It goes to us. So no, don't worry about it being fascism. They're literally just trying to give you a bonus. That's it. And I'm in favor of it. It does make sense that if we taxpayers are funding the patents, does it make sense that if Harvard gets one that Harvard gets to keep it? It was our money. Why wouldn't we ask for a piece of the action? Totally makes sense to me.

You will be very sad to learn that Representative Jerry Nadler is retiring. He says he wants to make room for the younger generation. So here's what I think. You all know that the Democrat party is collapsed and it's not very popular at the moment. And one of the things that we don't talk about enough, we talk about it in its pieces, but we don't put it all together. So I'm going to put it all together. Here are the pieces. Jerry Nadler, Adam Schiff, Swalwell, Jamie Raskin. Now I could add a few people to that list, but what do they all have in common? Besides being noxious Democrats, what do they have in common? Well, let me tell you. They all have super unpleasant personas. Now I'm curious if I'm operating entirely unbiased when I say that. Am I? Because I know that there are Republicans who cause a turnoff ick factor. So maybe it just works both ways and the only one I can see is the direction that my bias is already tuned to.

If you were to turn on CNN or MSNBC and they had on a prominent Democrat leader, what are the odds that that prominent Democrat leader would be really hard to look at on video? Let's say Schumer, Chuck Schumer. When Chuck Schumer is on the screen, I want to turn off the picture and go to audio and even then I'm a penguin. Even then, I don't want to watch him. He just doesn't have any charisma. Now I don't say that about AOC. I don't say that about Omar. Just pick two people. They have actual charisma. Would you agree? You might not like it. I'm not saying I'm in favor of their policies. Don't get me wrong. I'm just saying that they legitimately have really first-rate charisma. Jasmine Crockett, more to my point, it seems to me that the Democrats, for reasons that I cannot understand, have promoted the opposite kind of people that Trump does. You know, people make fun of Trump for saying, "Oh, that's a good political appointment because this person looks like a movie star." And we all laugh. It's like, "Oh, he's so shallow." No, he's not. It's called being right. That's not shallow. It's not shallow to understand that people are totally persuaded, very persuaded by things like personality and looks.

So Trump, I don't even have to name names. You know, you can start with the Secretary of Defense and you could go down right down the line. Trump has some good-looking people in office. Am I right? Male and female. So he doesn't discriminate by looks, by gender, which is interesting. He likes handsome guys and attractive women. And now compare that to Jerry Nadler, Schiff, Swalwell, Raskin, Schumer. I'm not wrong, right? The Democrats have picked the most unpleasant video personas. You know, the people who just don't come across on video at all. And Trump went the other way. He personally is the most video-friendly personality of all time, certainly for his side, and they went the opposite way. So getting rid of Nadler, I wonder if they'll wise up and try to get more pleasant-looking people to lead them.

Here's something I haven't developed a full opinion on. It's the fact that remember the MAHA Commission was going to deliver a report in 100 days and they came in at 98 days. They delivered the report on the root causes, which wouldn't be confirmed but rather their best take at what the root cause is for autism. And so now they've reported it and there are four bullet points of the things that they've identified the MAHA Commission as causes of autism. Are you ready? Do you have your own guesses as to the causes of autism now that the experts have weighed in? They are, the four of them are: number one, ultra-processed foods. Number two, environmental toxins. Number three, chronic stress and inactivity. And number four, over-medicalization of children.

Now are you like I am, completely underwhelmed by that conclusion? Here's my problem. So I have a question which you should not confuse. This is a good time to make sure that people understand the right frame for this. When I do this podcast I never try to talk as an expert unless it's maybe something about persuasion. If it's something that's in my line of expertise, which is