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Chapter 1: What unusual weather event occurred in San Francisco?
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And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine. At the end of the day, the thing that makes everything better, it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens. Now, go. That's just the best. Well, here's my update. The San Francisco area has a very unusual warning. They're warning of tornadoes. Now, as far as I know, I've lived here all my life in the Bay Area.
I don't think there's ever been a tornado watch for San Francisco. Now, I'm about an hour outside of San Francisco. And early this morning, it might have been 5 a.m. ish. there was a sound outside my house that sounded like a starship was landing on my lawn. And I said, is that just the rain? Cause we're having, you know, wind and rain situation here, but I'd never heard anything like it.
It sounded like this huge roar, like there was an airplane directly over my house, but closer than one had ever been. And then it stopped. after maybe 30 seconds. And then several minutes later, there was another one that was the same. And I don't know what they are. However, I went to perplexity and I asked it, what does a tornado sound like?
They said if you're near a tornado, it sounds like a freight train. That's exactly what it sounded like. It sounded like I was standing next to a freight train in my yard. So I'm not positive, and I got a message from somebody in San Jose who would be about an hour from me. So they'd be an hour south of me, southwest. An hour away, somebody said they felt they heard the same thing. An hour away.
What was so loud that San Jose and where I live an hour away could hear something like a freight train? I don't know what that was, but I'm guessing tornadoes or little twisters or something. So there might have been a tornado somewhere in my neighborhood just an hour ago. I don't know. Nothing happened at my house that I know of. All right. Maybe we'll find out.
Would you be surprised to know that there are major breakthroughs in battery technology? No, really. Every day I tell you new ones. According to the brighter side of news, NASA has some big breakthrough. They've got a solid-state sulfur-selenium battery that has the potential to revolutionize the aviation industry. Well, there you go.
I'm pretty sure that these drones are electric-powered, but we'll talk about that later. So So NASA has a big battery breakthrough that will be good for aircraft. Meanwhile, according to No Ridge, there's a zinc-based battery that's being developed. Case Western Reserve University made a breakthrough. Now, what would be special about a zinc-based battery?
is that it could be made with all normal, easy to find minerals. So you wouldn't, minerals, is that the right word? But you wouldn't need lithium and you wouldn't need the hard to find stuff. So those are just two, I think there was a third one today. Now remember, the reason I tell you about this is not that these specific breakthroughs are important.
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Chapter 2: What are the recent breakthroughs in battery technology?
Because it will have something you could buy that Basically, every person wants to buy, which is pay off their taxes. So this sounds like a little technical thing. It's like, oh, yeah, taxes might let you pay in Bitcoin. No, it's actually gigantic. It's like a civilization-altering trend, not for just the state. If it's only Texas, it's no big deal.
But if the federal government followed suit, and other states did, Bitcoin's here to stay, and the people who have invested in it Probably be a lot happier if they heard that happen. Anyway, J.D. Vance invited Daniel Penny, the subway hero, I call him, to the Army-Navy game with him and Trump. So how much do I love this? A lot. This is exactly what I want my president to do.
I want my president to go to a football game, especially given the military nature of the game, Army-Navy, with a Marine vet who was cleared in his case. That's exactly what I want. I don't want Daniel Penny just to break even. I want Daniel Penny to come out ahead. That's what this is. This is somebody who stepped in to help at great personal expense and risk.
He didn't know about the expense part, but lawyers are not cheap. It's not good enough if we only rehabilitate him back to where he was. That's not good enough. Now, it's very important to me that he comes out ahead. And having the President of the United States say you want to go to a basketball game, that's a start. But remember, he's still getting sued civilly by maybe the father or somebody.
So he's going to have massive bills. And so we better look at helping funding him. I think there's one of those online funding things for funding Daniel Penny. You can probably find it if you Google it. But make sure you don't get a fake. There's probably some fakes. So that's cool. You want to talk about drones?
Half of you are sick of drones and half of you think it's the most fun thing happening. I happen to be in the category of people who think it's the most fun thing happening because it just makes you so curious what's going on. So I've got a lot to say about it, but I'm going to answer some questions for sure. So you're going to get some answers today that I'm quite confident about.
that maybe moves it a little bit forward, okay? So here's where we... I'll give you... There's a bunch of news on this topic. So Trump said the Mystery Jones sightings are all over the country. He said this on a post on True Social. Can this really be happening without our government's knowledge? I don't think so.
All right, so Trump believes that the government knows what they are because, duh, of course the government knows what they are. And he says, let the public know, and now, otherwise, shoot them down. Now, there's no chance they're going to be shot down by our government because they belong to our government. I think that part we know. It's not aliens. It's not another country. It's definitely us.
So I'm willing to say that with 100% certainty for the first time. 100% certainty. No doubt about it, it's us. And presumably our military, but I would include, you know, if it's the CIA testing something, to me that's still military, essentially. So Alex Jones did a video with a warning.
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Chapter 3: How is small business optimism trending in the current economy?
And they're smaller than a regular plane. And it was very clear last night. And reportedly, I'll tell you more about that. You can see everything clearly. So it was a really clear night. So Rich said, quote, the experience I had last night, however, changed the way I feel about the story completely. He said what I saw was more sophisticated than I ever imagined.
We've been looking for the past hour. I think we've seen about 40 or 50 of these drones. Now, here's where I get to do some fun reporting. I was doing a live stream last night, a private one, on Locals. And one of our most famous members on the Locals community, those are people who subscribe just to see my content privately, is Erica. And Erica lives in New Jersey.
And of course, we all kept saying, Erica, why don't you take your phone outside and take some pictures? And last night, Erica was doing just that. So... So we got to hear from somebody we know to be a real person and we know to be straight shooter. So we know that whatever she was saying is definitely true, right? Because it's just somebody we know and trust.
Chapter 4: What new legislation allows Bitcoin tax payments in Texas?
So Erica takes her phone out and you can see I reposted some of the photos in my stream. So if you can't find Erica directly, just go to mine online. Scott Adams says. And you'll see her ex-account as well. But I reposted it. And I saw some videos and some photos. So let me tell you what I saw. Erica's description, if I have it right, is that they were the same as Rich McHugh.
That they were all over the place. They were really obviously everywhere. Every time you went outside at night, it seems. And that they were flying over the residential areas. One of the videos I saw privately, you could see it start as just a light in the distance. And this particular one went directly over the home of the person who was videoing it from the time it was just a light.
So you could see it as clearly almost as the people standing on the ground. So here's what I can tell you based on Erica's report and some of the pictures I saw. Number one, there's a sound to them that's not common aviation sound. Now, of course, we can all be influenced by persuasion. We can talk ourselves into hearing things we're not hearing and stuff. But Erica's very reliable.
and says that the sound doesn't match sort of normal aviation sound. They're flying low. They're not up where regular airplanes are, and they definitely are going over the residential areas commonly, and you can see them all over the place every night. Now, I watched as the little dot of light... which from a distance I would have called an orb. You've seen the UFO pictures.
They're just a glowing orb. Well, these look like glowing orbs just because they must have like a light on the front that's overwhelming the other lights, I guess. Because for a very long time, it looks like just a tiny light that's becoming a larger light. So it can get pretty close to you. and still just looked like an orb.
So my first finding is that you can imagine that at least some of the things people thought were orbs might have been an airplane or one of these drones or something. I don't think all of the orbs fell into the pattern that they could have been this, but maybe some of them. So then the craft gets so close to the person
in New Jersey who was videoing it, that you could kind of see that it was a fixed-wing craft. I wouldn't be surprised if it was, you know, this 8 or 10 feet wide and loud. And probably, oh, and the other thing is that according to Erica, they were hovering for long periods of time out at sea. So when they came over the residential area, they weren't doing so much hovering.
They were just going somewhere. But when they're out at sea, they seem to be hovering for as much as 15 minutes, you know, just in place. Now, you may have seen somebody online that's getting passed around said, oh, this is one of the military's vertical takeoff and landing drones.
And sure enough, the military, you can find it easily, the military has a bunch of drones that are vertical takeoff and landing, meaning that they can hover, but they can also fly like a plane, and they have fixed wings. So they're not drone drones. They're probably vertical takeoff and landing, but smaller. So they might be drones. meaning that they might be unmanned.
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Chapter 5: Who is Daniel Penny and why is he in the news?
Now, New Jersey... has military bases on land. And so if you were going to test this kind of technology, you would put your boat in the ocean and you would have many flights in which these devices went from your boat to a military base, did its thing, and then went back. So probably that.
So I would say that the weight of reporting from citizens and reporters who are not part of the government seems to clearly indicate the following. Number one, there's no UFO activity that anybody can find. So you can rule out UFOs. Your government told you that they're not foreign actors. They know that. They're not guessing about that part.
If you think they're guessing when they say it's not foreign adversaries, they're not guessing. They absolutely know it's not. So I wouldn't worry about it. Don't worry about it, at least in terms of a foreign adversary. You might still worry about it for different reasons. Alex Jones says you should worry about it, and I don't know about that.
So I'm just saying that if you don't know what it is, you should Let's make sure we find out.
Next, the fact that there's no military presence that we can see that's trying very hard to intercept them when they're all over the place is really all the confirmation you need to know that our military knows what they are because they're not looking for them, and they're really, really, really easy to find. Like, really easy to find. Like, you can just walk outside. There's one.
There's another one. There's another one. Now, to be fair, some of them are spottings of regular airplanes. How do I know that that's possible? Well, during the live stream in which the New Jersey ones were being filmed and talked about, I went outside in my own house, went out in the balcony at night, and sure enough, there was a drone. and it was coming right at my house.
And I'm like, holy shit, they're everywhere. What is this? And I'm looking at this thing, and I'm like, clearly, this is not an aircraft. This is not normal aircraft. And it's like, it's one of these balls of light, and it's coming right at my house. It gets closer and closer and closer, and then finally I can sort of see its outline. I'm like, holy shit. It looks just like a drone.
And it's way too low. And then it got a little closer. And I said, oh, it's an airplane. I live near an airport. I live near a small airport where there are lots of small planes. It was just a regular plane. Now, was I convinced beyond any doubt that I was looking at something unusual? Yes, I was. For a moment, I was 100% sure I was looking at some anomalous thing I'd never seen before.
Yeah, it was much higher, higher in the sky. But you couldn't tell how high it was until it got kind of close. So, can a normal person who is famously good at not being fooled by BS... Be immediately fooled by a drone? Yes. Yes, you can think that the normal flights are drones. So here's the next thing I'm sure of. So this next thing, I'm positive. There are hobby drones in the area.
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Chapter 6: What is the mystery surrounding recent drone sightings?
So I think it looked more like testing, procurement, training, something like that. That's what it felt like. So Martha McKellen had John Kirby on to ask about it. And it's a real good clip if you want to see a real good news person being lied to, to her face, knowing that he's lying to her face. and not being willing to put up with it, it's a real good, fun watch.
Because Martha wasn't having it. Let's just say that. I won't describe it further. I'll just say Martha wasn't having it. She just wasn't having it. And it was fun to watch. Now, here's the fun part. We can learn how to spot lying By watching how the people you know are lying are doing it. Now, since you know that our leaders are lying, right? The lower level people are probably not lying.
So a chief of police, not lying. A specific member of the, let's say, police force, not lying. They're just doing the best that they can to tell you what's going on because they don't know. But do you think that the National Security Communications Advisor Kirby, John Kirby, do you think he doesn't know what it is? Well, he might not be fully briefed, but I guarantee he knows they're ours.
I guarantee it. I mean, I guarantee it. So when you watch him talk about it, what you do is you look for how he talks about it, because that teaches you Now if somebody lies, because this is one of those rare situations where you don't have to wonder if they're lying. Oh, they're definitely lying. So what Kirby says, what did he say?
He said that the ones that they had looked into were just regular commercial aircraft. Do you know what he's leaving out? Well, how many have you looked into? And does that mean you've ruled out? No, it's sort of a weasel answer. All the ones we've looked at, you know, check down as regular aircraft. That's a weasel answer, right? That's so obviously a weasel answer. Or why doesn't...
You know, why doesn't the military shoot one down? Or why don't we know? Why with all of our advanced assets, why don't we know? Like, he can't answer these questions. Obviously, he knows the answer. He just can't answer them. But then Mayorkas was the funniest one. He said that Homeland Security, he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer, that his agency, quote, has seen no evidence of anomalous activity.
Do you think Mayorkas knows what's going on? Of course he does. Yeah, Mayorkas knows exactly what's going on. Do you think that when Mayorkas is so specific that they've seen no anomalous activity, what do you think is anomalous to somebody who knows what's going on?
If you knew what was going on and you knew that the military tests things because, of course, everybody tests everything, then it's not anomalous, is it? It's not anomalous at all. So you look for the specific words and how narrow they make their statements. Know that drone that somebody reported on Tuesday at 2 o'clock over in New Jersey, we determined that was an aircraft.
Hmm, but what about the other ones? Hmm, that's very specific, John Kirby. So you can learn a lot about how people lie this week. It's going to be fun. All right. In other news, there's a Daily Wire is reporting that there was a school in Wisconsin that denied a white student help in his reading because he wasn't a minority. So they're getting sued. It makes me happy.
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Chapter 7: What insights did Erica provide regarding drone activity?
The alternative news and opinion people are just absurdly bigger than the mainstream media now. So they're aware of that. And Van also said that their vague messaging about things like they're going to restore democracy wasn't really hitting anybody in the heart or the pocketbook where they care about stuff. So the vague generalities...
He didn't stop saying everybody's a racist, but that was sort of implied, too. So that's interesting. And we'll see if the Democrats can recover. I don't think they can. I don't think there's any way to recover. Do you? What would it take? I don't know. Fetterman's interesting, though, because if he becomes a candidate, he could actually maybe reframe things. We'll see.
Meanwhile, the Postmillennium says that Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Sam Altman have all donated a million dollars each to Trump's inauguration fund. It does sound a little bit like a shakedown, doesn't it? If the inauguration fund comes to your company.
And you're like, I don't want to say no to the inauguration fund, because for a million dollars, which is kind of cheap, wouldn't it be better to show that we're in favor of the democratic process, if not the candidate himself? So that was smart. To me, it's like they're buying protection.
but I saw a clip by Mark Andreessen who was pointing out and Elon Musk was agreeing that we've never seen a vibe shift like this something that happened very fast and quite thoroughly and sort of changed all the way we feel and think about everything it really did The vibe shift is continuing. I worry that it might be temporary and just had something to do with the election being recent.
But it looks like it's real. Like I think the Daniel Penny thing helped make us feel like, oh, common sense is returning. And those two words, common and sense, I believe are the unifying words for the country. Because what was happening is, in order for the two sides to show that they were different from each other, they had to disagree on everything.
It seemed like there was some unwritten rule that the parties had to just disagree on everything. But there were so many things that were common sense that you didn't really need to disagree on, such as borders. I'm sure a majority of Democrats would like the border controlled. So... Common sense turns out to be, and nobody really, I don't think there was a champion for that term or anything.
It's just that people simultaneously decided, why don't we just do what's common sense? Why don't we just stop assuming that we figure this out? Stop assuming that our leaders are smarter than us. Why don't we just look at what makes sense? And I'll bet there's no difference whatsoever. when the Republicans and the Democrats look at common sense stuff.
And sure enough, I think there are things such as the Daniel Penny situation. I think common sense screams that you need to protect the guy who was willing to step in, especially a Marine. Are you kidding me? Like we train him to do this and then we're going to put him in jail for doing it? He's trained to do that. I realize it went wrong, but he's trained to step in.
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Chapter 8: How are government officials responding to drone reports?
In other words, the government has already told them there are only going to be two or three big AI companies because we can't control them if there are lots of them, and we're going to totally control them. to make sure that it's all stuff that's good for the Republic or maybe good for the Democrats, I don't know.
But if you imagine that the intelligence people know that our AI industry has to be better than China's or else we'll all die, do you think the CIA could let somebody blow the whistle and destroy a trillion-dollar industry in America today Well, China would just keep going, and reportedly they've already caught up with us. Even though they have worse chips, somehow they've already caught up.
And the risk to the United States as a country might be existential. So the smart people are saying, if we don't win in AI, we don't win. That's going to be the whole game. I don't know that that's true, but it's a reasonable risk, and it's a reasonable thing to say.
So now it's trillions of dollars, it's an existential risk to the country, and there's this one whistleblower who might blow everything. And the people who are trying to make sure that it doesn't get blown up are literally trained killers. They're trained killers and trained liars. And then somebody suspiciously dies. He suspiciously dies after he crosses
A trillion-dollar industry full of trained killers. Not full of, but backed by. Backed by trained killers. Now, if you're not worried about that, I don't know what you're worried about. Now, I'm not going to make any accusations. Like, I don't have direct evidence of anything happening. But boy, everything about it raises some questions. Scott Jennings summed up He was on CNN.
He summed up the reason for Trump's political comeback in just three words, according to the Daily Wire. He called them the breaker of narratives. How do you like that explanation of why Trump won? He's a breaker of narratives. I accept that, but I would add a couple of tweaks. You don't break narratives unless you have persuasion skills. What Trump has is the persuasion skills.
So I would have said he won because he's the most skilled persuader. But if you don't want to talk in persuasion terms, you'd say he's a breaker of narratives, which in fact he did. One of the narratives was that the fake news was reliable. And he just changed the narrative to, nope, it's always lying all the time. And we go, oh, okay, that's really different.
He changed the narrative from he was a clown to he's maybe the best president we've ever had. But here's the other thing I would add. He had some help. Yes, Trump is the boss in this example. He's the boss. And when the boss gets good advice, the boss still has to decide to take it. So the boss has to know who to listen to.
The boss has to know which advice is good because there's lots of competing advice. And then they have to take that advice and productively use it. So no matter who helps Trump, the boss gets all the credit. It should be that way. That's the way it should be. But the truth is, He had a lot of help. Trump had a lot of help.
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