n sentiment within the Republican party. Would you agree? Would you agree that there's a sort of a rolling anti-Indian American sentiment in the Republican party? Well, I think that conflates people's complaints about employment, you know, the H-1B stuff, and it conflates that with who they are as a people.

I have lived in California for all my adult life and so I'm always surrounded by and especially now in my current neighborhood a very large Indian American population. I can tell you I promise you this is true. The Indian Americans are awesome people. And if you ever get to know your Indian American neighbor, you're going to be happy about it. They are actually just some of the best people in the world. They're funny. They're smart. They're hardworking. Great people.

So don't conflate the ethnicity with the fact that we have an immigration issue that you would prefer to be more pro-American and not bringing in people who are from other countries as much. Now that's a separate argument. So I'm not putting up an argument that we should be flooding the country with extra Indian technology workers. That's not what I'm saying. I'm just saying if you're looking at the ethnicity, they're amazing people and if you get to know them, you'll be happy.

All right. So apparently speaking of JD Vance, people are chattering because Charlie Kirk, who heads Turning Point USA and just had a big event, he has come out and endorsed JD Vance for 2028. Some people say it's too soon. Do you think it's too soon? It's not too soon.

So let me give you, I was trying to think what weaknesses does JD Vance have that would matter. So I'm thinking, all right, JD Vance, he's an amazing speaker, so they wouldn't be able to match that. The Democrat candidate would not be as good a speaker as he is. No matter who it is, he's just gonna be better. He's very quick-minded. He's very smart. Obviously smart. He also has all the right backers. So he's got some of the most powerful and smartest backers that the Republican party can produce. But more importantly, he's probably going to have, we assume, Trump's support. Nobody's gonna run for president as a Republican unless Trump supports it. So if Trump supports him, you know, you're 90% there, right?

And I was thinking, what qualities does he lack? And I'm watching him having obviously learned from Trump. You can see that he's picking up the most powerful parts of Trump, including the cursing at just the right amount. And he's learning to be provocative, but unlike Trump, he probably holds back a little bit. And that makes sense. He's vice president. He's not president. So I would say he's definitely learning technique. He's learning persuasion. He would have Trump and Trump lovers backing him.

The only thing I'm worried about is that it puts a target on his back too soon. But on the other hand, it's so obvious that he's the front runner that I guess that target would have been there anyway. So I'm going to say that Charlie Kirk's early endorsement does not hurt him. It might help him and I'm fascinated to find out if the Democrats will have any way to attack him that would be reasonable. Does anybody, I'm looking at the comments right now, does anybody have any idea what negative stuff you would put on him? Because the only negativity is coming from Republicans, right? Basically Republicans who are a little bit anti-diversity, let's say. That's the best thing I can say about it. Might not like who he's married to. But are they going to vote Democrat? Are you going to vote Democrat because you think his wife should be whiter? Really. So I don't know that there's anything that was slow to slow him down.

And so I don't think that my endorsement per se is useful. So I'll put it in the form of prediction. So prediction, not endorsement later. I might endorse him later, but it's too early for me. So I'll call it a prediction. He'll be the nominee.

Now what about Rubio? Rubio has very cleverly and smartly taken himself out of the run under the condition that JD is running and we assume that to be true. So imagine if there is some kind of opposition research or something comes up that takes JD out of the race. I don't know what that would be, but you know, you just imagine something you don't know or something that hasn't happened hits him and takes him out. Rubio would just be sort of loyally sitting on the sidelines, just the obvious person to step in. So Rubio probably increased his odds of becoming president by taking himself out of the race. Does that make sense?

By taking himself out of the race, he doesn't have a target on his back and JD does. So as time goes by, if the bad guys make a dent, and I don't know what that would be, but if they make a dent in JD, the only replacement that would seem obvious would be Rubio. And he would look like a loyal supporter. He would by then have some major accomplishments as you could say he already has major accomplishments and he would probably instantly get Trump's support under the condition that Trump agreed something took JD out. So I think if he ran st