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Well, the Governor of Illinois, J.B. pritzker is going on TV. He is shamelessly going on TV and talking about other states, meaning Texas gerrymandering and acting like it's this big terrible authorigarchy kind of a thing to do. So then he is challenged with the fact that he was behind the gerrymandering of his own state and it's considered one of the most grotesquely gerrymandered states of all the states. And he has to respond to the fact he's complaining about the exact thing he did. The exact. Not even, it's not even like an approximate thing or something that reminds you of something. It's the exact thing he over gerrymandered his state to completely remove power from one side. And that's what he's complaining about. Texas. And so what does he do when he's challenged and he's on camera and it's live and he has to answer to doing exactly, exactly the thing that he's on camera to complain about the other people doing. What's he do? Word salad. He goes totally word salad. And he just starts talking and words come out of his mouth and you're like what, Wait, what, what is that even related to the. Are you going to circle back to that? But are we on the same Top. This is English, right? And it was just hilarious. With no sense of shame whatsoever, he just starts saying a bunch of words, and when you're done, you're like, oh, my God. All he did was chew up the time, and he's completely shameless. And he'll go on another. He'll probably go on another interview, do the same thing. And they let him get away with it because they ran out of time. Well, Bernie Sanders is being a little bit mean to Kamala Harris, and apparently he's not expecting a run for president anytime soon. And apparently what. What Bernie said to Dan Abash, who was talking to him, and Bernie said, quote, one of the reasons, in my view, that Kamala Harris lost this election is she had too many billionaires telling her not to speak up for the working class of this country. Do you think that happened? Do you think that behind closed doors there were too many billionaires who were warning Kamala, no, no, no, no. Stop it. Don't. Don't speak up for the working class. No, no, no, don't do that. Don't speak up for the working class. Yeah, we want to keep all that money. Does anybody believe that something like that happened? I doubt it, but that's the best Bernie can come up with. And then even Dan Abash responded with, ouch, you know, because he was being so pointed about Com. And then Bernie goes, well, no, I think. I mean, I don't think that that's. I like her. She's a friend of mine. But her core consultants, you know, were heavily influenced by very wealthy people. He goes, how do you run for president and not develop a strong agenda which speaks to the economic crises facing working families? Okay, did Bernie Sanders recommend something specific? Don't all the Democrats have the same problem? And they're all blaming each other of that problem. And that problem is they're not saying anything that could be implemented, as in a policy that would be good for working class people. They like talking about them. They like saying that other people aren't talking about them enough. They like saying that Republicans are stealing from them. They like saying that Democrats need to focus on them more. They like to say that they need to fight harder for the working class people. But what they don't say ever is what the hell they're going to do for the working class people. And when they do, it's being said by Kami Mondami. And everybody who knows anything about anything says, well, those are the worst ideas I've ever heard in my life. It's amazing to me that the Democrats even have a party who goes to the party, the political party, and they don't have a single policy recommendation for the core group that they all believe that everybody's ignoring too much except for them. Got anything? Anything on affordability? Nope. And then Sander said this, and I quote, well, but in a vague, I don't want to rehash that campaign. In other words, he didn't know what he was talking about. But I think the clue to Democratic victories is to understand you've got to stand unequivocally with the working class. Okay. And what exactly does standing with them get you? What is it you're asking for? All right. Do you ever see a title to an article and you knew you just didn't have to read it? All right. The Wall Street Journal has an article in which the headline is, President Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party by extending political control ever deeper into the economy. This is by Greg ip. Now, would you bother reading that article? It's an article comparing Trump to the Chinese Communist Party. Does it seem to you that that would be worth your time? No. If there's anything I've taught you, it's that in the world of persuasion, it's only comparisons that matter. That's why they say Trump is Hitler. It's why they say Trump is imitating the Chinese Communist Party. It's just all they're trying to do is find a way to smear him by association because they don't have enough actual policy preferences that would be better than whatever the hell he's doing. So, no, I'm not going to read that Wall Street Journal. That's crazy. According to pg, pg, PJ Media and Matt Margolis, he's writing. Did you know? I didn't know this. I learned this today that Obama's rise to power was entirely based on gerrymandering. So he. Remember, he was that junior senator from Illinois. If. If his state had not been super gerrymander just for him, he didn't really have a chance of winning. So Obama is a completely artificial candidate. He was created by gerrymandering. So that's interesting. How did I not know that before? Well, according to the New York Post, Bethany Mandel is writing that New Jersey's electric bill tripled this summer. Tripled? How does your electric bill triple? Did they cancel some power plants or something? There must be more to this story, but I didn't see it. Anyway, but apparently New Jersey in general is getting more expensive. So besides that, property taxes are up 6%, car insurance of 15%, home insurance up 17% and health insurance up 19%. Now, given that 60% of the country is living paycheck to paycheck, the numbers I just gave you, these are all the things that a middle class family just has to have, right? They have to pay for gas, they have to have electricity, they have to have health care. And these increases for New Jersey would make it completely unlivable for the middle class if they were already right at the edge and 60% of them could just barely get to the next paycheck. How in the world do they all handle insurance up 17, health insurance up 19%, and et cetera, et cetera, tripling of your electric costs. How in the world can they afford that? There's something that's getting ready to tip really hard, and I don't think it's just voting. There will certainly be some voting changes, I would hope. But I don't understand how New Jersey can even still be a viable state with these increases. Like, actually, I don't know how they can be a viable state. There must be something going on I don't know about. There's been a lot of chatter online about who invented slavery and the history of slavery. And I saw a post that says that there was some survey and found out that most Hispanic, black and Asian women think that, quote, white people invented slavery. Is there even one person who's watching this podcast? Even one out of many? I don't know, thousands at this point. I'll bet there's not one of you who believes that white people invented slavery, Am I right? I'll bet not one of you. That's pretty basic history, is to know that slavery has been with us from the beginning of time. And everybody did it, you know, pretty much everybody. And the, the movement against it, according to Thomas Sowell, was not until the Quakers and some other religious groups went after it in the 18th century. So mostly white people. Now I feel as though people are trying to win an argument based on what happened hundreds of years ago. So if you want reparations, you say those white people have been doing it for hundreds of years. And if you, if you wanted to go the opposite direction, you'd say everybody's been doing it forever. White people were more associated with stopping it than, you know, promoting it. However, I say I don't care. I don't care what anybody, any strangers, relatives, were doing hundreds of years ago. Are you telling me that I should be somehow taxed or pay some money or something for something that strangers Relatives did hundreds of years ago. I don't care whose relatives, whether they're mine or anybody else's has nothing to do with me. So I care about what's happening today and now. And it might be true that there's, you know, some groups that are disadvantaged because the history of slavery, to which I say I don't care. Everybody's got some problem. I don't know anybody who doesn't have a problem. Some people have health problems, Some people are ugly, some people are addicted. Some people, you know, have abusers in their life. Some people have been victims of horrible crimes. Some people have low IQ and they're trying to get by. Everybody's got a problem. Everybody. And you can't tell me that I'm part of your problem. I'm not part of anybody's problem. I don't know any of those people. I'm just, I'm not connected to this, the story at all. So, no, it might be entirely true that some groups are disadvantaged by something that happened hundreds of years ago. I don't care. Why should that affect me? All right, so apparently Nvidia and AMD, the chip makers, agreed with Trump to provide the US with 15% of revenue from their chip sales to China in return for the US Government removing export controls on those high end chips. So once again, if this is true, so this is this morning's reporting, but if this is true, Trump has once again monetized the problem that was unsolvable. The unsolvable problem was that we could try to prevent China from getting these chips, but they were going to get them anyway. So they would just get them through cutouts and illegal ways and then maybe they would just try harder to replace them with their own homegrown chips. So Trump realizing here, I'm just speculating what he was thinking, Trump realizing that you can't really stop China from getting the chips. You could work really hard at it, you could ban them, but they're going to get the chips. So instead he simply says, all right, you can sell them chips, but you have to give 15% to the government. We're basically your partner now. And apparently Nvidia and AMD agreed to that. So once again, Trump finds a problem that he can't solve because it might be just unsolvable by its nature. So he monetizes it. He just finds a way to make a profit for the US Government. I don't hate this. You can look at the individual situations and say, I don't like that one or I don't like that one. But I kind of love what he's doing to reframe the role of the government. That if the government is part of your success, well, the government gets a taste. And you and I are the government. Right. So why should you and I pay a bunch of taxes for our American defense and American government? But it's just going to help some company that I don't own stock in. Like why would I be doing that? Doesn't it make more sense if we help you, you help us. So that's all, that's all Trump is doing. He's saying if we're going to help you get, you know, get into this market and protect you, we should get a taste. So maybe, maybe it's a good idea. Well, Mexico's president staying inside of Venezuela's Maduro, who has been attacked by Trump and the administration as being a terrorist and a drug trafficker. And he's being accused by the US Government of being a leader of the cartel de la Souls, which is responsible for drug trafficking. Now I've never really seen this before, maybe it's happened before, but they're not even treating him like he's the head of the government. They're treating him like he's the head of the cartel. They just happen to have conquered a government. And this will be interesting because once you say the guy's the head of a cartel, it feels like there's nothing that we wouldn't be willing to do to him. So if Maduro gets, let's say, taken out, you shouldn't be too surprised, right? China has been, they began construction on the world's biggest hydropower project, water power. Apparently there's this enormous river in China and they, they've got this almost unimaginably ambitious project to conquer it and turn it into an energy supply. 167 billion dollar facility. And it will be an engineering miracle if they can pull it off, which people think they can. But did you know that China imports nearly a quarter of its energy supply? A quarter of its energy supply. So they're trying to, China is trying to become more self sufficient. Yeah, no, it's bigger than the Seven Gorges. I believe it's going to be bigger than that anyway. So it feels like the, the war that China and the US Are in is to see who can become less dependent on the other the fastest. And China is going to work on becoming energy dependent, independent, and we're going to work on having our own manufacturing, I guess having our own, what do you call it, rare Earth minerals. Speaking of which, a startup called Vulcan elements has raised $65 million in the US to create rare earth magnets. So that's what we're doing. We're going as hard as we can on rare earth and they're going as hard as they can on energy. Because we live in this big connected world. And I hate to say it, but it's the economic requirement that we all have to live off of each other that probably keeps us from going to war. I'm a little bit afraid if the big powers become self sufficient with everything because if we don't have a little bit of dependence on those other countries, it's going to be kind of easier to get into a war. So we'll see. According to the Atlantic, the world's population collapse. I'm sorry, is. Take a drink. I don't know what's wrong with my throat today. That's better. The baby shortage is worse than you think. And we will have a worldwide collapse faster than the experts thought. But did you know that Chile and Colombia are only having one child per woman and Thailand is less than one. So it's not just the rich countries. So even Chile, Colombia and Thailand are not just not reproducing. So why is that? Because when I think of the China and the U.S. i think, oh, it's just economic, you know, people can't afford it. But is that true everywhere? Did it suddenly become too expensive in every country at the same time? Do they have a housing problem in Thailand? They might. I don't know. So I don't know why it's happening everywhere. So there's a deeper mystery to the lack of babies. And I would say again that if the problem is the cost of living, that we should build freedom cities that are optimized for having a family. Because I've told you this a number of times, but until it gets solved, I'll just keep saying it. The ultimate place to live if you have a young family is where there are other young families. And you can't do better than that because you can take turns watching kids and they have sleepovers and with your friend, etc. So it's way easier to raise kids if you're around other people raising kids. So if you build a freedom city that's optimized for low cost of living and high quality contact with other people in the same age range and same interests, it would be amazing. You could build it tomorrow. It would just be. You just need approvals, basically. Apparently colleges are having a tough time scrambling to fill their roles because of all the foreign students who are staying home or have been banned from their colleges. And apparently it's a pretty big deal. There's going to be a 30 to 40% decline in new international student enrollment. So 150,000 fewer international students in this country. So people who are much deeper on the wait list, in other words, people who didn't get in will be getting it. So that's good. That's boring. So there's a new synthetic opioid that's way worse than even fentanyl and even way worse in that the Narcan, which can save you if you, if you have a fentanyl overdose. It doesn't work on this. So what is it called? Nitazine. N I T A Z E N E. Niazine. So watch out for that. Kids are already dropping dead taking a pill that they think is one thing. It turns out to be filled with nitazine. So don't take that. So allegedly Putin and Trump are going to meet and talk about Ukraine, but I don't think there's any chance this will work because Zelensky is making videos saying that there's no possibility of Ukraine giving land away for peace and that's really the only deal. And he says that Zelensky says that the constitution of Ukraine prevents him from even having that conversation because he doesn't have the power to give anything away. Now, will Trump come back and say, I got a deal and your part of the deal is you got to do a constitutional convention and vote on whether or not we can end the war by giving away this property. Would he do it? I feel like Zelensky is going to go all the way and as long as he's in office, he's never going to say yes to peace. I feel like. And so it might be that Trump has to get rid of Zelensky before anything productive can happen. We'll see, but we'll watch that. I feel like the odds of this producing a three way agreement for peace are basically zero, don't you? Basically zero. So. But I'll be surprised. I would love to be wrong. Well, Israel bombed an Al Jazeera reporter who was in Gaza and killed him, as well as four of his co workers who were also Al Jazeera Zera reporters because they said that the one guy, they said the one guy was actually a Hamas operator. Now, I don't know if that's true, but they killed him and his whole team intentionally. Four confirmed dead. So maybe him and three others now, does that seem a little convenient to you? That whenever there's people reporting on Gaza, which is the last thing that Israel would want to happen, that they're also working with Hamas, so you better kill them all? So here's my warning about the war zone. 100% of the information coming out of the war zone is not credible. Some of it might be true, but it's not credible. You can't believe it's true just because it showed up in the newspaper. So do we know that this Al Jazeera guy was really working for Hamas? We don't know that. Could it be that Israel just decided to kill him because the last thing they want is any living reporters in that area? Possibly. I don't have any information to suggest that's the case, but possibly. So I would say this is exactly the kind of story you should say to yourself, okay, it's a total shit show over there. People do terrible things on both sides. This is probably more of that. But we don't know which side was doing the terrible thing. Obviously, if the three people who were with him were innocent reporters, that would be pretty bad, I guess. Australia has decided to recognize a Palestinian state. What exactly do they think that looks like? Do they think that Israel is just going to suddenly say, all right, Gaza is a Palestinian state now go ahead, you guys, you can have Gaza and the west bank and we'll get rid of all of our settlements? Do they really think any of that's going to happen? I don't believe it. And Bernie Sanders is now saying that Netanyahu is a war criminal just as much as the head of Hamas is a war criminal. So he's now basically acting like they're morally similar or at least legally similar in terms of war crimes. You can pick your war criminal, pick your preference. The only thing I have to say about that is that I try not to impose my own ethical or moral standard on a situation which does not operate on ethics or morality. It's purely self interest of the countries. And if I observe that Israel is, I'll say, effectively pursuing their own national self interest, what else am I to say about it? The only thing that I have to say about it is whether the US should be funding any part of that, and I'm not a big fan of that. So I observe that Israel seems to be getting what they want at the moment, and it would be unlikely that they would say, you know what, we've decided that we're just going to do the opposite of everything we've said. We would do before. So I think as long as Israel has the power to get what they want, they will just keep getting what they want. And that's the whole analysis right there about the US E.J. oh, it's E.J. i thought it was a I thought it was a serious person, but it's just my troll. Obviously, I don't have to say the obvious parts because then the troll. Well, never mind. All right, ladies and gentlemen, it is a very slow news day, but I think Trump will pick it up a little bit. It might get really newsy really fast. But I'm going to talk to my local subscribers privately. And the rest of you, thanks for joining. We will see you back here tomorrow, same time, same place. All right, locals, I will be private with you in 30 seconds.