little more beefing up. That's not what I call beefing up.

But if you did not recognize the name I gave you, Ken Dilanian in NBC, I will tell you that allegedly, I have no personal knowledge of this, but I think this is the Glenn Greenwald filter on things, that it would be well known again this is not my own claim. The NBC and specifically Ken Dilanian would be considered the voice of the CIA basically. Now that's not my claim. That's the claim that smart people make. I wouldn't know. But isn't it kind of coincidental that something that would mock up the story would get into the story at just the right time? Now it does seem sort of related but not really. Because if the worry is that the shooter was in fact radicalized by Democrat talking points, then the last thing you want is to not have a counternarrative. It's like, well I don't know. We don't know his motives. It could have been, yeah it just could have been the Iranians got to him. So it just sort of introduces some doubt into something that probably shouldn't have any doubt at all. If an American takes a shot at Trump, is there any doubt that he was radicalized by the media or social media which is also radicalized by the proper media? Not really. It's not one of those questions where you have to question his motive. Now if you say, oh but was influenced by this as well, okay, but still it's because there is no scenario in which you take a shot at Trump just because you worked out the details on your own. That came from somewhere. Twenty-year-olds don't have their own opinions.

I had a conversation with some young people the other day who is not too far from that age of the twenty-year-old who said that all of their friends are starting to hate Biden because Biden is too pro-Israel. And I said to him, do your friends know that Trump is considered like the biggest friend of Israel ever? And they looked at me and said what? Oh yeah. So all your friends who have decided that they don't like Biden because of Israel, they don't know that Israel and Trump are the closest of any couple that have ever been. And they said, oh well actually to be fair nobody my age knows anything. That was the honest answer I got back. Nobody my age knows anything. So then I tossed down a few. I said, well were you aware of this? No. I said, were you aware of this? I've never heard of that before. Were you aware of this? Nope, never heard that. So that's what a twenty-year-old knows. What a twenty-year-old knows is just nothing. And nobody suggests that this was the best informed twenty-year-old. Nobody thinks that.

Now I see MKUltra all over the place. I don't believe that the CIA can hypnotize somebody to be a killer. So speaking as a hypnotist, I don't think that's the thing. You could find somebody who's already ready to be pushed over the edge. So you could maybe tip somebody over the edge. You can't take somebody who wasn't thinking about it and turn them into an assassin. No, hypnosis can do that. Now I mean the exception would be if you completely control them and they saw no other people for three years and you just brainwashed them every day in a secret room. You could do that. That actually would work. But you can't just sort of talk to somebody in the real world, send them some messages, turn them into an assassin. They would have to be right on the edge of tipping anyway and then maybe you could do it. But it'd be hard. I don't think the CIA just hypnotized the guy to go kill the president. My skill set says that's not really a thing. Not really.

But having this Iranian thing in here makes everything a little more uncertain. And why is it that we're hearing so little about the, let me tell you what I would expect to see. Here's the dog not barking. Are you ready? Dog not barking. The twenty-year-old had classmates. All right, now he's out of high school of course, but he had people who knew him