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Back to episode — Episode 2841 CWSA 05/16/25

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about this week is that it could come up with some algorithms that we couldn't come up with? And then I say, what would be those algorithms? And how are those changing the world? Well, AlphaEvolve, I guess that's the flavor of AI that's doing this, came up with more efficient algorithms for several kinds of computations. Several kinds, I say several kinds, not just one, several kinds. For example,…

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a goal which is to have fiscal responsibility. But we don't have a system that can ever get that for us because the problem is that if any politician cut anything enough to make a difference, they would not get reelected. So we shouldn't be surprised that the people who are in the system that they will be punished to do the right thing. They will be punished. They will be punished if they do the right thing, which is cut the spending. They will be punished. Even if they take something that only 10% of the public cares about, that's enough not to get reelected. They would be punished. So as long as we have a system that guarantees we're going to go down the drain, don't ask me to sign off on this. Don't ask me to pat you on the head. Don't ask me to say, "Good job, guys." No, this is an insult. This is an insult. Rand Paul, I'm on your side. And I feel like the public just has to take over this process. I feel like the public needs to just say, "We're going to get rid of everybody unless you can fix this." Now, I don't know any way that that can work, but I'll tell you one thing. The Congress can't do this thing, and it's the most important thing. And if you can't do the most important thing to keep us all alive, to keep us alive, you got to go. Something's got to change.

And am I happy with President Trump, who apparently seems to be perfectly happy with kicking this can down the road at the age of whatever he is? Nope. Absolutely not. No. I can tell you that Trump did amazing work in the Middle East. I think really just historically amazing work. But if he gives us this budget, how am I supposed to support that? And it doesn't have anything to do with a Republican or Democrat. It's doom. It's the end of your life. Unless somebody's come up with some magical way that everything will be better. The only thing I saw that was like this glimmer of hope was somebody in the comments on X said well you know nothing about the budget will matter when AI reaches you know this certain level AI will change everything so debt won't matter etc. Really? Is that why the Fortune 500 companies say hm this AI isn't working out so much? You're going to have to give us some kind of a plan that doesn't look like you're going to kill us. And this is absolutely a non-starter. So every one of you got something to explain to the public. You've insulted us. You've failed. You've set us on a track to absolute destruction. And you'd better figure it out.

Now again, I do have some sympathy for the fact that they're in a system where they will be personally punished for doing the right thing. I feel like the public or maybe it's Trump. I mean, you know, he's a singular character. He could do it. I just don't know that he would. I think that it's political suicide to cut any part of the budget for any reason whatsoever. Just absolute suicide. So I don't know where this goes, but don't expect me to be mindlessly supporting Republicans when they're trying to kill us all. That's not going to happen. That's just not going to happen.

Well, not only are they trying to take away all of our money and destroy the country, but now Senator Mike Lee, Republican, he wants to make porn a crime in the United States. So all pornography would basically become a crime. Now my first question about this was would that include OnlyFans? Would the OnlyFans be able to still do their OnlyFans thing? Because if you got rid of all sort of classic porn, wouldn't men turn more to OnlyFans? And wouldn't that turn women more into prostitutes online? I don't know. I would worry a little bit about the unintended consequences of this one. You know, I don't know enough about it, but I don't know. It also looks like a limitation on free speech and everything else. So you can have your opinion on that.

US wholesale prices according to the Daily Wire had the biggest decline in five years, flying in the face of economist predictions. At the same time, the news is saying that Walmart's getti

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ng ready to raise their prices substantially because of tariffs. So if you're not well versed in economics, how can it be true that Walmart's going to raise its prices at the same time, which would be the signal for everybody else to do it really? At the same time that we've seen the biggest drop in five years. And the answer is there's a timing difference. So the tariff stuff hasn't really hit th…

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