ne. You're more gone than gone if you do anything that we find disloyal or not on board. So it might be that which would make sense to have everybody there.

But what other reasons would they not tell us? So it has to be in the category of things that they don't think the, five minutes left if Scott does what. Oh, five minutes before the top of the hour. All right. So we'll find out what that is. I have to say that the 800 generals is scary but one of the possibilities is that Earth is being attacked by aliens. They're already in Denmark flying around and the US needs to do a full military push to defend against the alien armada that's coming our way. Maybe, maybe. I wouldn't bet on that one. I'm not going to bet on the aliens. Of all these possibilities I would say it's either sending a message to Russia or something about modernizing or changing the nature of the entire military. So they're either going to reorganize, fire the disloyal, or send a message to Russia. Those would be my best guesses.

Now that there's seemingly undeniable evidence that the political left is the ones that are dangerous in terms of violence because this latest shooter, the ICE shooter. No. Adam Kinzinger is on CNN. He goes, "The thing we need to be looking at is not is this right or is this left?" So suddenly it's not important if it's coming from mostly from the left or mostly from the right. And it became not important the minute it became obvious it was more coming from the left.

Now my take is I really don't care too much because I think that there's plenty of violence coming from everywhere and for every damn reason. Sometimes crazy, sometimes political, sometimes trying to impress Jodie Foster. I mean it is coming from everywhere all the time. So to me that's not the most interesting thing to talk about. But what is interesting is the way we talk about things inspiring a certain set of people but not a certain other set. I don't see anything that the Republicans are saying that would stimulate somebody to kill. But I see plenty of things like every single day from the left that should by all logic and everything you know about the world and everything you know about people and everything you know about influence and persuasion. It should create a bunch of killers. And that's what we observe. You know what? Four so far. Two assassins, one Charlie Kirk, one on ICE. I mean that's four that were almost certainly inspired by the way Democrats talk. So that's important.

Also coming from Representative Luna had a picture on X of a bot farm. Now a bot farm is a bunch of smartphones that are sort of tacked on shelves and there's hundreds and hundreds of smartphones. And the smartphones I guess are programmed to act independently like bots to move the conversation online, to make it look like something is more popular than something else. But I have a question. How do you know it's a bot? It seems to me that it wouldn't be that hard to spot. And I've accused a number of people on my timeline of being bots. You know I just say obvious paid troll or obvious bot or something like that. And surprisingly a lot of them don't push back. Sometimes they do. They go, "No, I'm real. This is who I am." Sometimes. Sometimes you don't hear from them again which suggests maybe they were bots. But I would love to see some examples of some known bot messages because I believe it'd be like AI. You know how easy it is to spot AI? I believe you could spot a bot once you've seen the pattern. So if there's anybody who could do that it would be really useful. Is there anybody who has any kind of data of known bot messages on any topic? Because I'm sure they operate similarly. So I'd like to know more about those bots.

Trump said that quote, "I will not allow Israel to annex the West Bank." Nope. I will not allow it. It's not going to happen. There's been enough. It's time to stop now. Okay. Now does that answer the question of who's in charge? Do you believe that Trump means it and that he has the ability to stop Israel from annexing the West Bank? I don't know if they want to annex it but if they did could Trump stop it? See this is why I think it's not so much Israel is just wagging the dog and running the United States. It seems like that sometimes depending on the question. But don't you think it works both ways? You know I've said it before. It seems more like a sibling situation where you can both influence each other and it kind of depends who cares the most about it. Right? So Trump is saying he cares a lot about this, you know, about the possibility of annexing and doesn't want it to happen. And that probably is enough to stop it from happening. But likewise there are probably things that Israel says privately to Trump, look we're just we just have to do this. You can disagree with us but we're going to do it anyway because this is just it's too important. We just have to do this. So I feel like it's more like an ongoing conversation where both sides are trying to make the point of what's more important and what matters to them the most and then it's just sort of negotiated a little bit. So I don't believe that Israel calls all the shots. They definitely have way more influence than most of us are comfortable with. I would say that. But it's still it's always a negotiation I think.

Well Iran and Russia signed a 25 billion dollar deal for building nuclear power plants in Iran. So you know makes me wonder how that partnership is working out because Israel and Iran get along pretty well. Russia and Iran get along pretty well. Russia is really good at getting along with the worst dictators. Maybe we should learn something from them.

All right. Zelensky in Ukraine says there's no way to have an election unless they have a ceasefire. And do you think he wants a ceasefire? So he says I don't want to lead the country in peacetime. He actually said that. Doesn't want to be the leader in peacetime. Really. I think it's a problem when the person who is in charge of a ceasefire believes that they would get fired from their job if they did what the country wants them to do because he sort of would get fired. I mean he probably wouldn't win an election anyway. So why would we ever expect Zelensky to operate in good faith? That's a lot to ask. It's a lot to ask anybody.

Well in other news that was sort of predictable, China has banned Nvidia chips to be purchased in China. Now wouldn't you think that that's what they would want more than anything is Nvidia chips? Apparently they couldn't get the top best ones but they could get the ones just below that. And if they put them together they could get some stuff done. But apparently according to Andrew Ng, China has now figured out how to use their own chips in a configuration where the system level design of the chips can get them the same output as the Nvidia or at least in the ballpark and they don't need Nvidia to do everything that we do with Nvidia. So once again if you thought Nvidia would rule the roost forever, well maybe it's already over. You know if China doesn't need Nvidia to be as competitive as they think they need to be. I don't know. I think the competition for Nvidia is going to be pretty intense.

Meanwhile in the stupidest state in the world, California, there's a law that the governor hasn't signed yet but he might limiting free speech in California. So if you say something on social media that somebody calls violence, intimidation, or coercion, you can be arrested. Now that's if Newsom signs it. If he signs it that will be one more thing working against him for running for president. So I feel like I'm gonna guess that he won't sign it because I think he has to go for free speech if he's going to run for president. But I might have to move out of California if this becomes a real thing because I got cancelled for complaining about people not liking me. But that turned into I don't like other people which was never part of the conversation. I've never even offered an opinion other than I like black Americans. I love them. You know I've only had good experiences personally on a personal level. So if somebody like me can say, "Oh I'm worried about other people not liking me." And that can turn into you hate a certain demographic group. Is that violence, intimidation, or coercion? Because remember words are violence, right? Can I be arrested just for doing what I do every day? I don't know.

And then Kelsey Piper who was writing on X that California only 28% of black students in California can read at basic level or above the fourth grade level. But in Mississippi where you would think oh that Mississippi is a backward state how are they doing? I mean if California only has 28% of black students reading must be really bad in Mississippi, right? Nope. Mississippi is 52%. About twice as good. Why? Because Mississippi and apparently several southern states have completely changed how they do education and they've I think I don't know the details but I think they just moved back to more of a traditional model, one that works and it works. So if you were a black family you would probably thrive in Mississippi better than California if what you cared about was your kids' education. Isn't that wild that things could be so opposite of what you imagine?

Anyway the European Union is going to put some tariffs on steel from China, really high tariffs, which reminds me of Trump. So I had this thought that I posted today and it goes like this. First you laugh at Trump, then you fight him, then you become him. First you laugh at him, then you fight him, then you become him. Now that's a little bit borrowed from another saying that you'll recognize but isn't that what's happening? Newsom is literally pretending to be Trump. First you laugh, then you fight, then you become him. That's the ultimate victory, having people become you.

Anyway that story is boring. The US apparently according to Interesting Engineering is going to convert a retired coal mine into a nuclear fusion power plant. I said fusion. Fusion isn't even a real technology yet, is it? And they're actually building the plant. Money is going into it. Well turns out that there are a couple of ways to do fusion. And one of them works and is stable and it's stable enough and it works well enough that it's really just an engineering question. And so we're building a fusion reactor in our lifetime to be done by 2030. They want to but it's called stellarator fusion technology. So if you want to act like the smartest person at the party, stellarator is the good stuff. But there's also other fusion projects are getting funded in a big way. And the other one is Commonwealth Fusion Systems got another customer. So they have customers but they don't have a technology that is proven to work but they're really close. So people are putting billions into it in the hope that it can be commercialized. So that's where we're at.

According to the Federalist a number of corporations and academic offices, you know they have DEI offices and DEI employees. Well apparently in a number of these cases the DEI people were H-1B visa workers. In other words they were non-Americans who were telling Americans whether th