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fair, but you can't decry the fact that the colonizers tried hard to make sure that the people they left thrived and sure enough they did. But here's the point that I don't think you could have said five years ago. That Africa has never worked. That the colonizers who colonized Africa often found out that they couldn't train the locals to take over. And her point is that you have to recognize that…
← Previous segment →ust the first act. If we don't succeed in building some kind of a government with Venezuela that is not only works for the Monroe Doctrine but works for the locals and does not cause us to have some war with boots on the ground, well if all that happens then it'll be one of the most successful operations of all time.
But Megyn points out that we don't have a great reputation for building other countries up. I would argue that we did a good job in Japan helping them become a thriving nation. I think after World War II we did a good job in Germany to the extent that we were helpful on that. So it's not impossible that when you're talking about Venezuela, pretty educated place, pretty westernized, that we could make that work. And probably only Trump could make that happen too because I think he knows how to make a deal. He's smart enough not to disband the government like in Iraq, which was a failure.
So yes, I'm with Megyn Kelly. That first act 100%. The first act was impressive. To me it looked America first. To me it looked like a genius strategic play. But we still have to wait for the second and third act. It might get tougher before it gets easier.
All right. Vivek Ramaswamy has apparently announced that he's going to not be on Instagram and X for a while. I don't know how long, but he says it's too easy to give a distorted sense of the public's concerns. Now that's a true statement, wouldn't you say? That if you're on X, even though X is the free speech champion of the world, that you still get in your bubble. So it does form bubbles. There's no way around it. And I do think that if you got all of your sense of what the public wants from X it probably would be distorted because even Vivek would be in a bubble of some kind. Not of his choosing, it might not be the bubble he wants, but it just happens because of the way algorithms work.
But here's my question to Vivek that he will never see. What is a better way to get to the truth? At the moment there's nothing better than X. And I would say there's nothing close. I wouldn't trust AI. Maybe someday, but I don't trust it now. I wouldn't trust the mainstream media. I wouldn't trust anything. So while his concern seems spot on, I'd love to know what he thinks is the alternative. What alternative is there? Well, we'll see. We'll see if that lasts.
According to the FDA, the FDA approved a little device you wear on your forehead that gives you some electrical signals and can turn off your depression. So apparently it's been well tested and passed the FDA's bar. And what it is is like a little headband thing that knows exactly where to send these low-intensity transcranial direct curr
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ent stimulation. You know, the tDCS. So it delivers it to the frontal cortex where apparently they know that would make a difference. So here's my question. Well, and it's being compared to pills which we don't see as a good treatment for depression. So if it's better than pills, and apparently the early studies are stunningly successful, we'll see what the long-term effects are, but apparently t…
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