the debt would say, "Oh, sure, whatever." You know, you can pay me back, but the money isn't worth anything because everything's free. So that's pretty optimistic. I can't quite get there. That's a lot of optimism, but it's not impossible. And I don't want to bet against Elon Musk's view. That's always a bad idea.

But I wonder in a related story, you know, Scott Bessent is pushing the Trump accounts where every baby that's born is $1,000 in an account, but you could add several thousand if you're a parent, up to $5,000 a year. So that by the time the kid becomes 18, they would have a nice little nest egg. But here's the problem that automatically falls out from that. So these accounts would be available to rich and poor. And whether you're rich or poor, you get $1,000 in your account. But whether you're rich or poor, you also get to add your own parental money. Say $5,000 a year. If the rich people add the $5,000 a year, but the poor people obviously do not, what happens when the poor kid and the rich kid turn 18? The rich kid will have 10 times as much money than the poor kid. So if what you're worried about is income inequality, doesn't this guarantee that it's going to be really, really bad? So I wonder how they'll deal with that.

I do think that raising money for babies is easier than raising money for other things because even I'm thinking I think huh maybe I should donate some money to that thing that looks like but then I think wait a minute in 18 years which is when the first kid would get the benefit from it money might not be worth anything. So either the debt will have killed us by then or Elon Musk is right and money will have no value. So we've got this weird situation where if it were a steady state, which it never is, this would be one of the best ideas ever. But because we absolutely cannot predict what the world looks like in five years, much less 10 years, much less 18, it's hard to imagine that things would stay as stable as they are now such that this goes the way you think it would go. The changes in the world are just so big. You know, debt plus AI plus robots. I don't know. I'm not opposed to this idea. It's just hard for me to imagine everything works out.

Anyway, there's a Russian general that got killed with a bomb under his car in Moscow. So in Moscow is the key point here. And I thought to myself, wouldn't that be the perfect murder if you wanted to kill a Russian general because everybody assumes Ukraine did it? But suppose you had some other reason to do it. You just wanted to murder that guy. You could so get away with it because the Russians would just assume that the Ukrainians did it that I don't even think they would look anywhere else. It'd be the perfect murder. But it does make me wonder if Ukraine has taken a decapitation strategy like Israel.

So you know how Israel just consistently kills leaders of their enemy countries? They just never stop doing it. Well, there's a head of Hamas. Well, there's a head of this. Well, there's a head of that. And I've always said that taking out the top leaders is an excellent long-term strategy because eventually you've taken out all the capable people and the only people left to assume control are less capable. But also if you're in a context of negotiating for peace, if you're the generals, and generals would have some influence with Putin. If you could convince the generals that if they stop now, they are not targets. But if they don't stop now or convince Putin to make peace, if they don't do it, that there will be continuous assassinations of generals. So as a strategy, I would call that the Israel strategy. And I think it's a strong one. It doesn't mean it's going to work, but as a strategy, it looks pretty strong.

All right, that is everything I wanted to say today. Would anybody like a closing sip? How many people we got today? Now we got a pretty good crowd. I think you have earned the closing sip. So what did you like about today's show? While I'm sipping with you, tell me in the comments which points you liked. Did you like the reframe? Did you like, I don't know. Is there any part of this do you like more than any other part or do you just like hanging out? Tell me.

Remember I was telling you yesterday that I'm a proud narcissist, but only if I'm creating value for other people. So I would be happy to be praised for what I did right, but only if it made a difference. You like the reframe. You like hanging out. All right, let me pause some of these comments. Just like hanging out. That's perfectly acceptable. And you like me destroying the Democratic party? Like the reframe? Yeah, the hangout. You like my blanket and my attitude. What else? Reframe and the start about smart people changing their mind. Good. You know, I felt that that was valuable. A true narcissist only cares about adding value to themselves. That's not true. That is not true. Well, it's a definition. So I guess you can have your own definition. That's fair.

Oh, drawing the map for Republican success. Okay. The persuasion talk is the most beneficial. It might be you like seeing me be resilient. Sorry. You like my non-tribal approach. Good. I get too much credit for what I do because a lot of