Back to episode — Episode 2701 CWSA 12/26/24
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aying this is Elon Musk but it's obviously not because this is a rail thin Santa Claus. And then he reposted it and he labeled it "Ozempic Santa" so it is him. And he was joking about he had taken Ozempic. He did not but he took one of the drugs in that class. So one like Ozempic but a different one because I guess Ozempic gave him some digestion problems or something but now on one hand you might…
← Previous segment →ing a cost penalty. And if you add robots to the idea that you should start from first principles when you build your factory, don't just build an ordinary factory but really really think what's the efficient way to build the factory for this specific thing. So I think that's true. I think that whatever we learn from factory building that's where the next revolution needs to happen for America to dominate the next generation.
Meanwhile RFK Jr.'s nomination and the vote to have him confirmed, at least as the public support, 51% of likely US voters think the Senate should confirm RFK Jr.'s nomination. Good. And apparently that's up so that's his best favorability number that we've seen. And I would say this. I have an observation about RFK Jr. that I'd like to make. Let's say a meme or at least something that you think when you think of him. I've noticed that the more you learn about him the more you like him. Does anybody else notice that? The more you learn about what his opinion is, the details of it, the more you like him. And I think that's just what's happened. When other people get to frame him and let's say MSNBC says oh that vax denier, and if you liked vaccines for your kids you'd say oh a vax denier. Now that's not what he is. He's not a vax denier. You know he just wants better testing etc. But once you learn what he really wants and you realize that he dug into this topic, the pharma topic and the health of our food topic, and he has actual practical suggestions for fixing things, it's hard to dislike that. If you believe the fake news about what he's about it's easy to dislike him. It's easy. Oh rich guy is going to come and tell us what to eat and he's going to destroy the farm industry and why is he taking away their free speech? Let him advertise. But once you realize how much he knows and then he explains it to you you go oh I didn't know that and then suddenly he looks a lot smarter.
So my prediction is this, that going forward the more you learn about Kennedy and the more you learn about his policies and preferences the more you're going to like him. I think that's all it is. The more exposure the more you like.
Meanwhile the poor Democrats are still trying to figure out what went wrong and their process for figuring out what went wrong involves asking all the people who got everything wrong what they got wrong. If those same people were capable of knowing what they got wrong, now don't we think some of them would have gotten it right in the first place? What makes them so smart now? Just the fact that Trump won? Is that the only thing they learned? Trump won, Kamala lost, and then from that the brilliance which they did not have for four years suddenly kicks in? Is that what we think?
Well Ross Douthat, I don't know, he's a I think he's a Democrat but he's he was saying do you remember Brat Summer? I remember Brat Summer. It was genuinely amazing. One of the most bizarre mass psychological phenomena I've ever seen. And they said it turns out that all you have to do is tell the Democrat base that they ought to like someone and they'll just start liking her. Now here's what they'r
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e getting wrong. They really really should have talked to, well first of all they should have talked to Americans you know regular people, but secondly they should talk to a hypnotist not one of the pundits who got everything wrong. If you talk to a hypnotist I'm pretty sure we can sort things out. Maybe not every hypnotist but I'm pretty sure I could. I'll tell them exactly what they got wrong. T…
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