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you add something to okay that's awesome I respect that 100 percent respect it and now we're done talking about it. As soon as you depart it's just good and you put that well it's not good you're still sort of a jerk. You have put a penalty on good behavior. Good behavior, adopting Black orphans, it's good behavior. I think we'd all be happy about that. But he penalized it a little bit right? Ever…

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You'll say looks good to me. If I don't know anything else I just know that sliver my opinion has been assigned to me. I accept it.

By the way on a more concerning note Dan Bongino noted publicly that he's got some kind of a lump on his neck that seems to be a concern and maybe a big concern. We don't know yet. So wishing him the best on that. I will add this story just if it makes Dan feel any better. In my 20s I had a lump on my neck. Went to my doctor at Kaiser and they said I don't know that looks we better look into that. We better get a closer look. Took an x-ray. I go in and they looked at the x-ray and they said ah this doesn't look good. And I said well what does it mean if it's not nothing which is the other alternative? They said it could be nothing. It could be just a, they said one of those things. That was the actual phrase. It could be just one of those things and we just drain this little bump and there's nothing. That's it. It could be it or you have a horrible cancerous problem and your life will never be the same. Those are your two possibilities. Why don't you come back next week and we'll figure out which one it is.

So I had to wait with basically you know almost a death sentence preliminary diagnosis of a lump on my neck. I had to wait days to figure out what it was. Now it turns out that the way to confirm whether it was going to kill me or not, and of course spoiler I lived, they would stick a needle into it and draw out the fluid. And if the fluid was blood I'm in big trouble because it means there's some cancer going on there. But if it was a clear fluid it was just some kind of minor infection. No big deal. So I'm sitting there and I can't see the needle because it's back here and I feel it go in and I feel the liquid come out and I'm sitting there thinking you freaking, you see the liquid now. You know if I'm dead or I'm fine tell me. I had to actually ask. All right it still bothers me to this day. The moment it came out he should have been saying ah no problem you're all good. And it turns out it was no problem. It was all good. So Dan I hope your situation goes like mine did. I have more empathy than you can imagine but I'm going to hope that it's just one of those things and everything's fine.

So I tweeted this yesterday. I said I know lots of people who rode to success on the strategy of skill acquisition and positivity which is a pretty good package if your life strategy is to continually acquire skills. Pretty good strategy. And to approach life with positivity which affects other people and affects yourself. That's a pretty good strategy. And I know people have done that but I don't know anybody who complained their way to success. They might exist but if you have a choice of those two things, either building skills and having a positive attitude or complaining and not doing anything useful, you know pick the one that works.

Now weirdly Elon Musk tweeted a reply. So and a lot of people took note because when Elon Musk tweets at me people think you guys need to talk or something. I don't know. But for some reason people get excited when that happens. So Elon Musk tweeted this and I'm not sure exactly how it relates to my tweet but he said there are times when I feel like I'm living in a Dilbert cartoon. So I tweeted back the simulation doesn't write itself. Wait until you see what I have planned for you. And then you know he laughed with some emoticons. And so anyway that was fun. And Ted Cruz also retweeted me yesterday. I had a good day for getting retweeted.

Did you think it was weird when ACB, Amy Coney Barrett, when she was giving her sort of nomination acceptance speech I guess you'd call it, she went to great lengths to describe her husband as subservient to her? Was that weird? And I didn't understand why until the analyst explained it to me which was so people were criticizing ACB for being part of a church group that allegedly, and I think this is incorrect, but the allegation was that the people in that church the women were taught by their religion to be subservient to their husbands or something. I think that's inaccurate. I think that it never taught that. I think it had to do with their use of the word handmaidens but it was really a biblical reference. It wasn't a reference to subservience. So she goes in and I didn't like this at all honestly. Like it's the thing that felt the creepiest. She needed to describe her husband as basically the house husband in the group. The one who is serving her needs. And although he's an attorney and has a practice of his own he seemed to be the primary caregiver for the seven children because her job was even more high prof

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ile. And it seemed to me that she was sort of suggesting that the way she could handle an immense workload of being on the Supreme Court while having seven children is that her husband was unusually supportive in terms of raising the kids and supportive of her. Now of course I don't criticize any couple if they have a situation that works. It's not my issue. So if anybody has any kind of arrangem…

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