l you that the person with the best idea is in charge. Elon Musk is not in charge of anything except that he has good ideas. And if he brings you the best idea and you look at it and you go wow well that is the best idea, it kind of makes him de facto in charge without being in charge. So why would you ask him to help with Boeing? Because you're almost sure, you're almost positive that whatever he does with them he's going to introduce the best idea. Okay how is he going to do any of these things, DOGE etc.? Well the best ideas. That's it. So if Elon has way more power than other people are comfortable with I think they're missing that the source of his power is performance. It's not some lust for dictatorship. I don't see that at all actually. I don't see any signs of that. But he certainly likes having solutions. So I think we need to stop bitching about the person with the best ideas having the freedom to implement them because it's a good thing.

Well speaking also of Elon Musk he says that Tesla's full self-driving mode is here now. What does that mean, full self-driving? So I assume that means you just don't have to have a human being touching the steering wheel. I don't know how legal it is everywhere so there might be a legal question that I'm not clear about. But it looks like technologically letting the car do the driving is going to be way safer than a human. Probably won't even be close. Even if the car makes some mistakes, even if the car causes some damage and death because everything does, it's going to be way safer. And how would you buy another vehicle if there was one that could do this? Now I've not tried the self-driving on a Tesla and I'm kind of worried that my psychology can't handle it because you have a sense of what you can handle. I don't know what it would feel like to be in the car while it's driving itself but I would try it. I would definitely try it and probably I'd get comfortable with it. People seem to be able to adjust to it so I guess I would too. And if I could have a car that would literally drive itself, oh my God.

And I also wonder if there'll be some kind of weird changes at bars or restaurants that serve drinks. Could you imagine the restaurant having its own Tesla? It's parked outside and people need a ride home, they don't have a ride. You just say ah just take the Tesla and they just sit in the Tesla and it just drives them home and then drives back to the bar and parks where it was. And it could just take people home all day long. So we might be on the verge of taking drunk driving down by 90%. Not on day one but if enough people have a drinking problem and they want to keep having fun with their drinks, if they say you know what if I drink when I go out and I like it, it wouldn't make sense to have another vehicle unless you always have a designated driver but most people don't. So what this could do to even the recreation industry, it could be one of the greatest things that ever happened in society. We'll see.

Anyway there I saw an opinion that it seems like almost a sure thing that Tesla will stay ahead with the self-driving AI part of its business. And if you add the self-driving cars that it doesn't look like anybody's going to be able to catch up too soon and then you add on top of it the tricks that DeepSeek brought to the industry because in theory all the other AIs are going to take the tricks that DeepSeek had, add it to their own code and be twice as fast. So if you add that to what a Tesla already has, their self-driving cars are going to be insane. And the robots, you know the Tesla robots are going to be even better than we imagined. So if you add robots plus Cybercabs and self-driving cars it's hard for me to imagine that Tesla is going to do poorly in the future. Hard to imagine. But there is a political risk because Elon's out there. So if people decide they don't want a self-driving car because they don't like his politics that could be a problem.

Well DC US Attorney Ed Martin he's conducting this internal inquiry as to why prosecutors brought the post-Enron statute for the first time against the January 6ers. So some 300 of the January 6 protesters got felony counts for some obscure law that had been designed only for Enron I guess. And to have it apply in this context was kind of a stretch and some people would say that it was too much of a stretch. So Ed Martin's going to look into this and figure out if those prosecutors had gone too far.

Yeah Tesla's earnings statement is out today coincidentally. Meanwhile New York's attorney general Letitia James she's going to sue the Trump administration for trying to freeze those federal funds on what she thought were, I think she fell for the hoax. I think she thought it was going to stop direct payments to people who get direct payments but it's not. It's going to stop stuff like DEI and funding illegal immigration, things that are far less controversial. But here's the thing. So her claim is that the president can't pause funding because it's a congressional thing maybe. But I've never seen anybody who was more like a movie villain. Letitia James. There's something about the way she looks and the way she talks. There's just extra chilling. And we're going to get Trump. I can't even do an impression but damn she's got the evil genius. You know it's like she has a Dr. Evil's twin or something. She's got that down.

So Caroline Leavitt, the new spokesperson for Trump, had her first press conference and I would give it an A+. It was really, it could have been the best one I've ever seen. You know I haven't seen every press conference but Karine Jean-Pierre was the standard and she was great and pretty much flawless and often created headlines just from her good answers and stuff. But Caroline Leavitt was perfect. She didn't need a binder. She spoke to everything confidently, quickly, very clearly. She knew the reporters by name. Her answers were real answers and not a bunch of evasions and word salad. And it's kind of terrible for the last spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre because we're going from unambiguously the worst press secretary of all time to one of the top two of all time. Although Dana Perino was probably in that top category as well. So the Republicans have had two or three that are the best we've seen. And at what point do Democrats notice? It seems like they'd notice that their own spokesperson was completely incapable of doing the job and that the Trump ones are great.

Well how are the other countries doing? Let's check in internationally. Let's see the Green Party leader, the economic minister, says they only expect Germany to have a growth rate of 0.3%. That would be like the end of Germany if they don't get that up. That would be less than inflation basically. That would be a death spiral, 0.3%. Because it would be one thing if they were in the middle of a pandemic or just recovering but other countries don't have a 0.3% growth rate. So whatever they're doing in Germany it's all wrong. And here's my question. Does Germany still have the ability to manufacture? Because that was one of their strengths, right? They could build factories and manufacture stuff like cars and whatnot. And I wonder if they still have that. Did they lose it like America did? But if they still have people who have those skills I wonder if we could poach them since Germany's falling apart. Is there any way we could say hey we need a bunch of people who know how to engineer a factory and do it quickly so we can bring manufacturing back to America? And I don't know, seems like we should be looking for some superstars who have specific skills from other countries.

Meanwhile while over in the UK it looks like there's a law to imprison people who view far-right pro