ships, would the aliens take the day off? If it were Chinese, would they take the day off? Russia might. Russia has some kind of Christmas, doesn't it? I don't know. They might. But let's watch for the drone reports now.

Did you notice that in the last two days or so the drone reports seem to trickle out? I mean they seem to die out. Why would that be? Well it could be that people were trying to get things done before the end of the year, such as testing or demonstrating or buying or something like that. But the end of the year and the holidays is not really the end of the month but rather the week before Christmas. So the few days before Christmas is when everybody starts going on vacation, and if you were doing some kind of big-scale testing or demonstration or procurement you'd probably have to put it on hold for a few weeks like everything else in the world. So here's what you look for Christmas Day: are there any legitimate large-size drone sightings? I'm going to predict now. Let's see what happens.

Matt Gaetz teased that he might run for the Florida Senate seat but didn't sound super serious. So I think he may be just floating it as an idea to see what people say. He didn't sound super serious, but it's certainly an option. So I'm sure he's legitimately interested if it looked like he could win.

Meanwhile, as you know, TikTok is either going to go out of business or sell its American interests to America if they can find some billionaires or investors to buy it. Now what they would be buying would be TikTok without the algorithm. So whoever buys it would have to add their own algorithm, which is the hard part in a sense. But there are people who want to buy it. Shark Tank judge Kevin O'Leary looks like he could put a bid together. But here's what he says that shows why he's good at this. He pointed out that India has also banned TikTok. So imagine if you could buy TikTok somewhat cheaply because the algorithm is not involved, so you're buying basically on a brand and IP and customer lists, something like that. And then imagine going to India and saying, hey India, I know your people like TikTok but you don't like the Chinese influence, so would you be willing to reinstitute it in India if we build one that's an American version? Now if he could get India to say yes to that, he opens up the entire Indian market. So it could be one of the greatest investment opportunities of all time. I mean of all time. Don't know, but maybe.

Then there's a CEO of investment firm McCourt Global. He told the New York Times that they think they've built up the technology that they could take over the TikTok assets and have their own algorithm fairly quickly. So they say they have the capital and the technology. So maybe that'll happen, but we'll keep an eye on that.

I think Trump played the TikTok thing so well. You know I've been anti-TikTok for a long time because I think it's just a brainwashing device or could be used that way at the drop of a hat. But Trump wanted to use it to win, and apparently he dominated TikTok for the election and it may have helped him win. So he likes it, but he understands the risk. So I think he just straddled the fence just about right on that topic.

I'm trying to figure out if the Chinese economy is this unbeatable juggernaut that will lead China to dominate the entire world and it's only a matter of time because they're owning all the manufacturing and they have so many people. It's you know, you just wait and they're going to run everything. Or are they in such bad shape that they're teetering on the edge of annihilation? So they're drowning in debt, they've got that big property bust and a lot of their wealth was caught up in property. People invested in property that they weren't ever going to use just because it was a way to store wealth. So that fell apart and there's a deflationary spiral and their demographics are down. They're having fewer babies than they need and consumer confidence is at a record low. But does any of that mean that they're in trouble? You know I just think we're terrible at predicting the economy of, well, anything, but other countries for sure. I don't know. I can't tell what's propaganda and what's real. Is China going out of business or is China stronger than ever and going to dominate the world? Because both of those ideas are kind of floating out there at the same time. I don't know.

Well, RFK Jr. is already making an impact. So he wants to ban soda as something that you can buy with your SNAP benefits. Those are the benefits for low-income people in the United States to get food paid for by the government. And right now they can buy soda with it. Now the soda companies are putting together a big lobbying effort to make sure that you can buy soda and at least other products if you get the SNAP benefits. Who's going to win? See, this will be your first test. So the lobbyists are going to go really hard because there's probably a lot of money involved. So they're going to go hard. But RFK Jr. certainly has the better argument that we shouldn't be paying for unhealthy food for our low-income people. So who's going to win this, RFK Jr. or the lobbyists? I'm going to bet on RFK Jr.

I'm going to bet on RFK Jr. If he loses this one, because this one's not a hard one compared to what he has ahead. He has much harder things ahead, but I think he'll win this one. We'll see.

I saw a post on X. I don't know if this is new, but it looks like it might be. Did Sean Penn only recently compare Trump supporters to Al-Qaeda and Trump to Bin Laden? Is that something that happened this week or was that an old post that somebody wanted people to see? So I don't know about that. But somebody asked me based on that post, can Sean Penn be saved from his mass psychosis? To which I say maybe yes. And the only way to do it is to try the fine people hoax out on him. If he already knows that the fine people hoax was a hoax and he still believes that Trump's supporters are the problem, well then he can't be saved. I can say for sure he's too far gone. But if he thinks the fine people hoax is real and you can debunk it just by showing him the video that without the edits, would he change his mind about what kind of things might be fake? And then that would open you up to all the other fakeness. So that's my question.

On a related theme, if you believe that a lot of the country believes that climate change is a crisis because they looked at the experts and the experts seem to be on the same side, they thought, and so they said, well reasonably if the scientific experts are all on the side that climate's a big alarm and it should be, well I should take the position of all the experts. Makes sense, right? But here's what I think is really happening. I don't think people are using reason. I don't think the climate change alarmists are saying, hmm I've looked at the data, all the experts I trust seem to be on one side, I'll take their side. Maybe they're doing that now consciously. That's exactly what they're doing. And if you ask them why do you think climate is a problem they would say, and they would not be lying, well I think it's a problem because all the experts say it's true.

Here's what I think is really happening. I don't believe we can wrap our brains around that being a hoax because it's too big. And I could say that in my own life. If you ever came to me with a hoax that seemed too big I would say, really? Really you think that thousands of people could be in on this hoax and nobody would be a whistleblower? And that for years and years and years we'd believe in this thing that wasn't true? And it turns out that's the norm. If you believe that it would be nearly impossible to have a global hoax that was trillions of dollars and all the experts believed in it but maybe they didn't really believe in it, they just said they did, your common sense, here's that common sense problem. Your common sense says that can't be true. So I believe that we have a natural limit to how much reality we can see because we can't believe the things that are this big could be rigged.

Let me give you another example. The war in Ukraine. How much of the country understands how much of the planning and plotting and bad behavior came from the United States? And Ukraine is really a play. It's a colonial, it's we're colonizing it. We're just colonizing it. We're literally just conquering it for economic and maybe security reasons. How much of the public knows that? Now if you follow and you see people like Mike Benz explaining the world then you understand, oh my God, Ukra