Back to episode — Episode 2641 CWSA 10/27/24
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, but am I wrong that that was the mistake of the week? Can we conclude that Trump wins today's competition? Now I think the bar was last night and Madison Square Garden will be today, but that's a bad 24 hours. The only thing I remember is she was drinking and cackling. And that Beyoncé came. Beyoncé had to be paid a huge amount to endorse her and didn't sing and made everybody mad because they t…
← Previous segment →the people who supported me privately? Van Jones. He actually called me and said what the hell is this all about? And then I told him and he listened. Wished I had not worded it that way. Was not supportive of my message whatsoever, just to be clear. He was not supportive of what I said, but he was supportive of me personally and said in direct language, I don't think you're racist, but didn't love what I said. Now that's all I wanted. That's all I wanted. I didn't want him to love what I said. So he's a voice of reason. Listen to him. He knows that the Democrats are chasing people like me away and didn't need to. I mean I was basically Democrat-leaning all of my adult life. I got chased away. I mean I ran from the people who said, well we don't like you. Maybe a little less of you would be great. And I said fine, how about less of me? Works for me too. I reached my limit.
So that's why if you wonder why I say good things about Van Jones, it's because I think he sees the whole field. And it's okay to be partisan. Partisan is okay. You know everybody's partisan. But he can see the whole field. All right. And I appreciate him.
Here's something Kim Dotcom posted today about paying off the national debt. Now before I tell you this I should remind you in the most obnoxious way so you're sick of hearing it. I do have a degree in economics and I have an MBA from a top school. I should be able to understand what Kim Dotcom says about paying off the debt. I do not. Not even close. But I want to see if you do. Or at very least can we agree that nobody has any idea how to pay off the national debt?
All right, so here's what Kim Dotcom says. Now and by the way I'm not saying he's wrong. I have questions. I don't know. Would this work? I don't see how it would. He goes, the only way out of the national debt is to print 40 trillion, settle all debt, use gold reserves to get Americans through hyperinflation and issue a new digital currency with limited supply and no mass surveillance. Abolish the Fed and ban all interest on loans. A bit of pain but problem solved.
Question: if you printed 40 trillion that would make cash worthless. But you'd use your gold reserve to get Americans through that hyperinflation. How do you do that? How would you use your gold reserves? Would you give everybody a little gold? Back the dollar with gold? What does that even mean to use our gold reserves to get us through the hyperinflation? And then how would issuing a new digital currency with limited supply help us? Because that would, in addition to the 40 trillion, we would be adding a new form of money on top of the 40 trillion. So our hyperinflation should go into hyper turbo extra hyperinflation, wouldn't it? Abolish the Fed. I'm not sure how that's exactly related to all of that. And then ban all interest on loans. How could you have a functioning economy if you ban interest on loans? What's the alternative to that? And again there might be an alternative to that because remember I'm starting with the assumption that Kim Dotcom is very smart because you know that's my impression of him. So if he's very smart and he's saying stuff I don't understand, I don't automatically assume the problem's on his end. So I'm curious enough about it. Is there enough to what he's saying that other people are saying yes, yes I know exactly what he means? Or is it just several concepts in the same place that don't fit together? I don't know.
I do think the only way we can survive the national debt is if Elon Musk can immediately cut spending so that we get that part under control and that we increase our growth rate beyond anything we've seen before. Both are possible and both of them will require Elon Musk. You're going to need Elon Musk for all of it because the growth will require robots and AI and electric cars and self-driving cabs and maybe spaceships. So it's kind of on him. You know he's got a lot going on for the future. So he would be the one behind the growth at least a lot of it. And then he would also be the one behind cutting the costs.
To me it's unbelievable that this election is close. Now I get how people say oh Trump, Trump, Trump this. But how do they explain that RFK Jr., Musk, Vivek, Tulsi, I could go on. How do Democrats explain that they haven't noticed that Trump is Hitler and that they think he has the best economic and practical plan for solving problems? How do they explain that? I would just love to spend some time saying but do you think RFK Jr. couldn't spot Hitler? Well no he's got some interest blah blah blah. Well okay but you know Israel likes Trump, right? Yeah. And you know that Israel is really good at spotting Hitlers. They're really good at it. Yeah. And you know Israel likes Trump so much they named a town after him. He's Hitler? Okay I don't think you're hearing what I'm saying.
Anyway, so the pretended war between Israel and Iran has gone to its logical conclusion. So Israel, instead of doing something that would increase the chance of response, they did something that would decrease the chance of response. Now the level of intelligence that Israel
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is bringing to this fight, I'm getting tired of complimenting them. You know from the pager thing to pretty much everything. Yeah at least since the poor defense of the Gaza situation, that was suboptimal. But the way they've pressed the war is really impressive. And so of course they had to attack Iran because Iran did the massive 200 missile strike. You can't let that go. But they managed to, as…
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