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Now, since it was a three-point shot, the Pacers are like, "Yes, yes, we won because we were only down by two and we just made a three-point shot." And then they look at the video and the guy who shot it, his foot was just on the line, which makes it a two-point shot. So first the Knicks totally won, then the Pacers totally won and then it was a tie and had to go to overtime where the Pacers won.…
← Previous segment →you notice it did have one thing that I don't like in a movie, which is somebody who's underwater for too long. I fast forward through all underwater scenes. But then you realize, wait a minute, there's nothing woke about this movie. The cast is not diverse. There's no overweight Black woman who is the key feature. It's just good-looking people. And the two female leads were both attractive. And the lead guy was attractive too. So when was the last time you saw a movie like that? There was nothing woke at all. I don't know how he got it made. I would love to know the backstory.
It was a Guy Ritchie film. So it's fun for the whole family. There's no swearing. I think there was zero swearing. And basically it was sort of a genius movie of what he left out. He just sort of left out everything that movies try to put in there, you know, all the stuff you don't want to see. So I recommend it. Fun for the whole family.
Well, in other news, according to PsyPost, non-right-handedness is more common across multiple mental health conditions. You know what non-right-handedness is. It's called left-handedness. So apparently if you're left-handed, you're more likely to have a variety of mental health conditions. Now that probably includes if you're a leftist because you know how we've already seen that the Democrats have more mental health problems and they're actually called leftists. So apparently anything left is correlated with mental health problems.
Anyway, in other news, according to Discover, we tend to trust people from low-income backgrounds over the wealthy elites. Do you think that's true? Do you trust people from low-income backgrounds more than rich people? I think that depends. If you dropped your wallet, would you rather a billionaire found it or somebody from a low-income background? I feel like I trust the billionaire to give my wallet back. So that's very situation dependent. But you can see why Joe Biden used to do the "I'm just Lunch Bucket Joe. I'll take the train. I'm just like you."
Anyway, according to some neuroscience news, AI has higher emotional IQ than humans. You know the emotional IQ where you know how to deal with people's emotional states and your own etc. And I thought to myself, that kind of makes sense because the AI can simply memorize all the situations and it can just say, "All right, under this situation, people should do this." So yes, it makes total sense that AI would have a higher emotional IQ. Could have just asked me. And it's a big deal. Actually, it's a big difference. The AI achieved an average score of 82% where the humans were at 56%. So if you want some empathy and you want a high emotional IQ, I suggest you get a robot. Robots can set you free.
According to Fox News, the ladies of The View have been asked by their boss, the head of Disney, Bob Iger, to cool it with all the political chatter. And then apparently the ladies of The View said, "No, it's very important that we do political chatter, so we'll keep doing it." I don't know if that was a good idea because if your boss tells you to do less of something, you probably should do less of it. But I can't believe that The View has the same ratings when they're being political and essentially annoying half of the country. Don't you think their ratings would be higher if they just did everything but politics? So it seems like Bob Iger may have the right idea here, but who knows?
If you haven't seen this yet, there's some kind of AI called VO3 in which they created a bunch of deepfake street interviews. So it's a whole bunch of little clips where somebody's interviewing somebody in the street usually at night. And until now, I always told myself, you know, I could tell AI from reality, but you can't. It's not even just one or two things. It's a whole string of street interviews and you cannot tell that these are AI. So I don't know how far away we are from making a whole movie, but that was scary. So we've crossed the Scott line where I say to myself, "Ah, I could tell that was AI because they have six fingers or there's something about them or the way they talk." You absolutely can't tell that. It 100% looks real. Crazy.
Meanwhile, speaking of crazy and crazy eyes, Hillary Clinton is trying to ruin your Memorial Day weekend because she's made the following suggestion in a post on X. She said, "I want you to talk to two people, friends, neighbors, cookout attendees about why Trump's proposed budget would be a disaster for American kids." And then she goes on to give some examples of what she's talking about. Can you think of a worse idea than bringing up the budget at your Memorial Day barbecue? I can't think of a worse idea. Does Hillary get invited to things? She talks like somebody who's never been invited to anything. It's the worst idea of all time. No. How about you just shut up about politics and enjoy your neighbors and your family? Shut up. Just shut up about politics. Take a message from Bob Iger. Sometimes talking about politics could be too much.
Meanwhile, according to the College Fix, a Tennessee university is hit with civil rights complaints over 17 race-based scholarships. So when they say race-based, it means you can't be a white guy, basically. But some of them are more specific, like you could be an African-American or a Native American or something. So some of them will give you two choices. Oh yeah, Native American or African-American. So there's 17 race-based scholarships. I'm kind of happy that that stuff's being dismantled, but don't you think it'll be put right back together as soon as Trump is out of office? Don't you imagine that the minute there's a Democrat who's president that everything that Trump has dismantled will just go right back to the way it was? Or could it be that the Democrats are happy he's dismantling it, but they can't say it out loud? I don't know. I want to be happy about the direction of things, but I don't know how long it's going to last.
Well, Kamala Harris, according to that new book by Jake Tapper, some time ago when she was appearing on CNN, and I think it was after Biden did his catastrophic debate performance, and she goes on CNN and she was asked about basically Biden's brain and then she gets off and she allegedly blasted Anderson Cooper as a motherfucker. So the story is that she was very mad about the question she was asked about the president's cognitive ability and she said this motherfucker doesn't treat me like the damn vice president of the United States. She told colleagues. And then she said, "I thought we were better than that." Well, don't you think they were treating her like the vice president of the United States? Because the vice president of the United States under the condition of the president of the United States showing that he's cognitively impaired, isn't it exactly her job to figure out whether the 25th Amendment makes sense? To me, it seems like they were treating her like the vice president. She would be the number one person you should ask that question. Is it time to replace this guy? So I guess she didn't like having any tough questions. But don't you feel lucky that she didn't become president? We were so close to having a president Kamala Harris. You know the horse laugh. Oh my god.
Well, Victor Davis Hanson was talking about CNN and all the things that they've done that were opposite of news. And some of the things he listed was he actually went so hard as to say he doesn't know how Jake Tapper is keeping his job at CNN because he mentions the Russia collusion fail, the Steele dossier fail, the Hunter laptop fail, and he says there's definitely a pattern to which I would like to add the following. What about the fine people hoax? What about the whole autopen story? There was nobody in the news business who knew there was an autopen problem. What about the Biden crime family? Totally ignored. What about the drinking bleach hoax? Yeah, there's a pattern. But the pattern all comes from the same place, doesn't it? The pattern comes from they created a narrative that Trump was Hitler. Once you've created the narrative that Trump is Hitler, it gives you permission to lie about every story because obviously you don't want to be complicit in making Hitler in charge. So they basically, there was one problem that caused them to no longer be a news entity and it was that they had convinced themselves that he was Hitler. So one problem caused 50 problems.
According to Liz Peek, who's writing for The Hill, they're still trying to figure out who is in charge of that autopen, which is kind of hilarious because it's one of the biggest, well, maybe the biggest story in the country. Don't you think if the biggest story in the country was who's doing all that autopen stuff, don't you think that the people who were doing the autopen stuff should have said, "Oh, that was me. Yeah, it was the three of us. That was our process." But without that, what are we supposed to think? There's only one thing you could think if they decided to get real quiet about that process. There's a problem. Because if there were no problem, it would have been like day two. They would have said, "Oh, here's how it works. Here's the process. Here's our diary of who did what and who signed what." The fact that they're just quiet about it and we have to do research to figure out who is behind the autopen, that's a pretty good indication that there's a problem.
But the thing that to me is scary is that there are two people who were mentioned as likely not the only people necessarily, but two of the main people who might have been behind the autopen. And what's scary is I'd never heard of them. If the real answer had been Ron Klain or Jake Sullivan, I would have said, "Huh, you know, that's not ideal because the president's supposed to be doing the autopen stuff." But at least I would think this is a well-known, smarter person. Everybody's heard those names. But the names we're hearing are Mike Donilon and Anita Dunn. How many of you had ever heard those names before the autopen thing? Isn't that like giving you a little pause? It's like, huh, not so sure who they even are. So part of the mystery is why do people we've never even heard of were signing all these things and then there's the thought about all the clemencies. You know, weren't there like thousands of clemencies that were signed and you thought to yourself how could thousands of them be signed? Well the autopen. Do you think anybody sold a clemency? I'll bet they did. I'll bet somebody sold the clemency or two. Don't know who.
So Susan Rice, you know her from the sort of Obama person. So she did a little video. I don't know what she was appearing on, but she was saying that Trump has only looked at 12 daily briefings in over a hundred days of being in office. And the way she says it with her wrinkled up eyebrows is that it's like he's not doing the job. He's only seen 12 daily briefings. Only 12 in over a hundred days. Now, she says it in a way that she's trying to sell the attitude, not the facts, because the facts don't really tell a story, but the attitude. She scrunches up her face so that you know it's a really big problem.
But here's my interpretation. What would be the second reason that Trump would not be listening to all the daily briefings? I'm going to take a sip while you answer that question. What would be the other reason that he had only listened to some of the briefings? What would you say? The answer is if they were useful, don't you think he would listen to them? Of course he would. I remember that the daily briefing included the Bin Laden risk and I think Bush didn't even pay attention to it because it was just on a list of a whole bunch of things. And I also wonder if the daily briefing is maybe managed a little bit by some Obama people who have gotten to some other people who can get to some other people. Don't you think that Susan Rice is a little bit too interested in the daily briefings? As if maybe the Democrats have figured out how to influence somebody who does the daily briefings for the president and they're trying to manipulate him that way, but he's just not paying attention to them at all. Maybe.
Well, General Mike Flynn, who of course has seen daily briefings, he said the daily briefings is a complete waste of time, financial resources, and people. He said Rice is another Marxist who sees globalism as the future. And I say, if you can't trust government employees to give you the right stuff, who can you trust?
Well, Senator Joni Ernst is talking about something. I think you heard this from Elon and DOGE at one point, that there are $60 billion spent on federal government credit cards. And apparently there are twice as many credit cards as there are federal government employees. That's a little red flag right there. Twice as many credit cards as employees. But apparently it's worse than that because she says that a lot of the card usage occurs during federal holidays and on days like New Year's Eve at nightclubs and bars and Sunday afternoons and whenever there's a big UFC fight. And there are also cash withdrawals at casino ATMs. So I guess they canceled about half a million of those cards. I think you've heard that story before, but the funny part is that it's so obvious that they were stealing because you could tell the pattern of when the cards were being used.
Well, Trump has threatened the European Union with a 50% tariff because they seem to be dragging their feet dealing with the trade stuff. And part of it is that it's complicated. So it's not just tariffs, it's they got fees on streaming services, value added taxes, they got automotive regulations and fines imposed against US companies and antitrust. So it's a lot of stuff to untangle. So Trump's just saying, "All right, take your time, but we're going to give you a 50% tariff." I kind of like that. Wall Street Journal's reporting that.
Well, according to one source I saw, I saw it on a post by Luke Gromen, that if all Chinese students were removed from all US colleges, most of them would go bankrupt because the Chinese students pay full price for tuition and the colleges need that. So if we remove all the Chinese students from all the colleges besides just Harvard, a lot of colleges would go out of business. But don't you think we're heading toward a situation where a lot of colleges need to go out of business because they're not really adding enough value? You know, once you have AI, it seems like you can make your own college. So not too worried about that.
Trump says US Steel will partner with Nippon Steel and remain in the United States headquartered in Pittsburgh and it's going to create 70,000 jobs and add 14 or 15 billion to the economy. That sounds good. Sounds good. We're going to have more steel and fewer Chinese students. Now I do worry that some of the foreign students would be highly value added to our tax situation in this country but I do think we got a lot of them so maybe we could have fewer.
Well Texas has decided, it's on the verge of it, it hasn't done it yet, of completely banning THC products. And so Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, weighs in because Texas might ban THC and he says in a post on X, "Texans, flee the nanny state and come up north to enjoy the land of the free." And I'm thinking to myself, Tim Walz just came out publicly in favor of smoking weed in a state. Okay, I like him a little bit better now. He's got that one thing going for him.
Well, according to John Balden, there's no such thing as a South African white genocide. And apparently that video of what we were told is these South Africans singing "Kill the farmers, kill the, you know, shoot the Afrikaners." And it was one of the main pieces of evidence that Trump was showing the president of South Africa. Apparently those were not even South Africans. It was video from the Republic of the Congo. Now that's what Reuters is saying. There was a clip grabbed from Reuters and it wasn't even South Africans. But I do wonder if there are any South Africans who are doing that song and that dance, but I don't know what to believe about South Africa anymore. So John Balden basically says, you know, there's just so much crime there and murder that of course the white farmers are getting murdered because everybody's getting murdered. They're just part of the getting murdered crowd, but they're not specifically being targeted. I don't know about that. So John Balden is not exactly the best source for really anything. He's usually wrong on all the important everything. But if the white South Africans believe there's a genocide, wouldn't they be the best source? They're not making it up, right? The ones who want to get out of there because it's too dangerous. Seems like it's unlikely that it's fake.
Well, David Hogg, you know him, the co-chair of the DNC, he says that Representative Jasmine Crockett is a type of leader that they need because the Democratic party is rudderless. Rudderless. A rudder would be the thing that dangles down under the boat. You know what they are? They are rudderless, but they're also penisless and scrotumless. But David Hogg says, "I love her. She's amazing. I think that people want to see somebody who fights and calls out the BS ultimately." He was talking to Charlamagne tha God. I think that's what Jasmine does. Do you think he's called it right? Do you think he's got his finger on the pulse? Do you think what the Democrats need more than anything is an angry Black woman who can yell a lot or is he just being a sort of a DEI guy and he wants to make sure he's backing her? I feel like Jasmine Crockett is what the Republicans want for the Democrats. She might be the worst spokesperson that the Democrats have ever had. And I love the fact that David Hogg has to embrace her. Oh well, good luck with that guys.
According to The Conversation, and this is based on some Australians I think, authors are not happy about AI using their work, even if they get paid. So I guess a bunch of Australian authors have weighed in and they don't like at all the AI might be trained on their work. Now does that surprise you? So I went to Grok and I said, "Grok, are the sales of non-fiction books going down since AI?" Because that would be the way you'd know if people felt they didn't need to read non-fiction books because they could just ask Grok and it's already read all the books. And Grok was very vague. Grok was a little bit, well, you know, there is a litt
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le bit of a decrease in that market, but you can't really tie that to AI because you have lots of different factors happening. To which I thought, oh my god, is AI covering its own tracks? It looks like AI is coming up with its own alibis. Well, you know, it's not the AI. It's a variety of factors that would be hard to measure. I don't know. I'm going to say that that's an open question. But here'…
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