now if karma's real or it just looks real to us. But in 2017 when Bloomberg the company probably with some at least understanding from the boss decided to screw me in public, I wonder if they ever thought it would come back and it would cost them anything. Because it's personal. It's personal to me. I'm gonna do what I can to make sure that Bloomberg does not get elected. And it's because it's personal. I'm not even gonna pretend it has anything to do with the country. I'm not going to pretend it has anything to do with politics. I mean I'll talk about all that stuff probably but it's personal.

And we might find out how much influence one person can have because I've already described him, Bloomberg, as a desiccated turd floating in your punch bowl but wearing a tiny little suit. Yeah you can see. If I were somebody in the political realm I wouldn't want to piss off me. If I pissed off a lot of other people but I wouldn't want to piss off me. You know there are a handful of people you don't want to piss off in the social media world. I don't know if I'm in that group but I'm pretty close to it.

So I hope you enjoyed the show. I'm gonna make sure I do what I can to destroy Bloomberg's reputation and it's just payback. It's just personal and it's just payback. And I won't even pretend to make you think it's any kind of noble cause or anything like that because it's not in my case. So that's full disclosure.

I was reading a little bit more on that fake news that we heard the other day that our intel agencies are saying that Russia wants Trump to get elected. And of course people in the media were saying and what exactly would be the evidence that you know what Putin is thinking? I mean we maybe we can tell what they're doing but can we tell what they're thinking? How do you know they're thinking they want Trump to get elected?

And I was reading the article. The New York Times had an article about this and they were saying that those assessments about what leaders of other countries are thinking are more art than science. In other words it's literally fiction. It's art. It's just that based on fact. It's based on somebody's opinion. Somebody who just happened to be in that field whose job it was to look at this stuff. Oh, somebody's opinion that the reason events are going the way we're seeing them is that they know what the leader of Russia that they never met, they know what he's thinking.

Now I can't think of — I mean I suppose you have to do that because you have to make assumptions about their intentions but how accurate are they? It can't be that much better than guessing. And one of the biggest problems in the world that we see it over and over is people imagining that they can know the inner secret intentions of strangers. We're just not good at that. And I don't think our intelligence agencies are better. I mean you'd hope that they'd be better but there's no evidence of that. There's no evidence that our intelligence services understand the motivations of anybody. None. There's no evidence of that. And yet we're making major global decisions based on somebody sitting in a room saying you know based on this information I think that Putin what he's secretly thinking is... Man we got to stop doing that because we can tell what people are doing. We can't really tell what people are thinking.

And I'll say it again. If the alleged plan that Putin is pursuing, which is to damage our democracy and weaken our country as much as possible, if that were a good idea or a good strategy for Russia wouldn't everybody be doing it, right? And there's something wrong with this story because whenever there's something that works and it's sort of public doesn't everybody start copying it? I mean if Russia can destroy our democracy with all these little tricks and literally nothing happens but some sanctions they don't care about, wouldn't other countries be doing this like crazy? Or are they? Why are we only talking about Russia? Where's China in this conversation? Where's Cuba? What about Cuba? Yeah, wouldn't Cuba be trying to interfere with American elections or are they? I know maybe they are but this focus on Russia just leaves this gigantic unanswered questio