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So all of those things probably come from the Same phenomenon, which is the people who don't have a physical sensation from thinking about politics. They're. They're not doing any of the crazy stuff, so they're. They don't have TDS so much or those other things. Speaking of tds, I saw a clip of CNN where Scott Jennings was roasting. Somebody said, Jennifer Welch, I guess she's one of the anti Trumpers that was on the panel, that Abby Phillip show. And she claimed that Trump obviously has dementia and that he. And one of the ways, you know, is that he performed oral sex on a microphone. So can you believe. And I'd have to say that she looked like, you know, just the way she talked and acted, she looked like one of those people who really feel something physically from the news. I mean, she looked like she was having a physical response to just even thinking about Trump. And Scott Jennings said after she was done with her little rant, that sounded literally crazy. He just says, if this is a Democratic strategy, congratulations, America. You've already elected Republicans as far as the eye can see. Yeah. If your reason for not liking Trump, the top of the list is that he has dementia because he tried to perform oral sex on a microphone, which, by the way, I do not remember that story, but I suppose. I suppose anything's possible, but I don't remember the story of him trying to have it out with a microphone. So when the, the Democrats talk like that, you know, not every Democrat, of course, but when one of them talks like that, do you say to yourself, well, there's a. Just a competing opinion I should take seriously, or do you say to yourself, what is wrong with you? Like it. It looks like you have a mental health problem, and that's what that looks like. That. That comes off not as an opinion, that comes off as a mental health problem. Does it? Is it just me? Well, even the Portuguese president has some tds. He said in public, believe it or not, that Trump is nothing but a Russian puppet. And he said the top leader of the world's greatest superpower is objectively a Soviet Russian asset. He functions as an asset. That's the president of Portugal. You know, what's funny is I'd never seen a, you know, a picture of him before that I can recall, but I saw the video of him talking and I thought, oh, I get it. He looks as dumb as he sounds. I mean, he looks like a dumb guy. And then that comes out of his mouth. He's ahead of Portugal. And he believes that Trump, who put these vicious sanctions on Russia, etcetera is trying to solve a war. They think he's a Russian asset. All right, so here is a new theory about Stonehenge. I guess I found a one cow's tooth buried at the site, and they analyzed the heck out of that tooth, and then they declared that probably the way the stones got to Stonehenge, which is the big mystery, because they're really heavy and they came from a long ways away. They think, and now they say that cows drag the rocks. The Stonehenge. Now it makes me wonder, is there anything that cows can't do? They can make a baseball catcher's mitt. They can be our food. They can give us milk. You could ride a cow if you needed to. They could be a pet. Terrible pet. Terrible pet. But they can do so many things. But apparently they can build Stonehenge. Personally, my theory is that the cows also built the pyramids. I can't prove it, but when I look at them, I think that looks like some cow work right there. I used to work on my. My uncle's farm. He had a dairy farm. And so I know cows. I mean, I know how they think. And I feel like they could have built a pyramid. I don't know. So, online influencer, I guess that's what you would call him. A researcher. Ian Carroll, if you've seen his material, very entertaining. I'm never in a position to know when he's right and when he's not, but he has some fascinating research he does on a lot of stuff. But apparently the government, the Trump administration, has now released 100,000 emails relative to the Epstein situation. And the 100,000 emails, just what? Oh, 100,000 emails that. I think that was just the number of emails with Ehud Barack, the ex prime Minister of Israel. Well, I don't know. It doesn't seem like they would have done 100,000 messages back and forth, but there were a hundred thousand emails, and some number of them were about back and forth with Ehud Barak. So I think Ian's leaning toward the hypothesis that Epstein was definitely a Mossad or Israeli asset of some kind. I find it difficult to imagine that if his relationship with Ehud Barak was that close, hard to imagine that he didn't have some kind of working relationship. But there are now several, let's say. Let's say movies on one screen about Epistein. So one of the movies would be this, he's an Israeli asset. And that, you know, that explains everything. And he's a blackmailer. That's a popular one. Another one would be maybe, let's call it the Mike Benz hypothesis, that Epstein might have been an expert at moving large amounts of money around in ways that can be concealed and that that made him a valuable person to all these high level people. And it was mostly just him and maybe a few people he pulled into it that were doing the sexual stuff. So that's one possibility, or to say it differently, that the, the sexual improprieties were not related to his business model. So that, that would be another way to say it. They exist, but, but it's not part of his money making operation. And then what else do we have? Yeah, and then the other would be that he wasn't doing anything illegal, but maybe he had, you know, one or two billionaires who found him valuable and paid him large amounts of money or I don't know. So, so there's some sort of a partial third movie there where he's not as guilty except for the sexual stuff that I would say obviously he was guilty of. So that Epstein situation, we'll never know. I say, well, apparently there was a rumor going around on X today that President Trump was dead, but he's not. So he's not. But the rumor was going around and partly because I guess we haven't seen him in a little while and he has no scheduled public appearances this weekend. Now he also hasn't taken a vacation since he started and no summer vacation, which is a little unusual. So it wouldn't surprise me if he's just going to do a little golfing this weekend and you know, I mean, it's a holiday weekend, so maybe he's just golfing, hanging with friends and that's, that's all the vacation he needs. Maybe he doesn't seem like a beach guy. So, I mean, what if you don't go to the beach? Vacations don't make nearly as much sense, do they? If you're not like a gourmet food connoisseur or a wine drinker or a beach guy. Vacations just don't have that much appeal. So you'd rather just live a life doing the stuff you like? Like? Well, I like golfing, so we'll do that. Anyway, I'm going to inject my own, let's see, not conspiracy theory, but my own speculation. I like that word. I'm going to speculate that since Trump, it's almost impossible to imagine him having the whole weekend off with nothing on his schedule unless there's something really big that's about to drop. So is it possible that he's doing some really serious negotiations that we don't even know is even a topic. Could it be that sometime next week we're going to learn that he was really working this weekend and, like, really working and got something done? Or that there's, you know, the negative part would be that there's some new danger approaching that we don't know about and he's got to figure out what to do about it. I don't know. It does seem unusual that we wouldn't know what's going on. And he kind of dropped out of sight even for a few days, even on a holiday weekend. So it could be anything. Could be. Well, I don't know if it could be cosmetic surgery or anything, but anything's possible. Well, so here's a poll, gala poll. You may have heard of this one, but the Post Millennials talk about this Hannah Nightingale, and The poll said that 0% of Democrats were satisfied with the state of America right now. Zero percent, zero. Now, obviously, you're thinking the same thing I am, which is okay. There's no poll that has zero for any questions. Zero is just not even. It's not one of the possibilities. Now, it wasn't exactly zero. It only rounded down to zero. So there were a few, but it rounded down to zero. So I thought my first take on this was to ignore it because obviously there was something wrong with it. Obviously. But then I saw that the Post millennials writing about this, that apparently when Biden was in charge, the Republican, 97% of Republicans were dissatisfied. So only 3% of Republic at most, said they were satisfied when Biden was in charge. So I feel like what this is really measuring is the effectiveness of brainwashing. I feel like that's what it's measuring. Because let me, let me ask you this. Have you, you've probably seen the, the man on the street or person on the street interviews where somebody who's just playing around because we'll go up to a stranger and say, here are three policies that, let's say it was under Joe Biden. Three policies that Joe Biden's doing. What do you think of these policies? And then he'll cleverly list three things that are Trump policies that Biden hates. But he'll say, what do you think of these Biden policies? And if you ask a Democrat, the Democrat will say, well, those are very wise policies. They're very good. And then the interviewer will say, okay, those are all Trump's policies. And the person on the street always goes into full Cognitive dissonance and like, ah, oh, well, I, maybe I should do a little more research. Right. So it has been proven, certainly to my satisfaction, that people's impression of whether things are going in the right direction has everything to do with what other people told them. Their opinions were literally assigned to them by the party and by the fake news. So, yes, there is all you can take out from is the country moving in the right direction. The only thing you can take from that is that one side is winning and everybody on the other side is going to say, yeah, it's all going to hell. If you took, let's say you made a list of all the things that Trump is doing that people would agree, at least it's getting some kind of result, how hard would it be to take all of his policies and just put them in a Democrat and then have all the Democrats salute it because it's coming from a Democrat? And the answer is there might be an exception. But I feel like 100% of what Trump is doing or proposes doing, 100% of it, it feels like, could have come from a Democrat not too long ago. I would say 100% of it could have come from Bill Clinton. That wasn't, that's not ancient history. But something like everything he's doing would be compatible with. A lot of it is compatible with Obama. Right. Obama didn't love crime and he didn't love an open border, and he, he deported quite a few people. So that's the way to think of this. Don't think that the pole is measuring anything useful. All it is is people have been brainwashed that their team good, other team bad. And it really isn't the policies. It really is not the policies. And it's not even the candidate where you're just not allowed to like the other side. And that's how people answer the poll. What about tariffs? Can't you easily imagine that a Democrat president had been the only one who ever came up with tariffs and said, yeah, you know what, tariffs. And then the Republicans would say, oh, of course you're in favor of a tax. But instead the Republicans came up with it Trump. And so one of the Democrats say, well, look at you, you're taxing us. So even something as basic as the tariff, I guarantee you, if a Democrat had been the only one to support that, like Trump was a little bit the only one, Democrats would have fallen in line, said it was genius. Well, the good news is that gas prices are lower than they've been for the weekend since 2020. So last year they were 329 and the year before 377 on average. And now it's $3.15 on average. So energy's down, eggs are down. I don't know if prescription drugs are down, but they will be down, you know, if Trump gets his most favored nation stuff. So those are pretty good. I mean, eggs and energy and. Yeah, so some things are down, but I guess beef is way up and housing is way up and health care in general is way up, so. So it's a mixed bag. While a federal appeals court ruled against Trump. Oh, sorry, I fell asleep. Because it seems like every single friggin day. There's another story about an appeals court who tried to block Trump from doing what Trump wants to do now. Specifically, the judge said that Trump's tariffs are unlawful but specific. Not every tariff, but only the tariffs that were put in. Put in place after Trump had. What did he do? He, he declared an emergency power. So there's a 1977 Emergency Powers act, and so he said these other countries are ripping us off, and so it's an emergency. Now, is that an emergency that you don't have trade deals that you like? Well, that's a little bit of a stretch, but that's what he used. He said it was an emergency, and then the appeals court said, that's no emergency, so you don't have the power to do that. Attorney General Pam Bondi said, yes, we do, because he said it was a national emergency and we have that power. And I saw Tom Fenton did an analysis of the actual language of what Trump's allowed to do, and there was a pretty good argument there, pretty good argument that if you allow that he had the power to declare something, an emergency, so you'd have to, I think you'd have to accept that he has that power and it's not up to you to disagree with it. He just has that power. He can call it an emergency. And then if he does, there's a good argument that tariffs would be well within the normal range of tools that he would have at his disposal if it's an emergency. So even though it's not specifically mentioned as a power, it's sort of a common sense interpretation that it would include at least that kind of a power. So we'll see, see what the Supreme Court does. That would be. Even though it's not every one of his tariffs, I don't know how he did the other ones, but maybe Congress has to give him that power first. So we'll see. Apparently Missouri, according to Politico, Aaron Pelisch is writing that Missouri is going to look into redistricting in a special session, sort of like California is doing. If so, they think they would pick up one GOP seat, but apparently we're not hearing much from other Democrat states. So we thought that there would be what would happen is it would set off some mutually assured destruction where every state would gerrymander until everything was ridiculous. Well, it's already, it's already gerrymandered. Gerrymandered enough that it's ridiculous. But it looks like the Republicans may be willing to go all the way on this no matter what the Democrats do. So it looks like the Republicans are going to pick up a bunch of even if the Democrats went hard at it, they have fewer states that aren't already gerrymandered. So the Republicans would come out ahead. But I wonder if the other Democrat states are trying to lay low just to make sure that it doesn't become an all out gerrymandering war, which they know they would lose. So it could be that even though people think that California will sort of match what happened in Texas, that if all they do is match it, maybe that's enough. Hey, just keep your head down. If we could get away with just matching it, that's our best case scenario for a Democrat. But if we go out there and say we are Vermont, I don't know which states are in play, but go out there and say we're Vermont and we're going to join California and gerrymandering, well, all that's going to do is guarantee that every Republican state does it. I think every Republican state or most of them are going to do it just in case and just because they can. But if you're a Democrat, you might say to yourself, why don't we just, you know, shut up about this and let California be our answer that just matched Texas. As long as you're matching, there's not as much argument that you got to fight it to the last district, I guess. So I'm just wondering if Democrats are trying to lay low and see if it blows over. I don't think it will. I think Trump has already put out the word you're going to gerrymander or else, or else I'm going to make your life difficult. So surprise Democrats possibly already following the story about the statins, you know, the drug statins. I remember some years ago, it was quite a while ago that my doctor did whatever, what is it for? So the statins are to lower your cholesterol. And when my cholesterol test came back and it was already as low as you'd want it to be, I remember my doctor saying, oh, you know, if your cholesterol were higher, I'd put you on a statin. And then he told me that the studies were so positive for statins in unrelated areas that he said that if he could, he would put every one of his. Every one of his patients on statins, even if they didn't have any cholesterol problem. Because he said it was just so good. I mean, it was just so good for your health in just so many different ways. And the science was so clear that he would just put everybody on statins if it were up to him. Now, time goes by and the current thinking, and I don't know if it's. I don't know what's real. All right? So I just know what I see on social media. So I can't claim to know that any of this is true, but people are saying really, really bad things about statins. I don't know if you've noticed, but now there's some indication. And again, I'm not going to say that I know that any of this is true, but there is some indication that having a low, Having low cholesterol makes you a higher chance of getting diabetes. So we got 92 million people on statins, and many of them don't even have any heart disease. They're just told their cholesterol is too high. And because of that, they may or may not be giving themselves a higher chance of getting a blood sugar disease. Now, again, I'm not your doctor, so you should not take any medical advice from me. Everybody understand that I'm telling you what the world is talking about, about statins. I'm not telling you what I think makes sense for you to do. And if you think you're hearing that, you're not hearing that. I'm just talking about it. You're gonna have to figure it out yourself on the medical stuff. Well, Maxine Waters is pushing the idea that Trump needs to be taken out with the 25th Amendment because he's so obviously crazy. Now, first thing I would say about Maxine Waters is you may know she was replaced a while ago by a wax figurine of Maxine Waters. And unfortunately, they left it out in the sun a little bit too long. So what looks like Maxine Waters is actually a wax statue that's partially melted. And that would explain her look. But she says there's something wrong with this president. So have you noticed the pattern, the trend that whatever it is that the Democrats are complaining about is not real, just not real. And I don't know, maybe that's a little bit the same on, on the other side. Maybe Republicans worry too much about things that aren't real as well. But man, the, the Democrats with their imaginary issues. So it's an. He's the imaginary dictator who had an imaginary insurrection on January 6th. And there was an imaginary thing where he said something about neo Nazis that we know to be a hoax. It's all imaginary, just that he's doing it just for his own enrichment and all of it. And women and men can. Never mind. So you may remember the other day I was saying I don't understand what the Fed does, the Federal Reserve and that if their main thing is setting the interest rates, how many people do they need to do that? It feels to me they probably just have some model or they sit around a meeting and say, what do you think? But why does it take thousands of employees? Now they do a few other things, but I saw a video by Chamath from the all in Pod. He's like Madonna or you know, the one name only kind of people like naval. He's a one name guy because his last name is hard to pronounce. So Chamath was saying, what does the Fed actually do in 2025? And because he's a lot smarter than I am, I felt really good because I thought, oh, because when you go in public, when you do what I do, you say a lot of opinions in public. It's a little bit risky to say, I can't figure out what the Federal Reserve does. What do they even do? Because it makes you look like a dope. So when somebody who's certifiably a lot smarter than almost everybody, like Chamath says, what does the Fed actually do? I feel, oh maybe, maybe I was sort of on the right track there a little bit. But they're the letter of last resort. I think Chamath said they'd rather say the treasury do that. They set monetary policy, they regulate banks. That probably takes a lot of people and they're a clearinghouse for payments. But it feels like that needs to be updated. So. Yeah, and it doesn't say, as Chamath pointed out, the Federal Reserve like gets together like what, once a month or something while there's $130 trillion flying around the world and they only get together once a month. Doesn't that feel like it's just something from the past. I suspect if you looked at all the activities they do around just setting interest rates, that you could get rid of all of it. And you could just put people in the room and say, well, what do you think? Well, I don't know. That jobs report looked a little weak. It just doesn't feel like necessarily they need to exist. Maybe their functions need to be just sourced out to other places. Well, China has a new source of power that is kind of fascinating. So it looks like it's a dirigible, a lighter than air, you know, gas balloon kind of thing, but it's shaped like a, I want to say, man's sex toy and that it's. Let's see, how do I describe this? It's a hollow tube, and the tube part is where the gas is. So it's like a thick, pillowy tube. And in the center is a turbo, a wind turbine. Because once you get into the stratosphere, apparently the wind is always blowing and a lot harder than it blows on Earth. So one of the problems of wind energy is you can't depend on it. But if you put this thing up in the stratosphere and it just sort of stays there because it's full of gas, the wind will never stop and it will be way stronger than on Earth. So you can generate actually some serious electricity up there. Now the hard part will be getting it down to earth. So the two possibilities haven't worked it out yet. One would be that they charge a battery up there and then I guess ask, come down every night and discharge the battery. That doesn't seem like it would work because the battery would be too heavy. And the other possibility is there are some technologies for beaming things down wirelessly. So microwave, I think. I don't know how hard it would be to, you know, hit that target on Earth with your microwave while you're up there in the wind. So maybe there's no way to get that energy down, but it's kind of a cool idea. Well, as you know, the DNC had their little meeting recently, summer meeting, and they opened it up with a stolen land acknowledgement. That's where you say, I'm sorry that the Native Americans used to own this land and the evil white people, mostly men, stole it from them. But we acknowledge that we stole it from them. Now, if you're trying to rebuild a broken Democrat party that is collapsing in every possible way, you can collapse. Do you think that opening up your meeting by acknowledging that you're thieves and you stole some land and you're not going to give it back. Do you feel like that's the best way to, you know, scrub up your brand so that people are like, yeah, hell yeah. I want to be part of the thieves who, who say to your face that we stole your land and we're not giving it back. Yeah, I feel like I'm on that team. Well, I just love Democrat strategist James Carville. On one hand, he's full of TDS and he seems batshit crazy. On the other hand, he's still their smartest guy. He's a little bit batshit crazy, a little bit cds, but he's still their best guy. And when he gives them advice, I laugh when they don't take it. And he was talking about that land acknowledgement, he goes, why bring it up during the election? It's funnier if you say it in James Scarville's voice. If you say it in my voice, it's not that funny. Why bring it up during an election? See nothing. It just sits there like a desiccated turd. But now I'm going to say the same sentence in James Carville talk and watch how much better this is. Why bring it up during an election? It's a lot funnier if you scream it in Carville. Yep, we're land stealers and we're not giving it back. We're Democrats.

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So my feed on X is full of companies that make some kind of a video generation AI app. And look at this 10 second video I did. One of them is up to about two minutes, I guess. But I feel like I want to jump into that space and say, hey, I'm a creator. I'll just use these new AI tools and watch the movies I will make. And then I see that they're all limited to this like few seconds. And I say to myself, okay, if I jumped in and picked one of these many apps and then I became an expert in it, what is the most likely thing that would happen if I became an expert and really started Working on a project and maybe tried to make a movie, like really some real commercially important thing. What's the most likely thing that would happen? The maker of the app goes out of business before I finish my project, and it's not compatible with any other app. You know, we can't just take it from that point forward. That's the most likely thing that would happen. So it doesn't look like we have an industry where I could start a project and finish it. I feel like I can only start it. And then on top of that, the improvement in the technology is happening so quickly that if I do all of my research and find the very best, best video generator, I go, all right, this is definitely the best one. So I'll use this one. And then I spend a bunch of time to learn it and I start making my project. How long would it be before there's one that's so much better? And it might even be, like, one day later that is so much better that it would be insane for me to keep using the one I started with? So we're at this weird point in this video thing where it can't quite do something really big. It can make, you know, little viral videos which have some value but, you know, minor. And it doesn't make sense as a creator to learn any one of them in particular because you can't trust it'll be there. So I feel like this is going to be. Obviously, this will be a gigantic part of the economy at some point, but I feel like it's going to be nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing until it isn't. So th. This is one of those ones that's going to be like, oh, it's a little bit better. It's a little bit better. Boom, boom. Suddenly it'll be, everybody can do everything. There's now a robot. I saw some Mario Nle posts on this that can perform a surgery on an egg so they can actually pull the shell off it without injuring the egg. It's so fine. And at the risk of sounding unkind, how good would the robot surgeon have to be before you would prefer it to the DEI surgeon? You know. You know that all of you are thinking, all right, now that we've demonstrated for sure that DEI has resulted in way less qualified people getting accepted into medical school. It's not like it used to be like it used to be. If you got through medical school, I really did trust that you knew what you were doing. Now I don't because the criteria changed. And this has nothing to do with Anybody's race or gender. It's just if you change the criteria and, and really focus on something other than merit, well, everybody knows how that turns out. So I don't have to be like an expert to do any research. I just have to know how good the robot is. And when the robot gets to the point where they say this is definitely better than people and I, and we're probably right on the cusp of saying that, that it's better than people, then why would you ever go with a human again? So I think the surgery job might be one of those that is untouched by the machines for another. Could be several years. Then there's going to be a point, sort of like self driving cars. They'll be like, oh, well, you know, they're not really making much of a dent. But then suddenly it'll be nothing but self driving cars. It's going to be nothing but robot surgeons because, you know, once they're just way better than humans. Why, why would you ever use a human? It wouldn't make any sense at all. And certainly the robot would have a better chance of damaging less stuff around the operation than a human would. So. Well, apparently there's a big meeting coming up maybe today or real soon with President Xi of China and Putin and Kim Jong Un. And it's the first time that the three of them are going to share a stage together. I guess it's China's got a military parade and that was the reason for inviting. And here's my humorous take on that. I think all three of them hate the other. I feel like they hate each other. What do you think? Do you think that when they get together, Xi and Putin and Kim, that they're like, ah, my bud, ah, bro. And that they just really like each other? I think Kim probably feels like they control him too much, you know, they have too much influence on him. So he probably hates them both because they're like undue influence on him. But you know, he has to get along with them. So we'll pretend Putin probably hates President Xi for the same reason. President Xi probably hates Putin for the same reason. I think they hate each other. I don't know, they'll pretend they don't. So the White House, according to Fox News, say that the, the crackdown in D.C. where the federal government's surged in some troops. They made almost 1400 arrests, 12 known gang members arrested, 5 missing children rescued, 140 firearms seized, and 50 homeless camps cleared. It's pretty good. That's pretty darn good. Trump is winning so hard on crime? It's, it's just wonderful to see. Yeah, so we'll see. But he's winning hard. Here are some things the government has decided to spend less money on lately. And you know, I told you that the thing that Trump and Elon Musk especially brought to the government is competition to see who can cut the most. I feel like before their incentive was to spend the most because whoever could control the most budget and get the most stuff done would look the best. But somehow now looking the best means can you cut the budget in your area? So we've seen Bill Pulte making cuts. We've seen talk about the Fed doesn't need that building. So we're seeing cuts all over the place. So here are a few. So Trump is cutting 679 million federal funds for offshore wind projects. OAN is reporting about that. So Trump is very anti wind projects. So he just got the budget $679 million. Boop. There you go. Meanwhile, RFK Jr has canceled $122 million in LGBT and diversity grants, according to the National Pulse. Now does Health and Human Services need to make LGBTQ and diversity grants? Like, why are they even doing that? So he just cut 122 million. Boop. And then Kristi Noem canceled thousands of FEMA contracts after Doge found that a lot of it was waste. Oan is reporting on this too. So how much? Let's see. She got 10 million for that, 3 million for that, 1.6 for that. So a bunch of millions. The Daily Caller is reporting on that as well. So it feels to me like Congress could have made a budget by just taking the current budget and telling Everybody to cut 10% and just calling it a day or whatever percent they needed to cut to get the balance. But the level of I won't call it necessarily waste, but things you didn't absolutely have to spend money on is crazy. And so Mike Benz is totally. Benz pilled me. And now I'm seeing things through his frame. And the one thing that seems obvious is that you can only get rich by robbing the government. Now, you might be a big tech company that's working with the CIA. And then the CIA says, well, we'll make sure that you make billions of dollars because you're playing well with us. That would be robbing the government. Sorry, my cat is ripping up my legs right now as I'm trying to talk. Come on, Gary, come here.

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C mintmobile.com I gotta take care of this. Otherwise I'll need band aids. Which one are you all right, Scary. It's Gary, of course. Gary. All right, Gary's out of my lab now, so let me finish the Ben's pilled view of the government. So it seems to me that you're either a big company who uses the government to open a market for you or something, but the big companies are ripping off the government directly and indirectly. And then all These charities and NGOs appear to be nothing but ways to rip off the government. And it looks like there are just the thousands, thousands of essentially criminal enterprises in which people are ripping off the government successfully. You saw the news about the big ring of people ripping off. Was it Medicaid or something like half a billion dollars or something? I feel like every single one of our budgets in the government, somebody's figuring out how to rob it. And that when I Look at that $2 trillion a year in excess the deficit, I really wonder if 100% of that is theft. Legalized theft, but basically big companies and entities figuring out how to drain the government without giving enough in return back. That's what it feels like. Allegedly. I don't believe this story, but allegedly China has developed a nuclear battery that's only the size of a coin that can run for 50 years with REG. So it could run your cell phone for 50 years. Do you believe that there is a commercial grade nuclear battery and that people will just put it in their phone? How do you throw it away? How do you get rid of your. Like that doesn't seem like that's, that's not really something that could ever work. The nuclear battery. You say it's true. Well, here's what I believe is true. I believe it works in a lab. I believe that they can demonstrate that it makes power and. But do you think that the real commercial world is ready for a nuclear battery that everybody has in their pocket? I mean, it will just be psychologically too scary. And I know what you're going to say, but Scott, they thought of all the safety problems and they got to work now. Well, maybe, but it just doesn't feel like people are going to want to put a. Okay, I've got cat crawling on my back now. Doesn't feel like that's going to be a real thing in the market. It might work in the lab. Well, how many people do you think have died in the Gaza war so far? Just the Palestinian side, reportedly. The Gaza health ministry says 63,000. Stop it. Stop it. Don't do it. I know what you're going to say. If you're an npc, what do you say now, Scott? Scott, Nobody can believe the death count from the Gaza Health Ministry. Nobody believes that number. Right? Well, I hear that. I tell you all the time, don't believe any numbers that come from a war zone. Right? You've heard me say that. So you all know that I understand that you can't believe any number that comes from a war zone, the exception being the Holocaust. Of course those numbers are exact. But that's the only one. The only one. I learned that from the adl, but every other number that comes from a war zone is a suspect. So I went to Grok and I wondered again, not that I'll know the right answer, but I wondered how GROK handles it, and I was surprised. So according to grok, the Israeli intelligence services and the Israeli military basically trust that number, but the politicians in Israel say, you can't trust that number. It's coming from the Gaza Health Ministry. Is that true? Did GROK get that right? Is it true that within Israel the military says, yeah, that's about right, we trust that number, but the politicians are saying, oh no, it's nowhere near that. I don't know. So apparently there have been other estimates beyond the Gaza Health Ministry and they're actually in one case higher. One estimate is 70,000. Now, is that reliable? No. I mean, somebody just had a different method for calculating. But there is the thought that the Gaza Health Ministry number does not include any bodies that haven't been discovered. So how many are in tunnels that have been collapsed? We don't know, do we? Would the people who worked in those tunnels say, ah, we lost George in the tunnel. None of them are named George. But is somebody reporting all the ones lost in the tunnels? So somewhere in that 60 to 70,000 dead, most of them are civilians. And I would like to hearken back to the early days of that conflict. Do you remember people yelling at me for suggesting that the death count might go kind of high and all the people who thought they knew everything about everything said, Scott, you fool, don't you know these will be precision strikes and probably the whole thing will probably be done in two weeks. And yeah, I'd be surprised if the death count goes over, I don't know, 10,000. And you remember me saying, I don't know that it's going to be short. I don't think the death count is going to stay that low. Well, here we are. Now, I remind you that my opinion on Israel, and this is the way you should treat it too, is why would I have an opinion? Why would I have an opinion? I have an opinion about America. And if this were an American conflict primarily, I would say people like me who are public figures were part of the figuring out how to get it right. So I would feel an obligation as an American to definitely have an opinion and definitely tell you what it was. But if you're observing another country, the only filter that makes sense is their, their own self interest, their national self interest. So if I look at Israel, I ask this question, is Israel acting in a way that is probably, you know, everything's just risk, so probably are they acting in a way that's probably in the long term best interest of Israel as a country? And I think the answer is yes. Not that you like it or not that I like it. And it certainly doesn't matter what you and I think about the ethical and moral nature of anything that's happening there. Just it's not our business. If the United States were in that situation, would be we be acting similarly? Well, I could argue that maybe we have been in that situation and maybe we did act similarly, meaning that we acted in our national best interest, even though it was really, really not good for, let's say, the Native Americans, just to pick one example. Yes, countries act aggressively in their own national self interest. Israel is really good at it. Doesn't mean they get everything right because that's not an option, but they're really good at it. And I also say if, if the Hamas and the Palestinians had full power, or maybe even as much power as Israel has, what would that look like? Well, I think it would look like the reverse, that the Jews living in the area would be in danger all the time, more danger than they're already in, and it would probably look like the reverse. So it's not up to me to put a judgment on any of this stuff. If it were Americans, I would definitely put a judgment on it. Because that's the team I play for. But if I'm just watching, I'm not judging them morally or ethically. I'm just saying they have one job to do. What's in their own country's best interest? Are they doing that? Kind of. Looks like. Looks like Israel's getting bigger because they're going to own Gaza and they didn't own it before. So, you know, in a hundred years, if you come back, will it look like Israel taking complete control of Gaza was a good idea? Probably, Probably. And they might even treat Netanyahu as like a national hero because he expanded the size of Israel. Yeah, they're. They're doing a really good job of pursuing their own self interest, which doesn't mean it's in our interest. It doesn't mean it's in my interest. But it's also none of my business except for what we're paying. So I do separate the question of financial support, but I also think that's more complicated than we make it. We think it's simple, hey, don't give your money to anybody. But probably we're getting something out of it. I don't think any of us know the full situation of what we're getting out of it, other than our. Our weapons makers are using that money that we give to Israel. Israel uses some portion of it to buy our weapons. So some of it comes back, but not to the taxpayers directly. Anyway. That's my view. And I get tired of the people who are arguing morality and ethics. Nobody thinks it's moral or ethical to kill a bunch of children and 60,000 civilians and think about the ones that their lives have been permanently ruined either by injury or economic desperation. No, there's no way you can rationalize it. You just have to say people operate in their self interest. All right, that is all I had to say. As I mentioned before, after the show, which is right now, Owen Gregorian will be hosting a Spaces. So go to X and look for Owen Gregorian. Just search for him. He'll pop right up and then you click on the Spaces prompt. But I will also be talking to the beloved subscribers on Locals just for a minute or two while Owen gets set up. And the rest of you, thanks for coming. Hope you come back tomorrow. All right. Oh, wow. We. I've got more viewers on. Oh, no, I'm looking at the viewer number, so I don't think you see them. So I'll tell you, it looks like YouTube is 3.6 thousand local. 716 people and rumble. 1.1 thousand. Watch your life, then. Then usually X might be. I don't know. Eventually it'd be 30,000 people. All right, everybody, I'll see you tomorrow. Unless you are a beloved local subscriber. In that case, we'll see in half a minute.