e don't know anything because there's some science that says there's a link, some says it isn't. We don't really trust either one of them. So I don't trust any data, certainly any study like that. I'm way beyond being able to trust them. But at the same time, President Trump I guess he reposted a video on social media that linked vaccines to autism. So according to Modernity News is reporting that. So it looks like if you read the tea leaves, the government is going to suggest that there are more than one thing that might be behind autism. And maybe they're not going to say we know 100% sure what it is or how much each of these contribute. They might say, well, as far as we can narrow it down, it might be these things. But I do trust that if any big decisions are made about vaccines, I do trust that that would be based on data that we can all see. So people will have a chance to say, "You read that data wrong or they collected that data wrong." So that's coming.

Andrew Cuomo, who as you know is running for mayor of New York against Mayor Adams and the communist guy Mamdani and Curtis Sliwa. Andrew Cuomo, I just watched him on a video and he said, "Democrats want someone to defend them against President Trump. I am that person because I have done that." Now, is it my imagination or does Andrew Cuomo have the easiest job in the world, which would be to become mayor of New York given who he's running against? Shouldn't he easily be able to win this? It feels like he should. But here's what he's doing wrong. Mamdani comes in and he talks about affordability and people go, "Oh, you have my attention. That's exactly what I'm worrying about." Cuomo comes in and he's making it about attacking Trump. Now, I don't argue that people are asking him to attack Trump. I'm sure they are. But really, he doesn't see that that's not the winning message. The winning message is what Mamdani's doing. He says, "You got a problem? I have a magic plan to deal with your biggest problem." So it's just jaw-dropping and head-shaking that when he's talking about why you should make him the mayor, it's to fight Trump. That's just the worst reason anybody ever had to run for mayor.

There's a rumor going around that Scott Bessent, Treasury Secretary, and Bill Pulte, who is the head of the Federal Housing Finance, whatever it is, I can never remember the name of the organization, Freddie and Fannie. And apparently they went to a dinner and Scott Bessent threatened to punch Pulte in the face and he wanted to step outside and fight him. And then reportedly, but I don't believe anything about this story at this point. We never know the real context of these things. Reportedly Bill wasn't sure if he was serious, but he said he was serious about punching him. And so I don't know how the dinner ended or who picked up the check, but that sounds pretty bad. I guess Bessent was complaining because he believed that Bill Pulte had said something negative to him about to Trump. I don't know what that was allegedly, but I don't know how to feel about it because it would depend entirely upon what it was he may or may not have said to Trump. You could certainly imagine that it could have been something really important that Trump would need to know, in which case Pulte had to do it. That would just be part of his job. But you could imagine that Bessent wouldn't like it no matter what it was. So I like Bill too much to have an opinion on this. So I'm just going to say that we'll never know exactly what happened in that situation, but I don't think Bill's going to be talking to anybody about anything important unless it's important. So we'll never know what that's about.

There's a new laser defense weapon to shoot down drones, and it's better than ever before. It can kill 50 drones a minute, which actually doesn't sound like that many. 50 drones a minute if they're sending a swarm of a thousand drones. Unless it's the really big ones that don't swarm. I don't know. But here's what I was wondering as I was reading that story. What are the odds that drones become the main weapon of choice at the same time that lasers finally become cost effective to shoot them down? Is that kind of weird that those two technologies that have both been out there for a while, you know, years and years, but they both kind of matured at the same time? That just when the drones can do all kinds of things and there can be thousands of them in the sky autonomously attacking you is exactly the same time that we've built all these deadly lasers that can shoot them out of the sky. What are the odds that those two technologies are peaking at about the same time? I know it's weird. It's a simulation.

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