smarter government system one that makes sense in the current times that is a gigantic military and economic benefit. So watching Musk who of course would be expert in the entrepreneurial arts realize that the biggest obstacle is the government and then he's the one who's right in the middle of trying to fix it so it works for commerce. Do you think China can match that? Let's say they pull it off. Let's say Vivek and Elon pull it off and they really modernize our government in a way that's still compatible with the Constitution. In fact maybe more compatible with it and still gets everything done but we can do things quickly such as approve a nuclear power plant just to pick one example. How much would the United States be different if we had an efficient way to say yes to a nuclear power project? Well we're getting closer to that. The government is working in that direction but if we could really just kill that you know just slay that opportunity so to speak that'd be huge.

So I think the fate of the United States really depends on Doge and I don't think there's another country that can match us because there is one thing we have that other countries don't have. We've got a dictator. Yeah the dictator Trump has basically decided to voluntarily share power with an unelected person who simply got the best ideas. Now two of them you know Vivek as well. So remember I always told you that the person with the best ideas is always in charge and you probably thought that's a small idea and then oh maybe that works in that one meeting you were in Scott but that's like not generally true. Oh it's true. The person with the best idea is always in charge. So Elon comes in with the best idea which is how about you take the smartest most badass entrepreneur working with other smartest badass entrepreneurs and we try to fix our most critical problem in the government. What's Trump going to say to that? No that's a bad idea? No it's a great idea. It's like the greatest idea I've seen like maybe ever. It's such a great idea it's almost you can't even hold it in your mind it's such a great idea. And so Trump says yes. If he were a dictator he would not be sharing power. That's just not how that works. Now he's of course confident enough Trump is that he's still the president so he gets what he wants. But if Musk and Ramaswamy come up with an idea that's just so good that the public says oh yeah that's just a good idea Trump's gonna say yes because the best idea always wins and they're going to be coming with ideas.

All right couple of things. How to fix the Democrats. The Democrats are trying to figure out how to recover. I have the following comments about that. Number one identity politics is a permanent death. I don't think there's a path to recovery where I think the Democrats are thinking okay you know it's sort of business as usual. We just have to do a little better. You know better messaging. You know maybe organize our campaign a little differently. It's not that. It's the identity stuff. The identity stuff is what made everything crazy. It's what made Democrats walk away. If they don't get rid of the identity politics they don't have any way to recover. But here's the trick. If they do get rid of the identity politics then they're just Republicans and they don't have any reason to exist. So you can't keep the identity politics but you also can't get rid of it because it would just destroy them for years. The Republicans never entered the identity politics so they have no burden to get rid of it or change anything in that regard. They're completely unburdened by it. But there's no way to fix it. So the Democrats painted themselves in a corner that literally doesn't have a way out. I don't think there is.

Now let me suggest one Hail Mary way that they could get out of it. I think that the media runs the Democrats more than the other way around and if the media decided only to tell stories that were true and useful and common sense that it would force Democrats to be useful and common sense because the media would say here's a great idea and here's a terrible idea. What are the Democrats going to say if it's their own media, right? If CNN says oh this new idea is just a terrible idea and then you're Democrat and you turn on the TV you're like oh shoot CNN thinks this is a terrible idea. What does MSNBC say? Oh God they hate it too. The media runs the politics. So if the media somehow and I don't see a way this could happen but if the media started to become a legitimate contributor to the country instead of whatever they are they could actually change the whole Democrat machine. And in fact the media could get them out of their identity politics hole just by the way they frame things and just de-emphasize it etc. Don't do continuous trans stories all day long. That's the media right? It wasn't the Democrat politicians who kept saying can we talk about trans some more. It wasn't them. It was the media. So if the media fixes itself, the media that supports the Democrats, then that could cause the Democrats to make the adjustments which might make them more mainstream which would make them competitive. But how's the media going to change? I don't see how that's going to happen unless MSNBC just goes away and the others say we'd better shape up.

But the other possibility is that they get a new charismatic Democratic leader and people are voting for the person not the policies. Totally possible you know. So if you got another once in a generation kind of leader you know maybe another Obama type maybe. But if they don't get an Obama type and they don't get their media to fix the media's own problems there is no way to come back. They seem to be in a permanent exile.

So the Democrats are coming up with some new fake fears because this is some more evidence of how the media can't fix itself. So the media on the left they don't have enough to complain about from Trump so they're making up some new fake ones. Of course it's what they do. So one of them is that they're saying that Pete Hegseth who is nominated for secretary of defense they claim that he says women are not qualified for military service. That of course is not true. He did not claim that. In fact like the fine people hoax he worried that you might think it so he made sure that you knew he wasn't saying that. I mean I watched him do that. He very clearly says yes I have worked with women in the military who were great at their jobs. He's talking about combat now. I don't have an opinion about that because I think the people who are in combat are the ones I would listen to. So if you've been in combat or you know a lot of people who've been in combat and those people say I got to tell you I love women. I love them in support roles. I've worked with a lot who've done great. But when the bullets start flying and I heard a special forces guy say this. I forget who it was. Was on some podcast recently. And this is super sexist so I'm just reporting what somebody else said. This is not my own observation. He said that when the bullets start flying that the women freeze up and that he's seen it multiple times and that the men either through training or selection or whatever it is are more likely to go on offense which might be exactly what you need for the best defense. But they kind of had to push the women in the direction they needed to go.

Now that's anecdotal and I don't support that interpretation. It's just one that has some attention. But if the people who have been in that situation collectively say yeah there's something to it I would listen to that. And by the way I have no interest in women being in combat. Like I don't like it. It offends me on a DNA level. Like it's not even politics. Just my DNA can't handle it. Like it's just no. How about just no. Because you know part of being a man is that you feel like you're protecting women and children. I don't know is that built into us or am I soci