ing attention always bad? I think it depends why you're doing it. If you're getting attention because you just got some kind of mental syndrome and you're just satisfying your own need and you're making a job for yourself and you're getting famous and people are patting you on the back and so you want to do more of it, it's fine.

But then you know also in the news lately is that DEI companies are pulling back or companies are pulling back from DEI and they mention Robby Starbuck as a key activist, maybe the key activist in getting companies to pull back from DEI. Now if you follow Robby Starbuck do you see any dark triad personality? I don't. And I think that stuff sticks out pretty hard. Like I don't think you can hide it. So I'm not willing to say that the people who are activists are all dark triad because I think there are too many examples where they're not. Well you could say that Elon Musk is an activist for free speech. I don't really see any dark triad personality problems. You could say Trump is. You could say Vivek. I don't see any of that in them. It feels a little bit more like left versus right, doesn't it? I feel like the activists on the right are working against an evil as they see it. Like this is evil. Nobody's going to do something about this. Seriously you, nobody else is going to do anything about this. Well hell I guess I got to do it. I feel like Republican activists are dragged into it against their will. Right? Do you think David Sacks wanted to be this public? I doubt it. I mean I can't read his mind of course. I doubt it. I felt that he like other people saw oh my God there's this need. The country needs people who are not in some kind of weird mental TDS bubble and can make some common sense happen. And you could add Mark Andreessen to that. You could add Bill Ackman to that. They all got involved but they didn't want to or it doesn't look like they did it for any reason other than they got dragged into it. Again I can't read minds but it looks like they got dragged into it. And I would say me too. You know I'm a, I call myself a grandiose narcissist in the sense that I do enjoy getting attention for doing something that's good for the community or the world or somebody. It's got to be good for somebody. And I get pretty much all of my sense of meaning from attempting and sometimes succeeding in making some things better. Do I have dark triad personality or do I just enjoy the rewards of doing good things? I don't know. It does feel, it just feels different on the left than the right but I don't want to overgeneralize. I'm sure there are activists on the left who are just driven by the need to make things better but for some reason we don't see them that much.

Let's see what else is going on here. So Scott Jennings on CNN. I love the fact that he's becoming a star. You know one of the things that really helps is when you can brand things like I was just talking about. You take a big concept and you brand it and it gives it much more power because everybody can refer to it and we all know what you're talking about. But likewise it's good to have individuals who are just sort of branded as standing out as good messengers. You know Greta Thunberg was one of those. She got branded by her side and that helped their messaging. So I love the fact that Scott Jennings is doing such a good job in what is an ordinary role. Right, people go on TV and disagree with each other but he's doing such a good job that he's becoming like a must-watch. I think every day I see a new clip of him destroying the rest of the panel on CNN. Now of course if you're on the left you don't think he destroyed anything but he's fun to watch.

So here's the new thing he said. He was talking about the criticisms that Musk is an unelected leader. And listen to these framings. He said that he and Trump seem to be getting along well. He said quote Musk was very instrumental in his victory and I hear Democrats criticizing the idea that we have unelected people with too much influence over the government. So first he sets it up. So just watch how well he does this. Just if you look at the communication skill involved and keep in mind this is without notes. So of course he's prepared but speaking off the cuff without notes, if you haven't tried it you should try it. You'll respect people who can do it a lot more if you try it. It's hard. Anyway so he sets it up right. The Democrats are criticizing the idea that we have unelected people with too much influence. If he can get you to accept that, you know here's our starting point, you're criticizing people who are unelected to have too much influence. Then he goes in for the kill. I invite them to pick up the Wall Street Journal from this week and find out that unelected people have been running the government for the last four years. Ouch. Ouch. You can feel that shit go right through your torso because not only does he credit the Wall Street Journal while he's on a panel on CNN, he criticizes another publication for not telling the public the truth in front of CNN. Now the implication, which he doesn't say but the implication is if you were a real news organization I wouldn't be referencing the Wall Street Journal. Now he doesn't say that but like I can hear it even though he doesn't say it which is perfect.

Then he goes I hear Democrats criticizing the influence of billionaires on our politics when you've got this Soros punk, you talk about the younger one, Alex, running around collecting Democrat politicians like my kids collect Pokemon cards. Okay first of all perfect use of an analogy. Perfect use of an analogy because it makes a visual and you can see the cards and you can see his kid collecting them. And the way you phrase that is that this billionaire is basically buying up politicians. So good. So good. Yeah good job Scott Jennings.

But I would like to add this following frame that I didn't invent. Somebody on social media said it. I'm just copying it. That when we voted, and let's see if this rings true with you. So most of you are Trump voters I'm guessing. When you voted for Trump weren't you already aware that he was likely to bring in RFK Jr., that Musk would have influence in a good way, that Vivek would be part of it? I voted