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It's Musk. And they didn't run the denial. It's one thing to be wrong, but being wrong when the only really reliable source of information tells you that you're absolutely 100% wrong, that's pretty bad. And Elon Musk wasn't too happy about that. I guess you wouldn't be too happy either if the news ran such a fake report about you. Here's some news about Tim Walz, who I call the pointy-haired boss…

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no difference. He's just the pointy-haired boss.

So his latest Tim Walz-ism is he was explaining to an audience why he was selected as the VP candidate and he said, quote, "I could codetalk to the white guys watching football, fixing their truck. I was the permission structure to say look you can do this and vote for this." That is the least male thing anybody ever said. "I could codetalk to white guys." Even the way he says it, he doesn't even say it like he is one of the guys. He says it like he's a robot who would learn the lingo of men. It's like, "Oh, I can codetalk just like a guy. I'm not a guy. I'm not a real man, but I can talk like one. So I was a good choice." And I was the permission structure to say the permission structure. Who talks like that?

But the funny thing about that is that even today they still think that identity politics is the way to go. Because even though he was trying to act like a white guy because they thought they needed to get more support from white guys, that's still just identity politics. It's just a weird one. So they just can't get out of that little trap they've set for themselves that everything is identity politics. Anyway, they'll never escape that.

According to Mark Zuckerberg, Meta is going to try to make you an AI friend. So I guess if you have Meta, you'll be able to use their AI to create some friends. So finally, finally my audience could have some friends. It's not just me that's putting a lot of burden on me. I am your invisible friend who's not that invisible. But Zuckerberg said that the average American has three friends but has a demand for 15. Does that sound right? How many of you have three friends who are local? Because if your friends are not local, they're still friends, but it kind of doesn't count if you can't see them in person. How many of you have three? Three is a lot for a man. How many men need 15 friends? That's a lot. Maybe that's what women need. Women might need 15. All right. A lot of you

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have three friends. Good. Good. But it looks like you'll get some extra ones. Yesterday I talked about a video I saw from Anduril. That's the new defense contractor that does the newest high-tech defense stuff. And they had a man-portable, they call it, meaning one person could carry it, device called a drone killer called the Pulsar. And they showed a video where one of the people demonstrating…

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