rm? Isn't every successful entrepreneur a norm violator? Can you think of anybody who didn't violate a norm? Did Steve Jobs violate any norms? Yeah. Yeah. Did Trump violate any norms to get a deal in Gaza? Yeah. Yeah. That's exactly what he did. He violated all the norms. Did he violate norms to get elected president? And at least half of the country is very, very happy that he did. Yeah. Yeah. And are we getting used to him when he violates norms? Yes. The act that he put on in the Middle East, he violated so many norms, you know, the way he treated the other leaders, you could make your own list, but he's not really a slave to norms. Would you want him to be?

Now, the reason I started out by saying that Pinker is smarter than me and smarter than you, I mean, if he took an IQ test, he'd beat me. He'd beat most of you, too. The point is that intelligence doesn't help as much as you think because he's clearly, you know, I can't read his mind. So let me be a little bit humble there. I can't read his mind. And if I could, maybe I wouldn't understand it because, like I said, he's smarter than me. So here's what it looks like. What it looks like is that people have started with the answer Trump bad and now they're trying to rationalize it which looks like cognitive dissonance which looks like Trump derangement syndrome. When you see somebody this smart say something that in my opinion I won't say it's dumb. It just seems disconnected from reality to imagine that violating a norm would automatically be bad.

Now, I think somebody told me that somewhere he softened it a little bit. So if I'm being too harsh, I apologize in advance, but what I saw was this was part of what the Democrats are retreating to. They're trying to retreat to something they can support because everything you can measure is starting to go pro-Trump. Right? If you can measure the crime, Trump reduced it. If you can measure the number of people coming across the border, Trump reduced it. If you can measure how much he's collecting in tariffs, he's collecting a lot of money in tariffs. So you see everywhere that you can measure it, Trump either has a good argument or he's just flat out winning. So they have to retreat to things you can't measure which is oh the character. Oh, I know. What about his norms? What about his norms? He's violating norms and character and we think he's going to steal your democracy. Do you see the pattern? They have to completely retreat to unverifiable non-measurable things otherwise they've got nothing.

Now there are some things where you can argue whether the numbers are right and you know that they can do that a little bit but mostly overall if you can measure it Trump is killing it right and if you can't measure it well that's where they have to go live because it's the only way to protect their TDS is that they're really the smart ones. That's what they think. They're really the smart ones and they can tell just by reading his mind that there's a bunch of bad stuff in there that's going to come out any minute.

Well, I don't know if you saw the video of Gavin Newsom when he was asked on some podcast I guess about his involvement with AIPAC. Now, I usually don't show videos on my podcast because it's sort of a distraction, but you have to watch this. I'm going to instead of show video, I'm going to give you my impression of Gavin Newsom being asked about if he took money from AIPAC. And it goes like this. You're like the first to bring up AIPAC in years, which is interesting. That's interesting. It's interesting. It's interesting. I haven't thought about AIPAC. Oh, it's been years now. But it's interesting. It's interesting that he would bring that up. And after he'd said it was interesting and he hadn't really thought about it, after he said it like three times, I started thinking, "What's wrong with you? Like, you're acting weird. It's interesting. Why are you acting so weird?" And then after he said it three times, he couldn't stop saying it. He said it maybe 10 times in a row. Now, there are some things that you can say three times in a row for emphasis, and everybody gets that. If you can say it 10 times in a row without adding anything in between, there's something going on. There's something wrong.

So here's how not to act. If somebody asked you if you're being influenced by AIPAC, "I haven't thought about it. Well, it's interesting. It's interesting. I haven't thought about it. I don't even think about it. Well, it's just not even. It's interesting. Well, you know, that's interesting. That's interesting." Don't do that. That's my advice. Just don't do that.

Well, the Supreme Court has rejected Alex Jones' appeal. You know, he was being sued by the Sandy Hook people for I guess it's up to $1.4 billion judgment that nobody could pay. Well, he can't pay. And so at this point his personal assets and all of his business assets are, I believe, forfeited to the people who won the lawsuit. Now, here's my question. Alex Jones has through his hard work over the years has developed himself into an asset that many many people find very valuable. Do we lose that? I mean, there's a human element, too, which is I care about him as a person. I like Alex Jones. He's been nice to me, right? So everybody who knows him likes him. So in person apparently he's very likable. So I want him to do well and I don't want him to, if you call this a mistake and I think that would be fair. The Sandy Hook thing it does look like a mistake but do you want to lose everything he has to offer to the world which I think is a lot because of that one mistake. And it's not like he's going to jail, but how in the world is he allowed to make a living and also contribute to taxes, contribute to the world, contribute to the way we see or think. So that's an actual question. How do you go on? Because it looks like they would take whatever. So his business is gone, but let's say he reconstitutes a new business. That wouldn't be the hardest thing. But if he starts making money again, isn't that all attached? Like all the money that comes in just goes right to the lawsuit people. So how do you, is there any path to recover from that?

So the question I'm going to ask is is there a way given that he has extensive network of people who would probably help him is there a way that you could structure it so that he would be reimbursed for expenses in a way that would allow him to have a decent lifestyle. That wouldn't look like income because if it's income he's got to give it up. But if it's not income, so for example, could he build a world where he appears on podcasts and he gets an expense account from the podcasters, you know, maybe some of the big ones. Is there any model that he can make that work? I'm concerned about him. Anyway, we'll see.

Europe's having a drug shortage. So I guess the pharmacies are running on empty and that has to do with their own regulations getting in the way, but China must be restricting some things. So is this going to come to us? Because I haven't noticed any drug restrictions in the US and I get a lot of meds at the moment. But that's scary. So apparently in Europe there are people who need these drugs who just can't get them, just not available. That's really scary.

Wired says that satellites, maybe a lot of the satellites that are already in the air, believe it or not, don't have encrypted data. So apparently with a very small investment, you can start taking the private data off of the satellites. Not all of them, but a huge number of satellites are not encrypted and you can just get all their stuff. Did you know that? Did you know that you could just read the satellite messages if you had an $800 piece of equipment? Well, that's bad.

Ex-admiral, I guess maybe are you always an admiral? But the former NATO Supreme Allied Commander, guy named Admiral James Stavridis, he was telling NewsNation that Trump should definitely give Ukraine Tomahawk missiles so it can go after Putin's oil and gas capabilities. So what do you think of that? I think he's with the Carlyle Group now. So do you trust that or is that just a military-industrial complex kind of an opinion and less of a military opinion? But he does say that the key is to go after the oil and gas capabilities. I've been telling you for a while that it's a robot versus energy war. So the robot drones and other robots from both sides are going hard at the energy resources of the other especially because winter is coming. So that's what the war is now. The war is energy versus