ng to retire and he says he's not going to retire because quote, "I'm staying put because I've been able to unite my caucus in a very strong fight against Trump." So what's missing in that frame? He's been able to unite his caucus in a very strong fight against Trump. There's no positive message. Even Democrats have been telling other Democrats, "Can you at least suggest something positive? You can't run a campaign that's just anti-Trump." But he is. So I think Schumer is the least effective communicator on the Democrat side. So Jon Stewart was right when he said maybe Schumer is not the one you put in front of the camera. But who do you put in front of the camera? Bernie Sanders, AOC, the weird little guy who got the articles of impeachment or Cory Booker sitting on steps. They don't have anybody who isn't scary or weird. They need somebody who's not scary or weird.

According to investor Kyle Bass, who follows China pretty closely, the China 10-year bond yield has just sunk through the floor. But that doesn't make sense if it were true that China's GDP was growing at 5.4%. So the thinking is that the bond is giving a little reveal that people don't trust that China is actually growing or at least growing at that rate. So I don't know that that means that the entire economy is going to implode in China but it does suggest that whatever China is telling you about their economy might be totally fake and maybe always has been. I don't know. So I asked Grok and it said that these low yields would be unusual for an economy that's supposedly growing in a robust way. So very unusual. So China is probably lying about their economy, but we don't know to what degree.

Well, as you know, Trump did an interview with The Atlantic, which is probably the most anti-Trump publication in the world. They don't hide it at all. And that's where Jeffrey Goldberg works, etc. And there's a quote that comes out of it about Pete Hegseth. So allegedly Trump said, quote, "I think he's going to get it together. I had a talk with him, a positive talk, but I had a talk with him." Now let me ask you this. If you knew that The Atlantic is the most anti-Trump entity, and you knew that Democrats are attacking Hegseth in particular because they think that there's a weakness there and they can get rid of him. Do you think that Trump actually said this or would you have to hear it on audio or video with the full context to know that he said this? And here's the big risk about doing an interview with something like The Atlantic. If they don't show you the whole context and the specific wording and what he was talking about, it makes it look like Trump has lost confidence in Hegseth and doesn't think that he has it together. Now that might be true, but you've noticed that Trump has never said anything like that anywhere else. So I didn't research it, but could you tell me is there any video or audio of Trump saying I think he's going to get it together? Because I'll bet there isn't. So that's just my speculation. If there is and the video or audio shows the full context, well then I'm wrong. But I wouldn't trust The Atlantic to have a quote that was both accurate and in context. This is a little bit too on the nose. Like it would be the most damaging thing you could put in an article. If you were Hegseth and you read this, you'd be going, "Oh I'm going to get fired. I think he's going to get it together." That's what you say about somebody who's not going to be around very long. And I don't know that he actually said that.

Anyway, Megyn Kelly had a fellow on her show who was recently fired for I think suspicion of leaking, but he said he didn't do it. So his name is Colin Carroll and when he was asked about Pete Hegseth he said on one sense that he was super focused and he was like great in a meeting that he saw but in other times he said at the same time I've seen the secretary in more internal meetings where he is super focused on like very in my opinion weird details and very agitated and kind of yelling and just nothing's good. In other words, acting like nothing's good. Now, how seriously should you take that? So it's on Megyn Kelly's show. She's very credible. But he's a recently fired guy. If I could give you any advice about who to believe, don't believe anonymous sources. And don't believe recently fired guys because almost every boss in the world could be described as somebody who was focusing on weird details and got very agitated and was yelling at stuff. That's almost everybody or at least everybody at a high level of management. So I would put that in the not too credible. I'm not saying he's wrong, but I'm saying that just in general, you shouldn't trust somebody who recently got fired by the person they're talking about. That's a good general rule.

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