protect your kids as well as their own. There's no question about that now. And not only that but they have the perfect opening to partner with the black American public to fix schools because everybody wins then, right?

So I you know of course it's always dangerous to make predictions more than a day in advance, and even that's dangerous. So lots of things could change between now and elections, especially if Trump makes some big waves somehow. But at this point the Republicans have a death grip on power. It'll take a while for the elections to make that happen. But I don't see how a Republican can lose unless they're trying at this point, because all you have to do is say they're destroying your children. We're protecting them. What do you care about? It's kind of over.

So here's the question. If China wanted to destroy the West but they had lots of patience, how would they do it? Well there are lots of ways they would do it. But I think the main way they would do it would be to destroy our most powerful social cohesion. And what is the most powerful social cohesion in this country? Well marriage was for a long time and we see that falling apart. But the other one is the melting pot idea. You know when I grew up and many of you as well, we were really brainwashed into saying that the melting pot was our strength and our power and to respect it. And I think I did. I think the brainwashing worked. I'm happy about that. I mean I call it brainwashing because children shouldn't be making their own decisions about the big stuff. You kind of have to brainwash them. Later you hope that they can think for themselves. Probably not. But there isn't a system better than that because children can't really make big decisions.

If I were China and I wanted to ruin the West, I would fund anybody, either secretly or not secretly, who pushed critical race theory. That would be a way for China to destroy the country because it would destroy the melting pot. You know we're all at least have equal opportunity, even if you think that's not true. It's a good fiction to hold a country together. And so I would strongly wonder if China's at all behind it. Whether they thought of it, I have to wonder, because China is more ethnically similar. Give me a fact check on that. I think so. That feels right. So it would be an advantage to them if they could get our melting pot to fall apart. And it looks like they're working on that or somebody is or it's just happening. I don't know. But it looks like it kind of is. So corrosive. It looks like it's coming from an enemy. It doesn't look like it's coming from within.

Rachel Maddow was complaining about Fox News saying they're building a campaign platform talking about CRT as a big topic. They're building a campaign platform for conservative candidates to run on it everywhere. And then she says even though it's not actually taught anywhere, even though it's not a real thing.

Here's the thing. If she has to hide behind the definition of the word, that's her argument that I define it differently. She's not even talking about the content or the reality of it. Just you know can I define this as CRT or is it just stuff we say that happens to be in the same topic and compatible with it? I feel that that's like a sign of knowing you've got nothing. I mean knowing your gun is empty basically. And all the GOP has to do to prove anybody wrong is point to any example of it. And apparently there are lots of them. You know you can find the school documents that show pretty clearly things that look like CRT to people who have not studied CRT.

So the Republicans have this total winning play here. They can just keep hammering on this CRT thing and I think it's going to work for a long time. Now there are lots of topics where people are equally incentivized on both sides. Take abortion. The people who are pro or anti-abortion are really worked up about it, right? So I'm not even sure which way that works election wise because people are equally worked up on both sides.

But this is a weird topic because the CRT stuff totally activates the right. But on the other side there's not really much traction. In other words it's an unbalanced topic. It can only be bad for Democrats. That's it. It can only be bad. There's no sense where they can motivate their people to get more CRT in the school. Do you see people marching in the streets? "Yes, more critical race training in the schools." Now of course there are plenty of advocates. That's why it exists. But in terms of the energy I would say the advocates are mostly people getting paid to be advocates. I don't know that the public cares that much. But the public, Republicans sure care that it's there or some version of it they don't like.

So in terms of a political topic it could not be more perfect for the Republicans going forward. And I think Rachel Maddow is correct that Fox News either accidentally or wisely decided that this was going to be the winning issue. And they basically created a topic that every Republican can win on. And I think that Rachel Maddow is quite correct in calling out Fox News as having created a message and a method that Republicans can use to win and they would support it with their platform.

All right, I read a fascinating story from an experienced trucker about what the real supply chain problem is. I'm not sure if this is different from what you've heard but he's certainly coming at it a little differently. It goes like this. The reason that there are not enough truckers to take away the stuff is because the job of being a trucker is terrible, primarily now because of how long you have to wait for your truck to be loaded or unloaded. So now you have multi-hour waits in which the independent truckers don't get paid. You could have an eight-hour wait to get your container on your truck.

On top of that apparently there are, we need something like 10,000 specialized chassis that we don't have because not every truck can carry a container. You have to have a special chassis for that. And we're apparently way underwater in the number of chassis now. Why is that? Somebody says I told you this for days. I told you this for days. So why is it that we suddenly don't have chassis? Does anybody know? Well I think it's because as soon as things get bunched up everything breaks at once. We probably had enough chassis when there wasn't a big backlog. But as soon as there's a big backlog you don't have enough chassis and then if you don't have enough chassis the backlog just keeps building up and then you can't do anything.

So basically nobody can move because there aren't chassis and there aren't truckers to take things away. But even if there were they'd have to work 24 hours a day to move anything. And there are a number of other regulatory problems etc. So the interesting thing about this is it looks like everything broke at the same time. There's something about this we don't understand still. I feel like this got us closer. But when you say something like we don't have enough chassis you have to explain why we had enough chassis a month ago or whenever this started. Why did we have enough chassis before and suddenly we don't? It's not chassis, right? Unless we're short just because we have so much backup. Follow the ownership and the money.

All right, here's the point that you think that the trucking companies would fix this, right? Economics should work. So the trucking companies should want to fix this by kind of raising the salary of truckers or doing something. But here's the problem. Truckers, the trucking companies are already getting rich because they're doing all the business that they can handle. The trucking companies don't need to do anything. They're also busy making money that they have more business than they can handle. So do they have any incentive to do anything? Well yeah, I mean more money is better. But if you're making money like crazy and you're fully busy and you can't hire new truckers, you're not really thinking in terms of expanding. You're just going to chase the money while you can.

So we have this weird set of problems that all happen simultaneously to create an economic incentive where nobody can do anything. Nobody has the economic incentive to change things enough. They all have an economic incentive to make it better but nobody individually, not the trucking companies, not the shippers, not the container makers, nobody has enough economic incentive apparently to do something big. And you'd have to do something big.

And I was also wondering, it's kind of a big coincidence that we had this problem at the same time we're talking about decoupling from China because that's suspiciously convenient, isn't it? You know one of the things I tell you about fake news is that it's too convenient. This is a little too convenient to the decoupling story. But could be a coincidence. I won't rule it out but it's a little convenient.

All right, climate change summit turned into a joke with their private jets. And I guess 60 percent of their meals had beef and dairy which is not cool apparently if you're attending a climate change summit. China didn't even go. So what was the point of the climate change summit if China didn't go? Russia didn't go. The people who attended went in private jets and they ate food that they would not recommend for the world. I think this turned into a complete disaster, right?

I think this is the moment that the world realized it's a fraud. When now climate change is real in my opinion, meaning that humans are making the planet warmer at some rate. I'm less alarmed than other people are but I think the basic science is probably right. So the climate change summit, which I think was supposed to be positive PR for getting something done, turned into the opposite, didn't it? It didn't show us for sure that it's a hoax because if the people who were flying in these private jets were even a little bit serious about it they'd be living it to model it. You know they'd be leading us by modeling it. They wouldn't be leading us by taking private jets to talk to each other. Yeah, so I think this is a huge failure. I mean that's about as big as you can get.

Here's my idea and another somebody else's idea for reparations. You ready? First idea is instead of giving $450,000 to each immigrant you could give each immigrant who was separated at the border under Trump one Hunter Biden painting worth $450,000. Anybody have a problem with that plan? Now I know it would keep Hunter busy for a while but that's part of the benefit of the plan. Keep him away from the rest of the people, right? Yeah, one Hunter Biden painting to every person who got separated at the border. Apparently somebody else had that idea before I did but I don't know who it was.

Here's my idea for reparations. And first I'll give you Raul Davis's idea. So on Twitter, Raul Davis, who you should follow. So look for Raul Davis, CEO, branding expert. He'll pop right up. And he said he tweeted the government should create an NFT. That's a little digital piece of art. An NFT reparations fund. Half proceeds to go to black reparations. Get together the top white liberal actors, artists and business leaders. They should all be willing to provide NFT artwork for the government program. It's not a bad idea, is it? All the people who want reparations, the famous ones, they could create a little piece of art and just sell it and then the proceeds go to some kind of reparations fund.

But I'm gonna take it one step further. Are you ready to have your mind blown? Ready? I'm gonna blow your mind. We are, and I think you'd agree, and Facebook certainly agrees, transitioning as a species from a sort of organic species into a metaverse, digital virtual reality species. True or false? Do you accept the premise? Might be 20 years, might be 30 years, but do you expect, do you accept the premise that we're guaranteed to be spending a lot of time in the metaverse? Maybe not your generation but the one after. I'm going to say yes. Stay with me here. Don't argue the assumptions yet.

Now if we believe that black Americans were highly disadvantaged in the real world because of slavery and then systemic racism that grows from that, what would be the one time in human history we could fix that? See where I'm going? You could make the reparations in the metaverse. You could give every black American who would be let's say the recipient of reparations if we were to do reparations, you could give them digital assets that would have actual monetary value when they entered the metaverse. So every black American who signs up for the metaverse, whether it's Zuckerberg's version or another one, gets automatic a digital payment and they start with an advantage. What do you think?

Here's another way to do it. Now would this be fair? No of course not. It wouldn't be fair. But I'd have a conversation about it. I mean I'd at least talk about it. Here's another version. Give every black American in the form of reparations some WHEN tokens. Now the WHEN is my own and my X startup's token. The startup is gone but the token remains because they live forever on the blockchain. You could give everybody a bunch of WHEN tokens or some other crypto but I'll just pick my own. And then just say to people, hey if you'd like reparations to be a thing, buy some WHEN for yourself. Because if you buy one for yourself just as a speculation or investment, I wouldn't call it an investment, speculation. If you buy it for yourself you can make some money if it goes up. You can lose some money if it goes down. But if it goes up and just the fact that you bought it should make the WHEN tokens that the black owners of it have go up in value. So you could simply make yourself rich and also black Americans who got reparations rich simply by investing in it.

Now again it's not really an investment because crypto I don't consider an investment. What about it? Who loses? Nobody, right? Nobody loses because there's a whole bunch of WHEN tokens. You could just give a bunch away and say all right everybody gets one WHEN. And then say if you want people to have reparations buy some WHEN. You'll make money too because yours might go up at the same time. Not guaranteed. But if it does suddenly black Americans have a nice little pot of crypto that they can turn into real cash.

So those are my ideas and Raul's ideas as well. And I don't know that these are good ideas. I like to put out the bad idea version and then maybe that makes somebody think, well that's a bad