was for ordinary Americans and the answer simply couldn't be that it wasn't. Do you call that not dishonest? I don't know. Seems to me if you start with a narrative and you do everything you can to prove it and then you find out that you can't prove it and then you write the story anyway, that feels dishonest to me. I don't know how you define dishonest but as described it looks a little dishonest.

But here's the more nuanced view of it. If you haven't had experience in the corporate world this won't make sense. In the corporate context when you're wearing your nice clothes and going to your cubicle job and you've got a boss and all that, you will accept as honest enough a lot of sketchy stuff. And it becomes so normal to accept sketchy things when you work in a big corporation that you just get used to it and you just think that everybody's lying and you should too. And all it is is a big persuasion game and honesty doesn't have much to do with the corporate world. Now that's why Dilbert was even created because when I was in the corporate world I realized everybody was lying about everything all the time. I thought well that could be a comic.

So when we look from the outside with our pure judgments and we say Cheryl how could you possibly have been part of this thing where the narrative was driving the story instead of the facts, how could you possibly be part of that? And I will tell you it's easy. If you had replaced her with me with all of my highfalutin feelings about what's honest and what's not, I probably would have done the same thing. Why? Because everybody would. You could take anybody and put them in this situation. They've got a boss, they've got a paycheck, they don't need to make waves about every single thing every single day. You just sort of accept it. You've got other problems. So this is no complaint whatsoever about Cheryl. This has more to do with what the corporate environment does to everybody. It turns everybody into a weasel. And it's only after you've left and you look back at your own actions you go, huh that was a little sketchy even for me. Like that doesn't even match my own standard for honesty but it didn't seem so weird at the time. So you enter this world where doing sketchy things doesn't even seem sketchy. It just seems like what everybody's doing.

Anyway, speaking of Elon Musk, he announced that he's going to fund moderate candidates, he calls them, in far-left districts so that the country can get rid of those who don't represent them. And that would be a direct response to Soros funding the far-left candidates. So if Elon Musk decides that he's going to spend enough money because he has more than Soros, he can outspend him. So he can outspend Soros and make sure that every time Soros spends a dollar that Musk goes in with two dollars for the other one, which he could do all day long because he has more money. So I think he can eliminate Soros's influence.

And I would still love, you may remember that Musk asked Alex Soros if they could just talk and Alex Soros said yes. Now I don't think it's happened just because I feel like we would have heard about it. But I love the fact that maybe before they talk, Musk may have already announced he's going to do something that makes Soros's funding completely moot and irrelevant because you'll get outfunded. So that's cool.

Speaking of Elon Musk news, he's also saying that the something called the AfD party in Germany is their only hope. Now the AfD party is the right-leaning party. How do you think an American publication describes the right-leaning party in Germany? Do you think they say oh they're basically just like MAGA, pretty popular? Yeah I can see why Elon Musk would back them because they're strong on immigration and yeah it makes sense. You know because immigration looks like it's going to destroy the country. I don't know for sure but probably. They back nuclear power, maybe the other parties don't. So I can see why Elon would back them.

So what does the mainstream press say about that? Well it says that the party is anti-immigration. Now is that the way you say it, anti-immigration? No, that's what they say. Nobody's anti-immigration. That's not even a thing. Nobody's anti-immigration. People are definitely on different sides about how tight to be, who to let in and why, but nobody's anti. So the first thing is they're signaling that they're ille