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Chapter 1: What is the highlight of human civilization according to Scott Adams?
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Are you ready for the only new and interesting show of the entire day because all the smart people take Easter off? But I'm always here. Always here. Well, number one, the Grok AI now has a visual mode. So if you have the app, Grok, You can put it in visual mode, and it will see what you see in your room, and it will talk to you about it.
Chapter 2: How does Grok AI's visual mode work?
Now, ChatGPT said that for a while, and it is the wildest, greatest feature. If you're trying to fix something, you can just point it at it, and it'll tell you how to fix it. I've done that, and it's just wild. It's like having a person with you. It's like, hey, take a look at this. All right, what do you see? and it'll tell you what it sees, and then it'll tell you what to do with it.
It's amazing. But that's not all it can do. So Elon Musk, let's talk about Elon Musk. We've got some Elon Musk news. Whenever there's not enough regular news, you can always count on like six stories that are just about Elon Musk. Anyway, he has proposed a new law requiring all bills in Congress. to be publicly accessible for seven days before a vote.
Now, on top of that, I believe Grok can summarize bills now. Now, is that a done deal? I think it can. So get your Grok. It can look at things. It can summarize bills. So I used Grok three or four times this morning. to help me with the context of stories that I was going to talk about, like the Supreme Court stuff. I'll read the stories, but it's always people are starting in the middle.
Chapter 3: What new law has Elon Musk proposed regarding Congress?
So it's like something already happened, and then they're talking about it in the middle. And I'll be like, wait, wait, what's the larger context? What's it all mean? So I just ask Grok, and it gives me a summary of what happened and why people are upset about it. It's amazing. So I've used it, yeah, three or four times just this morning for work-related stuff.
Speaking of Elon Musk, the Neuralink interface, apparently he's getting close to being able to help blind people see. So they're going to attach the Neuralink interface directly to the visual cortex. And people who are completely blind will be able to see for the first time. Now, I don't know if it's only people who have never seen or maybe only works with people who have seen before.
But if your visual cortex is working, apparently it will give you sight. Now, he thinks the initial versions will be kind of limited, so it'll be just fuzzy kind of image. But then over time, it will just get better and better. So literally, he's going to help the blind see by connecting to the visual cortex. Is that wild?
And then separately, but somewhere related, Mario Noffel is talking about this on X, that the Neuralink brain chip can also help you communicate with your Tesla Optimus robot. Now, you don't yet have your Optimus robot, but if he did, you would be able to just use your brain to tell it what to do. How cool would that be?
If you needed help all the time in your house if you were disabled, you'd just be able to think, robot, come here, and the robot would enter the room. And then you'd think, get me a beverage from the refrigerator, and the robot would just do it. How wild would that be? But apparently, that's probably end of 2026. You'll be able to have Neuralink and a robot taking care of you. Wild.
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Chapter 4: How will Neuralink help blind people see?
Now, given that Elon Musk is doing all these valuable things for people in society, what do you think the Democrats think about Elon Musk? Well, of course, they're trying to stop him and destroy him at all costs. And Bernie Sanders did an ex-post in which he is trying to take down Musk. So let's look at what Bernie says, and then I'll tell you my own analysis here. He says, he starts with the U.S.
oligarchy 2025. And then he tells us, Elon Musk owns as much wealth as the bottom 53% of the U.S. households. The top 1% own more wealth than the bottom 90%. Real weekly wages are $30 lower than 52 years ago. That one's important. And 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. Yes, we can do better than that. Well, so I agree with Bernie about the paychecks not being worth as much.
Inflation has been just devastating. And so that part is right. But if you're going to look at Elon Musk's, let's say, contribution to the United States, here's how you should do it. First, I would measure how much wealth he has created. Telling me how much he owns is one thing, but wouldn't you know how much he created out of nothing? And the answer is, Grok, Grok had an answer,
The answer is it's close to a trillion dollars. If you looked at the value of each of his companies, it's close to a trillion dollars. That's how much he's created that didn't exist before. Now, does any of that trillion dollars benefit the world? Or does it all just go in his pocket and he spends it on cocaine and hookers? It's a trillion dollars.
If he tried to spend it all day long, he couldn't spend a trillion dollars. So his value of the trillion or so is maybe a third of it. And then he's created, well, here's what else I do. I would calculate what percentage of that wealth he kept, and so far it's something like a third. Then I'd figure out what percentage of it he spent on his own lifestyle versus paid in taxes.
Now, I believe he's paid in taxes tens of billions of dollars. If you count his companies and you count his personal stuff, then you'd have to calculate all the taxes paid by the employees... over all the time and all the property taxes and all the sales taxes that they paid by buying stuff. So you'd have to calculate all that because that was just added to the society.
So that's something that wasn't there until Musk added it. So I calculate all the impact of the employees. Then I look at the societal benefits of his companies and I'd say, you know, are we getting benefits?
Well, yes, we've got electric cars and we've got neural links and we've got satellites in the air and we're going to be interstellar and we have a chance of competing in space against the other big powers. So these are some of the biggest benefits the world has ever seen. But I'd also calculate what percentage of his wealth he spends.
Because it's not how much you have, it's how much you spend, right? So if somebody creates a trillion dollars and they keep a third of it, but they only spend maybe 1% of their money, because how much can you really spend on one person? Even though he flies around in a private jet and stuff. He has lots of baby mamas. He can only spend about 1% of his wealth.
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Chapter 5: What are the societal impacts of Elon Musk's wealth?
And he says that AOC is in that category of the people who are too extreme on the Democrat Party and therefore can't possibly win. So Cuomo doesn't like the Democrats' left side. Then, of course, there's Eric Adams, who recently became independent. He hated Democrats so much.
And when he was talking to Laura Trump on Fox, he said, one of the big mistakes that's being made in some parts of the far-left philosophy is that ICE is a criminal organization. And he defended ICE as a proper law enforcement organization. So Eric Adams... Doesn't love the far left of the Democrats. Neither does Andrew Cuomo. Let's check in with James Carville. Oh, yeah.
Ha ha ha.
And that's the vice chair at the DNC, so he's too far left for Carville. Now, what did David Hogg respond with? Well, he said that James Carville has not won an election since before I was born, which is a pretty good line, pretty good line. He says, these are the same ones that had $2 billion to win an election and still lost. So his response is pretty good.
But let me tell you what I'm hoping for. I'm hoping that the 2028 ticket for the Democrats is David Hogg and Tim Walz, because then the ticket would be the Hogg-Walz And it would remind me of a dancing pig, hog, waltz. Dancing pig, right? So what would be better than having a dancing pig running for the Democrat presidential primary?
And they could run, let me give them an idea on what kind of a platform to run on. I think they should run on implementing their 2080 project where they satisfy 20% of the country and piss off 80%. That seems to be the Democrat preferred strategy. So hog walls for 2028 running on the 2080 project. That's what I think they should do.
And of course, you know, Bill Maher is not crazy about AOC and he said that Bernie and AOC are shiny objects, and it's political theater, and they can't win elections. So Bill Maher doesn't like the far left. What about Stephen A. Smith? He's not crazy about the far left because he thinks he wants more common sense in his world.
And then, of course, you remember Ezra Klein and was it Derek Thompson, his co-author? They made a lot of news basically saying that Democrats have done everything wrong and they need some Democrats in charge who actually know how to spend money to actually get things done. So we got that. So in the context of basically Democrats eating themselves,
There was a poll, according to the Gateway Pundit, Cassandra McDonald is writing about this. And who ran this poll? The Yale Youth Poll of Registered Voters. And that says that the people polling the best to be the next Democrat leaders are Kamala Harris, AOC, and Buttigieg.
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Chapter 6: What is the significance of the housing and urban development building?
And some of our taxes were used to suppress our own free speech. Really. And in a massive way. Not once or not one person or a small group of people. But massively. Massively. to completely censor and remove our ability to have freedom of speech, basically.
And he said the office, quote, spent millions of dollars to actively silence and censor the voices of Americans they were supposed to be serving. Now, Elon Musk had once called the GEC the, quote, worst offender in the U.S. government censorship and media manipulation.
So, yeah, this is one of the most evil entities in the government, one of the most evil entities in the United States, because anything that is doing a direct attack on freedom of speech is That's the most dangerous thing happening because if you lose that, everything else falls apart.
So it was initially closed, as I said before, in December of 2024 after Congress, which was Republican-led, decided to defund it. So even defunding it didn't kill it because the Biden administration rebranded it as the R-F-I-M-I-I office. It retained the same staff and mission. It didn't even change. And so Rubio finally got full control and he's just ripping it up by the roots.
Chapter 7: What are the concerns regarding mail-in ballots in certain states?
So there won't be anything left. They can't rebrand it because it's just going to be gone. All right. Then there's the Supreme Court decisions and those Venezuelan gangs. Now, here again, I have to go to Grok. as I did for the last story, to try to figure out what's the deal. So here's what the... I'll see if I can do that. I think I'm going to do this wrong.
So all the lawyers watching are going to be slapping your heads and saying, no, he's got this wrong. But I'll do my best. And maybe the lesson here is that it's too complicated for the public to follow. If I screw this up, trust me, you're not going to have much better luck because it's complicated. But in early April, the Supreme Court made a decision that they didn't rule on the
constitutionality of using what Trump is using, the Alien Enemies Act, to get rid of the Venezuelan gangs. Instead, he said that the detainees must receive notice of the removal within a reasonable time and in a manner allowing them to seek habeas relief. Now, do you think I had to look up what habeas relief is? Yes, I did. So this is a double grok. First, What were they saying?
And then what does any of that mean? So habeas relief means just that you have a legal remedy. You have the ability to go to court and challenge whatever's happening. So every single gang member, according to the Supreme Court, should have the right to have their day in court so that they can't just be deported as a group. They would each have to have their day in court.
Then, on April 19th, so just yesterday, in a rare overnight order, The Supreme Court blocked Trump from deporting these Venezuelan people who were in a specific detention center. So the Blue Bonnet detention facility in Texas. And this followed an emergency appeal by the ACLU saying that they did not get their due process, which was that habeas stuff. So that's where we are.
So the president of the United States, who should have total domain control over who's in the country and who's not, has been totally kneecapped by the Supreme Court saying, oh, yeah, you can do all those things you say you can do. but you can't take away the right of every single person to have their day in court, even though they're not even citizens, but they're residents.
So residents get their day in court too. Bill Ackman has a comment on this. He says, on actually said, a nation in which one administration can allow millions of unvetted illegal migrants into the country, but requires that a court vet each deportation decision in an individually adjudicated case will soon lose the values of our democratic system was intended to preserve.
So basically it's a doom path. So the Supreme Court has created a situation that we can't fix a really bad problem. Because if we can't deport them as a group, and say, hey, here's a bunch of gang guys, if every single one of them gets a day in court, it just will be impossible. So I guess that's going to be a challenge, too.
And then the Supreme Court is also going to hear a birthright citizenship case. So I wouldn't expect that to go the way you think you want it to go. I suspect the Supreme Court will uphold the current situation, that if you're born on our soil, you're an American citizen, and there's nothing that will change that. So I don't expect good news on that front.
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Chapter 8: What happened with the Global Engagement Center?
She said, quote, we're all afraid, she told the summit of nonprofit leaders. It's quite a statement, but we're in a time and a place where I certainly have not been here before, she said. And I'll tell you, I am oftentimes very anxious myself about using my voice because retaliation is real and that's not right.
Well, I'm not a big fan of retaliation, but I would say it's probably been a feature of the government since the government began. Do you think there's ever been a time when you could go against the leaders of the government and not have a pushback? I don't know. So I'm not going to say it's good or bad or moral or ethical or legal. You can make your decision on that.
I'll just make a persuasion observation, which I've made before, but you can see it really clearly in this case. One of the things that Trump does best, persuasion-wise, and again, you can judge whether the outcome is ethical or moral or not. You can make that decision. But just in terms of technique, you should make the biggest gap between pleasing you and not pleasing you.
And this is a technique I first noticed in my corporate days. It was somebody I worked with who was really good at making sure that if you did what she wanted, she would tell your boss that you should get a promotion and maybe a raise. Sometimes she would bring you flowers. She would sing your praise to other people, like, wow, what a great person, best in the whole office, blah, blah, blah.
So if you did what she wanted, no matter what it was, and she wanted a lot, she wasn't a top leader. She was an engineer. Actually, she was the engineer that my character Alice in the comic strip is based on. But she was really good at persuasion. So if you did what she wanted... you would actually just get promoted and she wasn't even your boss.
She would literally call a meeting with your boss just to tell your boss how awesome you are. So imagine what effect that has on your career. Pretty good, right? And she would do it consistently. But if you didn't do what she wanted, she might also call a meeting with your supervisor to say that, you know, if you would get rid of this person
everything would work better because this person is blocking all progress. So that is a big difference. In both cases, she would talk to your boss, guaranteed. In one case, she would push for you to get promoted or a raise. And in the other case, she would push for you literally to be fired. And then she would trash talk you to anybody who would listen. And it was super effective.
So it was this gigantic gap that everybody came to understand between making her happy and not. And so she got so much done compared to other people. But that's what Trump does. He creates the biggest gap between making him happy, in which he will sing your praises and be loyal to you forever, and being what he would call disloyal, I guess.
And he would advocate for you to be fired and sidelined and retired. So again, you can make your own decisions about how moral or ethical that is. I'm only talking about effectiveness. Super effective. Super, super effective. So I don't think it's great that there's a sitting senator who's on the same side, at least sometimes, who's afraid of acting.
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