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's so much debanking that's confirmed and yet no bank was involved. That was just a great moment. One thing I can tell you is that unless the banks have started looking into all of their debanking past, there's going to be hell to pay. I don't think they're going to get away with we didn't do that. Oh, the fake news will protect us. I'm pretty sure MSNBC will say it never happened, so we'll just…
← Previous segment →quote miss where the error was on the side of Trump and conservatives? Because as I learned from Google, Zuck, and all regime media corrections over the decade, these errors always cut one way. A fair system would have misses on either side. And then Cernovich points out that the tech businesses still don't hire Trump supporters. Wow, yeah. And so that's exactly the right question.
Now I think Sam is probably accurate in saying that wasn't what he intended, but I don't think that his employees were equally open-minded in what this should be. So yeah, there's a big problem that his organization is staffed with lefties who, you know what kind of problems that is. So I mean that's gigantic problems.
Anyway, Chris Sacca, a famous tech investor guy, he was talking about using AI to code. And I had tried the same thing he did. So he also only had minimal programming experience from his past. So recently he asked AI to write him some code for an app. So he said, hey AI, I've got an app, make me some code. And then the entire code for the app just appears. But then he says, and I had the same experience, it's been a long time since I wrote any code. What do I do with it? Like do I copy and paste it somewhere? I had the same question because I was so long out of that game. And the AI would tell them how to do it. So the AI would say yes, you want to download Python, put it on your computer. If you have a Mac, you do it this way. If it's Windows, you do it that way. And then the prompt will be here, and then you do this with the prompt and you put it into Python, and then here's how you execute it.
And he said, you know, my God, it was already so good that you could reduce your number of programmers. But with the new Operator agent, the one I just talked about, all that part, which is what literally stopped me from making an app because I tried to make one too, I just couldn't figure out that last part because I was too distracted and busy. But now I could just say to it, hey AI, write me an app that does this or that. Boom, it's done. Literally that's all it takes. The app just appears. All the code does. And then that part where I didn't know what to do with the code, I just say can you turn that into an app? Boom, it finds Python, it puts it where it needs to, it executes it, and there's your app. Unbelievable. Unbelievable.
All right. Here's what Axios is reporting, speaking of Axios. Their headline said Trump left Washington four years ago touting a revolutionary new consensus on the threat posed by China. He returned this week seeming to downplay that threat, signaling a potential thaw on relations between the two countries.
Now do you see the propaganda and brainwashing that's embedded in that? Let me call it out. When do you ever see the word tout? Somebody is touting something. Is that ever in a positive reference? Do people tout things and then the story is to be about how great that is? Wow, it's great that they're touting. No, touting is a subtle insult that you're saying something that's maybe not true, right? It's built into it. A little skepticism. He's touting. Right? The opinion is in the news that you just choose your words and the opinion comes embedded with the news.
So he's touting that there was a consensus about the threat of China. But now they're going to turn it into hypocrisy because that's what the news does to make it a story. It has to be an inconsistency or a hypocrisy. And the hypocrisy they think is that Trump was such a tough talker about China but he says good things about Xi, and now he's talking about how we can work things out.
You know what's missing, right? What's missing is this is exactly how Trump negotiates with foreign leaders every time. And he even explains it. You don't have to guess. He tells you. Yes, I'm going to be very tough with Russia or China or whoever he's talking about. But I get along with the leader, and that's good for everybody because then you can have that talk and you can be as tough as you want because they're not going to take it personally because I like them personally. That is everything you want from your president. That in terms of negotiating, that is everything I want. I want to be friendly enough with the leaders. He gets every access, conversation, nothing is no, just because of who's involved. And they get their reputations benefited by that because it is a big benefit. And then they are in a position where they've gotten something for free because it didn't cost any money for Trump to say yeah, you know, Xi's great. That costs nothing. And then what we get in return is a good healthy negotiation in which both sides fully acknowledge and they're transparent about what they want and what they need to have and how things can work.
So Axios just tortures itself to turn this into some kind of touting and hypocrisy when it's the cleanest example you'll ever see of a top-end negotiator doing top-end negotiating exactly the way you'd want it to happen. So Axios is one of the four sources for OpenAI until Sam Altman fixes it, which he said he's going to do quickly.
There's a bounty hunter bill in Mississippi that would pay $1,000 to bounty hunters for each successful deportation of an illegal that they help to facilitate. So the bounty hunter doesn't have to deport them, just has to facilitate it. Now probably not the best idea. I'm not going to get into the pros and cons. But it made me think that if I were a bounty hunter and this got passed, I would open a restaurant in Mississippi. And I just say I'm hiring. Two-thirds of the people who walk into the restaurant to be dishwashers and line cooks are going to have questionable credentials. You could just sit there in an office and have one after another come in and say, looks a little suspicious to me. You didn't pass the even verify. Then just turn it in. Make $1,000 for every person you interview. At least two-thirds of them. I'm not recommending that. I'm just saying I always think in terms of business models when I read the news.
Trump plans, according to Zerohedge, Trump plans to bring as many as 10,000 troops to the border. I think he's got 1,500 now. But I like that. When I heard it was 1,500, my first reaction was, hm, so in other words barely anything better than nothing. A lot better than nothing. Changes the tone of everything, sets a standard. It's all good. But 1,500 didn't seem like enough. 10,000 is serious. 10,000 removes all questions. If you're wondering if he's deadly serious about the border, yeah, 10,000 troops would get you there. You don't have to wonder anymore. So we don't know if that'll happen, but that's the plan allegedly.
All right. I would like to indulge you by reading something that I posted on X because it got a good response and it's what you need to know. I was challenged several months ago to do the best reframe I could on the January 6 prisoners. And I've been thinking and thinking about this, and everything that I kind of came up with, I tried a number of things to reframe it properly and didn't really catch. But I think I may have gotten it this time.
And I was reacting to a post by Jason Calacanis, who may be listening right now. Jason, I hope you're listening, from the All-In pod. You know him from the All-In pod. And he's a big investor in the tech world. But he was giving Trump a report card for operating so far. And on several items he gave them a high grade. It was just check or X, so it wasn't anything but yes or no. But he gave him a yes on several things that you and I would agree on. Very good. I like that the common sense stuff is not being argued. Just common sense.
But the Janua
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ry 6 stuff is really deeply into the political model. That's not exactly a common sense thing. And if you treat it like it's common sense, I think that's where you go wrong. So I'm going to give you the reframe that I think works best, worded the way I think it works best, in case you want to use it. So from a framing and communication and persuasion perspective, I think this is the best take that…
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