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Absolutely brutal. Newsom there makes that point at the end. He probably should have just left her out of it. I can't tell. Is Newsom here trying to include her to give her a little political favor? Or is he tossing her under the bus saying, look, I'm here. Hey, don't blame me. I'm here. Put the heat on Karen Bass. I know you're gonna blame some politician for this. Don't blame me. Karen Bass didn't even show up. She's in Africa right now. But she. Oh, don't worry though. She picked up the phone right away. Gavin Newsom's a little slick. He's a little American Psycho, isn't he? Little Patrick Bateman to him. And so while pretending to be lauding Karen Bass, he does so in such a brutal way. He does so in such an underhanded way where he really undermines her whole credibility. Oh no. And hold on. I bet some of you are wondering where the mayor of LA is. Well, don't you worry, she called me. I mean, she's on the other side of the world. She obviously doesn't care about any of you. But she picked up the phone so, you know, remember that. It's not really working though, cuz Karen Bass is catching a ton of flack. But Gavin Newsom's catching an insane amount of flack as well. And Karen Bass not being there, still did better than Joe Biden, who showed up and decided to talk about his great grandkids. My son lives out here in new way. They got a notification yesterday. Their home is probably burning around today. It appears that maybe still standing. And I should. But the good news is I'm a great grandfather as of today, my granddaughter, baby girl, baby boy. So I remember this case for about little difficult to hear with that audio. Might just be because Joe Biden mumbles around. He's off also a little far away from the camera. You could hear that. One part though, one really good thing though is I'm a great grandfather. Joe Biden gets on an airplane, flies into Los Angeles, which is extremely irresponsible. He should not be there. It is bad for first responders that Joe Biden is there. You got a city that's already shut down. They're doing everything they can to contain these fires and that's not going very well. And so what do you need? You need the sitting president to come in, compromise the airspace, compromise the roadways. How does that help? So that he can take a photo op, make Gavin Newsom look a little bit better. I don't think he even really makes him look better because Joe Biden comes out there and he just talks about his great grandkid. Congratulations, Joe. It's great that you have a great grandkid. Great grandfathers should not be president. People who can claim to be great grandfathers, I think by definition they've aged out of being president. That's all Joe wants to talk about though. I'm sure it's great. I'm sure he wants to talk about how great it is to be a great grandfather and how much he loves mint chocolate chip ice cream. And I'm sure he wants to give a hard candy to the kids when they come by the house. That's the sort of thing that guys in their 80s should do. They should not be the President of the United States. If it's possible to make Gavin Newsom and the Los Angeles political class look worse, he managed to do it. There's so much more to say. First, though, go to hometitlelock.com promo code knowles. If you are a homeowner like me, when's the last time you checked on the title of your home? That is the legal document that shows that you own it. If the answer is never, you need to know about a fast growing crime that the FBI calls house stealing. I was previously shown how easy this scam is to pull off. It is shocking. One page document called a quitclaim deed. 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Oh, that Trump. He's a real cutup, that Hitler boy. Hitler man. He's Adolf with a one liner. Nobody can beat him. His Rickles routine is top notch. They're really getting into it. I don't know. I wonder if those guys text. But hold on. I thought, I thought that Donald Trump posed an existential threat to democracy. I thought that he's a neo Nazi who launched his. Who at Charlottesville called Nazis. Very fine people. And that is why Joe Biden launched his presidential campaign on that lie. I thought that was the case. I thought that January 6th was the worst insurrection, a near coup d'etat that almost shredded the Constitution and installed Hitlerian dictatorship in America. Barack Obama's hanging with that guy. That's crazy, huh? You know why he's doing it? It's not cuz these guys like each other. I don't think they like each other really at all. It's because Donald Trump is normal. He's normal. I think that might be the biggest defeat from a messaging standpoint that the Democrats have had to deal with for 10 years. Trump is normal. If you get elected to two terms, at least two terms as president, you're normal. If you win the popular vote as a Republican for the first time in 20 years, you're normal. If you win huge swathes of all sorts of different voter demographics, you're normal. This is what you heard from the left for years and from the squish right. We cannot normalize Donald Trump. He's normal. Because he's normal. The former Democrat president's gonna talk to him. Probably the former Democrat president is friendlier with him than the former Republican president. Cause Trump's been a little harsh on the Bush family. The Bush family's been a little harsh on Trump, but they're all in the same club now. He's no longer an outlier. Jimmy Carter. When he would take pictures in the former president's club, Jimmy Carter often liked to stand separate, as though his presidency were fundamentally different from the corrupt presidencies that followed Reagan and the Bushes and Clinton. He was different. He's a better man. But they're all together now. Trump's one of the guys. In fact, he won a more impressive victory, a much more impressive comeback than any of those other presidents there. He's the most normal one of All. Now some Democrats are less inclined to reach across the aisle right now, notably Elizabeth Warren. Senator Layawatha is screeching at Pete Hegseth, President Trump's Defense Department or Defense Secretary nominee over the importance of diversity in the military. Here is what Elizabeth Warren writes. DoD officials have been clear that, quote, diversity, equity and inclusion in the military are necessities for the United States and that the military must be able to attract, train and retain them for the services to retain competitive edges. You, Pete Hegseth, have claimed that the dumbest phrase on planet earth in the military is diversity is our strength. As noted above, you also called for firing the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and any general that was involved, any general, admiral, whatever, that was involved in any of the DEI woke shit. Additionally, you complained in the War on Warriors that a woke military emphasizes the made up military values of diversity and inclusion and fails to recruit masculine men who make up our warrior class. She goes on, but I don't have enough, I don't have enough patience to get through it. This is her thesis. Diversity is an absolute necessity for our military. Diversity is the military's strength. But I have one question. Why does the military wear uniforms? If diversity is the military's strength, why do they wear uniforms? Shouldn't they wear di diversiforms? Shouldn't they wear individualistic, eclectic, expressive outfits? Shouldn't they wear, I don't know, leather and feather boas? And why is it that they wear uniforms? Well, this question is answered on a Defense Department website and type it right in. Why does the military wear uniforms? DOD says the military wears uniforms to create consistency and a sense of camaraderie. The military wears uniforms because uniformity is our strength in the military. Uniformity, cohesion, consistency, being all together, having a common purpose, understanding each other, being the same. What do they say about the Marines when you go in for training in the Marines? They tear you down so they can build you back up and you're all going to be the same and you're going to be a unified fighting force. That's why the military wears uniforms. Also because of international law. And that's why diversity is manifestly not our strength. I love Elizabeth Warren here. You can hear the desperation as she just reaches for that tomahawk. She writes the, the, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, you know, all the generals, the admirals who are involved in this, our military, our DoD officials have been clear that diversity is our strength. Yeah, but Pete's about to be their boss. No, but the authorities claims Elizabeth Warren, all of the authorities at the Pentagon claim that diversity is the military strength. Well, no, actually, the top authority at the Pentagon, the man who's about to become the top authority at the Pentagon, he says you're wrong. So if you're going to appeal to authority at the Pentagon, well, you're going to be appealing to Pete Hegseth, and Pete Hegseth is going to say you're wrong and Pete Hegseth is right. This is what they're really screeching over. They're really gnashing their teeth over is we are seeing a true changing of the guard. It's not just that the Republicans won the presidency, but they lost the House and the Senate. It's not just that the Republicans won the presidency and the House and the Senate, but they don't have the Supreme Court. The Republicans now have unified government and they can wield the power of the state to undo the terrible policies of the last four years. Many policies that go back much further than the last four years. That's what they're really screeching about. No, but all the experts. Yeah, well, now we're the experts. No, but all the authorities. Yeah, now we're the authorities, but no, but the establishment. Hey, you know what, lady? We're about to be the establishment. How you like that? And you're about to be fringe. You are on the outside. You are banished from the Longhouse and from the tp. Speaking of members of Congress, Unusual Wales has a great little study out on our Congress. I sometimes think that members of Congress are not always the most intelligent people in the world. There's some real bright spots, but I would say the median IQ in Congress is probably lower than other institutions in our country. However, members of Congress have a real genius. For one thing, it's not passing good laws. It's not really getting anything good to advance the common good. But they do have an amazing genius for investing. These guys know how to pick a stock, man. This study shows if you just look at Congressional Democrats, Congressional Democrats stock portfolios jumped 31% in 2024. 31%. Now, I don't know anything about investing. I just have a guy who does it for me. But man, I ain't getting 31%. I'm not getting a fraction of a fraction of that 31%. That FAR beats the S&P 500. Then let's be bipartisan about it because there are plenty of Republicans who do this, too. If you look at the hundred or so members of Congress who actively trade only half of Them beat the S&P 500. Most members of Congress tracked with less active trading than previous years. And Nancy Pelosi, you know, top of the walk. She's really, really impressive at her trading. There are a lot of Republicans in there too. It seems a little corrupt, doesn't it? It's not illegal. Members of Congress are allowed to trade stocks and members of Congress are privy to a lot of information that the general public is not privy to. They're allowed, in a sense, to insider trade. That's a great deal of corruption, isn't it? How do you remedy that corruption? Do you prohibit members of Congress from trading stocks? I guess you could do that. Do you give them a raise? You could just give them a raise. Members of Congress could make a lot more money, most of them in the private sector than in government. Do you just raise their wages to make them competitive? Possibly. Do you, I don't know. Do you restore virtue? Do you restore civics classes? Do you restore religion? Do you restore. I don't know. What do you do? That's not. I would be so happy if I could just blame it on the Democrats. But I can't just blame it on the Democrats. It's a systemic problem. I would be so happy if I could just blame it on California or New York or Illinois or some left wing state. But it's not just a left wing state problem. This is a federal problem. The rot runs deep. There's so much more to say. First though, go to netsuite.com knowles what does the future hold for business? Ask nine experts, you will get 10 answers. Bull market, Bear market. Inflation's up, inflation's down. Can someone please invent a crystal ball? While we're waiting for that, over 38,000 businesses have found a way to future proof their operations with NetSuite by Oracle. The number one cloud ERP. Imagine having your accounting, financial management, inventory and HR all seamlessly integrated into one fluid platform. 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I don't think she donated millions of dollars of fire equipment to Ukraine. I haven't seen a number on how much money or on how much fire equipment she donated to Ukraine. I do know that LA under her leadership did donate excess. Now doesn't seem to be excess or surplus fire equipment to Ukraine, but I don't know if it was millions. Surely though they did cut the fire budgets by millions of dollars. And in any case, if they even sent one hat over to Ukraine, one fire hose over to Ukraine, it's a fire hose that really could be used right now. But this is indicative of a broader problem for the liberals, which is that they prioritize everyone else over Americans. Which is why President Trump's slogan America first has resonated among most Americans, among the majority of American voters. Now, speaking of investments, there's a little bit of good news. College tuition is decreasing at state schools and it's increasing at a slower rate at private schools. This is according to the College Board, which is hugely influential in college admissions, shows that the average student attending an in state public university this year will pay tuition to the order of 11,610 bucks. They that is down 4% from 10 years ago. When you take inflation into account. Now when you factor in grants and financial aid, the savings are way bigger than 4%. The savings are actually 40% over the course of a decade, from $4,140 to $2,480 annually, according to those data. Now at private colleges, the cost is still going up, but the rate of increase is diminishing. So the cost has increased 4% over the last decade. When you take inflation into account, that's a big change. If you look at two decades prior, when the tuition increase was 68%, what does this tell us? This tells us that the market still functions. This tells us that there is a market correction going on. This tells us that college is overvalued the year after I went to college. So I guess my sophomore year of college was the high watermark for college attendance in America. It was 2009, something like 70% of high school graduates went on to college, all time high. And it has declined since then and it's really dropped off in recent years. Meanwhile, the price of college was Going up and up and up. The conservative consolation, Russell Kirk tells us this. A lot of conservatives have told us this is that in the long run, reality reasserts itself and it can take a while and it can be hideous and it can be tragic and it can cause an entire city to burn to the ground, but reality will reassert itself in the end. You can't escape reality. Reality is undefeated. And here, college is just not worth what people have been paying for it. So I was recently doing a panel with my friend Charlie Kirk, and someone asked us about what she should major in in college to have a job in journalism. And Charlie's answer was, don't go to college. And I kind of get it. If you're a Charlie Kirk, don't go to college. You can launch a major political organization at the age of 18. Okay, I don't think there are that many Charlie Kirks in the world. I'm pro college, but not for the reason that many conservatives are. Some conservatives will say just major in engineering or something. Just major in, I don't know, STEM or something practical. I don't think you should do that. You can go to trade school for that. You can learn that on the job. That's not what university is for. University is not to learn something useful, but to learn something useless which has real value to it. But the problem these days is even the really fancy schools, even the private schools, even the expensive schools, often don't teach you philosophy, literature, history, almost never theology. They don't really make you a cultured person. They don't really help you make sense of your freedom. So the market's gonna correct and you're seeing that now, you have data for that. It's no longer just taking it on the words of conservatives who say, you know, this college isn't worth it these days. Now actually most Americans think that now because the market is moving, you don't need to just take conservatives word for it that Trump is normal and he's a good president. People like him. Most Americans think that reality is catching up and the liberal politicians are trying to catch up to reality. Just look at Barack Obama palling around with Hitler. Now, speaking of advances in knowledge, there is something really creepy coming out of Timeshift. Timeshift is a new facility billing itself as the world's first cryopreservation facility based on cutting edge AI and crypto preservation. So to simplify that, it's where you go freeze yourself until they cure whatever disease you have. And you've heard about this in the past, there have been eccentrics who have frozen themselves, and it doesn't work. But the idea is, okay, if I'm gonna die soon, if I just freeze myself, then maybe I can remain an icicle until the scientists figure out the cure to whatever I have. And then they can thaw me out, give me the cure, and I can live longer. And then I don't know if I get something else that they don't have the cure for. Maybe they put me back in the freezer and they put me next to the hamburgers and the ice cream, and then they thaw me out 100 years later and they cure whatever other disease I got. Okay, we've heard about that before. Now, it's never worked. But this new organization says no, we've figured out how to make it work. We're going to prevent cellular death. Okay? But what makes it even creepier is they say that they have a solution to the big problem that this causes for the people around the person who freezes himself. Namely, if you go and freeze yourself, well, all these people, your daughter, your brother, your community, they lose you. You're in a freezer somewhere. But their lives go on. And the solution, they say, is to use AI to create an avatar of the frozen person's likeness to speak with family and friends in real time while their body is frozen. I've talked to people who say that soon we'll upload our consciousness to a computer. And so even after we die in the physical world, after our bodies decay, there will be a robot that is virtually indistinguishable from us. And then our loved ones who are grieving our death won't really need to grieve because they can just talk to the robot and it'll seem just like the real person. It's almost like you never have to die. Except, do you see the problem here? Do you see the fundamental problem? CS Lewis talks about it in Abolition of Man. With every advance, there's also a retreat. So you say, okay, I want to live forever. I feel that I'm not going to live long enough. So I want to live forever. But in order to live forever, I'm going to stop living right now because I'm gonna put myself in a freezer. But it'll be good because in the aggregate, in the long run, I'm gonna live forever. But actually, I'm gonna cut my life off right now. We think that we can conquer death, even putting aside the cryogenic freezing, by creating an AI avatar. And then we'll be able to live forever. In a certain way, the robot will be indistinguishable from the human being. But in order to live forever, I cease to be me. I cease to exist. In other words, there are a lot of dubious assumptions about anthropology and philosophy that are at the heart of these scientific explorations. That's the problem with it. It's not that it's not cool to freeze a person. I guess that's kind of cool that you could do that. It's not that it's not cool that you can make a robot that seems a lot like a person, that, you know, there's something interesting about that. But you're assuming a lot of things about human nature. You're assuming, for instance, that a human person is just the summation of our synapses firing. You're assuming that the person is just the body, that there's no such thing as an immaterial soul, a spirit. So if that's true, if we really are just a bunch of matter, then if you can replicate the matter, you've replicated the person. The problem is that your premise is false. At least I think your premise is false. I don't think that the only thing that matters is matter. I think there's more to the world. These days, it's very popular to say that all that exists is stuff, but I think that's ridiculous. I think dreams and love and mathematics and all sorts of things exist that are not material. I think, for instance, that the soul is the form of the body, the substantial form of the body. I think this is increasingly backed up by scientific discoveries, particularly in the quantum field. But putting that aside, I'm no expert on it just seems to me that actually all the old wisdom is being vindicated. Think that Aristotle's right and these futurist weirdo atheists are wrong, but at the very least, we have to acknowledge that is what's being smuggled in here. And we're not the first to predict it. CS Lewis predicted this in the Abolition of Man. Many people saw that the more we advance, the more we seem to retreat. I got in trouble because I made this point on the show that the Dark Ages were actually relatively. Weren't so dark. Actually, when you compare. Look, there are plenty of advantages to modernity, okay? I like modern dentistry a lot more than medieval dentistry, probably. But there are many ways in which the modern era is much more barbaric, much more violent, much less civilized, conducive, much less conducive to flourishing than the Middle Ages, okay? Speaking of The Abolition of Man. Here's just a quick story, really sad. A young female firefighter has sustained serious head injuries while fighting the fire in LA. 25 year old woman sustained a major head injury. She's being treated right now, so we can pray for her, hope she does well. But this gets to the kind of dubious assumptions we're making about human nature. In this case the one that men and women are exactly the same. It's wrong for women to be firemen. It's wrong. I'm not saying she doesn't have good intentions. I'm not saying she's not demonstrating heroism and a kind of a virtue, but. But it's just wrong. I don't want to read that story. I don't want to read that a woman gets her head knocked in fighting a fire. I don't want to read that a woman catches a bullet from a Jihadi fighting in Iraq. I don't want to read that. I think it's a barbaric society that permits our women, much less now encourages our women to do this. I think men and women are different. I think actually firemen need to be big and strong and burly. 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