idterms. Now, that's what James Carville says. Now, that would be an example of getting your base all riled up, but it does seem to suggest that he believes that you could rig an election. So can he talk to Anderson Cooper on CNN? Cuz he believes that an election can be rigged, but maybe not by rigging the vote. I think he's suggesting that he might rig something about the system, you know, declaring an emergency or martial law or something, which would be more overthrowing an election than rigging it.

Going back to Representative Jayapal, here's what she's saying on CNN. She says, "What is deranged and cruel and outrageous is that literally we're seeing literally like literally actually happening. We're seeing ICE agents and they're coming and kidnapping and disappearing people on the streets of the United States." Is that happening? Are they kidnapping and disappearing people or just people who are illegal and shouldn't be here in the first place? Well, probably their net is picking up more people than you thought they would. So there is a little bit of that. So this is hyperbole. Of course, there's no kidnapping and there's no disappearing. But I can definitely see that the aggressive approach to immigration is going to pick up some people who are not the worst of the worst and they will get shipped off to who knows where.

So my take on this is that it does transfer a burden from the legal citizens of the United States and their risk would be having too many people come in who were not vetted. It shifts the burden to the people who have already come in illegally. Now I don't mind shifting burden from the people who are obeying the law to the people who did not obey the law. That does seem, you know, my empathy gene kicks in and I definitely have empathy for the population that is being most affected. I have lots of empathy. But from a conceptual level, philosophically, shifting the burden from the people who are doing everything right to the people who are trying to get a little extra from the system, that doesn't seem terrible even though it does have a price.

There's this guy Eli Mystal, you've seen him. He looks like he has the big white afro and he's often on MSNBC. Well, he was on Joy Reid's podcast and he said that America is the bad guys on the world stage and a menace to free and peaceful people because America is the one causing all the trouble. To which I say, well, that's sort of true, but I would say that America pursues its national best interest, which is often tied to its multinational profitability. And that's not really pleasant for the rest of the world. But every country gets the opportunity to pursue their own best interest. We don't complain too much when other countries do it. We just say, "Well, obviously everybody pursues their own best interests." So yeah, we're sort of the bad guys to other countries because we're doing the same thing they're doing, pursuing our own best interests. So he's kind of right and kind of wrong at the same time.

CNN's Harry Enten was blown away, as was I, by new data showing that Democrats have shifted massively from being pro-Israel to being pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel. And the shift is enormous. The pro-Palestinian position is up by 43 points. 43 points. In other words, it's not even close. That it's one of the few issues where it's just not close. So the Democrats are just anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, and the Republicans. I haven't seen the Republican numbers, but probably not that. My guess is that the Republicans are still pro-Israel by a majority, but I don't know.

So obviously the Gaza situation and the military might that Israel has been employing with US support is not popular, but I didn't see that it could ever move that much. So apparently something big is happening. I don't know if it's a TikTok effect, a social media effect, but if you take the Gaza situation and you put it all over TikTok and social media, I can see how you could turn half of the country 180. Looks like that's what happened.

According to the Wall Street Journal, there's a bunch of CEOs who are now saying that AI will vastly reduce the number of jobs. Now remember, at the moment, the number of jobs is looking good. So employment looks pretty good and we've had AI for kind of two years and so far not really any direct effect on the overall job situation. Definitely affect some individual companies, but overall employment stayed strong. And I'm wondering if this is an example of the Adams law of slow-moving disasters where if everyone can see the problem coming like all these CEOs, I think the CEO of Anthropic, which is an AI company, says we'll see unemployment levels of 10 to 20% from AI replacing people. Now that would be unemployment of 20%. That's depression level, isn't it? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think even the Great Depression was around 20% unemployment. That's hard to survive that level. And I think the CEO of Ford says that half of all white collar workers might be replaced by AI.

But I'm going to be a little bit skeptical about these predictions. I think it's a little bit too obvious and easy to say that oh AI will replace a bunch of workers. If you're wrong, nobody's going to be mad at you. They'll just be happy that nothing bad happened. And if you're right, you get to say, "Look how right I was." So it's sort of a safe, easy, routine thing to predict. Oh yeah. The AI will take half our jobs. But so far, I feel like it will definitely take jobs in some businesses and some industries, but I don't know. I feel like maybe as many jobs will be created as there are taken away. We'll see. I'm a skeptic. I'm a loss.

Apparently in LA there's some kind of $30 minimum wage hike that was passed by the city council. So if you have a hotel in LA, you would have to pay all of your workers a minimum of $30 an hour. Now, the federal minimum wage is still like $7.50, but a lot of states have higher ones, like $15 maybe. I don't know what it is in California. Is it $15 minimum wage? But for the hotels, it would be $30 minimum wage. And of course, the hotels are saying they can't survive that. And maybe they can't.

Well, let's talk about Jerome Powell. Does it feel to you that Jerome Powell has that Joe Biden vibe now? When I see pictures of Jerome Powell, he doesn't look like he still has his fastball. Now, it's still only based on the videos and the pictures. It's not even based on anything he says or believes or anything like that. It's based on just the vibe. He's got that Joe Biden, you know, I stayed in the job too long vibe.

But Bill Pulte is pointing out that when Powell testified to the Senate Banking Committee, so that's a testimony under oath I think, that he had answered some questions dishonestly and the questions were involved a new building that was being built for the Fed and he was being asked about some of the alleged luxuries that were being built into the building, I'll call them luxuries, like a rooftop garden and some stuff like that. And that he must have said that they're not planning that. And now we know that maybe that is part of the plan. So if he lied to Congress, is that grounds for removing him from the Fed? Because it was a big project. It was I think it was over a billion dollars in construction that they were looking at. Well, Bill Pulte has called this out as potential grounds for removing him along with being too late about everything. So and then Trump has agreed with that to put more pressure on Powell.

There's new video of this Zohran Mamdani guy back in 2021. We already saw the video where he said that the ultimate goal is seizing the means of production which confirms that he's a communist, not just a socialist, but actually wants to go full communist, seizing the means of production. In other words, the government owning all the factories and the productions. I don't know. But apparently he also in a similar video in 2021 said something about I think the government taking over the penthouses and turning them into low-cost housing. So basically getting rid of private ownership of residential homes. Now, you might argue that there's no such thing as private ownership of homes in the United States because if you're paying property tax, which you are, if you stop paying the property tax, you'd be jailed by the government. So you could argue that we already don't have private ownership of business, but it's closer to private than the idea of the government owning it directly.

So yes, Mamdani with his creepy communist smile. That smile that every time you see it, you say to yourself, "Wait a minute, that smile looks like a snake oil salesman. Somebody is trying to put one over on me." He has the least trustable face because of that weird smile, the creepy communist smile. So we'll see if that becomes an issue.

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