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Back to episode — Episode 2938 CWSA 08/25/25

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the two things, either the raw number only or the percentage only, and he's doing the percentage only, that is almost always meant to deceive you. They leave out the number because the number would give you the opposite message as the percentage. If I say the percentage is down 30%, and you didn't know from what the number was, you might agree with him and say well come on, they're doing great. Do…

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lped him get elected by it turns out he was popular on TikTok, so that probably helped him. And they've got the official White House account on TikTok now. That's recent. And Trump's now saying that all the panic about the app's Chinese connection is highly overrated. So now that he's finding that TikTok just works to his favor, he's like the risks are highly overrated. He said he vowed to keep extending TikTok's deadline until a US buyer steps in, which probably will be never because no US buyer can buy it unless China says yes, I'll sell it. And China is definitely not going to say yes, I'll sell it. So he's just going to kick the can down the road and take the benefits of TikTok. So once again, Trump has taken a problem for the country and he's monetized it because TikTok works so well for Trump because he's so good at social media that it definitely will allow him to raise more money for Republicans. Wouldn't you say? Is that fair to say that he's monetized TikTok for the benefit of the Republican party? I think so. So he monetized the Ukraine war. He monetized TikTok. He's on the sidelines of this fentanyl fund, but the US government's not funding it. It's being funded by rich people who care. So he's very consistent. He just keeps monetizing things that are problems. And I don't hate it. He monetized trade, right? The tariffs. He monetized it. That's a lot of monetizing.

There was a Mexican senator who was on Fox yesterday, I guess, and actually accused her own government of being a narco state, meaning that they were owned and controlled by the cartel. So a Mexican senator is saying it publicly and that has to change. Now it's one thing when we say it in this country, but I always wonder, I assume it's true. I mean I'm really, really sure that the cartels are controlling the government of Mexico, but it really hits differently when the Mexican senator says it and I wondered if that Mexican senator is going to be alive in a year because can you say that? Can you just out your own government as being a cartel-run operation and then just go about your business and hope you don't get assassinated? I don't know. I don't know about that. So I hope she's got the really good security. She even called her own president a traitor for working for the cartels. Wow.

This story is boring. I'll skip that.

So there's a Harvard startup. I think it's Harvard dropouts did a startup with some smart glasses that will do vibe thinking for you. I don't know if you've heard this cool people term, vibe coding. So if you're using AI to help you write code, you're kind of working with the AI and you don't have an exact plan because how the AI does its thing might affect how you do your thing. So you're kind of vibing with the AI to write some code, but they've used that vibing thing in other contexts where you're using AI. So I guess the idea here is that the glasses would listen to every conversation all the time and it would make s

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mart suggestions that you didn't ask for. So it might remind you of things that are important like it might say uh oh this person's name is Jenna and today is her birthday because you would hate to forget Jenna's birthday and it would know that everybody would want to remember somebody special's birthday. So I can imagine having glasses that were making smart suggestions to me based on my real lif…

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