dying Trump, has probably read his share of materials about how to be persuasive. His coach has absorbed some of my materials and I just noticed this morning that Conor follows me on X. So I guess he's also used the book *The Secret*, which is sort of an affirmations kind of approach.

So I believe he's sort of an affirmations guy, which would just be one small corner of the process for success. He's a systems-over-goals guy. He's a talent stack guy. And even though the deck is stacked way against him, even getting nominated, much less getting elected, the level of specific talent that he brings to that domain should not be overlooked. He's got some superpowers in his toolbox.

He's not Trump. There's only one Trump. But I guarantee, without knowing it, I don't have any special knowledge, but I guarantee that he's studying Trump to figure out what works. And unlike maybe other observers, he might figure out what works. So don't count him out.

Anyway, President Trump is reportedly, according to Axios, expected to ask the Supreme Court to reverse the E. Jean Carroll verdict. Now that verdict was a civil, not a criminal, trial, if I'm correct. I'm terrible at all the legal topics, but in what I read I didn't see the argument. So I didn't see what argument they would propose using to have that reversed, unless the argument is that it was so obviously contrived as a political move that even if they crossed all the T's and dotted all the I's to make it legal, it might be just so obviously a plot to keep him out of the presidency as opposed to a more legitimate Department of Justice action, that it might be reversible.

You know, I didn't know you could even take the civil cases to the Supreme Court. And I also don't know what I'm talking about. But if they're going to argue that it wasn't a legitimate thing to even look into, that might be a strong argument. So we might get surprised by that one.

All right, I've got a cat as a table here. All right, Gary the cat. You're going to have to hold my notes. So that's Gary. He's sleeping in front of me between me and my camera. So he'll be holding my notes on his belly while we continue. Good job, Gary. All right, don't move. Stay right there.

So apparently according to Futurism, there's writing that Medicare might start paying some AI companies. I think they're going to do a test to see if they can find AI companies that would reject some claims for service, some claims for medical care. So I think the idea would be that the AI would do all the tough work of deciding what things to accept or reject.

But here's the problem. The *New York Times* reports that the AI companies selected for the experiment will get paid a share of the money they save by blocking people from their healthcare. So in other words, the AI will be optimized and the AI company will be incentivized to help