that's what I needed. Now everything is perfect.

I wonder if there's any science that they could have saved some money by just asking Scott. Well, Eric Dolan writing for the PsyPost says that if you show people information about congressional stock picking, knowing that they can use insider information if they want, and if you tell people that Congress is betting on stocks using insider information, people will trust Congress less. That's right. If you learn that Congress are a bunch of lying thieving weasels, you will trust them less. You know, I don't think you need to do a study on that. You could have just asked me. I'll tell you.

Well, Elon Musk responded to Trump today. Trump had said that he won't take away subsidies from Musk. He doesn't want to do that. What he wants is for all American companies to thrive. So he's not trying to put Tesla out of business. He wants it to thrive along with other companies. And so he will not take away their subsidies. And Elon Musk said the subsidies he's talking about simply do not exist. He says Trump has already removed or put an expiration date on all sustainable energy support while leaving massive oil and gas subsidies untouched. So Trump has once again, Trump will not take away the subsidies that don't exist.

And Elon points out that SpaceX won the NASA contracts by doing a better job. So you don't want to take away any subsidies there either. Anyway, apparently Tesla is going to launch the Cybercab in San Francisco. So is that what it's called? Robo Taxi or Cybercab? I can't remember. But I thought to myself, is there finally a reason to go to San Francisco? You know, I live about an hour outside of San Francisco and I have managed to find no reasons to go there for about five years. There's just no reason to go there.

And I thought, wow, if I could drive my car to San Francisco, find a place to park, which wouldn't be easy, and then call a Cybercab, one of the Tesla self-driving driverless cabs, wouldn't that be like a fun day out? Wouldn't you enjoy that as just an adventure? Because most of you have probably never been in a self-driving car of any kind, right? And San Francisco is sort of an interesting place to drive. It's not the easiest. I mean, it's not Boston, but it's not the easiest either. Wouldn't you enjoy driving your car to the city just to take a driverless car ride? I'm thinking of doing that, but probably not.

Well, let's see if you are surprised to learn that the sale of TikTok to an American company is not being approved by China. So I guess JD Vance is in charge of that. And after lots of conversations, it does not look like there's a deal. So will Trump do what he said, which is if we can't buy it, he's going to close it down? Well, he doesn't want to close it down because he would be very unpopular and it works for Republicans. Apparently TikTok was more pro-Trump than we thought. Maybe it was only pro-Trump, but we'll see.

So China is also going to be meeting with the US to talk about finalizing some kind of trade deal. And it seems to me that if China wanted to make their best trade deal and they knew that Trump was trying to get TikTok purchased, that they would hold off on that until it was part of a bigger deal and they could trade it for something they want such as lower tariffs. So China would be crazy to approve TikTok outside of the conversation about tariffs in general. So how many of you knew that? Was that obvious to everybody that China would be crazy to make any kind of TikTok deal when they could just fold it into the larger negotiations? So no. I don't know if it'll ever happen, but they're not going to do it outside of the larger negotiations. They'd be crazy to do that.

Well, apparently if you go to do a search on Google, you now see an AI summary of whatever the destination links would take you to. How many people do you think click on the destination link when they have a summary right in front of them, which is probably all they wanted? Well, it turns out that 79% of the traffic is lost to the source of the news or the source of the information. So it looks like Google, if this stays true, that Google would be able to rob all of its sources of 80% of their traffic. Now, probably almost all of their sources depend on native traffic going to them. So AI has found a way to destroy all information on the planet Earth like literally because if you depend on traffic coming to you directly and then it goes away, well then the source, even if it's Wikipedia, they close down because there's no way to support it. And then what does Google link to? Because Google is not the base source of information. Google is just something that points to other places. But they're pointing to those other places and totally putting those other places out of business.

Well, I don't know. Maybe some of those sites will survive just on subscription. You know, maybe the biggest ones. But I feel like there's a risk that Google just destroyed all information. Does that make sense? If the sources of the information lose their entire source of revenue, which is traffic, then Google has nobody to link to. They'll all be gone. And then Google's out of business. So somehow we figured out how to destroy everything.

I believe, I didn't study up on this, but aren't some of the AI rules now in America very lenient for the AI that's looking at authors' books and deciding whether the author gets compensated or not? And at the moment there's no real way to do it. So if you were to stop and say, "All right, we'll stop doing this AI until all the people who were referenced or were part of the training of the model can get some kind of compensation." But there's not really any way to do it.

So people ask me, Scott, now that you might live a little bit longer, things are looking good in that domain at the moment, would you write another book? And honestly, I don't even know if anybody would write another book. I'm a little bit worried that book writing just won't be profitable because people haven't learned yet that you can get the best parts of a book just by going to AI. Hey AI, can you summarize what people are saying about this book? And then it pretends that it's only dealing with what people said about it, which usually is enough. So the book business might go away.

Well, it's been maybe 10 years in which I've been talking about the so-called fourth generation nuclear reactors. Now, the third generation nuclear reactors are the ones that we would build if we built one today or maybe yesterday, which have never had a meltdown. Did you know that the current version of nuclear power, the ones that have actually been around for I don't know the actual number, but maybe 30 years, they've never had a meltdown? The only ones that have are the ones that were version two, generation two and before. So it was already pretty safe, but it was still possible theoretically for the third generation to have meltdowns.

The fourth generation has been sort of what would you call it, an ambition, but we didn't know how to do it safely and economically. But thanks to our government, and I think Biden also did a good job on this, the government has created a test bed for testing new fuels and new technologies because that's the hard part, finding a way to rapidly test. And the good news is that between private industry startups and the government being pretty forward-looking in terms of supporting nuclear, there are several fourth generation nuclear reactors that are near launch in the US.

Now the fourth generation doesn't have the option of melting down. If it loses power, which would be the problem for the other kind, if it loses power it can't control it and then you got a problem. But these, you could just turn them off and nothing would happen. They just go on, they go off. There's no risk of a meltdown. So we've got a few of those coming online. If you're not following that industry, you probably should because with AI coming on, nuclear and AI are two things you want to be able to understand.

Well, Joe Biden got a $10 million advance to write a book. We believe that the autopen will be writing the book. Wouldn't that be funny? He should write a book if he wants people to actually read it. He should have a co-author. The book is Joe Biden's presidential successes written by Joe Biden and Autopen. That would be a pretty good joke. Or autopen. Well, he'd better hurry and get his money because I don't know if he's going to be around long enough to say that he wrote the book. He might be the first author who has literally a ghost, a ghostwriter, you know, an actual ghost because, well, you know, I don't need to finish that joke. You were already there.

And I was also imagining being the ghostwriter, you know, the human ghostwriter for Biden. Obviously he's not writing it himself, but can you imagine having to spend all that time with him and listening to all that he says and knowing that half of it is a lie and half of it is false memory and just ridiculousness and you're really writing a book about the most unsuccessful president of all time, but he wants you to write it like he really triumphed. Oh my god, how could you possibly take that job as a ghostwriter?

Well, according to Breitbart News, I learned today that Fort Bliss, the military base Fort Bliss, is going to be used for a migrant detention center. Migrant detention center for Fort Bliss. Huh. I wonder if I could call upon all of my experience as a cartoonist to make a funny joke about Fort Bliss being used as a migrant detention center. Think, think. Okay, I got it. It makes sense that you'd put them in Fort Bliss because immigrants is bliss. Anybody? Anybody? Immigrants is bliss. No. All right. Moving on. Moving on.

Well, you remember Klaus Schwab. He was out of the World Economic Forum, I guess it was, but he retired and then he got blamed or accused of doing a bunch of financially sketchy things. But now he's being accused of ordering the falsification of research to make it appear that Brexit was detrimental to Britain's economy. Huh. I'm starting to think that our elites might sometimes lie to us about the obvious sometimes. I don't trust the elites.

Well, here's something you all need to learn. There's a new buzzword that if you're not a finance geek, you have never heard, but you're going to hear a lot of it. It's called CapEx. One word, C A P X. How many of you know what that is when it's in the news? Well, it stands for capital expense, which is when you buy equipment or buildings typically as a business to increase your business. Basically you're investing in the future by upgrading your equipment or your building usually.

Well, according to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, America in the first six months of Trump, the CapEx, which is an excellent indicator of the future of the economy, is way up. So CapEx being up, if you were looking for good news before the weekend, that's really good news. I look at CapEx and I look at employment, you know, the unemployment rate. Those are the things I look at to see if we'll be okay. On top of that, of course, is the deficit. So if you don't get the deficit right, you're dead. So those three things are what I look at the most. CapEx because that also tells you how optimistic business is, which really is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If they think things will go well, they invest and that makes things go well. So CapEx is up. Good news, people.

So I mentioned this before, but there's some implications. So Trump has his executive orders about AI that AI can't be too woke. In other words, it can't be too biased in one viewpoint. Now on the surface you say to yourself, well that's great. You know, it's not going to be this biased left-wing woke BS. On the other hand, who gets to decide what is bias? If we don't agree what looks like being biased and what doesn't, remember, if you're a Democrat, probably I don't know, 60% of all Democrat voters would say it's not biased to say that Trump colluded with Russia, which literally never happened, but probably over half of all Democrats believe it did because they heard it on the news. And the Democrats probably would benefit if you continue to believe that.

So when Trump's in charge, will the AI companies say, "Ah, we're going to have to make this compatible with whatever Trump wants it to be, otherwise we won't get government funding and government support, and we might get taxed and sanctioned and god knows what." But what happens if a Democrat gets in office and says, "You know that executive order about bias? Well, now we decide what bias looks like." And then does AI have to go back and change what AI says so that it becomes their version of unbiased? I don't know how you can get to an agreeable place because otherwise AI will become so useless. It just says stuff like, well, people disagree. It's controversial. I'd rather not answer that question.

We might be heading to the place I had predicted long ago which is if you believe that human beings would allow their AI to overrule what they believe is true, you have not spent much time around human beings. Human beings will never accept that AI knows more than they do. And if it told you I am AI, I am being unbiased. Trust me, I am a super intelligen