e for specific purposes. So in other words, a billionaire would say, I'm going to give you a billion dollars to use for this specific purpose and if you don't use it for that, it'll get clawed back or you don't get to use it. So Harvard does not have the freedom to use the endowment any way they want. So it can never be a full replacement for government funding. I'm in favor of the cuts and the pressure it puts. Just that's just a fact you should know about.

Well, here's a story I find creepy and I hate it. But Senator Mark Kelly, who had been a member of the military, he's being what they call sanctioned and demoted and his pension is being pulled by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. The reason being that he was part of the six people who made that video encouraging the military to not obey illegal orders. Now I'm pretty sure that was always the law that they should not obey illegal orders, but by putting attention on it and trying to focus on it, it seemed like the real play here was not to make the country a better place. It looked like the play was to destroy the chain of command.

So if the commander-in-chief gave an order, then the individual military people could say, "Hm, that looks illegal to me. So Kelly told me I could ignore it. Maybe I'll ignore it." Now you could easily see how that would destroy the cohesion and everything about the military. And it clearly seemed designed to be political and not anything about national security. So I think what he did was arguably something insurrectionist, seditionist, traitorous. At the very least it was not intended to help the country militarily. That's what I think. That's just my opinion.

So under that frame, punishing him essentially by taking away some of his military benefits like his retirement grade stuff is really expensive and he did fight for the country. So the reason it's creepy is that I just hate being in a position where Pete Hegseth would even have to wrestle with this as a question. We never should have been here. On the other hand, it is so hard for me to see a member of the military punished for something that other people would say, "That's just free speech, Scott." So let me say I love it because you have to have a response and you have to recognize it for what it was. But I hate it because it's a military man.

All right. Here's a story I'm going to tell you that's more about the fact that the story can be told than it is about the point. And I saw Elon Musk boosting this on X. So Lauren Chen on X wrote this piece that I'm sure you could not have said this five years ago. You would be so cancelled. But I think now you can say this stuff. So she said that people often say the developing world is poor because the Western world colonized them and stole the resources. But she points out that when the colonizers left, let's say Hong Kong and Singapore being two examples, that they left them in good shape, meaning that the people were trained to take over. They did take over and then over decades you could say that it totally worked.

So that was a case where you can decry the colonialism, that would be