n give him 12 million dollars a year, which Costco does, and he's a good guy. If you put any white man in that job, they're going to say, wait a minute, let me see if I understand this. If I just pretend I'm really big on DEI, you're going to give me 12 million dollars a year? Yes. Suppose I didn't pretend that? Like, well, I know it'd be hard to say that you should be in that job because I'm pretty sure we like that stuff. Yeah. So the problem is always white men covering their ass.

As I've said before, I've been deeply discriminated against for gender and race in my career. You know, first at a bank, then at the phone company, and then in TV work. But every time a white man was behind it who was covering his own fat ass. Every time. So I've never been discriminated against by anybody except white guys who were covering their ass. So 19 attorney generals just went after a white guy covering his ass. Let's see who wins. I'm going to bet on the attorneys general.

Well, Mike Lee, based Mike Lee, has an interesting idea to handle the cartels. Have you ever heard of, there's a constitutional component, I guess, that allows something called letters of marque, spelled M A R Q U E. And these haven't been used in a hundred years or so. But what it was is when the US government wanted to take care of something like, let's say pirates, they didn't like pirates, they could hire their own pirates to kill the other pirates. Or they could hire basically a private army. They could give them authority to act on behalf of the United States just by being real bastards against something that we didn't like. And the people who got the letter of marque could keep the booty. So if they took out a pirate, they could just keep it, and that would be their profit. So that's why people would say yes to it.

So it hasn't been used in a long time. But Mike Lee is suggesting that what if we did use it against the cartels? Suppose we said if you wanted to form a private militia, now it would have to be authorized, not on your own, right? You would have to go to the government and the government would have to issue an actual letter of marque, you know, an official act that would authorize you to take out the cartels and keep their money. Do you think there would be anybody who would be willing to take that? I mean, you know, I've never been a special forces person, but if I were retired special forces and I thought I could get a big payday and I wasn't afraid of that kind of stuff, I don't know. It might be able to raise a private militia. I wouldn't do this until the normal way of doing business failed completely, but it's kind of interesting. I wouldn't rule it out. I think it's too soon to try it because we should just do more normal stuff first. But let's see.

All right, well, it's been 24 hours since that DeepSeek AI hit the world. And yesterday the OpenAI stock, or actually Nvidia stock, dropped about 16, 17%, which is really big because it's a trillion, trillions of dollar company. And people thought, oh no, it's the end of the United States AI industry. And I think I told you yesterday, not so fast. It'll probably take a hit because people are processing the news. So if you're still processing the news of this ultra cheap competitor in AI that comes out of China that's actually open source, it doesn't even cost anything. So my caution was that it'll probably take a hit, but by the end of the year the stock would probably recover and be ahead of it. Now it looks like it flattened out today, so we may have already hit the bottom.

But here's what I predicted, and you can already see it coming true. What I predicted was that the US would start seeing issues with it, and those issues would allow the government to have cover for degrading this as a product that can really be used. So here's what I mean. Question number one, how would we know if it was trained on propaganda? The source code is open, so you can see all the source code, but the source cod