Weekend reading📕: Bill O’Reilly is out with a new book, “Confronting America: What Has to Change”
Get your copy here: “Confronting America: What Has to Change”
Bill’s book is an unapologetic endorsement of traditional values in America — those values are on the ballot in November.
Watch📺: Bill’s and my special — where I confront O’Reilly with his confrontations
Getting worse⚠️: Nobody thought America’s problem with aging politicians could get worse than Joe Biden as president — it has.
No, Mitch McConnell is not president, but if you wouldn’t leave your kids alone with someone or let them drive, should they be in America’s most deliberative body?
Look forward▶️: Now, people are talking about Bernie Sanders for president.
Laughable🤣: James Talarico’s big TV commercial in Texas promises term limits and stock trading bans — I have a bridge to sell you.
The Real Midterm Takeaways‼️
🤷Everybody wants to tell you what’s going to happen in the midterms — it’s the wrong conversations, and frankly, they don’t know.
❗We should be talking about how what’s happening right now will decide 2028.
🏁For example, the checkerboard: Texas goes blue, but Minnesota goes red.
Why Texas — a rejection of Trump’s economic and immigration policies, particularly by Hispanics
Why Minnesota — a rejection of the Tim Walz progressive utopia with Somali fraud and nine genders.
Tafoya tied in the polls shows a meaningful revolt against those things
America is changing — it’s saying it wants normalcy … what Democrat will offer that in 2028? What Republican?
Watch tonight📺: The intrepid Mark Halperin plus Lauren Wright on what we can really believe in the polls.
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Untouchable!‼️
💻For the past four years, no journalists have talked more insistently, predictively or correctly about the coming AI explosion, change and earthquake than the leaders of Axios
📕Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei are out with a new book, “Simplify: Do 50 Percent more with 50 Percent Less”
The book offers “a one-stop survival guide to dramatically improving your life, work, and happiness…This urgent manual lets you take control of what is essential in a world where AI might simplify you out of a job. Maximize success by simplifying every aspect of your life. Ruthlessly distill what really matters to you, then clear the space to focus on what you do best.”
Tonight📺: There’s not a more important time to hear from Mike Allen than right now, and he joins me tonight.
Where is this AI explosion going politically?
“Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI,” headlines Politico
How is it that most companies don’t want regulation — and the AI bros are begging for it?
What I’m thinking💭: Will these regulations just end up giving the government and the AI bros more power?
Are we being skeptical enough of the AI bros as some kind of altruistic warriors for a better world?
Proof☑️: Reuters headlines, “Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program,” writing:
“At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab, or place for physical experiments, in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said. Anthropic has said it wants to unlock treatments for rare diseases, and its biology work has gone beyond “in silico” or computer evaluations.”
Watch this space👀: The AI hysteria folks are the same ones who demanded we all wear masks for years. Chanted BLM. Took over colleges to free Palestine. Spend trillions on electric buses. Let boys use girls’ bathrooms in grade school. It’s a pretty well-worn playbook.
Their answer is always more government power.
I enjoyed the special too, and I just got the book, it's on my list of books to read. So much to hear about tonight, looking forward to the show!
I enjoyed your & OReilly’s special