Back to episode — Episode 2661 CWSA 11/16/24
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ion. If I knew how to be Joe Rogan I would have done it by now. If anybody else in the whole universe knew how to be Joe Rogan they would have done it by now. Now every now and then there's a superstar that emerges. You know, Megyn Kelly, good example. But she wasn't trying to be Joe Rogan. Do you know who she was trying to be? Megyn Kelly nailed it. Nailed it. And I could mention you know PBD. PB…
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So it's no surprise that Trump could attract a pirate ship full of people. But then I saw one of the actors from The Avengers say that he was assembling The Avengers and I said, oh that's pretty good too. I can feel that. A whole bunch of completely different people with superpowers. You know Elon's got his superpower and Vivek's got his superpower and JD Vance and you know basically a bunch of Avengers. But I also like the refounding idea that Vivek is talking about here—that weirdly these characters map so to the founders that it's just hard to ignore. It just is the same energy. And it makes you wonder if there isn't some kind of natural balancing thing in our DNA or in our culture or in the world or in our simulation or in physics or something where we get to this point where the entire civilization looks like it's coming off the rails. And then suddenly there's this feeling that's like, do we have a pirate ship that just formed? Did The Avengers just assemble? Did the founders just come back alive, you know, through reincarnation or something? But whatever this is, I can feel the hell out of it. And I'm hearing a lot of other people say the same. You can feel this whatever this is. It's the right people at the right time doing the right stuff in a big, big way. And wow, it's incredible.
And now Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he'd work with Trump. He would work with Trump on the credit card interest rate cap at 10%. Now I don't know for sure if capping it at 10% is the right answer. Some of you are going to say, but Scott, if you cap the interest rate then there will be much less credit offered to the public because some credit card companies won't be able to make it so they'll close down and etc. To which I say, yeah, but fewer people would be able to get a credit card, Scott. And where's the problem there? If the only people who are not getting credit cards are the ones with bad credit, are we worse off? Would this not create some discipline among the credit card companies themselves to either get in business or figure out how to operate where 10% is enough? Because 10% is enough everywhere else. Everywhere else 10% is enough.
Now they might have to be much tougher about who they give credit to, but isn't that good that there's not a bunch of—why am I paying for all those people with bad credit? Like why is that for me to pay because somebody else has bad credit? That's how it works, right? They've got to overcharge the people with good credit to pay for the bad people with bad credit. So if you can put Bernie Sanders and Trump on the same pirate ship, something's going right.
Now let me say clearly I haven't looked into the price cap argument on both sides yet, so there might be an argument against it. I just haven't heard it.
Meanwhile the New York Post says that the World Bank is fearing budget cuts from Trump. And this is after reportedly the World Bank lost $24 billion that they don't know where it went and that they're quote running around like headless chickens. Okay, once again do you see the pattern? The world is sorting itself out just because Trump was elected. So people are making changes that they should have already made and they're winding down the dumbest stuff just because he'
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s close. This is the most "dad's coming home" thing you've ever seen in your life. It's like kids, you better settle down because dad's coming home in 10 minutes. It's like he's coming home in 10 minutes solved 20% of the nation's problems. Like what the hell is he going to do when he gets in office if 20% of our problems just solve themselves? He's got Bernie joining his side. Meanwhile Stephen…
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