Gad Saad writing in Newsweek saying that Kamala Harris and her campaign are hoping you turn your brain off and use your emotions to pick your candidate because Harris doesn't have as many detailed plans. So the thinking is that they have to sell sort of the vibe or the feeling. And Gad gives some examples of that, and he's arguing that we should maybe use our sense of reason and not be taken in by the emotional appeal. To which I say, Gad, you are halfway there. He's halfway there. So he understands that the other side is not being reasonable. That's halfway there. Until you understand that no voters make decisions based on reason, you're just going to be confused and annoyed by everything you see because it won't make sense.

Now, nobody uses reason to vote. It is true that some ideas are better than other ideas, and people will mention those things and talk about them, but it's not why they vote. Why they vote is some mix of how somebody makes them feel, their charisma, whether they're the same race as you, whether you just feel safe. It's just the irrational stuff, and then we rationalize it after the fact. So why'd you vote for him or her? Well, I like that tax policy. No, that's not why you voted. It just isn't.

We all have reasons, including me. I'll give you a reason for why I voted, but I'm also aware that I would have voted that way if I had to make up a different reason. So whatever it is that drives any of our decisions is always irrational. Once you realize that, everything makes sense.

You know that story about Tenet Media allegedly taking money from Russia and hiding it and hiring some conservative commentators to be under their banner on at least just on the YouTube site. And part of that story is that it expanded into everybody accusing everybody of being a foreign agent. So I jokingly said yesterday on X I was feeling bad because nobody had put me on a list of potential foreign influences. And no sooner had I done that than I hear that there's a Spaces going on talking about me being an Israeli asset or something. And I'm thinking to myself, well, that didn't take long. That didn't take long at all. By the way, I'm not an Israeli asset. I don't even support their government. They're on their own. I just observe. Simply observing.

And so some people say, what was Putin up to? Why would Russia try to fund these people if it looks like there was no effort to chan