ver said that? Because if you look at that stark difference, if I had to guess, Amazon is either totally making it up that the reason for the layoffs is AI. If you spend a trillion dollars on AI—I don’t know what Amazon’s spending, but it’s going to be in the hundreds of billions—if you spent hundreds of billions on AI and kind of made it like the future of your company, you’d better kind of get on the board of firing some people and at least telling the public—there’s that weird voice again—and at least telling the public that you’re doing it because AI is so good and you spent so much on it and it’s totally going to work.

So if I were to compare these two situations, I’m going to have to give the win to Elon Musk.

According to stockmarket.news, also on X, there’s some speculation that there’s leaked documents showing that the robotics team actually plans to automate 75% of operations, which would replace potentially 600,000 warehouse workers by 2033 and that they’re already allegedly—right, this is all just alleged. So I don’t know much about the source, anything about the source. So don’t automatically assume this is true. This is rumor. So we’re in rumor territory only here. If it gets debunked tomorrow, don’t be surprised.

And that they’re Amazon’s drafting PR strategies to brace for the backlash. You know one of the things that people like the most about Amazon is that although it was causing small businesses to go out of business, they were hiring a lot of people for other jobs. So you could say to yourself, well yeah, the small businesses did get squashed, but that’s the way capitalism works. At least people got jobs. Different people, different jobs.

But if they squash all the small companies and it’s only run by robots, they do have a PR problem they’re going to need to manage.

All right, let’s see how some other Democrats are faring. We got Nicole Wallace who is on MSNBC who said recently that no one calls Trump Hitler.

Now what do you think happened when Nicole Wallace said on TV that no one calls Trump Hitler? Well the most predictable thing was that there was immediately a clip compilation put together because the MAGA people are so good at this now. They’re so good at the social media game. It’s almost laughably good at how well they’re hours later. There’s eight examples of people saying it on her show, but there is a small nuance that gives her a cover.

What she said specifically was no one calls Trump Hitler, but when you listen to all the examples of people calling him Hitler, they don’t actually use the word. So she’s sort of kind of technically almost correct, but they say things like, well, it looks like the early days of Germany in the 30s. Well they mean that Trump is Hitler but they didn’t say it. They say things like oh the darkness is gathering and this is the sort of thing you see when authoritarian governments get together and the next thing you know there’ll be a holocaust. I’m making this one up, but that’s also not really calling Trump Hitler, just saying that he would act exactly like him.

So here’s the pattern I see from the Democrats on all different topics. They start by doing a bad thing. In this case the bad thing is referring to Trump as Hitler in a hundred different ways. Then they do that bad thing often and harder. They just hit it, hit it, hit it, hit it. Bad thing, bad thing, bad thing.

Then when it becomes a liability because they’ve gone too far, they deny that any of it ever happened. Nothing like that happened. Nobody called him Hitler. What are you talking about? What are you crazy? Are you gaslighting me? And they’ll claim you’re gaslighting them because you have a compilation clip of them doing the exact thing that they say they don’t do. A compilation clip.

So then they wait for the inevitable compilation clip and then what do they do when the compilation clip comes out proving that they had been lying grossly all the time? Then they double down and call Trump Hitler twice as often while denying it twice as hard. They have this whole imaginary situation that’s incredible.

Now what does that do? Does that cause any violence? Well let’s check in with the Post Millennial. There’s a story about a Turning Point USA student leader, 19-year-old, who was attacked near UC Boulder campus for being a leader in that organization. And he was in fact stalked and attacked with a hockey stick by a member of a group that Democrats say doesn’t even exist, the Colorado Antifa group.

Huh? What did I tell you is what Democrats do? They do something hard and often. Antifa. And then when they go too far and it becomes a liability, they say what Antifa? Antifa isn’t even an organization. It doesn’t even exist. And then when the compilation clips come out, or when they will—compilation clips of people claiming that they are Antifa, stories about Antifa attacking people, stories about Antifa organizing stuff—what will they do after the compilation clip shows that of course there’s Antifa and they’re doing exactly what the Republicans said they would do? They will call Trump Hitler and they will double down on Antifa not existing because that’s what they do.

Well, importantly, let’s check in with Rosie O’Donnell whose opinion is more important than all of ours put together. And she said, “I feel like we’re in a dystopian nightmare and no one is doing anything about it.” Talking about Trump. Says he’s a criminal con man. There’s no way you can look at the facts about this man and believe in him.

Okay, here’s my suggestion. It feels to me that one of the things that social media has led us into doing is treating politics and bad mental health as if they are somehow the same thing. This is not a political opinion, people. There’s no politics in that. That is just mental health. So we report it and talk about it including me in the context of politics. There’s no politics in that. Not at all. That is just somebody suffering.

And when you look at the things that Democrats have that they can hold over MAGA because Trump’s doing quite a good job at the moment in my opinion, they have to say these generic stuff. Listen to the generic stuff. Dystopian nightmare. I can use some details. He’s stealing our democracy. The oligarchy is running things. He’s drifting in an authoritarian direction.

Do you see what all those have in common? You don’t need any details. There’s no argument there. These are almost all signals of bad mental health by the people who are using these words. What do people with good mental health say? They say things like Mike Johnson is not telling you the truth about some kind of Republican healthcare plan. Now that’s pretty specific, isn’t it? You can tell the difference between somebody who’s talking politics. Healthcare plan, you know, who’s working on it. We need to know the names. Those are really specific details. So probably it’s not coming from bad mental health.

But if all I could say was we’re losing democracy to the authoritarian oligarchs and it’s going to be a dystopian nightmare and it’s Germany 1933. That’s mental health. Know the difference.

All right. I’m going to claim a victory even if I had nothing to do with this whatsoever. Remember I started the podcast telling you that positive affirmations are good for your mental health. I’m going to give myself a positive affirmation. Not because it’s good for you. It’s just good for my health. Do you mind? Do you mind if I give myself a little good mental health by an affirmation?

Well I’ll tell you the story and then I want you to see if I can twist this into something I may have contributed to. There’s no evidence whatsoever that I contributed to this, but for my mental health I might sort of accept that maybe I had something to do with it. Are you ready?

According to ABC News, Bill Gates says climate change is still a serious problem, but wait for it, but says it’s time to focus on fighting poverty and preventing disease. Bill Gates thinks climate change is a serious problem but it won’t be the end of civilization. This is ABC reporting this. He thinks scientific innovation will curb it and it’s instead time for a strategic pivot.

Who’s that sound like? He thinks