ituation in the United States and more alarmingly that they were very close to pulling it off and maybe they could still. And it would have made a permanent change in the ability for Republicans to get elected and it would have permanently made it impossible for anything but a Democrat to ever be in charge of anything important. And we were this close. Now it might still happen. I don't know. And maybe they've already done enough of this because you've got your Hispanic pockets, you've got your Somali pockets. Maybe they've already done it, but I don't think so.

Here's another one that I wouldn't have believed five years ago. So Newsmax has reported that Judicial Watch, you know who Judicial Watch is, right, President Tom Fitton is warning that the Secret Service might be maybe not doing their best to protect the president and that maybe that's not just incompetence. So the examples given are the two assassination attempts which we all think look like it looked like his security didn't do enough. He lived, but from the outside it looks like, wait, it doesn't even look like you had the A team protecting the president. Is that a coincidence? And then there was also the incident where Trump went to some restaurant and somehow the people who don't like Trump had been alerted which is a gigantic security problem and there could have been some danger there because people knew in advance he'd be at a restaurant and it wasn't well secured.

So there are at least three examples where you say to yourself, is it possible that the president of the United States has incompetent security? Is that possible? Yeah, Code Pink, a Democratic group, Code Pink showed up at that restaurant to protest. So is that possible or is this a pattern? And I guess Judicial Watch is asking for some information to maybe drill down on that a little bit.

Now five years ago if you told me that his security was penetrated or compromised and that people were trying to kill him and had made already three attempts, three attempts, they had insiders involved, I wouldn't have believed that, but today it's on the table. I absolutely would say maybe. I mean we know for example that JFK, I think I can say we know this, that his assassination had something to do with insiders, right, that the CIA in particular. So if it were true for JFK but I didn't believe it for decades, and then you look at all the other things that are true. Wow. Almost anything is on the table. So I'm not willing yet to say that the insiders have penetrated his Secret Service, but I don't rule it out. I'm not ruling it out.

I've been watching Chamath from the All-In Pod getting very active on X talking about California and its various problems. And he notes that apparently the California state pension, it looks like it's solid and it looks like it could pay the pensions but it's only because they've changed the accounting to a very weasel-like way to make optimistic assumptions that are not realistic about what's going to happen in the future. So in other words California also, on top of all the problems you've heard, probably has this massive underfunded state pension problem that they're covering up by clever accounting changes. Wow.

So this is something I would call technically legal but holy kind of fraud. Meaning it's not technically illegal for them to estimate the pension payout with optimistic assumptions. That's not illegal and they show their assumptions apparently. But how is it not fraud in a sort of a common-sense way? It's sort of obviously fraud.

On top of that I'm wondering if Chamath would be a candidate for governor. Yeah. Governor. So at the moment Steve Hilton is running for governor in California and I think he's actually leading in the polls because the polls are so