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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization according to Scott Adams?
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It's called the simultaneous sip, and it's going to happen right now. Yeah, exactly. All right, the universe has been reset. Everything's good. Of course, we'll talk about the president's speech. But first, I was trying out Grok's voice mode.
today so I guess if you have the app I think it's only on the app the special app for Grok it's free the voice mode so you can have conversations with it but you can set it for what kind of voice you're getting back so you can set it for an assistant mode where it's you know just kind of friendly and helpful but it's got sexy mode and it's got romantic mode and it's got argumentative mode
And I'm trying to figure out how to make them all work at the same time so it feels like a wife. All right, well, I'll let that just sit there for a while. But it looks fun. It's worth a try. I don't know if it's happened yet, but Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, who I'm liking a lot, by the way. Have you heard Lutnick talk? You know there's some people that you just hear them talk and you say,
are you really that smart? You talk like a smart person. Lutnik is one of those. When he talks, I think, huh, I can see how you got rich. Makes sense. You're pretty smart. Anyway, he's saying that the tariffs on Mexico and Canada...
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of tariffs on Mexico and Canada?
Probably are going to be resolved, meaning that there'll be some kind of middle ground, meaning there's some kind of accommodation, meaning we'll figure out how to work with each other as soon as today. Now, in theory, that should have been good for the stock markets, but we'll see. There's a lot of roiling going on.
So in theory, the tariffs, which were big, 25% and everything but energy, I think, they were really just to get some kind of little extra energy for an agreement, especially about stopping the fentanyl trade.
so one could imagine if canada and or mexico said wait wait and study these terrible tariffs but we do a little bit more stopping that fentanyl and then that would be something you could negotiate with so in theory we'll have some kind of accommodation there but you know it might be optimistic to say it's going to happen today but lotnik i think was warning the markets
to not, you know, don't incorporate this as some kind of a permanent situation. So that was exactly the right thing to do. He might be off on how quickly they can resolve it, but maybe not. You know, maybe it's just one day. It's possible. Meanwhile, the premier of Ontario in Canada has canceled Elon Musk's Starlink deal.
I feel like companies keep punishing or countries keep punishing themselves. Well, we're going to cut off our own access to really inexpensive internet. Take that. All right. Okay. It's also funny to me that people think that It's obvious that Elon Musk has found some way to monetize this involved in the Trump administration. If I can give you any business advice at all, it goes like this.
Associating yourself with Trump pretty much guarantees you lose half of your market. Nobody who understands anything about business would have said, you know what? you know what would be really good for business is if I associate with half of the country instead of the whole country. There was no way that Musk didn't understand that it would be risky just to throw in for once.
It doesn't even matter which side. It would work either way. But I feel like the Democrats don't understand enough about business to know that if you're good at business, you wouldn't do this for business reasons.
The only way it makes sense for Elon to be so involved for business reasons is because he thinks he needs to save the entire country, which, given that it's America, it would have a big ripple effect on the rest of the world. Elon's trying to save the world. Now, if you say, oh, I think he's only trying to save the world because he'll make money. I say, you're a freaking idiot.
Saving the world is good enough. You don't need a reason on top of it. I'm going to save the world, but I've figured out a way to get a grift out of this. I've got a scam working that once I've saved the world, I think I'm going to make revenue with my existing companies. Yes, that's exactly what he's going to do.
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Chapter 3: How does Elon Musk's Starlink deal affect Canada?
And I'd love to see Trump do something like it. Just ask the public, what would you do? Actually, maybe this is even an Elon Musk thing, or maybe it could start with him. How do you reduce egg prices? I mean, have more chickens and the obvious stuff. But is there anything the government can do that makes sense that would lower your egg prices? Subsidize them? I don't know. I'd love to hear it.
And then the other thing that was a big surprise to me in the speech was Trump's going big on American shipbuilding. We'll talk about that separately. But here's what I loved.
Trump starts his speech by saying, quote, I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answer, the answers to the greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest level ever recorded.
And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. Now, these are imaginary achievements. And then he went on. So Democrats sitting before me, just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America, for the good of our nation? Let's work together and
Let's truly make America great again. Now, obviously, they weren't going to do that because they came there to be protesters and ruining his flow. But what he did was he framed them. He basically framed them. So instead of I'm giving a speech and they think I'm a big old liar and so they're trying to make a point, he framed them as not even able to
to agree with things everybody should agree with. Now, do you think that they proved, at some time during the night, that the Democrats proved him right by showing that there were things that anybody should agree with, just anybody should agree with? And did they disagree with that one thing that anybody should have agreed with? Yes, they did. They fell exactly into his frame.
They fell into the frame of finding the one thing, the one thing that nobody, nobody could disagree with. They found a way. And it was when he introduced the 13-year-old boy who had survived, I guess, brain cancer as a kid, had a real tough start in life. But the little kid who, and it's important to the rest of the story, was black. And they're still black.
And the kids there with his father who looked awesome, looked like, I assume that was his father, who looked like, you know, just this great supportive dad who'd gotten him to this point. And I guess the son really liked police officers, wanted to be one.
And I think he'd gotten some honorary, you know, police officer badges or something from various police departments who were just being supportive of the fact that he just loved police. And So Trump comes up with this idea of having him in the audience, telling his story, and there's nothing political about it.
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Chapter 4: What was the focus of President Trump's recent speech?
And what I saw was even better than that. Like, he waited, and then he gavels in, and it looked like Trump was sort of expecting it. And so Trump stands back and just lets it happen. And then Representative Johnson You know, gavels in, and then he reads something that he had prepared, obviously, that said something like, you know, the members will show decorum in the room, blah, blah, blah.
And that didn't make a difference. So Green just kept yelling. And then Johnson said, you know, essentially, if we can't restore order, you know, the sergeant-at-arms will be asked to restore order. Now that kind of means escort him out. But that didn't take. So he had to do it again. And eventually the sergeants at arm, I guess, came down and just sort of gently guided Representative Green out.
And I'm sure Green was expecting it because he was pushing it to try to get the maximum effect. But here's what I like the best. I figured out who would be the best casting for the next starship captain for Star Trek. You know, there's always another Star Trek spinoff. But Representative Johnson, he has the perfect starship captain voice. It's just such a command voice.
I just absolutely love to hear him talk. But we usually hear him talk about boring, you know, budget things and diplomatic things and stuff. But when he had to talk, I won't say like a tough guy, but rather like a captain. He talked like a captain. It was matter of fact, but it was powerful. It was forceful. He didn't leave any wiggle room. There was no up talk in it.
He basically just laid it out. This is what's going to happen. If you do it again, you'll be removed. It was excellent. It was just great TV. By the way, the whole thing was great TV. I don't think I've ever anticipated one of these types of speeches as much as this. If you were watching from the very beginning, like every there seemed to be like almost an electricity in the air.
I was watching a little CNN before it went live, you know, before Trump actually showed up. And even CNN seemed to be buzzing with some kind of energy that wasn't typical, certainly wouldn't have had with Biden. So then Melania does her entry. And I'm thinking to myself, when was the last time a first lady did an entry that was that perfect for the show? Just sort of perfect.
Like she just has that elegance and grace kind of thing going on that's unusual. So she's perfect. The setup is perfect, the lighting, the room, the camera work, just the anticipation, the buzzing. Then Trump comes in and and starts working and there's this protester with a little sign.
One of the pink dress women gets up so that as Trump has to work his way through the aisle to get up to the podium, you're forced to see her with her little sign and her sign says, this is not normal on this little white sign. But the funny thing is, it looked like it could be talking about herself as much as Trump. So that part was funny. Yeah, this is not normal.
I guess some Republican grabbed it out of her hand and just tossed it or something. I don't even know if that's legal. Can you grab something out of somebody's hand? But I didn't see it on camera, the grabbing out of the hand part. But that was funny. And I didn't I first I didn't know why Trump gave the stink eye to somebody because he was he was sort of glad handing and saying hi to everybody.
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Chapter 5: How did Trump frame his speech to capture audience attention?
You just have to give up. And you just got to go, okay. Okay. She's Pocahontas. There's nothing we can do about it. And that was just funny. And somehow he normalized that to the point where you just couldn't complain about it. And even she tried to smile when the camera hit her.
I don't know if she was smiling on the inside, but I'd like to think that even Elizabeth Warren could understand the moment. And that was funny. Anyway, so then one of Trump's moments was he started talking about the potential for fraud in the government spending. He was talking about the Social Security list of people who are getting Social Security.
And he starts with, you know, there are, I don't know, over 4 million people who are getting paid from Social Security, he says. who are over 100 and younger than 109. And you hear that number, you're like, holy cow, all those people, they might be getting it. Now, let me say, I don't know if that means that people are getting paid.
It might mean that there's just a data error in the database and some other database corrects for it somewhere else. So I'm not sure that it's an indication of actual crime or corruption. But what it definitely is, is something that everybody can understand when he talks about it, which is what makes Trump special. Like even his critics will say, we got to find somebody who talks like the people.
Trump talks like the people. And he's just so good at it. This is another example. So then he starts going to the list. He's like, and then you've got this many people on this age. And he just keeps getting older and older in the ages. So he gets to the middle of his list. He's like, between the ages of 160 and 169.
And now it's just hilarious because everybody knows maybe there's somebody who's over 100. There could be people over 100 who are collecting Social Security, but there's nobody over 160, and certainly not 121,000 of them. And then he just keeps going until he gets to people who, I guess it was one person over 300 years old, according to the database, not reality.
Now, again, it's not my understanding that we know for sure that these are indications of fraud. And I've heard an argument that they're not. But everybody understands that if your big database of who should be getting money has errors like this in it, you've got a problem.
Now, the problem might be you need better data, or the problem might be there's massive corruption going on, and this is showing where some of it is. But apparently Bernie Sanders did his own response video that nobody wanted. And nobody wanted to hear Bernie Sanders. He wasn't the official response person because that was Slotnick who did it later.
But Bernie makes his own video and he decides to focus on the part about the Social Security ages. And so Bernie has now joined the crazy eyes part of the Democrat Party. where his eyes are literally like crazy. They're all crazy.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of Trump's nickname for Elizabeth Warren?
He talked about putting a tax on Chinese ships who come into port in America. He talked about taxes on Chinese cranes. I guess the cranes that load and unload the containers. And he talked about putting America heavily back into the shipbuilding business, both commercial and military.
Now, here's another one of those things where I wonder if this is one of those cases where somebody smart said something and it bubbled all the way up to the presidency and turned into policy. Because that only happens with Trump. Trump has the best network of geniuses at this point. People who are just really, really smart, who say really, really smart stuff.
And the smart stuff bubbles all the way up to the top. And then it makes a difference. Because it was only, was it a week or two? I saw on X, there was a post by, I think it was Balaji Srinivasan, who would be one of the smartest people in the country, frankly. And he was talking about the difference in shipbuilding capability of China versus basically everybody else in the world.
So China has built this massive shipbuilding capability, and it's both for commercial vessels and military vessels. Now, And then America had sort of deprecated its own ability. So I think we have very little ability to build ships at the moment relative to China. So if we want to have any influence over the oceans, and that's a big part of the globe is the ocean.
And if you want to be selling and buying stuff all over the world, you're going to need a lot of military ability in the oceans. So Trump is... has made that a priority to become a major shipbuilder. And I kind of wonder if that came from one post on X, because it was such a stark and shocking set of data that I'd never heard before.
I had no idea that we were basically not good at building ships anymore and that China had become really good at it, which is scary. That's a real scary thing. So it's possible that that was just one of those things again, or it might be that maybe a lot of people were aware of it and turned it into a thing. All right.
So I'm kind of excited about that because to the extent that we can do anything with tax breaks or whatever it is to make shipbuilding big, I think that's exactly the right instinct. And it doesn't have to be all for military because we're going to be living on the sea and doing a lot of the sea for a long time. I saw a summary of Trump's speech by David Sachs.
I'll just read it because it's a good summary. So Zach said, this was the theme of the night. Democrats sat sullen-faced as President Trump described one sensible policy after another. Democrats took the 20% side of every 80-20 issue. Trump even explained the trap that Democrats were about to fall into, and they still fell into it. Yeah, as I said earlier. Anyway.
Oh, here's the Nicole Wallace thing. So Nicole Wallace, after the speech, said that she had lots of good feelings about the kid DJ, the one who got the Secret Service badge there. And, you know, she had the normal good feelings about it. It's good. But then she goes, quote about DJ.
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Chapter 7: What concerns did Trump raise about Social Security?
So I think Hegseth denied that there was any change in cyber versus Russia. So if Hegseth denies it, I'm going to believe him. And it didn't really, I guess the report didn't have the kind of backing that you think. So I'm going to agree with Bloomberg on this. I think that was fake news.
So anyway, in other news, RFK Jr., he's been trying to, he wants to eliminate a whole bunch of harmful additives in food. The big reason that you might not want to at the moment, and this is gonna be tough, a tough balance, is that removing food additives for food might make them more expensive, which seems counterintuitive, right? You'd think, well, if we don't have to add all these chemicals
We can save money on all these chemicals, but they must have something to do with preserving food longer, something like that. Maybe taste better, I don't know. But the thing that is the major driver of all these chemicals in your food, this is based on a story in the LA Times, is that it's the way we keep the food cost down.
so if your administration the trump administration has promised that food prices will be going down at the same time you've got the make america healthy again efforts and rfk jr looking to get rid of these additives which would make food prices potentially go up although i'm not 100 sure that's true but that's what's being reported at the moment so I wonder if there's any middle ground there.
Because there are people like me who would certainly pay more to have fewer chemicals. And maybe you could let the market decide. So instead of, let's say, instead of making everybody get rid of everything, what if you said we want to encourage people who are in the same market to at least have an option where you don't have the chemicals. And then the people can choose.
And if enough people choose the ones that's a little bit more expensive, but doesn't have the health problems, well, then the market corrects, and then that becomes the less expensive thing over time. But I wonder if there's a way to solve that, because it seems like there's a direct conflict between making the food safer and making it less expensive.
Here's a little update on a story that interests me more than maybe most of you. But do you remember the hockey stick temperature calculations for climate change? And Michael Mann was credited as the person who came up with that. And the idea was that temperatures would increase over time, but there would be a point where the increase would become
multiplied, so it would go slow, slow, slow, and then wham, and it would go straight up like a hockey stick. Well, Mark Stein, writing for the publication National Review, ended up in a lawsuit because I guess Stein was criticizing the hockey stick data, and Michael Mann wanted to basically establish it as legitimate and push back against critics. So there was a lawsuit. So Michael Mann sued.
And I may be getting some of the facts wrong here because there are a couple of, it looks like maybe whatever Mark Stein did might have been separate but related to the National Review. So it looked like there might have been two legal actions, one against the publication and one against the author. But there's been some movement.
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