heard. This is the right model and we should keep reinforcing it. Trump is a populist and he is very connected to the public. Musk is also a populist. I mean in effect. I don't know if he would describe himself that way but in effect because the common sense stuff tends to be pretty popular.

So yes we have an amazing situation right now where a citizen who has just a few people following them on social media can get the person who's a little bit bigger to repost them and that can get the person a little bit bigger to repost them and then when the people with a million followers have reposted them, you can pretty much guarantee that people like Elon Musk are going to see it because they follow the big accounts. And if they think the idea is good they have a direct line to the White House. So what we've created is an unofficial direct line where good ideas bubble up in a very natural way. Everybody has an incentive. If I see somebody with a smaller account who has a good idea, I'm incentivized to repost it because if I repost a good idea that reflects well on me, right? So just for selfish reasons I will boost a smaller account. Like Ian, I'm not thinking of it entirely selfishly. Often thinking of it as oh here's somebody who needs a boost because they have good ideas. If you have one good idea you probably get a boost. Even if I haven't seen your other ideas, but one idea is good enough to get a boost.

Meanwhile Mike Cernovich is going hard at Republican Chip Roy. He was one of the ones who said no on the second version of the continuing resolution that got down to 100 pages. And give me an update by the way. There's a vote going on I think right now on what they call the third version of the continuing resolution budget. So if we get a result on that, just shout it out in the comments.

Anyway, here are some of the things Mike Cernovich says we should know about Chip Roy. He was a George Floyd worshipper. Now I looked at some of the old posts that Chip Roy had about that topic and he was very much in the George Floyd as a saint kind of a mode, almost like a Democrat, weirdly. A worshipper is hyperbole but he was very much in the, he bought the full Democrat narrative of Floyd. The cop is a murderer, Floyd was an angel. You know I'm exaggerating but it was not a typical Republican view of that situation.

Allegedly Chip Roy tried to keep Liz Cheney in power. I guess he liked that idea. And he worked to remove, this is Cernovich saying he worked to remove Texas AG Ken Paxton who Republicans seem to like a lot. He's quite effective, Ken Paxton is. So these are just things that wouldn't have been a big problem for Chip Roy at the moment except that he went in the wrong direction on a vote. So Cernovich decided to shine some light on him. And I never mind that. Like whenever I see transparency breaking out. Oh this is actually something you should know about this particular leader. These are three somewhat odious points of view he had, at least odious from the political right's point of view. So yeah it's worth knowing. Is that a reason to vote him out? I don't know. I mean he's not my representative. I don't have an opinion whether he should be voted out. But do I have an opinion that the voters should know where he stood on these issues? Yes. Yes. So this is a good service by Cernovich so that we know what's happening.

Did you know that the fact checkers are saying that Musk was spreading disinformation about the bill, the 1,500 page bill that got rejected? And here are some of the examples that came from, I think The Hill was writing on this. So they say these are things you got wrong. So apparently Musk posted that the measure would include a 40% pay raise for Congress. That's not even close to true. It is true that there was a mention that if Congress had been getting its cost of living wages that it hasn't been getting for years and years that it would have been 40% higher than it is now. But the actual raise would be like 6% or something. So this is disinformation. Well let me not say disinformation. Disinformation assumes a motive, at least that's the way I hear it. But being inaccurate or simply being wrong is not really a crime. You're still allowed to be totally wrong. And if you're wrong on X, that's the best place to be wrong because the comments will correct it, right? If you're going to be wrong, the one best place to do it is on X because the community notes will point it out. Everybody sees it. It's fully transparent. Then you can correct it.

So is it ideal that Musk, I think he probably just boosted some other account that made this claim so he trusted it. Looks like he trusted somebody else's opinion on something that was in it because again who's going to read a 1,500 page document besides nobody? So that was just wrong. But I would say