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you can't really understand how so many people got so much money. Or back in the times when I would go on vacations to nice places and I would think to myself, you know, I'm the Dilbert guy. I got super lucky, made more money than most people. So I get to go to this resort, some five-star resort somewhere, but then it would be full. And I would think to myself, how could there be so many people wh…
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So I did a little test where I went to Grok and I told it to summarize the book Atomic Habits. And it didn't pause for a second and it gave me a good little summary where I would say to myself, huh, I don't know if I need to read this book now. And I thought to myself, is that only true for non-fiction books? Can I just go to, and I've tried to do it with my own books, but when I do it with my own books, it tells me that it can only tell me what other people have said about it. So if there are other people who have written long reviews or if somebody went on X and did a big thread where they said here's the best ideas from his book, I guess it could train on that. And so I don't know if I would write another book because we're at that point where you don't really need to buy a book if you have AI. You can just tell it to summarize all the top 10 business books and by the time you've reached your destination on your airline trip you'll basically know what's in 10 different important books. I don't know.
And then what about the ones that are just pure fiction? Do you think the AI will just be able to look at a bunch of fiction that other people have written and just say, "All right, I can see how this works. I see the patterns." You made a prediction. If I write another one, it'll be my best. Well, even if it is my best, it wouldn't be economic at this point. I don't know. So this is a big case. We'll see how that goes.
According to Just the News, there's a rumor that the first big trade deal might be with India. Now we don't have confirmation of that, but Commerce Secretary Lutnick hinted at the fact that there's going to be an announcement coming and it wasn't long ago that JD Vance was over in India meeting with Modi. And so if you just sort of read the tea leaves and you figure India might want to be first, maybe it'll be India.
But here's the political element. So the Democrats have gone all in on the tariffs being the worst idea and nothing but chaos can come from it. Now would you agree that they're all in on that? They bet their entire farm on tariffs are destroying the economy so that by the midterms they can say, "See, look what he did. He destroyed the economy." Now they're not getting what they want in terms of the stock market, which has largely recovered, or the price of eggs, which have gone down, or the price of fuel, which I think has drifted down a little bit. So they're really going to have to bank on the tariffs being a disaster.
So what happens when the tariff deals start coming through because you know they will. There's not really much chance that we won't make any tariff deals and we'll obviously do the important ones that we think we can get done and make a difference first. So isn't it going to look like one loss after another to the Democrats? Oh he's so chaos. Oh everything's okay. Well we'll give you that the India trade deal was better for the United States, but all the rest, oh the chaos and the uncertainty. Okay. Okay. Maybe Japan can make a deal, but they're a good ally. You can't count them. Oh but the chaos. All right. South Korea did make a deal and it looks like it's a little bit better for us, but really it's still just nothing but chaos. And okay, Europe made a deal. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the Democrats are going to have something like a full year of having to just suck every word they've said for the last six months. It's going to look like they're so wrong that it would be wrongness on a scale that we've never seen before because it's just going to be one thing after another. I think there are 160 countries and when we reach a certain point, maybe in a few months, it's going to be every day there's going to be another announcement of how we improved our trade situation with a particular country. I think Democrats just created their own trap for themselves because they put so much attention into the "Oh the tariffs are bad. The tariffs are bad. He doesn't know what a tariff is." That they're just going to have to eat it. We'll see.
Apparently Bernie Sanders is not too unified with Chuck Schumer. And he was arguing that the reason that Trump won, this is Bernie Sanders, he thinks the reason that Trump won is because he said he would smash the system. How many of you voted for Trump because he was going to smash the system? Does Bernie have the right vibe there? I feel like he might for the first time because that's why I supported Trump. I wanted him to break everything because everything was corrupt. And when everything is corrupt and somebody comes in and says, "I'm just going to stomp on everything," I think to myself, that's the first step. Bring him in, have him stomp on everything. Just break everything. And then maybe we can recover. But we definitely can't just keep going the way we're going. So I think Bernie might be a little bit right about that.
But Sanders was pushing back on Caitlyn Collins' suggestion about the cohesiveness of the Democrats and Sanders said that they're not cohesive. He said quote you needed an agenda questioning what the party was united around. What exactly would we be united around? You would need some kind of an agenda. And I would add to that that once the Democrats had gone all in on opposing common sense, in other words always taking the 20 side of the 80-20 situation, once you've committed to being against common sense, I don't know that there's a path back because you would either have to embrace the en
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tire Republican concept of common sense or you have to stay against common sense. There's only two paths. How in the world do they come back from that? Well I guess they have the media to keep them in business. Well let's look at the designated liars on the Democrat side. You know the designated liars are Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin, Swalwell, and Elizabeth Warren, and some more. Now what's differe…
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