hat kind of problem is that causing? That's ridiculous.

They also say the X lacks transparency of its advertising repository. Really? That's a problem that Europe needs to worry about is lack of transparency of its advertising repository? I don't even know what that means. Doesn't sound like a big problem, but okay. And they're also accusing X of failure to provide access to public data for researchers. Okay. Do the other platforms do that? What kind of data is this?

Now, I haven't heard Elon Musk's response to the specifics, but I suppose it's, you know, and Elon's pushing back very hard. Michael Shellenberger says that it's not about, well he basically says it's about censorship. That the real purpose of the European Union is to control an American company and specifically to control the free speech of that American company. So as Michael Shellenberger points out that is very incompatible with NATO because we should not be battling NATO. I mean they're NATO countries. Why would the United States spend money and put its own people at risk to defend the European Union that is trying to take the free speech away from Americans, our most cherished, probably the most cherished of all of our rights? I don't see Russia doing that. I don't see China. Well, maybe they are, but I don't know what they're doing. But why is the European Union trying to mess with our freedom of speech? That's not cool.

Elon Musk posted on X, abolish the EU. Do you think it's time to abolish the European Union? I'm going to say we don't have to do anything because they're abolishing themselves. As I just said, the Trump administration's document that just came out basically says Europe is doomed and if they just stay on their same course, which it looks like they will, they're not going to have a NATO, they're not going to have an economy, they're not going to have rights, and they will just flood their own zone with people from other countries who might be fine individuals individually, but if you bring in lots of them and you do it suddenly, which is the way they're doing it, then you're bringing in a culture. There's a big difference between bringing in a person who might be just a fine person versus bringing in lots of people suddenly from places that are very different from your place. That would be importing a culture. And there's no reason to believe that that's going to go well. So you don't need to abolish the EU. They're abolishing themselves.

So the EU is corrupt and stupid and everything else is corrupt and stupid. What about our news? You may have heard about this, but David Sacks has been the target of the New York Times hit piece. And I won't go through all the things that they got wrong and how bad they are, but it's pretty bad. So bad that some other tech titans have weighed in to say this is basically, this isn't cool. It's so obviously just a hit piece and doesn't seem to be trying to be news or useful. It's just a hit piece.

And yeah, I've seen some speculation about why they would target him in particular. And I guess Chamath from the All-In Pod, you know Chamath, he was saying that the reason for this hit job on what you would call a non-establishment figure is, quote, the whole point was to get enough chatter so that people like Sacks and other people in the future just say I'm not going to try this. They would be essentially frightened away from doing anything useful for the Trump administration because it's too dangerous. Now, the media has been doing that for years. The media has been doing hit pieces on Trump supporters and Trump administration people trying to take them out one by one. So I don't know if it's any more complicated than the fact that both sides are trying to pick off the best people from the other side. So when I see them doing a hit piece on somebody like Stephen Miller or a hit piece on JD Vance, hit piece on Sacks, the first thing I say to myself is, oh, the other side must think these are the most powerful or influential people. So they're trying to pick off their best people. That's all it is. I don't think you have to go deeper than, oh, this group of people do a really good job and make Trump look good. That's all you need. And then you get a hit piece.

I too have been the subject of hit pieces. Bloomberg in the first term. Have I ever told you that the mistake I made with Bloomberg? If you ever become a public figure, let me give you this advice. If somebody from a major publication says, "We'd like to do a profile on you," warning, warning, warning. That's the first warning. That's a red flag. And here's where it's worse. "We'd like our reporter to spend the day with you." Sort of, you know, see how you live and go through a day with you. Do not do that. You will be immediately flattered that some big entity wants to spend the day with you and write a big piece. It's not going to go well. It is a hit piece. They would only do the stay all day with you unless it's a hit piece. That's the only reason to do that. So do not let the media spend a day with you when you become a public figure. If you're not a public figure, it might be different. But if you're associated with a political side, do not do that. I made that mistake. Boy, was it a bad hit piece.

What about the Washington Post? Well, the Washington Post is doubling down on their reporting about Pete Hegseth and they are the only news entity who is reporting this and everybody else is saying it's fake news. But the Washington Post believes that Hegseth did give an order to kill them all regarding