hings are allowed, it probably gets you a different result than if they're not allowed. So is it the voters who are deciding or is it the existence of EOs and whether the court said yes or no to the EO? What about the gerrymandering? That will determine a lot. What about the fake news? But what about Mark Elias and all of his thousands of lawsuits and rule changes and stuff like that? That made a big difference. How about the podcasters and the lawfare against some politicians but not others? What about the opposition research? None of those things talk to the capability of the people running for office and none of them are anything like a democratic republic. It's all just rule attacks. So whoever gets to have the most influence on the rules of voting somewhat reliably will be in charge. So given that, Trump has a majority in the Supreme Court, in theory he can bend the rules and get away with it with the Supreme Court's approval until he's just got a dominant control position for the Republicans, which would be for them to lose. So that's what's happened. It's hard for me to even see anything like a democratic process. Are all of you that jaded? Are you as jaded as I am that our system of government really it's not about citizens expressing their will? There's nothing like that happening. The citizens are assigned opinions by whatever news they watch and then there's all these rule, all the people involved in changing the rules who will determine which of those people win because it's always amazingly really close so that the rules changes are the determining factors. So anyway, that's the world you live in. It's certainly not any kind of democratic republic or anything close to it.

The Wall Street Journal is talking about the middle class squeeze, which means financially. And of course, people have been talking about that for a number of years now because the middle class keeps getting hollowed out. But I feel like it may be reaching some kind of a breaking point finally because unless rent does go down a lot and food prices do go down a lot and somebody figures out how to do child care. By the way, why does child care cost so much? Are there really no retired grandmas who would take three kids and charge you a fraction of what the professionals are charging? There's just no way to work that out. I don't know. So the middle class is in trouble and I don't know that things Trump is doing, while generally good things in my opinion, I don't know if they're going to make enough difference fast enough. But they're in the right direction. So we'll see. I feel like there's some big response coming and it will be something like I talk about this endlessly. Some kind of a Lego house that you can build yourself so that the cost of building is really low or some kind of arrangement where people who want to have babies are in a good shape. Gary, stop it. I don't know. We'll fix that. We'll fix that whole middle class problem.

So one of the people who got ousted from the CDC, I forget if he was fired or he quit in protest, but anyway, he was the CDC vaccine chief, Demetre Daskalakis, who apparently had a very colorful personal life, which is documented in social media. And you know, I won't get into it because I'm not judgy, but I have to say he's an interesting guy. His social life looks like it's more interesting than yours, I will say. But he said that the crux of his concern about the CDC is that the data coming out soon will be showing that something is causing autism and that it will be blamed on vaccines. Do you think that's coming? Do you believe that RFK Jr. is going to basically use fake science because he's not complaining that the data might be accurate. He's complaining that the data would be inaccurate and the science would not be good and it would connect autism to vaccines. That might happen. Anything is possible. But do you believe that RFK Jr. would find it to his advantage to give the country fake science and then kill people by taking away their vaccines that hypothetically could be totally safe or safe enough? I don't know. I'm very curious what is going to come out of this. To me, one of the biggest stories of the year will be when Kennedy comes out and says, "Well, we may not have every answer, but we have determined and we're positive that this or that or this is causing autism." That is going to be really, really a big deal. Like a really, really big deal. Because for one thing, it might open up some