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all alone in the room. There's an important Democrat sitting there who's just giving you nothing. I'll tell you what I'd do if I were a good negotiator. I'd say this. I'd say you realize that Trump would do something about this. What are you saying? Are you saying you would endorse Trump? No I'm saying I'll consider it. I'm still waiting for you to help me but if you don't yes I'm going to conside…

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tion move for his political future. It won't look like it's a real opinion. We have to destroy him first. That's what it looks like. The other possibility is he broke some laws and I don't know all the details and they caught him but we don't really live in a world where we see that work as much as the other thing where it's just lawfare. If we were not in the middle of the deepest lawfare darkness we've ever seen I wouldn't even consider that possibility but since that's the go-to at the moment I do consider it.

Speaking of lawfare you'll be happy to know that Attorney General Andrew Bailey of Missouri has filed suit against the Harris Biden DOJ for refusing to turn over records related to the illicit, what AJ Bailey calls the illicit prosecution of President Trump. So this would include communication between the DOJ and Alvin Bragg, Letitia James and Fani Willis. Those would be the prosecutors, AGs, attorney generals who were going after, let's see Bragg is the DA there yes. So they're all DAs going after Trump. Now so the point here is to find out if there was any coordination between the Department of Justice on behalf of the Harris Biden administration to help these local prosecutors do their thing and maybe even promise them something in return possibly.

Now the suit that's being filed if I understand it correctly is because they've already asked for this information through legal means. They have a right to it and they're not getting it so they're being stonewalled probably until after the election you know what I mean. So if you haven't been following Attorney General Andrew Bailey from Missouri I would strongly recommend. He's a really good follow on X because a lot of the good things pushing back in a legal sense, a lot of the pushback coming from the Republicans is coming from only a few sources right? You'll see DeSantis do his thing. You'll see Texas do their thing. But you got to watch Missouri. So Missouri is a real wild card because Bailey's there and he's doing a great job. So this is his follow-up. He's pushing a second time harder to see what he can get. What if he gets something before the election? Talk about a third act. The ultimate third act would look like this. Finding out that the assassination attempts had some connection to our own government. Finding out that our elections were in fact rigged in the past. I'm not predicting it just saying what would be the best movie ending. And finding out that they had coordinated the lawfare from the administration. Those would be sort of the three worst suspicions and there's some chance, not a high one, there's some chance nonzero that all three of these would be revealed in the next month. I would definitely bet against it. I'd bet against any one of them being revealed in the next month because I don't have any direct evidence of any of it. But my goodness would that make a movie. What a movie that would be.

All right the SEC is going after some companies that made some claims about their Alzheimer clinical trial. So I guess the executives are being blamed for lying about the effectiveness of their test. So why the SEC? Well that would affect the investors. So if you invested based on their claim that their trial was working you would get screwed. So the SEC got involved.

Now interestingly Mark Cuban on a recent interview said that he might be interested in working at the SEC, being the head of the SEC in let's say a Trump administration hypothetically. Now I don't know what he had in mind for that but I'm really curious. I'm really curious because what is it that would make Mark Cuban think that first of all that's where he would want to put any effort and what is the specific set of problems he's looking to cure? Because you know what I don't think you should rule him out under either administration. I just want to hear what he wants to do. So if he wants to cure some problems that are known to be in the SEC and he's got a list of things I got to fix this this and this, I don't know maybe he belongs on the pirate ship you know what I mean. Maybe RFK Jr. lifelong Democrat but he's the perfect person to make sure that we fix our food supply and be a little smarter about our pharma situation. Who would be the perfect person at the SEC? I don't know but I'd love to hear what he has to say about it and I'd love to see. He could even say I hate everything Trump's doing but I got to fix these three problems. If it's three good problems and he could really fix them I don't know I might be all in on that. What I'd worry about is if it gave him any power over Trump you know that would be a nonstarter. But if he really just wanted to go fix some things that the country desperately needs fixed and he has a bead on it I would very favorably look at that because I love the pirate ship. There's plenty of room in the pirate ship.

Anyway there are allegedly three teams of assassins in the country that may have shoulder mounted missiles that could knock a jet out of the air. Specifically the worry is that they're going after Trump's Trump Force One and that they would try to kill him in the air. I ask you this. There are two theories of what's going on here. Theory number one: Iran sent a team of assassins, maybe more than one, to kill Trump using these shoulder missiles and they would do that knowing that that would result in the death of every leader in Iran as well as turning Iran into a wasteland sort of a Gaza situation. Now Iran would know that if they kill Trump all of their leaders will be dead fairly soon. It won't even take that long. And they also know that we would lay waste to their country and we wouldn't look back. We wouldn't even blink. Now would that be good for America? No it'd be terrible you know because Iran has lots of ways to get back. It'd be terrible but we do it. We do it. And so the first theory is that Iran knows that they all will be personally killed and their country would be destroyed but they thought it would be a good idea to assassinate our president in an obvious way that we would know it was them. So that's one possibility.

Here's the other possibility. That the deep state blob, the people in our military industrial complex, the State Department, those people, the blob, that they see an opportunity for a twofer. Two benefits. One benefit is getting rid of Trump because he's anti-war. Second benefit is it would be a cause for a war which they love and it would be a cause for a war with Iran which they might love a little extra. So who do you think would be behind a rocket attack on Trump's airplane? Do you think it would be Iran who very clearly would know that they would lose everything? Everything. Their lives their economics their future everything. Do you think they would do it knowing they would lose everything? Keep in mind there's no risk assessment here. We would kill every one of their leaders if they take out Trump. We're killing every one of their leaders. There's just no way around that. They know that. They've dealt with America long enough that they know that's a death sentence. Or do you think it's somebody looking for maybe other ways to get what they want and there's somebody's looking for a twofer and the way they're priming you to think that it's Iran is to tell you in advance hey it might be Iran. I'd certainly be worried about Iran with a shoulder missile. And next is it a coincidence that a shoulder-mounted missile fired by somebody in the bushes would be the hardest thing to determine who fired it? Yeah it would be. It'd be pretty hard to figure out who fired it. So it's sort of the perfect false flag situation to solve two problems if one of your problems is that you don't want Trump to be in the picture anymore. So that's what I'm worried about.

The Republicans in Congress are going to do some oversight on why did the FCC so quickly approve Soros buying a few hundred radio stations when everything else takes a lot longer. Now I'm going to say the same thing I said about Mayor Adams. If the reason that Soros got faster approval is because he had good connections in the government and somebody whose job it was to make sure the things that need to get approved get approved in a timely manner and all they did was do their job, it's like oh why is this taking so long? No reason it should take so long. Let's move that up the list. That's possible. It's entirely possible it was just somebody doing their job a little better so it got moved to the top and there was nothing really to stop it. But it's worth investigating. It's worth investigating because as Elon Musk agreed when somebody was posting something about it Soros is buying influence over the United States. It's not just he's buying influence. He's buying a propaganda platform. But other people would say well what do you call X? Well what I call X is a platform which all views could be on it with no exceptions you know unless it's illegal. Whereas the radio station if it's like every other radio station the owner decides what kind of direction they have and then it keeps that direction. So different.

There's an interesting story happening with a Penn professor who is getting badly punished by her employer. And what did she say? The things that, so she's tenured but I guess they're going to take away her summer pay and cut her pay and punish her every way they can. And she has prohibited from quote flagrantly unprofessional and targeted disparagement of any individual or group. Wow. I like, I guess that's pretty bad if she was targeting and flagrantly unprofessional about some groups. Well what did she say about some groups? I saw an interview with Glenn Loury which was exactly the right person to talk to on this topic which you might know if you know Glenn. So here's what she allegedly said. At one point she said she didn't recall ever seeing a black student graduate in the top quarter of the law class and rarely in the top half in two decades at Penn.

Somebody's ringing my doorbell this time of day. Give me a second. I got to see if this is anything that's blown up on me. I'll just check my cam. You're going to disappear for a second. All right what do we got going on here? Somebody who has a long pole and a piece of paper that looks really important. All right let me say all right I'm going to have to yell over my balcony. Wait a sec. All right construction delivery. It's all under control now. All right sorry about that.

Anyway so to finish that story the Penn professor had also said quote not all cultures are equal. Uh oh. Not functionally equal in creating citizens who can succeed in modern civilizations. So her idea was that there are some cultures they're optimized for the modern world and some that are not. And she's not judging them as morally or ethically good or bad. So it's not a judgment it's just an observation. For example if I took a bunch of people who said you know we're going to decide that our culture is hard work and telling the truth and getting a lot of talents and then you compared it to another culture that was hey let's just enjoy our life. And I'm not saying these cultures apply to any specific people. I'm supposed this is a non-racial example. You'd think that the people who decided as a culture that hard work and doing the right thing and following the law and all that would perform better. Now as soon as you add a race to that then it becomes a racial question. If I take the race out everybody agrees oh yeah the people who learn to work hard and obey the rules probably do well. But as soon as you overlay that and say well we wonder if all the cultures, every culture is giving people the same benefit. Personally I feel I benefited greatly by the cultural effects I had as a child because it was all about nobody's going to help you. You got to do it yourself. Nobody's going to pay for you after college. You're going to have to figure this out. It's all on you. And then sure enough if I wanted to do something I could often do all kinds of things but it was all on me. So I thought that was a magnificently useful cultural effect.

Can we, and I think Glenn Loury again because he's a black man with very smart opinions. He's I think economist is his profession. I recommend him highly. But I wonder if there's anything useful that you could take from this because if you just say black people have bad cultures that's why everything's wrong that's just ridiculous because you see plenty of successful black people and I'm always impressed by the successful musicians and athletes who say you know basically my mom or my parents are the reason I succeeded. Yes exactly the reason you succeeded. Well you had talent but the reason you succeeded is probably because your parents were awesome in many cases. That's probably exactly what it was.

So how do you get out of the stupid part of the argument where you're just arguing no you're a racist stop saying that no you're racist and how do you get it to everybody's culture could be better? Maybe that's the way to do it. It doesn't matter who you are. I mean there's plenty of poor white people poor every other kind of person who doesn't have the exact right cultural influences. So if we just say how about we stop putting people into racial groups and just say that your parental and cultural influences are one of the biggest variables and no matter who you are here's how you fix it

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or at least that you know that's the problem so you have a chance of fixing it. So it's one of those problems where because we can't get into that you're a racist problem we can't even have a useful conversation of you know I'd be willing to help. Yeah you just if we could just agree what the problem is I'd be willing to help. I've written several books which would be if you didn't know how to rai…

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