's waterproof so I can swim with it. Now do you know how much pain in the ass I've had trying to keep my little door opening card? It's the worst thing. I'm always losing it. I probably demagnetize one of those door opening hotel cards one out of three times that I travel. I probably put it in the wrong pocket with my phone and demagnetize it probably one out of three times. And then you get to your room, you can't — it's just the most annoying thing about a hotel is the stupid room card. Done. And in fact it's so unobtrusive that I didn't realize I still had it on and I slept with it. Apparently. Evidently it's great.

Let's see what CNN's saying in case there's anything interesting. I doubt it. So yeah, the shooter plans to shoot more people, blah blah blah. Sweden and NATO getting in. Obviously Sweden and Finland getting into NATO, but it doesn't look like that alone is going to bother Russia.

All right. Let me tell you the funniest exchange I had on Twitter today, and it was regarding Tucker Carlson. So there was a user called Savan, and he was saying that Tucker Carlson spits out conspiracy theories. And so I responded to him saying that Tucker Carlson spits out conspiracy theories. I mentioned this, you know, I said is it more than CNN? So I just wondered what his baseline was. If he's complaining about Tucker Carlson creating these conspiracy theories, does he think that CNN doesn't do it? And so he responded, what has CNN done that has encouraged bigotry and or mass shootings? Were they too careful regarding COVID? Yes. Is that worse than bigotry? So yes, that's a good question.

What has CNN done that has encouraged bigotry and or mass shootings? What have they done? Well, there was the fine people hoax. There was the drinking bleach. There was the Russia collusion hoax. There was the Covington kid hoax. There was the Russians paying bounties on American soldiers hoax. There was a car in the White House. Should I go on? Covington kids. Yes, yes. And so now not all those would of course encourage a mass shooting, but likewise not everything that Fox News says would encourage any mass shootings.

Now what exactly did Tucker Carlson say allegedly that encouraged a mass shooting? Can anybody give me a quote, some kind of indication that Tucker Carlson would be in favor of mass shootings or even accidentally said something that would encourage it? Can somebody give me an example of that? Because there's no example of that. There's no example of that. No, he has a strong opinion about America first, and you can hate that or you could love it, but it's completely transparent. He's not hiding anything. There's no go shoot anybody. That's just a perfectly — I'd say typical. I'm not going to say I agree with it or disagree with it. It's just a typical opinion. And none of that should cause anybody to shoot anybody.

So I thought it was fascinating that somebody could at this point would not know that CNN is primarily a hoax generating entity. How do you not know that?

Oh no, JetBlue is launching a hostile takeover for Spirit Air. So that's interesting. I always thought that Spirit was a bad name for an airline because the thing that people are afraid of with airlines is crashes and you know basically you turn from a corporeal being into a spirit. And I'm not sure that was the best branding.

Let's say there have been 201 mass shootings in 2022. So do you call it a mass shooting if it's like a drive-by spraying of a crowd? That's a mass shooting, right? How many of the 200 — how many of the 200 of the mass shootings were caused by white supremacists? What do you think? It took CNN anchors over three minutes to list all the U.S. cities that had mass shootings this year. But since all the news is about this white supremacist guy allegedly, shouldn't we know of the 200 mass shootings how many of them were white supremacists? They don't count gang shootings.

Scott Ritter on YouTube. Yeah, I've checked out Scott Ritter on YouTube. I don't think anybody knows what's happening there. They count gangs down. Yeah, inflation's fixed. There's not much to talk about with inflation because there's just more of it.

The thing — here's the thing that makes me crazy about what's happening right now. So we've had this long debate about socialism versus capitalism in this country, right? Is it my imagination or is the effect of everything that's happening more socialism? That's the net effect, right? Inflation has basically taken my wealth down by a third, maybe. What would you say? So I'd say that poor people are still poor, right? So if you don't have much income, there's not much lower you can go. You know, you're scraping by. But if you're rich, your wealth may have gone down by a third or a half depending on what business you're in. And that should vastly close the gap.

So if you raise taxes on the rich, you close the gap. It gets you closer to socialism a little bit. If you increase inflation, who gets inflation hit the most? It's two different answers. Who it hurts the most is the poor, right? No doubt about that. But the pain is at the poor. But in terms of where the money disappears, more money disappears where there's more money. So the wealthy would shrink by a third. The poor would have more pain, but there's not — there's nothing there to shrink. It's hardly any money. So in a weird way it seems like everything we're doing has this similar follow-the-money effect that it's a way to keep the poor fed and make them more dependent on the government giving them direct money.

So basically the pandemic was a bunch of money taken from rich people and given to poor people, which I favor because you know you have to keep everybody alive. Maybe the way we did it could have been a lot better. I'm sure that's true. But I don't object to the fact that rich people were tapped to give a little extra money to keep people alive in this country. You know, nobody's going to complain about that.

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