y of you have ever tried it? The moment you get into it you hit a fake news. It happens in 10 seconds. Well you know this or that might be your opinion. And then the very next thing is you hear well you know he tried to overthrow the country on January 6. Okay where did that come from? Not from real news. Came from propaganda anyway.

Trump's revoking the security clearances for Biden, Harris, and Clinton. Now the Biden and Harris part makes sense but did you know that Hillary Clinton still had security clearance? That surprised me. I guess you just have it until they take it away, right? If you ever have a security clearance then you always have it. That feels like a terrible thing because would that mean that Clinton had ongoing access to confidential government stuff even while she was out of office? Is that true? I don't know.

In other news Conor McGregor seems to be running for president of Ireland now. I saw a report on that. I don't know if that's totally confirmed but I don't know how that will go. So he's got a lot of baggage. You know there are accusations against him and there's going to be plenty of people who are anti-Conor McGregor. But here I did a little research on him and here's what I can tell you. He definitely has all the persuasion skills it would take. So if you're going to judge on persuasion I would hate to be on the other side.

So here are some of the things that other writers have attributed to him. He likes talent stacks, in with those words, talent stacks. He likes systems over goals, again using those very words. And he likes affirmations and visualizations. And these have been key to his success in his primary field. Any of that sound familiar? Talent stacks, systems over goals, affirmations and visualizations. Yeah, yeah. I wouldn't underestimate him because he's working with the best tools that anybody ever had if I do say so myself. So yeah Conor McGregor, he's got the full set. So he could make it potentially. I'm not going to call him as the winner because I don't know who he'd run against. I don't know what negatives he has. But skill-wise, full talent stack. Yep. Or what he doesn't have he'll have soon.

You know by now that the New York Times has been accused by the Trump administration of lying in an article about Elon Musk having a planned meeting with the Pentagon in which they were going to share secret plans, war plans about what we would do if there were a war with China. Now according to Sean Parnell, he's a Pentagon spokesperson, and according to Trump and according to Musk that was never true. It was just completely made up.

Now I remind you that when I first talked about this story I said there's a tell in the story, a signal that it's not true. Do you remember what the signal was? So before it was confirmed that it wasn't true it was obvious it wasn't true. And that's because the source or sources were anonymous sources. They weren't whistleblowers. They were anonymous sources. And it's the New York Times. If you put those two things together it's about Trump or about Musk. So it's the same thing. It's about Musk, Trump. It's in the New York Times and it's about this time during the term and it's anonymous sources and it's something that sounds crazy when you hear it. Every part of that screamed fake news. And it looks like it was.

So here's another funny one. There was a poll on who's leading for you know to be the candidate for 2028 on the Democrat side. And apparently Kamala Harris comes out way on top. And she has a double digit lead over the closest potential competitor which is Buttigieg who only had 10% support. So she got 36% of the support from Democrat and Democrat-leaning people. Now I assume that the field of potential people was limited in this poll so maybe there were some people who would look better than her but were not on the list. I don't know. But it does suggest that Democrats can't learn anything. Because if you hadn't learned by now that Kamala Harris is not exactly the warrior you need, how are you ever going to learn it? I feel like this is just another batshit crazy woman and stuff where women just say which one's the woman? Okay which one's the most famous woman who's also a woman of color? Okay got it. Kamala Harris. I don't think there's a lot of thinking that went into this. Certainly not a lot of competitive thinking as in who could win.

So the Democrats continue to be completely leaderless and rudderless. I was watching some of the video of Bernie Sanders and AOC doing their anti-oligarch tour. What would be more beatable than the group that's doing the anti-oligarch tour where they have more billionaires who give money to their side than the other side? It's the most debunked thing you could do. It's the George Soros party. And the only thing that the Democrats, the only thing Republicans did is they got a few billionaires on their side because the few billionaires said uh oh it looks like you're destroying the country entirely and if we don't save it we're all dead. So I don't think this anti-oligarch thing is even a little bit smart.

As Fetterman said, and I said before he said it, I don't think anybody knows what an oligarch is or why it matters. You know they might be able to define it but who are the oligarchs? Why does it matter? Like why is that not good for you if they do well? I know, a lot of questions.

While the governor of Maine, you might remember, spoke up at a White House meeting one time about the banning of biological men in women's sports. And the governor of Maine said they're not going to buckle to the Trump administration's requirements that to get federal funding that they stopped doing that. But the state universities who were the target of that messaging said they would comply, meaning that they would ban biological men in women's sports. But now Trump wants the governor to do a full-throated apology. Now is he saying full-throated apology because it's kind of funny to say it that way? Am I the only one who thinks something's sexual when I hear that? I want an apology but a full-throated one. To which I say what exactly is in the full throat? That's a weird choice of words. So I don't know. I like it because it's provocative. But yeah Trump wants a full-throated apology from the governor of Maine.

Well let's talk about Stephen A. Smith. You know Stephen A. Smith has been making a lot of noise because although his main job is an ESPN commentator he's been talking about politics a lot. And he's also tried to find that common sense common ground, sort of the Bill Maher common ground. But James O'Keefe and his O'Keefe Media Group, they got an undercover recording of an ESPN producer who calls Stephen A. Smith quote an angry black man and thinks he's crazy and has no idea about politics. So that's from a producer at ESPN. And said about discussions about the Middle East, ESPN producer questioned what does he know about Gaza? You know if he's talking about the Lakers in one minute what are the odds he has something to add about Gaza?

Now I'm going to defend Stephen A. Smith because I kind of like him. So it's hard to criticize somebody that you kind of like. I like the fact that he's so good at what he does. So if his job is to make you interested and to make you not turn the channel and to make you say I could listen to a little more of what he has to say, he's really good at that. Like really really good. His communication skills are just off the chart and his performance skills, and I'm going to call it performance, really good. So when I hear him talk about any of these political topics I'm actually interested because he's someone who seems to be trying to find some common sense area. He seems to be smarter than the average person by a lot and he communicates so well. So you put all that together and I do want to hear what he says about Gaza. Do I think that he's an expert on Gaza? No I don't think anybody is. I just don't think anybody is. So if you've got somebody who might disagree with me but he's really good at communicating and he maybe has a point of view that other people share as well, I'm all over that. Why wouldn't I want to hear that?

So I disagree with ESPN. I think that he's a smart, well-informed voter who's not an expert on any of those topics but as a representative of people who maybe have also similar views he's just such a good communicator that why is that not interesting to me? It is. To me that's exactly what I'd like to see more of. And you know it'd be different if I thought he couldn't change his mind if the data changed but there's no indication of that. The indication is that if he saw different data or new facts emerged that he would go back and recook up a