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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization?
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It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens now. Go. Everything's working. Well, we got news today. So question number one, now that the funding for USAID is being cut, is that related to the high-level firings we're seeing in the media? Is that why MSNBC is cutting some of their expensive talent? Or is it just a coincidence and they're not doing well, so obviously they have to make some changes?
Chapter 2: Why are MSNBC hosts being let go?
Chapter 3: How does the 'simultaneous sip' work?
It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens now. Go. Everything's working. Well, we got news today. So question number one, now that the funding for USAID is being cut, is that related to the high-level firings we're seeing in the media? Is that why MSNBC is cutting some of their expensive talent? Or is it just a coincidence and they're not doing well, so obviously they have to make some changes?
I don't know. But as you know, Joy Reid, her show ended. She had her last show, I guess, yesterday. And Rachel Maddow didn't take it well. So Rachel Maddow goes on her own show to complain about Joy Reid being fired. And she said that she's learned so much from her. as we all have, really. We have so much, and she has so much more to teach her, Rachel says.
And I'm wondering, what else does Joy Reid have to teach her? I feel like we saw a lot of her lessons, but I think the lesson is you should blame everybody for being a racist. So that would be the big takeaway. And Rachel Maddow said, I do not want to lose her as a colleague here at MSNBC. Personally, I think it's a bad mistake to let her walk out the door.
It is not my call, and I understand that, but that's what I think. Now it gets better. Here's the payoff. Rachel Maddow said, I will tell you, it's also unnerving to see that on a network where we have two, count them two, non-white hosts in primetime, both of our non-white hosts in primetime are losing their show. uh-oh, shows, as is Katie Fang on The Weeknd.
And that feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. It feels indefensible, and I do not defend it. Now, if there's anything that could make me happier than watching Joy Reid being taken off the air, it's watching Rachel Maddow call her own company racist for taking Joy Reid off the air. Now, I think that that's what she learned from Joy Reid. to just call everybody racist all the time.
You don't have to do anything else. That's the entire game. And when you only have that one speed, the only thing that you do is call everything racist, you know that's going to get turned against your own company, right? There wasn't any way that that wouldn't work out poorly, even on paper. If I said to you, all right, here's the deal. There's going to be this network.
And the people on the network are going to call everybody and everything racist. Here's what I would have warned the network. You know that's eventually going to be turned on you, right? You can't hire a whole bunch of people who only have one speed. That's racist. That's racist. That's racist. That's racist. That's racist. That's racist.
And then expect that when you make a change that they don't like, that they're not going to call you a racist? Of course they are. Of course they are. It doesn't matter what reasons you have. It doesn't matter at all. Anyway, one of the things that Rachel Maddow probably is suffering from now is that as long as Joy Reid still had a job, Rachel Maddow felt safe because Joy Reid was even crazier.
So it made Rachel Maddow look sort of moderate. But once Joy Reid is gone, Now, Rachel Maddow will look like the craziest one on the network. And it's going to make her feel like she might be next. And I'm surprised she wasn't just because of her pay. How did other people take it? Well, Angela Rye, who's a black woman who, which is important to the story. She was a former CNN commentator.
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Chapter 4: What is the impact of leaked audio on public figures?
You know, it's great to stop the, you know, condoms for terrorists, which was never really a real story, but it makes a good anecdote. But what about the subsidies to big oil? He says, what about the, I guess, subsidies or something like that for a big pharma? And I don't know if he thought that this was a Republican thing versus a Democrat thing, and that maybe the MAGA people would be in favor.
of subsidies for big oil? I don't think we are, right? Is there any pro-Trump person who says, you know, we should give more of our tax dollars to big profitable companies? I don't think anybody says that. So not only is Stewart acknowledging that waste, fraud, and abuse have to be addressed, he's very clear on that, but he's competing. He's competing. He's saying this is where the big money is.
I don't know how big it is or how easy it is to find or if it's even real. But I love the fact that the Democrats now have to compete for finding the most waste, fraud and abuse. All right. All right. Let's enter that frame. Let's enter the frame of we're competing to see who could do the best job of cutting things that we shouldn't be paying for. Love it.
Now, that is a valuable contribution, in my opinion. So, let's talk about, I'll get to more on that later. Thomas Massey points out that the budget still has some kind of subsidies for using corn to make fuel, which everybody knows, as he points out, Massey points out, that it increases the price of food. Now, did you know that?
Were you aware that even still, there are Republicans, there are Republicans, who are in favor of using corn to make fuel, this ethanol. Now, I've never even heard of anybody using ethanol for anything. Have you? Do any of you have an ethanol-driven car or an ethanol tractor? I don't use ethanol for anything. So isn't ethanol well-known to be just basically a scam? That might be going too far.
I don't know any voter who's in favor of this. So it's got to be one of those Republicans want to protect their farmers and they get free money if they grow corn for fuel, I guess. So I like the fact that Massey's on that. Now, I would add that. I would add that to the Doge process. Say, hmm, I don't know. I don't see why we're doing that.
It doesn't seem to be necessary for climate change or anything else. It's not like ethanol is making a big run to take over for other fossil fuels or fossil fuels. There's so much news going on that there are stories that in a normal time would be the number one headline. But in today's news environment, it's like the 10th most important thing that would otherwise just be huge. Here's one of those.
According to Michael Schellenberger, there's a FBI whistleblower who has a source within the FBI who said that the FBI employees were destroying evidence on servers and that he informed Kash Patel of that.
Now, if that's true, and keep in mind it's a whistleblower who talked to another person who said it's true, so it's not the... The whistleblower apparently is known, so one person is known, but the person he talked to is anonymous. Do we accept that? Do we accept that's true with one anonymous source?
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Chapter 5: How does the USPS future look under federal government?
Well, if you had to cut something and I were being a team player, that's probably what I would cut. How do you think that went over when I took that back to my boss? Every one of you who have corporate experience, you're laughing right now. It's like, how dumb were you? No, I thought I was there to do a good faith effort to
to reduce the budget for the company because I thought I was working for the shareholders. Right? I mean, it's a fiduciary responsibility to not waste money because you have shareholders. So I thought, yeah, you know, if you're asking me what I would cut if I had to, it would be that one. And so they cut it. I took it back to my boss. Oh, my God. The look of death that I got.
He just cut through me with his eyes. He said, so I hear you gave away my budget. And I said, oh, but, you know, they asked me what would be the least priority. And I was trying to do the right thing. And that's what I learned. That nobody's trying to do the right thing. Everybody in a big organization is lying because that's how you get ahead. So everybody wanted their own budget not to be cut.
but they were certainly happy if other people's budget got cut because they were competing against other managers. They weren't trying to satisfy stakeholders. That was just dumb on my part. All right. So the first thing you need to know is if you try to do a scalpel approach, everyone is lying and you won't know it.
Well, you'll know they're lying, but you don't know what the lie is or what the truth is. So if you were to say to me on paper and conceptually, is it better to use a scalpel than a chainsaw? I would say the same thing you would say. Well, yeah, scalpel makes sense. That's a reason looking at all the details, deciding what to keep and whatnot.
But in the real world, nobody's going to play along with that. They're all going to just look for maintaining their own little domain. So in my experience, the scalpel approach can only work in the specific situations. And I'll give you a few.
One would be if you're a small business and you're the owner of the business and it really matters to you if you cut costs because that money goes right in your pocket. And it's a small enough company that you understand all of its parts. So you could actually cut with a scalpel in that case because you're the boss. It's all good for you if you cut.
And you know exactly where to cut and where not to cut. Yes. Scalpel, scalpel, scalpel. If you took a chainsaw to your own smallish business, well, that would obviously be a mistake. Obviously. Now, what is the situation or another situation? Well, let's put it this way. So that's a situation where you've got time to operate and you're going to be profitable no matter what.
but you could be a little more profitable. So if you've got plenty of time, the scalpel makes sense. You know, even if you have to work a little extra hard to find some stuff. Yes. As long as you're in a business that's stable and you're just trying to tweak it every now and then, scalpel. So when you hear people say, but I've been involved in a number of businesses and we cut with a scalpel.
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Chapter 6: What are the implications of Doge on waste reduction?
Now, that's the scariest, creepiest thing I've ever heard in my life. I mean, I don't know how it could possibly give you anything interesting. And then I saw a picture of what the the dashboard would look like, you know, if you were the top boss and you wanted to see the sum of all the things your employees were doing.
And it's like this really sort of detailed, complicated, you know, some boxes are bigger than others, showing that there's more activity there and stuff. And I thought to myself, okay, in the real world, your top boss would use that three times. And by the third time, they would realize that there was nothing it was telling them that they could act on. It was like, ah, okay.
Looks like the box for talking about the budget is a little bit bigger. Okay, that's because the budget process is happening right now. Okay, okay. Well, it looks like the box for vendor, talking to vendors is a little bit bigger. So they're doing a lot of talking to vendors. Oh, well, obviously, because we're doing a request for a proposal.
probably it wouldn't be anything you could act on now i don't want to throw that company under the bus because they might have a good argument that it's making everything better but in the real world if you show somebody a complicated screen of anything they end up ignoring it after the first few tries in the real world so i'm going to introduce a new insulting phrase
I'm going to call it lady fiction. Lady fiction. I've told you before how Democrats, they seem to just imagine problems. Like they imagine what somebody's thinking, and then they imagine their bad personality. They imagine their bad intentions, and then they project that forward to how it's going to destroy the world. But it's all imaginary.
It's imaginary future, and it's imagination that they can read the minds of strangers. So CNN just had a one of the federal employees on, and she was one of the ones resisting the email request. And she said that, let's see, what did she say? She said that Elon's email request was an act of harassment and bullying. Now, do you think that's the way Elon was thinking of it?
It's like, huh, you know what I haven't done enough of? I need to do a little more harassment and bullying, even though he tells you exactly why he's doing it. You can't take the exact reason that he describes, which makes perfect sense. You have to imagine that the real reason this is dark personality flaws and it's harassment and bullying. That's pure mind reading.
And again, men prefer reading nonfiction. Women prefer fiction. And the more you see it, so I'm going to call that lady friction, lady fiction. Lady friction is a completely different story. It has more to do with scissoring. But lady fiction is where you imagine that... You can imagine you can read somebody's mind and you see some dark, dark secrets in there and you project it forward. Anyway.
One of our favorite... personalities on X, Data Republican. If you haven't been exposed to Data Republican yet, you're missing out. So Data Republican is sort of a superstar of data analysis and is using a lot of the new information that we're learning to come up with some fascinating stuff about the NGOs, et cetera. But she was on Glenn Beck's show and she described
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Chapter 7: What is the difference between a scalpel and a chainsaw approach to budgets?
Could you find a way to keep them on the, let's say, the public side, and it may require paying an ungodly amount of money, to say, all right, once you leave the FDA, you can go work for Pfizer, and they'll pay you a million dollars a year, whatever it is. But if you continue working for the government, we will also give you a million dollars a year. We'll match it, but you'll be on our side.
So you'll do extra work and you'll go extra deep and you'll work with the FDA. You won't be on the FDA, but let's say you work with them or for them or something. Now that's the bad idea. because it's anti-DOGE. It's spending more money, not less. But I just wonder, is there any system way to fix that? Because you'd have to outbid the pharma.
Now, the gross way to do it is just say you can't go get those jobs. I just don't love that. I don't love the lack of freedom that that implies. So maybe some of you have a good idea. Let's talk about Ukraine. So Trump has suggested yesterday that he's willing to revive economic relations with Russia. And then Putin has offered, hey, why don't you work with us, America?
Why don't you work with us to do a joint partnership to exploit rare earth minerals in the Donbass region? What? What? Did you see that coming? And then Putin also offers, I'm going to talk about this in terms of persuasion, not in terms of economics. Then Putin also said that Russia is ready to supply the U.S. with 2 million tons of aluminum, which will help stabilize prices.
And apparently we're the biggest importer of aluminum. So it actually would drive down some of our costs if we worked with Russia on that. And so here's the thing. Let me say up front, that if you believe that I trust Putin and that he just wants to make money and stop all the fighting, I don't. I don't. It would be foolish to say that he has no ulterior motives or anything else.
But think how historic this is, that Trump and Putin have changed the frame. They've changed the frame from how to kill each other
had to make money for both of us now maybe this won't come to anything maybe there will be no joint partnerships maybe it's a bad idea maybe trusting russia is just always a bad idea and you know even if it looks good on paper maybe it just never works i'm open to all those arguments so i don't know that we should do it but the fact that um i've said this before
I generally think that Trump is the best public persuader we've ever seen, just ever. But Putin's in the same weight class. I don't think he's quite a, he's not quite Trump-like, but he understands the whole persuasion thing. And so what Putin's doing is he's reframing Russia as a potential economic partner, which is following the lead of Trump. Trump is the again, Trump's the better persuader.
But Putin can Putin can take punch for punch. He knows persuasion. And this is fucking brilliant. It's brilliant. I hate to say it. And again, I'm not suggesting that we get into partnership economically with Russia. I'm not against it and I'm not for it. I would have to know a lot more before I had an opinion. But from a persuasion perspective, Putin's really nailing it.
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Chapter 8: What factors should be considered for budget cuts?
So there's this gigantic fight over just hundreds of different fentanyl labs. And part of me just wishes they just fight it out. But it was hilarious that one of... One of the lab operators quoted this. They were talking about they have to do so much security now for their labs that it's hitting the bottom line. And they just talk like regular business people.
And so one of the lab operators says they have to increase production to cover higher costs for gunmen, intelligence, and weapons. He goes, quote, if before we were making 10 million pills, now we have to make 20 million. They just talk like ordinary business people. They need Doge.
Anyway, at one point I'd wondered, wouldn't it be better instead of us attacking the cartels to simply provide all the intelligence that the factions need to attack each other? Suppose we send our drones up there, we find all their little lab locations. I don't know if we can. I don't know if there's any way to find them from the air. But suppose we could.
And then we just turn it over to the other faction and just let them destroy each other until they're so weakened that then you go in. But you wait until they've just beaten themselves into nothing. There is some worry that if the Sinaloa cartel implodes over their internal conflicts, that one of the other cartels would just take over so nothing will change. So it's complicated.
I saw a report that comes from The Telegraph. Now consider the source. So some people say that's not a very credible source, but the Telegraph says that Iran fears an immediate attack on its nuclear facilities. And so they've increased all their defenses near the nuclear facilities. And the source says that Iran expects an attack every night, even on nuclear facilities that no one knows about.
And an Iranian official said that Tehran feels a regime could fall if America joins the attack. You know what I say about that story? I could have written that story without doing any research. Do you think Telegraph did any research? Scott, what do you think Iran is doing about its nuclear facilities?
I'd say, well, if I were them, and anybody else would say the same thing, they're probably trying to figure out how to protect them as best they can. Scott, do you think that the Iranian regime is worried that if America and Israel attack, it could have an impact on their ability to lead in the future. And I would say, duh.
Yeah, we're not going to leave their regime alone if we do a major attack on their country. And even if we don't directly attack the regime, losing all their nuclear facilities and all of their anti-aircraft does put some question about their stability. So on one hand, I don't know if the telegraph story is real.
On the other hand, it's exactly what you would have made up if you wanted to act like you did some research, but you didn't. The Indian Army, according to Next Gen Defense, they have an AI weapon that can track and shoot in just 10 milliseconds, and it can hit a target a mile away every time. It can hit a target a mile away every time, and it can do it in a millisecond.
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