Welcome to IHIP News. Pumps is still on vacation.

Josh is still subbing for her.

Josh doesn't watch a lot of news as a way to maintain his serenity because he's so goddamn mad about Trump.

So Donald Trump wins and he hangs out with Elon Musk 24-7, 365,

and also this other multimillionaire slash billionaire Vivek Ramoswami. And these guys are like

the Maga bros and their big tech and all of this stuff. So there's already starting the MAGA cannibalism.

And Vivek Ramoswamy stepped in it yesterday. I want to read to you this tweet that he put out

yesterday. The reason top tech companies often hire foreign-born and first-generation engineers

over Native Americans isn't because of innate American

IQ deficit a lazy and wrong explanation. A key part of it comes down to the C word, culture.

Tough questions demand tough answers. And if we're really serious about fixing the problem,

we have to confront the truth. Our American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long, at least since the 90s and likely longer.

That doesn't start in college, it starts young.

A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math Olympiad champ or the jock over the valid Victorian will not produce the

best engineers, a culture that venerates Corey from Boy Meets World or Zach and Slater over

screech and saved by the bell. Anyway, he goes on and on. And there's several things I want to

unpack about this. Number one, Jeff Bezos,

Vivek Ramoswamy, Tim Cook, none of these people were prom kings and like super duper

athletes, Warren Buffett. All the men who have truly won at capitalism were not quarterbacks

and prom king. So that falls on its face. Number two, I can't believe the lack of self-awareness

where he says that we celebrate mediocrity, and he endorsed Donald Trump.

Right. I mean, that's the first thing that jumped off the screen as you're reading it to me in my mind is that that's exactly what America did when they celebrated and elected Donald Trump is they opted for ignorance, subpar mediocrity, and then celebrated it.

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