Episode 2569 CWSA 08/17/24

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zigzagging UFOs in the Southern California Skies so you know if you were a UFO you would come to California wouldn't you well there were lots of people saw them there were six flying sofs they were darting they were zigzagging now may I offer you my very uh informed opinion if you see some kind of light in the sky or some kind of object and it's zigzagging that's never an aircraft it might be a balloon I suppose it could be a drone but it's not some full-size aircraft right so credibility of this report in terms of alien spaceships I would say zero some said that it's in the it's not too far away from some air force or military testing thing so it might be one of our military testing things but it's probably just a balloon in the air I reflection or a lie or something I'll tell you what it's not the least likely possibility is an alien visitation from a a an alien species that can control gravity in physics I mean can't rule it out but it would be said last on my list of possible explanations for this situation now I'm going to make this next story tie back to the first story but you won't see it coming right away Second Story is Engineers have designed Mi I guess MIT Engineers have designed tiny tiny batteries so small that you could put them in tiny tiny robots and they're so minuscule that you could put them in a like a cell of a human body and then you could you know do things like uh deploy cell-sized autonomous robots for drug delivery within your body so imagine robots that are fully programmed robots they're smaller than the cells of your body so that's coming all right now watch me cleverly tie it back to the earlier UFO story what are the odds and by the way this idea comes from Douglas Adams the writer no relation to me what are the odds that if aliens visited this Earth the aliens would be approximately our size it's pretty close to zero isn't it well what would prevent the aliens from being the size of these tiny robots that are smaller than a human cell could it be that there are vast alien civilizations living on Earth but the entire space that they take up is like I don't know size of a baseball but but you got like a million aliens living there in their little civilization and they're not maybe they're not even entirely sure that there's other people on Earth so once you realize that the assumed scale or the physical size of aliens there's no reason it needs to be your size I mean why can't the aliens be the size of the planet so that the planet itself is so small they wouldn't be interested in it because you know they couldn't do anything with it they're too big so there might be some Physics reasons why things can't be too big but apparently there's no physics reasons why you can't make a robot that's smaller than a cell in your body so I'm worried about aliens that are smaller than the cells in your body they may already be here your body might be full of aliens could be all right scientists have also developed a solar panel material that's a 100 times thinner than a human hair and it's so thin they think you can print it on other objects apparently it's super efficient too they say so super efficient um to yield over 27% Energy Efficiency that's better than regular uh solar cells and uh it's only as thick as one human hair well that tells you what I'm going to do I'm going to uh put that on my human hairs so I I don't have many but the few human hairs I have left I'm going to have it coated with this solar stuff so I can charge my phone just by walking outside without my hat that's my plan that's my plan and by the way you might need these tiny tiny solar cells because yeah there may be an alien civilization that's very small but living on my scalp might need electricity so I'm tying all the stories together now well there's a new book by David stainforth and uh it's called predicting our climate future and a big part of the book is him explaining in smart detail why climate models are now should would you spend your money on this book which I believe is very smart sounding it would teach you a lot or or save a few bucks and just ask Scott because I told you that the climate models are absurd I told you that you can't predict the future certainly of the climate there are two things you can't do predict the future and especially know if you have all the variables right to even look at predicting the climate so the the fast version is there is no way to predict the climate there are too many variables it's too sensitive to any small assumptions and it's absurd now if you hear from me a non-scientist saying um logically this can't be done you're not going to believe me but here's somebody who knows what they're talking about has lots of smart facts so if you want to learn why you should not trust models that predict the future of the climate um this will tell you Tucker had a uh two of the scarest guests I've ever seen on the show um one of them Dr.

Casey means who an MD was talking about how some combination of our food supply and big Pharma is making all of us metabolically sick and it's a massive it's maybe the biggest problem Maybe the biggest problem in the world certainly in the United States but just look here's some of the stats autism rates in kids uh are 1 in 36 nationally compared to 1 in 1500 and not so long ago in California it's worse autism rates are one and 22 if you have a kid in California there's a one in 22 chance that the kid will be autistic one in 22 what 74% of American adults are overweight or obese that sounds about right I if I walk down the if I walk down the sidewalk once you get to about age 30 yeah I'd say 75% um 50% of children are overweight or obese oh my God 50% of American adults have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes 50% 50% of adults have either diabetes or pre-diabetes 30% of teens now have pre-diabetes 30% of teens now pre-diabetes means you're you're sugar is high but you don't have diabetes but you're you're pushing on the border of it uh infertility is increasing at 1% per year per year every year and sperm counts are are decreasing by 1% per year since the 1970s young adult cancers is up 79% and what is causing all this it's our toxic food system and toxic environment now some of it may be related to lots of pharmaceutical stuff in your veins maybe individually every bit of it is okay I don't know but when you put it all in there maybe it's a little too much for your body I don't know same with your environment there are lots of things that are a little bit pollut but if you were to look at them individually they wouldn't look so bad but what if you have a thousand of them that are all a little bit pollut and they're all over all the time so the uh the worry is that we're on this uh fast road to not reproducing and being so sick that we spend 100% of our money just trying to stay alive so that's the bad news and by the way this should be the number one issue in the country RFK JR says it should be I agree with him completely the weird thing is that all of our other problems look like they have something like a solution but this is the one that I don't see the solution because we're not exactly sure where all the problem is coming from I mean even if you say it's food or even if you say it's big Pharma drugs you don't know which ones and you don't know how to get rid of those things too easily so I mean I don't know what to do about it but uh I will tell you that um I'm going to I'm going to pile on a little bit I want to see if any of you have had this say same reaction and I'm talking to mostly the men all right because men are more visual I think it does apply both ways but let's just keep it simple question for the men I've said this before but I want to see I want to see your opinion it used to be in let's say I 10 or 20 years ago that if I left the house and went to any public space where there were a lot of people around there would definitely be a lot of attractive women in that place not as a percentage maybe but if you had a you know big area there would be plenty of really attractive women just because they were a percentage of the population now you can go for a long time in a very big public place without seeing anybody that you would want to have sex with has anybody noticed that cuz I used to walk around thinking like I couldn't even go to the mall or the supermarket I'd be like okay I would do her I would do her yeah I'd probably do her okay I'd let her do me you know and like you never turned off I know this is appalling to women but men are pretty much always searching even if we're not actively looking for any kind of sexual activity we're always scanning you know you can't turn off the scanning but the scanning is completely turned off now I don't have that EXP experience when I go anywhere it's just people now none none of them are triggering me whatsoever so is that just age could be but it does look like people look different to me so reproduction is probably going to take a big hit but here's the good news all right you ready for the good news there's a groundbreaking study on age reversal and there's some kind of a telr uh drug that they're giving to dogs that are having Miracle uh effects one of the examples was a 12-year-old German Shepherd now of course this is anecdotal and you know it's not a it's not a scientific study so you can't put too much credibility in it but it's a fun story and the story is that their 12-year-old German Shepherd had terminal cancer just you know nothing you could do about it but they gave him one of these pills and cancer went away and now he's just like a puppy do you believe that do you believe that there was a a dog that was basically flatlining and they gave it one pill and now it's like a puppy and the cancer went away I don't know I don't know it seems a little bit more that I'm willing to accept as automatically true but I'm going to put this in my recreational belief category I like to believe some things because makes makes me feel good so until it's proven not to be true I will recreationally believe that I can give Snickers a pill next year and she'll be like a puppy I think it'll take a few years before it gets to any any approval process but maybe well the Harris campaign is hiring and uh one of the requirements is you must be up to date on your covid boosters so imagine how hard it would be to hire if you had to get people who are up to- date on their Co boosters there're also Democrats who support Harris and almost certainly the Dei filter is on as well if you said we're going to hire people but you have to put these three filters on you got to you got to get diversity you got to get a Democrat who likes Harris and they got to be fully boosted and vaccinated now without saying anything negative about any of those groups wouldn't that constrain your options to the point where you guaranteed incompetence in your campaign and the answer is yes and again it has nothing to do with anybody's genes or lifestyle or or even their Democratic views on life none of it it's just that when you put those three constraints on a a normal thing that normally wouldn't have constraints hiring people you're just painting yourself into a little corner there so what we should predict is massive um incompetence from the campaign now you might not see it because whoever is the top top advisers I think are really good and again independent of whether they're diverse or not they're very good so we can if we treat them as individuals and not part of a group there's somebody really smart advising her I I I will uh say that confidently and uh here's another funny stat that's so funny it makes you cry uh Breitbart News is reporting a Warner Todd Houston at Breitbart News the nearly one in three Chicago School teachers keep their kids out of public schools let me just say that again because I don't have to add much commentary to it one in three Public School teachers in Chicago don't send their own children to public school now do you think that one in three School teachers come from a family where they can easily afford private school I I don't know who the spouse is but I would guess if onethird of teachers are sending their kids to private schools that might represent 100% of teachers who can can afford it see that's not in the statistic statistic just says one and a three but once you say how how expensive is private school and how much does a teacher make in Chicago you kind of quickly reach the assumption that 100% of the people who can afford to get their kids out of their public schools have already done it the people who know the most the teachers if they can afford it they pulled their kids right out is there anything else you need to know would would you like to answer some questions about the the uh teachers unions do you see the problem it's always been the teachers unions because if you can't fire a teacher you can't have good teachers if you can't have good teachers you don't have good schools if you don't have good schools and you can afford it you're going to spend your send your kid to a good school if you you can afford it it's all here there there's no questions left unanswered by the statistic this answers all questions and what it says is there's nobody on the other side of the question think about that there are so many things in this world where people you know could be on both sides reasonably even the people who know the most the teachers are on the same side as you are which is huh this system looks totally broken you better get keep your kid out of it wow well as you know Comm Harris has proposed a uh government $25,000 for first time home buyers to help them buy a house I saw Mark Cuban is doing some persuading on this showing it's a good idea and when I looked at his analysis all I could U conclude is that ordinary people should not be allowed to do economic analysis now Mark cubin is very smart but doing an economic analysis is a little bit different than just being smart that it takes a little bit of experience that even smart people wouldn't know they're missing something so I would say that while I conclude that Cuban is very smart in in lots of different ways um I don't think he's the one you would look to to analyze this now I'm not sure I am but I have been a lending officer at a bank so that that's a pretty relevant uh experience it wasn't mortgage lending but there there are some overlaps and here's what I say in California $25,000 well let me put it this way here's the way I posted it where I live if I were the loan officer let's say I'm the mortgage lender and somebody comes in and they say here's my here's my application for the loan and I look at it and it doesn't qualify and so I turn them down so they go back and they get their $25,000 from the government and they come back in they go look I get now I got extra $25,000 how often would $25,000 change my decision as a mortgage lender what do you think $25,000 that's a lot of money right how often would it change my decision to say that this lender wasn't qualified before but now they are qualified the answer is never the answer is never zero there wouldn't be a single extra loan I gave if somebody didn't qualify before the 25,000 there's no way that I'm going to think that $25,000 is going to make that a safe loan there is no way that $225,000 makes a difference because if you're that close to not being able to pay off the loan no Banker is going to give you the loan if you're that close to the margin of not being able to pay back the loan are you kidding me 25,000 is like a you're pissing in the ocean in California now I will I will revise this to say that there may be a part of the country where if you could get maybe a condo for 250 the $25,000 starts sounding substantial at that point but still if your income was only just enough to pay the mortgage if only you had that extra 25,000 it doesn't sound safe to me sounds like you're right on the margin and the slightest disruption in your employment makes you in default that's just uh so that's some perspective from A lender if you're just looking at somebody who's not a lender and they're just crunching some numbers for you and say oh look here's somebody who could save some money with this $25,000 thing that's the wrong analysis the analysis should be from the commercial lenders perspective because they're the ones who decide if you get the loan so how about this how about you tell me if CNN or MSNBC will have a mortgage loan broker on and then you ask the question hey how many more loans do you think you'll make if people get 25,000 for their first home buy let's see what they say that at best they'll say something generic like well you know more money is better I don't but if you ask them how many extra loans they'd make it'd probably be close to zero all right part of that plan apparently is to uh exert some federal zoning control over the local areas in other words um there there's some part of what they want to do with lowcost housing this is different from the $25,000 thing so separate but related uh they want to make it easier to build homes basically and one of the things that they would do is exert some kind of federal zoning control over the local places I saw a video um from some probably Republican a woman who was in the business and she wanted you to know that it's a terrible idea for the federal government to tell States or localities what to do with their zoning because the federal government would not know what they needed more specifically locally does that sound like a good idea to you do do you buy that the right place for zoning is locally you shouldn't because what happens is they all do different jobs and and and they're all they all just they're all Rogue so if you have different zoning requirements in every town like we do like if if I I'm walking distance literally walking distance from different zoning requirements walking distance I mean literally if I just walk in in that direction I'll be in the town of Livermore in you know 20 minutes or something and and the the rule rules are different now you try to hire a contractor and they have to like learn the new rules for your town even if they've already built 100 homes and and our town has like some of the strictest dumbest ones let me just give you one example here's one example from my town when I built my house I had to put a wastewater treatment Vault on my property you've never even heard of that have you how many have you ever heard of that the putting a wastewater treatment Vault on my property what did it cost about $35,000 dollars and what it was was a hole in the ground where all the all the waste waterer so we'd engineer the gutters and stuff so all the rainwater would come off the roof and go into little tunnels and it would all end up in this big hole in the ground at the end of my property and then there would be a tree a certain kind of tree that had to be planted so that the roots of the tree would be naturally filtering the Wastewater before it got into the town's Wastewater facilities $35,000 and maintenance every year now a few years later when I had to do maintenance on it as required by the approvals for my house I went to look for somebody who was like an approver who could look at it and there was nobody there was nobody in the world who was in the business of approving it or examining it and yet that was a requirement of building my house so I contacted the town and I said there's nobody in the business of doing the thing you required me to do and they said oh don't worry about it we don't have that requirement anymore and I said what they said yeah yeah we dropped that requ requirement that's no longer in the codee and I said I just spent $35 th000 to do this how many other people spent $35 thousand to do it and they said I think it was just you so do you think that I like Federal Building control yes I do yes I do because I think the feds are far far more likely to come up with a stable set of rules now of course they might have to modify it for your climate and you know your specific situation but I could easily imagine the FED having let's say half a dozen different models that you could pick from for your building thing in your state that would just be easy to understand and wouldn't have in it like I mean it was just monstrously difficult to get approval from my house of the Town monstrously difficult and if you looked at any of the any of the individual things they were asking for they were all defensible individually everything they asked for was defensible it's just that collectively it made it almost impossible I was thinking the other day about you know every now and then I think about starting a business usually I'm just playing around in my head but I think what if somebody started a business and did this hey what if I do it and I realized that there's no situation in which I would ever start a business in California just think about that I've started a number of businesses in California they didn't all work out like my restaurants but I would never start a business in California so I I'm done economically in my state I I don't know how I would start it in another state exactly what that would look like but if it were a local business that had to be in California I wouldn't even do it it wouldn't matter how good the numbers looked like if I ran the spreadsheet and it was like wow this is like you know making tons of money here I wouldn't do it because it's the wrong state to be in business so so that's got to matter well the all-in Pod podcast um we're not so happy with KL Harris's uh grocery price gouging uh price control idea because everybody who's smart and let me say that not as hyperbole everybody who's smart knows that price controls are devastating for civilization it's like an end of civilization plan it's so bad it's not like other things where we go oh if you do this there might be some trouble you know the usual political stuff you know everybody says if you if you elect Trump it'll be the end of democracy but you know nobody takes that too seriously except idiots but when I say that price controls could be the on food specific land food could be the end of civilization that's not hyperbole if you run into of food everything falls apart so and and price controls would guarantee that you had less food now that doesn't doesn't say there's 100% chance is the end of civilization but in terms of your real risks it's way up there as one of the the biggest risks to civilization and I can't even believe that is being proposed I mean it's actually mindboggling now I have not heard a single person in favor of it yet so the reason I like to refer to the all-in pod people is because they're unusually smart and unusually uh big Talent stacks and they've seen a lot of businesses and they've succeeded in a lot of businesses and they invest in a lot of businesses so they're the ones who if you get all four of them saying this is a bad idea because remember they don't all agree politically but all four of them would say from a business perspective I think I think all four of them are on the same page um this is not a good idea it's a terrible idea to have price controls on food there's a uh video going around I think it was from maybe 2019 of KL Harris talking to some crowd and I don't know the context I think the context is lacking but she was talking how you the government could snatch the patents from companies now the Contex must have been companies with really bad behavior so I don't know why she' even talk about snatching their patents but I saw people forwarding it around and talking about her being a patent snatcher which I love to say by the way you patent snatcher that might be that might be my new insult for everybody you little patent Snatcher I I love saying that say it at home you'll like go ahead say it at home say it at home to your dog if there's nobody else there just say it out loud and see how much you enjoy saying patent snatcher it sounds like it's going to be naughty but then it's not you little patent snatcher anyway here's my point about that everybody was talking about how bad it would be if she um if the government tried to snatch your patent and uh they buried the lead you know what the lead is she was obviously drunk if you see the the video I think I forwarded it on my ex account but you can see it easily just look at it and ask yourself if she's drunk you'll see it immediately why in the world is the story that she's going to snatch your patent when the real story should be there she is drunk again I mean obviously drunk it it's you don't have to be some kind of expert in in drug abuse to know a drunk how in the world is that not the Topline topic all the time I guess no proof no proof and the the tell is you have you ever known a uh a woman who when she drinks too much she has a extra high pitch voice sometimes have you ever seen that it's such a tell where you be talking long and maybe you're quite animated but then your voice will go up to this level that it never goes up to unless you're drunk you know somebody like that I know you do uh just listen to it and when she hits that high note you'll be like ah yeah that's her her eyes look drunk and her demeanor looks drunk but when she hits the high note you're going to say to yourself yeah you don't talk like that unless you're drinking meanwhile Brazil as you know is trying to censor the xplatform they came at him again and mus has uh stated that uh the Brazilian attempt to censor free speech in this country on X which would also be in their country because X is there uh violates Brazil and us laws now I hope that's true I hope it's true that it violates Brazil and US law because otherwise what the hell is X going to do they they can't just stop so what's going to happen let's talk about the rest of the world Germany said it's going to cut any new military aid for Ukraine meaning that I guess they got some money that's already committed that they'll continue to give but they're not going to approve any new money for Ukraine Brazil do you think it has anything to do with the report that Ukraine blew up their pipeline well it probably didn't help probably didn't help at all but if Germany's not going to pay for Ukraine and we are is that because Germany has no money left or they don't think it's important if Germany doesn't think it's important why do we so certainly raises a question um meanwhile you know that the EU commissioner Ty Breen had War he keeps warning X that if they violate the European Union standards for speech which would be anything hateful uh or I guess disinformation too in their view uh that they would ban X from operating in Europe now if you're tempted to say so what we don't care about Europe Europe collectively is bigger than the United States so there's no multinational company that can really survive losing Europe Europe it's just too big of a market now survival is probably too much of a statement but it would be tough for somebody who's you know some huge part of their business is Europe to Just Lose It suddenly so the stakes are really high but interestingly the US House Judiciary Committee uh is going to back ax and musk and they went after uh EU and basically the the US House Judiciary Committee and is this comr might be Romer um they basically wrote a Stern letter to the EU and said get the out of here they they use bigger words more more official sounding but basically the US just told them to leave us alone uh you know in very Stern words now do I like that yeah yep thank you United States there there is my government or at least you know hopefully at least the Republicans my government defending me against uh what I would call an attack by Europe to me it's an attack if you come after our Free Speech what do you call that if you try to block free speech in America that's an attack I'm not going to call it not an attack oh Jenny we got a drunk in the comments Jenny's pretty drunk Jenny I'm hoping you can sleep it off see this is where the all caps really helps because Jenny's been drinking an all cap yelling at me and even if I say you're drunk and using all caps it won't make any difference her next message will be an entire paragraph in all caps I'm not going to read it Jenny I'm just going to see your all caps and say never mind but you just keep drinking and commenting because something good will come of it if you just keep it up just keep it up anyway um my view on the EU is if they want to censor X we should stop funding NATO because if Europe is going to attack us and try to take our free speech um I don't think Putin would so let Putin take as much of Europe as he wants if he doesn't go after us if Europe is coming after me I'm not going to defend them I don't want to pay for their defense in Europe just because Putin might absorb Europe and then come after me I don't think Putin can absorb Europe because it's going to be Islamic so there you go um so as you know the less you see of a comml Harris the more popular she becomes um Politico is talking about the uh conven coming next week um but they're talking about how she's slowly rolling out her proposals and not giving much detail about what she wants to do and that uh the other Democrats are are kind of happy with that because they're they think that you know more General approach works now I hate how much I agree with the Harris campaign on their strategy it really is it's bold to not have any details and I hate that it's right I hate that it's right but they're totally totally in the pocket on this meaning that they understand that the news is just bad for everybody anytime you do an interview all it does is produce negative talking points and so even talking to the friendly press there's just no there's no upside now once you see that even the de Democrats see that the news doesn't work for them that there's no upside that news is just looking for something to criticize or at least the other side is looking for something to criticize that instead of running on policy who would win if the if the conversation came down to policy who would win well the top three or four policies that the country cares about Trump is way ahead in him being the one to handle those you know immigration economics War I think so the Democrats know that they can't compete on policy so the more they tell you about policy the worse they'll look because it's just stuff to criticize but if they just do General things like hey you're a Democrat right well I'm a Democrat are you awesome you are awesome yeah you are awesome I'm a Democrat too what do you think of me you think I'm awesome too why don't you vote for me what are my policies what's the difference you're a Democrat I'm a Democrat you're awesome I'm awesome don't you aome more of that so that's what that's what the Harris campaign is running on and again it's actually freaking genius it's genius because I don't think anybody else would have seen it that you could just ignore the press and ignore putting out policy details the the fact that they saw this that in a sense was always right there to be seen but they're acting on it now you might say to me and this would be reasonable that they don't have any choice because if they put her in front of the camera it's going to be disaster but the fact that they embraced it fully that they have a candidate who can't talk to the press in any reliable way and they're just running with it I I I can't tell you how impressed I am at the skill and wisdom it would take to pull this off I don't like it I'm not you I'm not in favor of it from a perspective of a citizen but wow it's just really impressive um there's a poll uh MRC News.

Busters as a poll it's exclusive and says most Democrats don't know about Harris's radicalism so not only do they not know about what policies she wants to do if she gets elected They al also don't know about her past statements about radicalism um and uh what percentage see when asked about 10 different aspects of Harris's public record on issues from let's say the green New Deal abolishing ice eliminating Private health insurance so these are things she said in the past which she does not Embrace at the moment so that that's the first thing you need to to know it's not her current plan but it wasn't very long ago that she said these things and that is important because that tells you where her mind was very recently and people don't change that much but uh between 71 and 86% of the Democrats and independents said they had not heard of Harris's positions or when it were unsure so they've got to the point where something like three4 of the Democrat voters don't really know much about the candidate and these are really important things to know you should know how Marxist she's been just a few years ago that seems pretty important so between the news not being real oh and here's the funny part and then they asked these voters who didn't know anything about Harris where they get their news here's the embarrassing part so now that we've determined that you don't know anything about the candidate running for president uh where do you get your news and the top answers were ABC CBS and NBC or cable CNN and MSNBC so can can we conclude that watching the news makes you dumber it literally does watching the news literally makes you dumber now there's not one of those not one of these topics did I see on the news I'm sure they've been on Fox news but I don't remember seeing them there there every one of them I learned on X so everything I know about K Harris's past was on X and lots of times you know it's all things I've seen multiple multiple times every one of them but I didn't see it on CNN or MSNBC or ABC or CBS or NBC so if you watch those sources you're in trouble and even if you're on X I still think you're going to be in a silo so I imagine the Democrats who are on X are also not seeing it but I see it all the time because I'm in a different Silo anyway here's what i' here's my question if there was a child in your Universe let's say your own son or daughter and that child was young and they hadn't learned much about history and they wanted to know about the United States let's say they're N9 or 10 years old how would you explain our election system would you say well we've got this system where people learn about the candidates you know they run for office the news reports everything about them then these citizens use their judgment and then they decide who they want and what preferences what preferences they agree with and then they vote then whoever gets the most votes oh no it's not whoever gets the most votes it's the electoral college but just a detail now would you describe it that way in the in 2024 for CU I wouldn't be able to do that if you if a young child who had not yet learned it in history ask me what our system is I would say well on the surface it's this pretend Republic thing with voting what it really is is a massive propaganda operation um in which one propagandist side he goes against the other the propaganda determines what the voters think and that that automatically makes them vote a certain way so then the 10-year-old would say so so it's about voting I'd say no no you didn't listen to me the voting doesn't matter at all the voting follows from the brainwashing if you get the brainwashing right the Voting is just automatic so the Voting is the least important part of this process is just the the final part the most important is the brainwashing so what we have is a political system in which the people who are most successful at brainwashing rich people the media Etc uh they they brainwash the citizens to make them think that their vote counts but really it was the brainwashing that counted the voting was just the final way to know that the brainwashing worked that's how I'd explain it that's my literal honest completely honest opinion of our system it's just a brainwashing operation whoever does it the best wins why did Trump win in 2016 the brainwashing didn't work he broke through he he was an iconic unique character in history who could penetrate the brainwashing just long enough to get an office and then the brainwashing got stronger and drove him out of office basically all right uh interestingly The Washington Post is not backing kamla Harris on her price control idea huh let's see if I can understand this The Washington Post owned by Jeff Bezos who also owns Whole Foods a major Food grocery store KL Harris wants to put price controls on food which would be presumably terrible for Whole Foods and then for the first time ever I don't remember seeing it the Washington Post came out strong against the candidate now not against the candidate but against her economic plan and uh it an opinion piece in the Washington Post called it a Mis misguided idea and a gimmick and even over on CNN they're saying it creates more problems than it solves do you remember when I told you that there would never be an economist on CNN or MSNBC unless they were planning to kill the plan no Economist has come forward none to say that kamla's ideas are a good idea think about that how many how many economists are Democrats 50,000 I don't know 20,000 how many how many professional economists are also Democrat it's a lot right C if C if NBC can find one that says K Harris has a good economic plan just one anyone my prediction is nope unless they find somebody who's clearly batshit crazy and and when you listen to them you go okay that barely sounds like an economist to me maybe but I don't think so I think they're just going to have the pundits talk about it because the pundits are not experts so they can just say well it sounds like a good idea to me but I don't even think any of the pundits say it's a good idea just people on the campaign so I would say that the price controls on food idea might be the worst idea I've ever heard in the American politics well the uh DNC Democratic National Committee uh will be uh in Chicago starting Monday for four days and uh stores are already closing down and boarding up their Windows well they're not closed but they're boarding up their window windows and they're planning to be closed because they expect so many protests and violence from Democrats by the way or at least people who are left leaning it looks like the um the pro Palestinian protesters are likely to show up in big numbers now what's that going to do to America it I I think the more the Democrats are seen by regular Americans as being part of this you know Palestinian anti-israel push it just it looks all bad to me so it could be that this might be the first DNC uh convention that did a negative bump to the candidate so what you usually expect is the convention gives an automatic bump to every candidate doesn't last but an automatic bump maybe it'll be different this time I'm not going to make that prediction because it's so consistent that you get a bump from the convention but this one could be different if what we watch is every day things catching on fire in the streets of Chicago and we say to ourselves but aren't they Democrats if if you if your brain says those are Democrats destroying Chicago during the DNC I don't know that KL Harris is going to get a bump so this one will be fun um fun in a bad way I mean I wouldn't want to be a shop owner in in Chicago I feel sorry for them but we'll see this this might be a surprise meanwhile Corey leowski is back on the Trump campaign team there is some um some confusion about what his role would be some said he'd be the boss of it and he wouldd be the boss of WS and Lita who were getting a lot of uh getting a lot of criticism from Republicans but apparently his formal titter is senior adviser so that would be not so obvious that he's in charge so it could be that uh he's just added to the group it doesn't mean he's necessarily in charge of them but he's coming in with a lot of clout so maybe in effect he will be I don't know maybe maybe somebody will be leaving soon but doesn't want to say it yet so I would say this is still Fogo War so anything could come out of this uh Biden is saying and an aios is reporting that uh that Biden thinks he might get a Gaza deal by the end of next week really really this is in the news somewhat uncritically in the news that he's expecting there's a good chance of getting a getting some kind of a hostage deal and maybe a ceasefire in Gaza you all know that's not going to happen right do I have to tell you that's not going to happen you all know that's not going to happen but why is the news treating it like it might what is up with that now here's why it's not going to happen uh there's been news that apparently and who knows how much you can believe from a war zone but something like more than half of the Hamas Fighters have been killed but if you've only killed a little more than half that leaves a lot of Hamas Fighters why in the world would Israel agree to any deal about anything until they knew they could get all the rest of them remember their slogan is total Victory is that ambiguous there's nothing ambiguous about that Israel said we're going to change the situation forever in Gaza and that we're going for total Victory if you interpret that as we're going to stop when we're halfway done and let them reconstitute well you're crazy you're crazy now here by the way just in case you're new to me I'm not giving you my opinion of you know right or wrong or you know who's at fault or what should be done I'm just observing it I'm just I'm just looking at it and when I look at it total Victory is not anywh near where they are and they have the ability to drive much closer to Total Victory if they keep grinding why would they stop I mean I I I don't even see the logic of the story much less agree with it so I'm going to give you my prediction no there will not be any deal in Gaza next week I doubt you'll see anything before the election I mean I'd be amazed so don't get too excited about that uh weirdly retail sales were good in July although you should be warned that they're more often um revised down than up so it could be that re retail sales were not as great as the original numbers they might be revised down but they're really solid so even if they're re revised down they're you know sort of directionally pretty good but here's the question I ask how much of that is inflation if the only thing you know is that the dollars that people spent for stuff was a little bit up and inflation was let's say 1% up on average wouldn't that account for all of your increase in retail sales I'm not even sure it's good good news because you know inflation doesn't usually show up within one month or so much like that but maybe I mean if if it was summer and energy went up people used a lot of gas you know you you could imagine a situation where uh the re well is gas retail sales does gasoline count as retail sales food food would right food and gasoline would both be retail sales I'm not sure but I the the question you should ask is does it get revised is there something about the summer that's special but they they controlled for the summer effect so it shouldn't be just the fact that summer that shouldn't be you shouldn't have to worry about that uh but how much of it is just inflation you can't really tell Washington the state was ranked the most dangerous state to live in for 2024 according to a study from wallet Hub that's where I go to get my studies wallet Hub who who knows how accurate that study is uh you know I always say that all data is is fake but uh Washington state was ranked the most dangerous State um and the other states uh that didn't rank well would be uh let's say uh Oregon Colorado California and what they call other Democrat controlled states that that might be a little too political to just say it's Democrat controlled States but clearly there are some democrat controlled states that are higher in crime now um did I say this or did I post it I'm having one of these moments where I can't remember if I already said that this morning or I planned to say it and it was so developed in my mind that I can't remember if I said it or just thought about saying it you know one of those situations so I'm going to say it again and you could tell me if I said it already live I'm in a weird situation living here in what should be a safe neighborhood in California because three of my neighbors in the last 18 months or so have had uh what we think are South American organized burglars inside their house inside their house gangs I mean a gang of burglars I don't know if they're part of a bigger gang but I've actually went from a situation where I thought it would be rare if my house got robbed so 10 years ago I was said I mean anything could happen but that would be really rare if you know burglar if a team of burglar are actually inside my house like that would be pretty rare do you know what I think now now I think it's guaranteed I I've actually adjusted my thinking that I live in a house that at some point and it won't be very long there will be a band of burglers in my house and I've simply accepted that as my new new reality I do not think of it in terms of the odds of it happening or not happening I think of it as a guarantee I believe every house in my neighborhood will have a band of burglars in it looking through all your stuff and taking what they want at least once now could I be wrong well I hope so I I sure hope I'm wrong but every one of those burglars got away with it are you with me three burglars three homes nobody got caught why would they stop why would they stop there's no reason they they apparently have some kind of a business model that works great and if they did stop they just replace them with another bunch of burglars so when I look at you know Washington state where it's the most dangerous place to live that might be but I actually living a reality where in my view there's 100% chance that someday there will be burglars standing in my house and they will be very dangerous people now the only thing that I'm hoping for is I won't be in the house well yes or no yes or no I hope I'm not in the house but they better hope I'm not in the house too so yes or no but I'm accepting it will be a fact anyway Trump has vowed to slash us energy cost in half by making America energy independent again let's compare this plan to Kam Harris All right we already talked about her plans that even the Washington Post doesn't like what do you think of the idea of slashing US Energy costs by making America energy independent again which basically is removing barriers I think it's completely doable when when you look at this claim and remember Trump is the king of hyperbole so overclaiming is ordinary for him is that an overclaim it doesn't feel like it it really doesn't feel like an overa I think he could reduce energy cost by 50% supply and demand why why does Trump's plan look as aggressive as it is why does it look like it could work and probably would work because it properly understands the free Market it properly understands the free market that's it that's the whole that's the whole story and when KLA Harris comes up with the plan it improperly understands human relations and motivations and incentives and the free market it's really just that simple if you don't understand how a free market works you do all the wrong stuff if you do understand like Trump everything he says makes sense here here's 's a little test for you what did Trump do in his first term that didn't make sense on paper I can't think of anything now like any presidency there are things that might not work right in the real world good ideas don't always work there's always some hidden problem but name something that Trump came up with any kind of plan that he actually implemented in in his first term that didn't make sense on paper I don't think there is one but you look at KLA Harris's plan and literally it doesn't look good on paper if you're reading the Washington Post being a paper yeah so this is really different um when Trump says he's you know the Republicans are the party of Common Sense vaccines you're saying that vaccines didn't make sense on paper well if they weren't mandated they might have that might have been a better argument yeah so the trouble with vaccines I don't want to get into that conversation is that we're all smart in hindsight if you put yourself in the situation that he was in it looks pretty different in hindsight we're all Geniuses anyway um 24 attorney generals I think they're probably all Republicans um are moving to secure the 2024 election according to rsbn um and that uh they filed a motion of the Supreme Court to stop non-citizens from voting is that really a problem how many of you think that the number of noncitizens who vote is going to be a big enough number to make any difference because I think we're conflating it with the issue of having mailing ballots for non-citizens which somebody else fills out they harvest them and fill them out now that would be big enough the the number if it's true that the noncitizens are getting ballots mailed to them automatically that would create you know hundreds of thousands of ballots that somebody could Harvest now that's a big problem but how big is the problem of an illegal uh an immigrant who wants to vote but is not legal I feel like that wouldn't be huge because if if you came to this country the last thing you want to do is break a law that doesn't matter to you because you know that your one vote isn't going to change anything right let's say you're illegal immigrant and and let's say you think you can get away with voting so you're thinking I think I'll give it a shot your one vote's not going to make any difference but it put it might get you deported right if if Trump doesn't say uh I'm going to deport first any immigrant who voted you're first in line why doesn't he say that by the way Trump should say that when we do our Mass deportations first we're going to get the uh the dangerous criminals to the extent we can identify them so we'll do the dangerous people first and then our second wave will be anybody who voted illegally because we can't have that disruption in our system I think America would say all right well maybe we like or don't like the deportations but if you're going to do it in that order that does make sense so you might not like the whole thing but the order of it would make sense get rid of the violent ones first and then the ones who voted now I think you could take the risk of them voting down to to not important you know wouldn't wouldn't change any swing state but the risk of having ballots that they could have voted and having hundreds of thousands of them in one swing state that's the whole election right there so I don't know if the attorney generals are doing something that would have an impact on the availability of the ballots but that's the whole game I think it's not whether they actually vote all right uh uh the house oversight committee oh this is uh comr I knew comr was in the news the house oversight committee led by comr is investigating all the ties that wals has to communist China Daily wire is reporting that um do you think that's fair and legitimate and good that the government is investigating walls because of his many connections to China I have a bit of a mixed feeling about that on one hand it raises every red flag in the world and certainly you don't want to elect somebody who's number two who's who's owned by China so yes it's important but it looks a little like looking for a crime are you okay with that are you okay with your government not seeing a crime but if they dig around enough they might find one are you okay with that because that's not a standard you want to apply to you I've got I've got a little problem with it now it seems to me that if there's any kind of uh if there's any kind of an investigation it should be done by wouldn't it be the FBI if the FBI thought that there was foreign influence on an American um an American politician isn't that their job to look into it now if the FBI were looking into it because it's just an obvious thing you'd look into and they just sort of do their behind the scenes investigation to see if there's anything to worry about I feel like that's more legitimate because to me that does sound like what their job is it's like oh we've got a suspicion of the worst thing that could happen you know Chinese influence over an American potential president and sure they should look into it but I don't know if anybody else should I'm a little concerned about anybody else looking into that unless they don't trust the FBI I suppose I don't know I'm not terribly comfortable with that but uh Tim wals has uh started his Tik Tock account and uh Tik Tok of course is owned by China and how long will it be before we find out that his account on Tik Tok is seemingly boosted in some magical way that we can't explain I expect that I got a question for you lawyers who are watching I know we got a few lawyers watching I want to see if you agree with General Michael Flynn who says he believes that Trump will be sentenced to prison next month on September 18th uh he says uh you know why why wouldn't they or why wouldn't he the judge he says it's just more it's just more of the same so certainly General Flynn has you know seen more of the dark underbelly of the real world than most of us ever will I hope because he's seen the darkest parts of the government so when he says why wouldn't they throw him in jail it's it basically wouldn't even be outside the scope of things that they're doing I mean it wouldn't be that outrageous given all the other things they've done in context um but lawyers do you lawyers think that he would actually go to jail or do you think that there would be more legal process and appeals and he would be out of jail even if he's convicted so he might be sentenced but does anybody think he would go to jail uh those of you how about those of you who are lawyers so we think they'd try what do you think would happen if he actually spent a day in real jail what do you think would happen it would get really unpredictable wouldn't it but it could be exactly what the bad guys want it could be that some of the more notable and influential people would go too far go too far in trying to correct that situation and then they could arrest not just Trump but a whole bunch of influential supporters and just take down the whole movement so it seems to me like the thing i' would worry about the most is that the real play is to get the citizens more Angry than they would otherwise and to get them to misbehave in a way that you can put the law against them and people will say well you have to get the law involved yeah I here's what I would say if you're a Democrat and you're in favor of this and you're one of the people who can make it happen here's what you should consider things would get really unpredictable now you know that the real trick would be to avoid saying anything that seems to promote violence so I definitely am not promoting any violence and I'm not suggesting any of you do anything in that regard but it's easy to say that the situation would be unpredictable and it would be is so unpredictable that nothing would be ruled out now I'm not saying that you should do anything of those things that are not ruled out I'm saying that in the big old world there's a lot of people and they're not all going to be on the same page and they're not all necessarily going to be 100% peaceful if they're not getting what they want I don't recommend it because it looks like a trap to me but the Democrats have to know that if you get into unpredictable territory you can't complain if something unpredictable happened because you know you're opening up a level of unpredictability that would be unprecedented and at some point unpredictability can turn negative really fast so I'm not going to make any specific suggestions about what anybody should or should not do in that situation because that's the Trap I will just say that would be a level of risk taking that the Democrats have never taken before and that that level of risk- taking would not be wise can I say that is it fair to say that given the uncertainty of what would happen that that would be a level of risk-taking like we haven't really seen before and there's almost nothing I would rule out as something that somebody else might think is a good idea in that case you know I I certainly advise against all violence no violence all right um that's all I got for today it's Saturday so let's go and enjoy our weekend it's going to be awesome and I think the weather is going to be amazing I think you're going to have an incredible time it's already started off so well um but here's what I think I'm going to give you one more prediction you know that uh pill for the German Shepherd that cured its cancer and made it young again I mentioned at the start of the show I think there's some chance that Joe Biden's going to take that pill and by September he might look like a 30-year-old man and want to take it back no I'm just joking but anything's possible maybe you'll take the dog pill um I'm going to say bye to exen rumble and You.

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like all right here's all the scientific

news and then we'll do the fun politics

and how keris is destroying the

world we'll get to all that but uh there

are major report reports of zigzagging

UFOs in the Southern California

Skies so you know if you were a

UFO you would come to California

wouldn't you well there were lots of

people saw them there were six flying

sofs they were darting they were

zigzagging

now may I offer you

my very uh informed opinion if you see

some kind of light in the sky or some

kind of object and it's

zigzagging that's never an

aircraft it might be a balloon I suppose

it could be a drone but it's not some

full-size

aircraft right so credibility of this

report in terms of alien spaceships I

would say zero some said that it's in

the it's not too far away from some air

force or military testing thing so it

might be one of our military testing

things but it's probably just a balloon

in the air I reflection or a lie or

something I'll tell you what it's

not the least likely possibility is an

alien visitation from a a an alien

species that can control gravity in

physics I mean can't rule it out but it

would be said last on my list of

possible explanations for this

situation now I'm going to make this

next story tie back to the first story

but you won't see it coming right away

Second Story is Engineers have designed

Mi I guess MIT Engineers have designed

tiny tiny batteries so small that you

could put them in tiny tiny robots and

they're so minuscule that you could put

them in a like a cell of a human body

and then you could you know do things

like

uh deploy cell-sized autonomous robots

for drug delivery within your body so

imagine robots that are fully programmed

robots they're smaller than the cells of

your

body so that's

coming all right now watch me cleverly

tie it back to the earlier UFO story

what are the odds and by the way this

idea comes from Douglas Adams the writer

no relation to me what are the odds that

if aliens visited this Earth the aliens

would be approximately our

size it's pretty close to zero isn't

it well what would prevent the aliens

from being the size of these tiny robots

that are smaller than a human

cell could it be that there are vast

alien civilizations living on Earth but

the entire space that they take up is

like I don't know size of a

baseball but but you got like a million

aliens living there in their little

civilization and they're not maybe

they're not even entirely sure that

there's other people on

Earth so once you realize that the

assumed scale or the physical size of

aliens there's no reason it needs to be

your size I mean why can't the aliens be

the size of the planet so that the

planet itself is so small they wouldn't

be interested in it because you know

they couldn't do anything with it

they're too

big so there might be some Physics

reasons why things can't be too big but

apparently there's no physics reasons

why you can't make a robot that's

smaller than a cell in your body so I'm

worried about aliens that are smaller

than the cells in your body they may

already be here your body might be full

of aliens could be

all right scientists have also developed

a solar panel material that's a 100

times thinner than a human

hair and it's so thin they think you can

print it on other objects apparently

it's super efficient too they say so

super efficient um to yield over 27%

Energy Efficiency that's better than

regular uh solar cells and

uh it's only as thick as one human hair

well that tells you what I'm going to do

I'm going to uh put that on my human

hairs so I I don't have many but the few

human hairs I have left I'm going to

have it coated with this solar stuff so

I can charge my phone just by walking

outside without my hat that's my plan

that's my plan and by the way you might

need these tiny tiny solar cells because

yeah there may be an alien civilization

that's very small but living on my

scalp might need

electricity so I'm tying all the stories

together

now well there's a new book by David

stainforth and uh it's called predicting

our climate future and a big part of the

book is him explaining in smart detail

why climate models are

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very smart sounding it would teach you a

lot or or save a few bucks and just ask

Scott because I told you that the

climate models are absurd I told you

that you can't predict the future

certainly of the climate there are two

things you can't do predict the

future and especially know if you have

all the variables right to even look at

predicting the climate so the the fast

version is there is no way to predict

the climate there are too many variables

it's too sensitive to any small

assumptions and it's

absurd now if you hear from me a

non-scientist saying um logically this

can't be done you're not going to

believe me but here's somebody who knows

what they're talking about has lots of

smart facts so if you want to learn why

you should not trust models that predict

the future of the

climate um this will tell

you Tucker had a uh two of the scarest

guests I've ever seen on the show um one

of them Dr Casey means who an MD was

talking about

how some combination of our food supply

and big Pharma is making all of us

metabolically sick and it's a massive

it's maybe the biggest

problem Maybe the biggest problem in the

world certainly in the United States but

just look here's some of the

stats autism rates in kids uh are 1 in

36

nationally compared to 1 in 1500 and not

so long ago in California it's worse

autism rates are one and

22 if you have a kid in California

there's a one in 22 chance that the kid

will be

autistic one in 22

what 74% of American adults are

overweight or

obese that sounds about right I if I

walk down the if I walk down the

sidewalk once you get to about age

30 yeah I'd say

75%

um 50% of children are overweight or

obese oh my God 50% of American adults

have pre-diabetes or type 2 diabetes

50% 50% of adults have either diabetes

or pre-diabetes

30% of teens now have pre-diabetes 30%

of

teens now pre-diabetes means you're

you're sugar is high but you don't have

diabetes but you're you're pushing on

the border of it

uh infertility is increasing at 1% per

year per year every

year and sperm counts are are decreasing

by 1% per year since the

1970s young adult cancers is up

79% and what is causing all this it's

our toxic food system and toxic

environment now some of it may be

related to lots of pharmaceutical stuff

in your veins maybe individually every

bit of it is okay I don't know but when

you put it all in there maybe it's a

little too much for your body I don't

know same with your environment there

are lots of things that are a little bit

pollut but if you were to look at them

individually they wouldn't look so bad

but what if you have a thousand of them

that are all a little bit pollut and

they're all over all the time

so the uh the worry is that we're on

this uh fast road to not reproducing and

being so sick that we spend 100% of our

money just trying to stay alive so

that's the bad news and by the way this

should be the number one issue in the

country RFK JR says it should be I agree

with him completely the weird thing is

that all of our other problems look like

they have something like a solution

but this is the one that I don't see the

solution because we're not exactly sure

where all the problem is coming from I

mean even if you say it's food or even

if you say it's big Pharma drugs you

don't know which ones and you don't know

how to get rid of those things too

easily so I mean I don't know what to do

about

it but uh I will tell you that um I'm

going to I'm going to pile on a little

bit I want to see if any of you have had

this say same reaction and I'm talking

to mostly the men all right because men

are more

visual I think it does apply both ways

but let's just keep it simple question

for the men I've said this before but I

want to see I want to see your

opinion it used to be in let's say I 10

or 20 years ago that if I left the house

and went to any public space where there

were a lot of people around there would

definitely be a lot of attractive women

in that place not as a percentage maybe

but if you had a you know big area there

would be plenty of really attractive

women just because they were a

percentage of the

population now you can go for a long

time in a very big public place without

seeing anybody that you would want to

have sex

with has anybody noticed

that cuz I used to walk around thinking

like I couldn't even go to the mall or

the supermarket I'd be like okay I would

do her I would do her yeah I'd probably

do her okay I'd let her do me you know

and like you never turned

off I know this is appalling to

women but men are pretty much always

searching even if we're not actively

looking for any kind of sexual activity

we're always scanning you know you can't

turn off the scanning but the scanning

is completely turned off now I don't

have that EXP experience when I go

anywhere it's just people now none none

of them are triggering me

whatsoever so is that just age could be

but it does look like people look

different to me so reproduction is

probably going to take a big

hit but here's the good news all right

you ready for the good

news there's a groundbreaking study on

age

reversal and there's some kind of a telr

uh drug that they're giving to dogs that

are having

Miracle uh effects one of the examples

was a 12-year-old German Shepherd now of

course this is anecdotal and you know

it's not a it's not a scientific study

so you can't put too much credibility in

it but it's a fun story and the story is

that their 12-year-old German Shepherd

had terminal cancer just you know

nothing you could do about it but they

gave him one of these pills and cancer

went away and now he's just like a

puppy do you believe that do you believe

that there was a a dog that was

basically flatlining and they gave it

one pill and now it's like a puppy and

the cancer went away I don't

know I don't know it seems a little bit

more that I'm willing to accept as

automatically true but I'm going to put

this in my recreational belief

category I like to believe some things

because makes makes me feel good so

until it's proven not to be true I will

recreationally believe that I can give

Snickers a pill next year and she'll be

like a

puppy I think it'll take a few years

before it gets to any any approval

process but

maybe well the Harris campaign is hiring

and uh one of the requirements is you

must be up to date on your covid

boosters so imagine how hard it would be

to hire

if you had to get people who are up to-

date on their Co

boosters there're also Democrats who

support

Harris and almost certainly the Dei

filter is on as

well if you said we're going to hire

people but you have to put these three

filters on you got to you got to get

diversity you got to get a Democrat who

likes Harris and they got to be fully

boosted and

vaccinated now without saying anything

negative about any of those

groups wouldn't that constrain your

options to the point where you

guaranteed incompetence in your campaign

and the answer is yes and again it has

nothing to do with anybody's genes or

lifestyle or or even their

Democratic views on life none of it it's

just that when you put those three

constraints on a a normal thing that

normally wouldn't have constraints

hiring people you're just painting

yourself into a little corner there so

what we should

predict is massive um incompetence from

the campaign now you might not see it

because whoever is the top top advisers

I think are really good and again

independent of whether they're diverse

or not they're very good so we can if we

treat them as individuals and not part

of a group there's somebody really smart

advising her I I I will uh say that

confidently

and uh here's another funny stat that's

so funny it makes you cry uh Breitbart

News is reporting a Warner Todd Houston

at Breitbart News the nearly one in

three Chicago School

teachers keep their kids out of public

schools let me just say that

again because I don't have to add much

commentary to it one in three Public

School teachers in

Chicago don't send their own children to

public school now do you think that one

in three School teachers come from a

family where they can easily afford

private

school I I don't know who the spouse is

but I would guess if onethird of

teachers are sending their kids to

private schools that might represent

100% of teachers who can can afford

it see that's not in the

statistic statistic just says one and a

three but once you say how how expensive

is private

school and how much does a teacher make

in Chicago you kind of quickly reach the

assumption that 100% of the people who

can afford to get their kids out of

their public schools have

already done it the people who know the

most the

teachers if they can afford it they

pulled their kids right

out is there anything else you need to

know would would you like to answer some

questions about the the uh teachers

unions do you see the problem it's

always been the teachers unions because

if you can't fire a teacher you can't

have good teachers if you can't have

good teachers you don't have good

schools if you don't have good

schools and you can afford it you're

going to spend your send your kid to a

good school if you you can afford

it it's all

here there there's no questions left

unanswered by the

statistic this answers all questions and

what it says is there's nobody on the

other side of the

question think about that there are so

many things in this world where people

you know could be on both sides

reasonably even the people who know the

most the

teachers are on the same side as you are

which is huh this system looks totally

broken you better get keep your kid out

of

it

wow well as you know Comm Harris has

proposed a uh government

$25,000 for first time home buyers to

help them buy a house I saw Mark Cuban

is doing some persuading on this showing

it's a good idea and when I looked at

his analysis all I could U conclude is

that ordinary people should not be

allowed to do economic

analysis now Mark cubin is very smart

but doing an economic analysis is a

little bit different than just being

smart that it takes a little bit of

experience that even smart people

wouldn't know they're missing something

so I would say that while I conclude

that Cuban is very smart in in lots of

different ways um I don't think he's the

one you would look to to analyze this

now I'm not sure I am but I have been a

lending officer at a bank so that that's

a pretty relevant uh experience it

wasn't mortgage lending but there there

are some

overlaps and here's what I say in

California

$25,000 well let me put it this way

here's the way I posted

it where I live if I were the loan

officer let's say I'm the mortgage

lender and somebody comes in and they

say here's my here's my application for

the loan and I look at it and it doesn't

qualify and so I turn them down so they

go back and they get their $25,000 from

the government and they come back in

they go look I get now I got extra

$25,000 how often would

$25,000 change my decision as a mortgage

lender what do you think $25,000 that's

a lot of money right how often would it

change my decision to say that this

lender wasn't qualified before but now

they are qualified the answer is

never the answer is

never zero there wouldn't be a single

extra loan I gave if somebody didn't

qualify before the 25,000 there's no

way that I'm going to think that

$25,000 is going to make that a safe

loan there is no way that $225,000 makes

a difference because if you're that

close to not being able to pay off the

loan no Banker is going to give you the

loan if you're that close to the margin

of not being able to pay back the loan

are you kidding

me 25,000 is like a you're pissing in

the ocean in California now I will I

will revise this to say that there may

be a part of the country where if you

could

get maybe a condo for

250 the $25,000 starts sounding

substantial at that point but still if

your income was only just enough to pay

the mortgage if only you had that extra

25,000 it doesn't sound safe to me

sounds like you're right on the margin

and the slightest disruption in your

employment makes you in

default that's just uh so that's some

perspective from A lender

if you're just looking at somebody who's

not a lender and they're just crunching

some numbers for you and say oh look

here's somebody who could save some

money with this $25,000 thing that's the

wrong

analysis the analysis should be from the

commercial lenders perspective because

they're the ones who decide if you get

the loan so how about this how about you

tell me if CNN or MSNBC will have a

mortgage loan broker on and then you ask

the question hey how many more loans do

you think you'll make if people get

25,000 for their first home

buy let's see what they say that at best

they'll say something generic like well

you know more money is

better I don't but if you ask them how

many extra loans they'd make it'd

probably be close to

zero all

right part of that plan apparently is to

uh exert some federal zoning control

over the local areas in other words um

there there's some part of what they

want to do with lowcost housing this is

different from the $25,000 thing so

separate but related uh they want to

make it easier to

build homes basically and one of the

things that they would do is exert some

kind of federal zoning control over the

local places I saw a video um from some

probably Republican a woman who was in

the business and she wanted you to know

that it's a terrible idea for the

federal government to tell States or

localities what to do with their zoning

because the federal government would not

know what they needed more specifically

locally does that sound like a good idea

to you do do you buy that the right

place for zoning is

locally you shouldn't

because what happens is they all do

different jobs and and and they're all

they all just they're all Rogue so if

you have different zoning requirements

in every town like we do like if if I

I'm walking distance literally walking

distance from different zoning

requirements walking distance I mean

literally if I just walk in in that

direction I'll be in the town of

Livermore in you know 20 minutes or

something and and the the rule rules are

different now you try to hire a

contractor and they have to like learn

the new rules for your town even if

they've already built 100

homes and and our town has like some of

the strictest dumbest

ones let me just give you one example

here's one example from my town when I

built my house I had to put a wastewater

treatment Vault on my property you've

never even heard of that have you how

many have you ever heard of that the

putting a

wastewater treatment Vault on my

property what did it cost about $35,000

dollars and what it was was a

hole in the ground where all the all the

waste waterer so we'd engineer the

gutters and stuff so all the rainwater

would come off the roof and go into

little tunnels and it would all end up

in this big hole in the ground at the

end of my property and then there would

be a tree

a certain kind of tree that had to be

planted so that the roots of the tree

would be naturally filtering the

Wastewater before it got into the town's

Wastewater

facilities

$35,000 and maintenance every

year now a few years later when I had to

do maintenance on it as required by the

approvals for my house I went to look

for somebody who was like an approver

who could look at it and there was

nobody there was nobody in the world who

was in the business of approving it or

examining it and yet that was a

requirement of building my house so I

contacted the town and I said there's

nobody in the business of doing the

thing you required me to do and they

said oh don't worry about it we don't

have that requirement

anymore and I said what they said yeah

yeah we dropped that requ requirement

that's no longer in the codee and I said

I just spent $35 th000 to do

this how many other people spent $35

thousand to do it and they said

I think it was just

you so do you think that I like Federal

Building control yes I do yes I do

because I think the feds are far far

more likely to come up with a stable set

of rules now of course they might have

to modify it for your climate and you

know your specific situation but I could

easily imagine the FED having let's say

half a dozen different models that you

could pick from for your building thing

in your state that would just be easy to

understand and wouldn't have in

it like I mean it was just monstrously

difficult to get approval from my house

of the Town monstrously difficult and if

you looked at any of the any of the

individual things they were asking for

they were all

defensible individually everything they

asked for was defensible it's just that

collectively it made it almost

impossible I was thinking the other day

about you know every now and then I

think about starting a business usually

I'm just playing around in my head but I

think what if somebody started a

business and did this hey what if I do

it and I realized that there's no

situation in which I would ever start a

business in

California just think about that I've

started a number of businesses in

California they didn't all work out like

my restaurants but I would never start a

business in

California so I I'm done economically in

my

state I I don't know how I would start

it in another state exactly what that

would look like but if it were a local

business that had to be in California I

wouldn't even do it it wouldn't matter

how good the numbers looked like if I

ran the spreadsheet and it was like wow

this is like you know making tons of

money here I wouldn't do it because it's

the wrong state to be in

business so so that's got to

matter well the all-in Pod

podcast um we're not so happy with KL

Harris's uh grocery price gouging uh

price control idea because everybody

who's smart and let me say that not as

hyperbole everybody who's smart knows

that price controls are devastating for

civilization it's like an end of

civilization plan it's so bad it's not

like other things where we go oh if you

do this there might be some trouble you

know the usual political stuff you know

everybody says if you if you elect Trump

it'll be the end of democracy but you

know nobody takes that too seriously

except idiots but when I say that price

controls could be the on food specific

land food could be the end of

civilization that's not

hyperbole if you run into of food

everything falls apart so and and price

controls would guarantee that you had

less

food now that

doesn't doesn't say there's 100% chance

is the end of civilization but in terms

of your real risks it's way up there as

one of the the biggest risks to

civilization and I can't even believe

that is being proposed I mean it's

actually mindboggling now I have not

heard a single person in favor of it yet

so the reason I like to refer to the

all-in pod people is because they're

unusually smart and

unusually uh big Talent stacks and

they've seen a lot of businesses and

they've succeeded in a lot of businesses

and they invest in a lot of businesses

so they're the ones who if you get all

four of them saying this is a bad idea

because remember they don't all agree

politically but all four of them would

say from a business perspective I think

I think all four of them are on the same

page um this is not a good idea it's a

terrible idea to have price controls on

food there's a uh video going around I

think it was from maybe 2019 of KL

Harris talking to some crowd and I don't

know the context I think the context is

lacking but she was talking how you the

government could snatch the patents from

companies now the Contex must have

been companies with really bad

behavior so I don't know why she' even

talk about snatching their patents but I

saw people forwarding it around and

talking about her being a patent

snatcher which I love to say by the way

you patent

snatcher that might be that might be my

new insult for

everybody you little patent Snatcher

I I love saying that say it at home

you'll like go ahead say it at home say

it at home to your dog if there's nobody

else there just say it out loud and see

how much you enjoy saying patent

snatcher it sounds like it's going to be

naughty but then it's

not you little patent

snatcher anyway here's my point about

that everybody was talking about how bad

it would be if she um if the government

tried to snatch your patent

and uh they buried the lead you know

what the lead is she was obviously

drunk if you see the the video I think I

forwarded it on my ex account but you

can see it easily just look at it and

ask yourself if she's drunk you'll see

it immediately why in the world is the

story that she's going to snatch your

patent when the real story should be

there she is drunk again I mean

obviously drunk it it's you don't have

to be some kind of expert

in in drug abuse to know a drunk how in

the world is that not the Topline topic

all the

time I guess no proof no

proof and the the tell is you have you

ever known a uh a woman who when she

drinks too much she has a extra high

pitch voice sometimes have you ever seen

that it's such a tell where you be

talking long and maybe you're quite

animated but then your voice will go up

to this level that it never goes up to

unless you're drunk you know somebody

like that I know you do uh just listen

to it and when she hits that high note

you'll be like ah yeah that's her her

eyes look drunk and her demeanor looks

drunk but when she hits the high note

you're going to say to yourself yeah you

don't talk like that unless you're

drinking meanwhile Brazil as you know is

trying to censor the xplatform they came

at him

again and mus has uh stated that uh the

Brazilian attempt to censor free speech

in this country on X which would also be

in their country because X is there uh

violates Brazil and us

laws now I hope that's true I hope it's

true that it violates Brazil and US law

because otherwise what the hell is X

going to do they they can't just stop

so what's going to happen let's talk

about the rest of the world Germany said

it's going to cut any new military aid

for Ukraine meaning that I guess they

got some money that's already committed

that they'll continue to give but

they're not going to approve any new

money for

Ukraine Brazil do you think it has

anything to do with the report that

Ukraine blew up their

pipeline well it probably didn't

help probably didn't help at all but

if Germany's not going to pay for

Ukraine and we

are is that because Germany has no money

left or they don't think it's important

if Germany doesn't think it's important

why do

we so certainly raises a

question um meanwhile you know that the

EU commissioner Ty Breen

had War he keeps warning X that if they

violate the European Union standards for

speech which would be anything hateful

uh or I guess disinformation too in

their view uh that they would ban X from

operating in Europe now if you're

tempted to say so what we don't care

about Europe Europe collectively is

bigger than the United States so there's

no multinational company that can really

survive losing Europe Europe it's just

too big of a market now survival is

probably too much of a statement but it

would be tough for somebody who's you

know some huge part of their business is

Europe to Just Lose It suddenly so the

stakes are really high but interestingly

the US House Judiciary Committee uh is

going to back ax and musk and they went

after uh EU and basically the the US

House Judiciary Committee and is this

comr might be Romer um they basically

wrote a Stern letter to the EU and

said get the out of

here they they use bigger words more

more official sounding but basically the

US just told them to leave us alone uh

you know in very Stern words now do I

like that yeah yep thank you United

States there there is my government or

at least you know hopefully at least the

Republicans my government defending me

against uh what I would call an attack

by

Europe to me it's an attack if you come

after our Free

Speech what do you call that if you try

to block free speech in America that's

an attack I'm not going to call it not

an

attack oh Jenny we got a drunk in the

comments Jenny's pretty drunk

Jenny I'm hoping you can sleep it

off see this is where the all caps

really helps because Jenny's been

drinking an all cap yelling at me and

even if I say you're drunk and using all

caps it won't make any difference her

next message will be an entire paragraph

in all caps I'm not going to read it

Jenny I'm just going to see your all

caps and say never

mind but you just keep drinking and

commenting because something good will

come of it if you just keep it up just

keep it

up anyway um my view on the EU is if

they want to censor X we should stop

funding

NATO because if Europe is going to

attack us and try to take our free

speech um I don't think Putin would so

let Putin take as much of Europe as he

wants if he doesn't go after us if

Europe is coming after me I'm not going

to defend them I don't want to pay for

their defense in Europe just because

Putin might absorb Europe and then come

after me I don't think Putin can absorb

Europe because it's going to be

Islamic

so there you

go um so as you know the less you see of

a comml Harris the more popular she

becomes um Politico is talking about the

uh conven coming next

week um but they're talking about how

she's slowly rolling out her proposals

and not giving much detail about what

she wants to do and that uh the other

Democrats are are kind of happy with

that because they're they think that you

know more General approach works

now I hate how much I agree with the

Harris campaign on their

strategy it really is it's bold to not

have any

details and I hate that it's right I

hate that it's right but they're totally

totally in the pocket on this meaning

that they understand that the news is

just bad for

everybody anytime you do an interview

all it does is produce negative talking

points and so even talking to the

friendly

press there's just no there's no upside

now once you see that even the de

Democrats see that the news doesn't work

for them that there's no upside that

news is just looking for something to

criticize or at least the other side is

looking for something to criticize that

instead of running on

policy who would win if the if the

conversation came down to policy who

would

win well the top three or four policies

that the country cares about Trump is

way ahead in him being the one to handle

those you know immigration economics War

I

think so the Democrats know that they

can't compete on policy so the more they

tell you about policy the worse they'll

look because it's just stuff to

criticize but if they just do General

things like hey you're a Democrat right

well I'm a

Democrat are you awesome you are awesome

yeah you are awesome I'm a Democrat too

what do you think of me you think I'm

awesome

too why don't you vote for me what are

my policies what's the difference you're

a Democrat I'm a Democrat you're awesome

I'm awesome don't you aome more of that

so that's what that's what the Harris

campaign is running on and again it's

actually freaking genius it's genius

because I don't think anybody else would

have seen it that you could just ignore

the press and ignore putting out policy

details the the fact that they saw this

that in a sense was always right there

to be seen but they're acting on

it now you might say to me and this

would be reasonable that they don't have

any choice because if they put her in

front of the camera it's going to be

disaster but the fact that they embraced

it fully that they have a candidate who

can't talk to the press in any reliable

way and they're just running with

it I I I can't tell you how impressed I

am at the skill and wisdom it would take

to pull this off I don't like it I'm not

you I'm not in favor of it from a

perspective of a citizen but wow it's

just really

impressive

um there's a poll uh MRC NewsBusters as

a poll it's

exclusive and says most Democrats don't

know about Harris's radicalism so not

only do they not know about what

policies she wants to do if she gets

elected They al also don't know about

her past statements about

radicalism um and uh what

percentage see when asked about 10

different aspects of Harris's public

record on issues from let's say the

green New Deal abolishing ice

eliminating Private health insurance so

these are things she said in the past

which she does not Embrace at the moment

so that that's the first thing you need

to to know it's not her current plan but

it wasn't very long ago that she said

these things and that is important

because that tells you where her mind

was very recently and people don't

change that much but

uh between 71 and 86% of the Democrats

and independents said they had not heard

of Harris's positions or when it were

unsure so they've got to the point

where something like three4 of the

Democrat voters don't really know much

about the candidate and these are really

important things to know you should know

how Marxist she's been just a few years

ago that seems pretty important so

between the news not being real oh and

here's the funny part and then they

asked these voters who didn't know

anything about Harris where they get

their

news here's the embarrassing part so now

that we've determined that you don't

know anything about the candidate

running for president

uh where do you get your news and the

top answers were ABC CBS and NBC or

cable CNN and

MSNBC so can can we conclude that

watching the news makes you

dumber it literally does watching the

news literally makes you dumber now

there's not one of those not one of

these

topics did I see on the news I'm sure

they've been on Fox news but I don't

remember seeing them there there every

one of them I learned on

X so everything I know about K Harris's

past was on X and lots of times you know

it's all things I've seen multiple

multiple times every one of them but I

didn't see it on CNN or MSNBC or ABC or

CBS or NBC so if you watch those sources

you're in trouble and even if you're on

X I still think you're going to be in a

silo so I imagine the Democrats who are

on X are also not seeing it but I see it

all the time because I'm in a different

Silo anyway here's what i' here's my

question if there was a child in your

Universe let's say your own son or

daughter and that child was young and

they hadn't learned much about history

and they wanted to know about the United

States let's say they're N9 or 10 years

old how would you explain our election

system

would you say well we've got this system

where people learn about the candidates

you know they run for office the news

reports everything about them then these

citizens use their judgment and then

they decide who they want and what

preferences what preferences they agree

with and then they vote then whoever

gets the most votes oh no it's not

whoever gets the most votes it's the

electoral college but just a detail now

would you describe it that way in the in

2024 for CU I wouldn't be able to do

that if you if a young child who had not

yet learned it in history ask me what

our system is I would say well on the

surface it's this pretend Republic thing

with voting what it really is is a

massive propaganda

operation um in which one propagandist

side he goes against the other the

propaganda determines what the voters

think and that that automatically makes

them vote a certain way so then the

10-year-old would say so so it's about

voting I'd say no no you didn't listen

to me the voting doesn't matter at all

the voting follows from the brainwashing

if you get the brainwashing right the

Voting is just automatic so the Voting

is the least important part of this

process is just the the final part the

most important is the brainwashing so

what we have is a political system in

which the people who are most successful

at brainwashing rich people the media

Etc uh they they brainwash the citizens

to make them think that their vote

counts but really it was the

brainwashing that counted the voting was

just the final way to know that the

brainwashing worked that's how I'd

explain it that's my literal honest

completely honest opinion of our system

it's just a brainwashing operation

whoever does it the best wins why did

Trump win in

2016 the brainwashing didn't work he

broke through he he was an

iconic unique character in history who

could penetrate the brainwashing just

long enough to get an office and then

the brainwashing got stronger and drove

him out of office

basically all right uh interestingly The

Washington Post is not backing kamla

Harris on her price control idea huh

let's see if I can understand this The

Washington Post owned by Jeff

Bezos who also owns Whole Foods a major

Food grocery store KL Harris wants to

put price controls on

food which would be presumably terrible

for Whole

Foods and then for the first time ever I

don't remember seeing it the Washington

Post came out strong against the

candidate

now not against the candidate but

against her economic

plan and uh it an opinion piece in the

Washington Post called it a Mis

misguided idea and a

gimmick and even over on CNN they're

saying it creates more problems than it

solves do you remember when I told you

that there would never be an economist

on CNN or

MSNBC unless they were planning to kill

the plan

no Economist has come forward none to

say that kamla's ideas are a good idea

think about that how many how many

economists are

Democrats

50,000 I don't know

20,000 how many how many professional

economists are also

Democrat it's a lot right C if C if NBC

can find one

that says K Harris has a good economic

plan just one

anyone my prediction is nope unless they

find somebody who's clearly batshit

crazy and and when you listen to them

you go okay that barely sounds like an

economist to me maybe but I don't think

so I think they're just going to have

the pundits talk about it because the

pundits are not experts so they can just

say well it sounds like a good idea to

me but I don't even think any of the

pundits say it's a good idea just people

on the

campaign so I would say that the price

controls on food idea might be the worst

idea I've ever heard in the American

politics well the uh DNC Democratic

National

Committee uh will be uh in Chicago

starting Monday for four days and uh

stores are already closing down and

boarding up their

Windows well they're not closed but

they're boarding up their window windows

and they're planning to be closed

because they expect so many protests and

violence from Democrats by the way or at

least people who are left leaning it

looks like the um the pro Palestinian

protesters are likely to show up in big

numbers now what's that going to do to

America it I I think the more the

Democrats are seen by regular

Americans as being part of this you

know

Palestinian

anti-israel push it just it looks all

bad to me so it could be that this might

be the first DNC uh convention that did

a negative bump to the

candidate so what you usually expect is

the convention gives an automatic bump

to every candidate doesn't last but an

automatic

bump maybe it'll be different this time

I'm not going to make that prediction

because it's so consistent that you get

a bump from the convention

but this one could be

different if what we watch is every day

things catching on fire in the streets

of Chicago and we say to

ourselves but aren't they

Democrats if if you if your brain says

those are Democrats destroying Chicago

during the DNC I don't know that KL

Harris is going to get a bump so this

one will be

fun um fun in a bad way I mean I

wouldn't want to be a shop owner in in

Chicago I feel sorry for them but we'll

see this this might be a surprise

meanwhile Corey leowski is back on the

Trump campaign team there is some um

some confusion about what his role would

be some said he'd be the boss of it and

he wouldd be the boss of WS and Lita who

were getting a lot of uh getting a lot

of criticism from

Republicans but apparently his formal

titter is senior adviser so that would

be not so obvious that he's in charge so

it could be that uh he's just added to

the group it doesn't mean he's

necessarily in charge of them but he's

coming in with a lot of clout so maybe

in effect he will be I don't know maybe

maybe somebody will be leaving soon but

doesn't want to say it yet so I would

say this is still Fogo War so anything

could come out of

this uh Biden is saying and an aios is

reporting that uh that Biden thinks he

might get a Gaza deal by the end of next

week

really

really this is in the news somewhat

uncritically in the news that he's

expecting there's a good chance of

getting a getting some kind of a hostage

deal and maybe a ceasefire in

Gaza you all know that's not going to

happen

right do I have to tell you that's not

going to happen you all know that's not

going to happen but why is the news

treating it like it

might what is up with that now here's

why it's not going to happen uh there's

been news that apparently and who knows

how much you can believe from a war zone

but something like more than half of the

Hamas Fighters have been

killed but if you've only killed a

little more than half that leaves a lot

of Hamas Fighters why in the world would

Israel agree to any deal about

anything until they knew they could get

all the rest of them remember their

slogan is total

Victory is that

ambiguous there's nothing ambiguous

about that Israel said we're going to

change the situation forever in Gaza

and that we're going for total

Victory if you interpret that as we're

going to stop when we're halfway done

and let them

reconstitute well you're crazy you're

crazy now here by the way just in case

you're new to me I'm not giving you my

opinion of you know right or wrong or

you know who's at fault or what should

be done I'm just observing it I'm just

I'm just looking at it and when I look

at it total Victory is not anywh near

where they are and they have the ability

to drive much closer to Total Victory if

they keep

grinding why would they

stop I mean I I I don't even see the

logic of the story much less agree with

it so I'm going to give you my

prediction no there will not be any deal

in Gaza next

week I doubt you'll see anything before

the election I mean I'd be

amazed so don't get too excited about

that uh weirdly retail sales were good

in July although you should be warned

that they're more often um revised down

than up so it could be that re retail

sales were not as great as the original

numbers they might be revised down but

they're really solid so even if they're

re revised down they're you know sort of

directionally pretty

good but here's the question I ask how

much of that is inflation

if the only thing you know is that the

dollars that people spent for stuff was

a little bit up and inflation was let's

say 1% up on

average wouldn't that account for all of

your increase in retail

sales I'm not even sure it's good good

news because you know inflation doesn't

usually show up within one month or so

much like that but maybe I mean if if it

was summer and energy went up people

used a lot of gas you know you you could

imagine a situation where uh the re well

is gas retail

sales does gasoline count as retail

sales food food would right food and

gasoline would both be retail sales I'm

not sure but I the the question you

should ask is does it get

revised is there something about the

summer that's special but they they

controlled for the summer effect so it

shouldn't be just the fact that summer

that shouldn't be you shouldn't have to

worry about that uh but how much of it

is just inflation you can't really

tell Washington the state was ranked the

most dangerous state to live in for

2024 according to a study from wallet

Hub that's where I go to get my studies

wallet

Hub who who knows how accurate that

study is uh you know I always say that

all data is is fake but uh Washington

state was ranked the most dangerous

State um and the other states uh that

didn't rank well would be

uh let's say uh Oregon Colorado

California and what they call other

Democrat controlled

states that that might be a little too

political to just say it's Democrat

controlled States but clearly there are

some democrat controlled states that are

higher in crime

now

um did I say this or did I post it I'm

having one of these moments

where I can't remember if I already said

that this morning or I planned to say it

and it was so developed in my mind that

I can't remember if I said it or just

thought about saying it you know one of

those situations so I'm going to say it

again and you could tell me if I said it

already

live I'm in a weird situation living

here in what should be a safe

neighborhood in California

because three of my neighbors in the

last 18 months or so have had uh what we

think are South American organized

burglars inside their

house inside their

house gangs I mean a gang of burglars I

don't know if they're part of a bigger

gang but I've actually went from a

situation where I thought it would be

rare if my house got robbed so 10 years

ago I was said I mean anything could

happen but that would be really rare if

you know burglar if a team of burglar

are actually inside my house like that

would be pretty rare do you know what I

think now now I think it's

guaranteed I I've actually adjusted my

thinking that I live in a house that at

some point and it won't be very long

there will be a band of burglers in my

house and I've simply accepted that as

my new new reality

I do not think of it in terms of the

odds of it happening or not happening I

think of it as a guarantee I believe

every house in my

neighborhood will have a band of

burglars in it looking through all your

stuff and taking what they want at least

once now could I be wrong well I hope

so I I sure hope I'm wrong but every one

of those burglars got away with

it are you with me

three burglars three homes nobody got

caught why would they

stop why would they stop there's no

reason they they apparently have some

kind of a business model that works

great and if they did stop they just

replace them with another bunch of

burglars

so when I look at you know Washington

state where it's the most dangerous

place to live that might be but I

actually living a reality where in my

view there's 100% chance that someday

there will be burglars standing in my

house and they will be very dangerous

people now the only thing that I'm

hoping for is I won't be in the

house

well yes or

no yes or

no I hope I'm not in the house but they

better hope I'm not in the house too so

yes or no

but I'm accepting it will be a fact

anyway Trump has vowed to slash us

energy cost in half by making America

energy independent again let's compare

this plan to Kam

Harris All right we already talked about

her plans that even the Washington Post

doesn't like what do you think of the

idea of slashing US Energy costs by

making America energy independent again

which basically is removing

barriers I think it's completely doable

when when you look at this claim and

remember Trump is the king of hyperbole

so overclaiming is ordinary for him is

that an

overclaim it doesn't feel like it it

really doesn't feel like an overa I

think he could reduce energy cost by 50%

supply and demand why why does Trump's

plan look as aggressive as it is why

does it look like it could work and

probably would work because it properly

understands the free Market it properly

understands the free market that's it

that's the whole that's the whole story

and when KLA Harris comes up with the

plan it

improperly understands human relations

and motivations and incentives and the

free market it's really just that simple

if you don't understand how a free

market works you do all the wrong stuff

if you do understand like Trump

everything he says makes

sense here here's 's a little test for

you what did Trump do in his first term

that didn't make sense on

paper I can't think of anything now like

any presidency there are things that

might not work right in the real world

good ideas don't always work there's

always some hidden problem but name

something that Trump came up with any

kind of plan that he actually

implemented in in his first term that

didn't make sense on

paper I don't think there is one but you

look at KLA Harris's plan and literally

it doesn't look good on paper if you're

reading the Washington Post being a

paper yeah so this is really

different um when Trump says he's you

know the Republicans are the party of

Common

Sense

vaccines you're saying that vaccines

didn't make sense on paper

well if they weren't mandated they might

have that might have been a better

argument yeah so the trouble with

vaccines I don't want to get into that

conversation is that we're all smart in

hindsight if you put yourself in the

situation that he was

in it looks pretty different in

hindsight we're all

Geniuses anyway um 24 attorney generals

I think they're probably all

Republicans um are moving to secure the

2024 election according to

rsbn

um and that uh they filed a motion of

the Supreme Court to stop non-citizens

from

voting is that really a

problem how many of you think that the

number of noncitizens who

vote is going to be a big enough number

to make any

difference because I think we're

conflating it with the issue of having

mailing ballots for non-citizens which

somebody else fills out they harvest

them and fill them out now that would be

big enough the the number if it's

true that the noncitizens are getting

ballots mailed to them

automatically that would create you know

hundreds of thousands of ballots that

somebody could

Harvest now that's a big problem but how

big is the problem of an illegal uh an

immigrant

who wants to vote but is not

legal I feel like that wouldn't be huge

because if if you came to this country

the last thing you want to do is break a

law that doesn't matter to you because

you know that your one vote isn't going

to change anything right let's say

you're illegal immigrant and and let's

say you think you can get away with

voting so you're thinking I think I'll

give it a shot your one vote's not going

to make any difference but it put it

might get you deported

right if if Trump doesn't say uh I'm

going to deport first any immigrant who

voted you're first in

line why doesn't he say that by the way

Trump should say that when we do our

Mass

deportations first we're going to get

the uh the dangerous criminals to the

extent we can identify them so we'll do

the dangerous people first and then our

second wave will be anybody who voted

illegally because we can't have that

disruption in our

system I think America would say all

right well maybe we like or don't like

the deportations but if you're going to

do it in that order that does make

sense so you might not like the whole

thing but the order of it would make

sense get rid of the violent ones first

and then the ones who voted now I think

you could take the

risk of them voting down to to not

important you know wouldn't wouldn't

change any swing

state but the risk of having ballots

that they could have voted and having

hundreds of thousands of them in one

swing

state that's the whole election right

there so I don't know if the attorney

generals are doing something that would

have an impact on the availability of

the ballots but that's the whole game I

think it's not whether they actually

vote

all right

uh uh the house oversight committee oh

this is uh comr I knew comr was in the

news the house oversight committee led

by comr is investigating all the ties

that wals has to communist China Daily

wire is reporting that um do you think

that's fair and legitimate and good that

the government is investigating walls

because of his many connections to China

I have a bit of a mixed feeling about

that on one hand it raises every red

flag in the

world and certainly you don't want to

elect somebody who's number two who's

who's owned by China so yes it's

important but it looks a little like

looking for a

crime are you okay with that are you

okay with your government not seeing a

crime but if they dig around enough they

might find one

are you okay with that because that's

not a standard you want to apply to

you I've got I've got a little problem

with it now it seems to me that if

there's any kind of

uh if there's any kind of an

investigation it should be done by

wouldn't it be the

FBI if the FBI thought that there was

foreign influence on an American um an

American politician isn't that their job

to look into it now if the FBI were

looking into it because it's just an

obvious thing you'd look into and they

just sort of do their behind the scenes

investigation to see if there's anything

to worry about I feel like that's more

legitimate because to me that does sound

like what their job is it's like oh

we've got a suspicion of the worst thing

that could happen you know Chinese

influence over an American potential

president and sure they should look into

it but I don't know if anybody else

should

I'm a little concerned about anybody

else looking into that unless they don't

trust the FBI I suppose I don't know I'm

not terribly comfortable with that but

uh Tim wals has uh started his Tik Tock

account and uh Tik Tok of course is

owned by China and how long will it be

before we find out that his account on

Tik Tok is seemingly

boosted in some magical way that we

can't

explain I expect that

I got a question for you lawyers who are

watching I know we got a few lawyers

watching I want to see if you agree with

General Michael Flynn who says he

believes that Trump will be sentenced to

prison next month on September

18th uh he says uh you know why why

wouldn't they or why wouldn't he the

judge he says it's just more it's just

more of the same

so certainly General Flynn has you know

seen more of the dark underbelly of the

real world than most of us ever will I

hope because he's seen the darkest parts

of the government so when he says why

wouldn't they throw him in jail it's it

basically wouldn't even be outside the

scope of things that they're doing I

mean it wouldn't be that outrageous

given all the other things they've done

in context um but

lawyers do you lawyers think that he

would actually go to jail

or do you think that there would be more

legal process and appeals and he would

be out of jail even if he's convicted so

he might be

sentenced but does anybody think he

would go to

jail uh those of you how about those of

you who are

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lawyers so we think they'd try what do

you think would happen if he actually

spent a day in real

jail what do you think would

happen it would get really unpredictable

wouldn't it but it could be exactly what

the bad guys want it could be that some

of the more notable and influential

people would go too

far go too far in trying to correct that

situation and then they could arrest not

just Trump but a whole bunch of

influential supporters and just take

down the whole movement so it seems to

me like the thing i' would worry about

the most is that the real play is to get

the citizens more Angry than they would

otherwise and to get them to misbehave

in a way that you can put the law

against them and people will say well

you have to get the law

involved yeah I here's what I would say

if you're a

Democrat and you're in favor of this

and you're one of the people who can

make it happen here's what you should

consider things would get really

unpredictable now you know that the real

trick would be to avoid saying anything

that seems to promote violence so I

definitely am not promoting any violence

and I'm not suggesting any of you do

anything in that regard but it's easy to

say that the situation would be

unpredictable and it would be is so

unpredictable that nothing would be

ruled

out now I'm not saying that you should

do anything of those things that are not

ruled out I'm saying that in the big old

world there's a lot of people and

they're not all going to be on the same

page and they're not all necessarily

going to be 100% peaceful if they're not

getting what they want I don't recommend

it because it looks like a trap to

me but the Democrats have to know

that if you get into unpredictable

territory you can't complain if

something unpredictable happened because

you know you're opening up a level of

unpredictability that would be

unprecedented and at some point

unpredictability can turn negative

really

fast so I'm not going to make any

specific suggestions about what anybody

should or should not do in that

situation because that's the

Trap I will just say that would be a

level of risk taking that the Democrats

have never taken

before and that that level of risk-

taking would not be

wise can I say

that is it fair to say that given the

uncertainty of what would happen that

that would be a level of risk-taking

like we haven't really seen before and

there's almost nothing I would rule out

as something that somebody else might

think is a good idea in that case you

know I I certainly advise against all

violence no

violence all right um that's all I got

for

today it's Saturday so let's go and

enjoy our weekend it's going to be

awesome and I think the weather is going

to be amazing I think you're going to

have an incredible time it's already

started off so well

um but here's what I think I'm going to

give you one more

prediction you know that uh pill for the

German Shepherd that cured its cancer

and made it young again I mentioned at

the start of the

show I think there's some chance that

Joe Biden's going to take that pill and

by September he might look like a

30-year-old man and want to take it

back no I'm just joking but anything's

possible maybe you'll take the dog pill

um I'm going to say bye to exen rumble

and YouTube and talk to the uh the great

people

on locals who are my subscribers thanks

for joining everybody else and locals

I'm coming to you privately in

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