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eel that way? That the incompetence looks like an intentional incompetence because they don't want to really help the Republicans. I don't see it. So let me see directly on a factual basis. I don't see support for that theory factually. Will your election depend on facts? No. As others have said this is a vibe election. If you think the vibe of one team is better than the vibe of the other you're…
← Previous segment →Democrats. Now keep in mind that she didn't turn away from the Democrats to Trump right away. She turned to the most Democrat family member you could ever have which was Kennedy. And that was enough to be like excommunicated forever. And you know she was basically dead to her friends and business people.
Now here's the thing that I take away from that. Correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not a historian. The people who got on the Mayflower, the original pilgrims, correct me if I'm wrong but did they not risk their lives to get on that ship to cross an ocean under the worst conditions to get away from this? Right, America was founded by people trying to get away from this. It's the same. The same are telling you how to live, how to think. Yeah it's the same. They're trying to take away your free speech. They're very pointedly trying to do that. They're trying to get rid of all your freedoms very clearly. Yeah. And if you don't think this is 1776, if you don't think this is time for whatever blood it is that makes Americans Americans to get our act together and realize that we came here to get away from this and we're not going to let this happen again, men, men, men, can you get it together and vote?
And guess somebody signed up. If you're a man in America and you haven't gotten at least one other man to sign up to vote to save this country you're not a man. Step up men. Step up. This is the real thing by the way. This is not a drill. This is the real thing. Don't fuck around. It's time to step up.
All right, this is interesting trend-wise. There are now at least four companies that are looking at nuclear power just for their own data centers because AI is going to take so much. Amazon just bought a nuclear powered data center. Now I did not know that a nuclear powered data center existed so this must be in another country. I don't know where that is. Oracle building some data center that'll be powered by three nuclear power, small nuclear power plants. And Microsoft is looking at Three Mile Island to turn it back on the parts that still work. And Google is looking at nuclear power as well. So your biggest companies are looking at having their own nuclear power.
Now look at these four companies: Amazon, Oracle, Microsoft and Google. Do they have enough clout to force the government to let's say be smarter about their regulatory environment for nuclear? Yes they do. If you just waited for the government to say you know what we've been looking at our regulations and you know we think we should reduce a few of these, nothing's going to happen. Our government does what it's paid to do. Let's be honest. It does what it's paid to do. And I don't mean paid to do what the people want. I mean paid by donors, special interests. You know the government does what it's paid to do.
So now that we have our biggest richest companies who absolutely positively no doubt about it need nuclear energy or they're just going to pay the government to get rid of the regulations so they can do it. Problem solved. If you believe our government is as corrupt as I do then the only way you can remove regulations is that gigantic companies who have the money to bribe anybody just bribe people to get rid of the regulations so they can go on with their business.
I think at this point if you don't own some stock in the nuclear power companies you might look back and say why didn't I see that coming. And by the way I should note I do own stock in an index fund of nuclear power companies for this reason. And I also, I should have mentioned, I do own some stock in Tesla. Every once in a while I should have mentioned to you that I own stock in some of the companies I mentioned. I've got some Microsoft stock. I don't have any Amazon or Oracle except in index funds.
All right, there's a new video of Kamala Harris. People are saying that her teleprompter glitched. It looked like it. I'm not sure that's the answer but NN is only one of the companies. I've got a different one I'll tell you about later. So she's talking along at her rally and maybe the teleprompter glitched and she just started saying "32 days until" something. "Ah 32. Ah at 32." And you can even see the panic in her eyes. And I was trying to say could you imagine the teleprompter goes out and let's say it's Vivek Ramaswamy. Is that a problem? No no. Vivek can do an hour without a teleprompter. He could do two hours without a teleprompter. Let's say it's RFK Jr. and the teleprompter goes out. Is he in trouble? No no. RFK Jr. can talk for two hours without a teleprompter and it will all be brilliant. If Trump is giving his talk and his teleprompter it goes out, which I think has happened actually, what happens is he panicked? No he does standup comedy and it gets better. The crowd likes it better, right?
So you could go right down the line. If JD Vance lost his teleprompter is he in trouble? No no. JD Vance can talk for two hours without a teleprompter and it all makes sense. But Kamala Harris couldn't do it. And we're actually looking at her as maybe a president. You realize that in the fullness of time it will seem hilarious that this was ever close. It's only because the brainwashing operation from the government is so powerful that they've convinced people that this should be a close race. This one really shouldn't be.
And by the way I do think that most elections I can completely understand why they're close. When Trump ran against Hillary Clinton I had a strong preference but Hillary Clinton is very capable and very smart and very experienced. When she ran for office this isn't like that. This is not that. It made sense that Hillary Clinton was very close in the polls to Trump. This doesn't make sense. I don't know how unreal our environment can become but we've really reached some kind of new level of are we supposed to believe this that this election is close? No thank you. I choose not to believe it.
There's a new deepfake. This one's clever because it purported to be some kind of hidden camera thing where the face of the person talking was concealed. But when you listen to the words since you can't see a mouth moving because the face is blurred out, the words sound to me like AI or some actor. But it's the alleged person is suggesting that Kamala Harris is the owner of the cocaine that was found in the White House. I would give zero credibility to that. And if you couldn't tell that was a deepfake you need to be a little more cautious.
Do you know how many people couldn't tell it was a deepfake? 2.1 million have viewed it so far. Over 2 million people viewed it and a lot of them reposted it. So this is really dangerous because in my mind it was obviously fake but to a lot of people it wasn't.
And what is it about it? Let me test you. What is it about it even without seeing it so you don't have to see it to answer this question. All you have to know is the topic. What made people believe it when it obviously looked like it was fake? What made people believe it? Because they wanted to. It was a fun recreational story that if you could make a case that it was Kamala Harris's cocaine in the White House, and again I'm aware of no evidence of that whatsoever, it's only based on a fake video, it would be fun to believe and it would be compatible with maybe some of your prior beliefs. It's just a bias.
So the deepfakes you have to worry about are not the one, this is my learning, my key learning here is that you don't have to worry just about them looking real. This one didn't look real and it's still sold because it was compatible with what people wanted to believe. So the key lesson here is the deepfake just has to agree with what people are already thinking and they will completely be oblivious to how poorly you made it. I hate to say that's true but you can see it in this one especially.
Anyway there's a whole bunch of conversation about the FEMA budget. People on the right say that FEMA gave tons of money to settling or helping migrants and therefore they're running out of money to help in the current hurricane situation. FEMA would say and Democrats would say nothing like that happened. Those were different budgets and different buckets and we never spent the money for the hurricane stuff. It was just a different bucket blah blah blah. Then Republicans would say something like there's no such thing as different buckets. If FEMA doesn't have
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enough and you gave half a billion to something else then logically that was half a billion that could have been available but isn't. Is that a good argument? I'm going to go with both of them are full of shit. So I'm going to say I can't back either argument because they both look like they're lying. So I don't believe the Democrats when they say oh it's a different bucket. But I also don't beli…
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