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mattered anyway because that's a measure of influence. So am I wrong that we don't need the blue check? The blue check was just saving you a click, and now I'll just do the click, see the follower account. Which makes me wonder if Twitter ever considered getting rid of the follower account. Imagine that. It would change the service to me to the point where I'd be much less likely to use it because…

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for the Boring machine? The Boring machine is the exception. What do they all have in common? They all require software. They're all software driven. I'm pretty sure that the reason that the rockets can land back on Earth and be reused isn't that mostly software? It is, right? For the engines to fire at just the right degree to bring a long tall thing down back on its base, that's got to be all software. So the software is driving the cars. Musk just said they did some huge self-driving test with their new trucks, the big trucks for carrying goods, and it worked. It's all software. So if there's somebody I would trust to fix Twitter, which is software, I literally, there's no other person in the world you'd pick first. But Stephen King.

All right. Gavin Newsom is reportedly all in for Biden and will wait his turn and will not run for president if Biden is. Now here's how I interpret that. I think Newsom is playing it smart, which is not surprising. He's a smart politician. And there are two things that are possible. Biden actually does run, in which case it really would be a bad idea to rub against him because primarying your sitting president is bad luck and you'd be pissing off some fundraisers and stuff like that. So it probably wouldn't work for him in the long run to run against Biden. But what are the odds Biden's really going to run versus maybe running a little and dropping out early? I feel like Newsom wants to make sure he's as friendly as possible with the Biden team so he can take them over, don't you think? The number one thing Newsom would want would be for Biden to drop out on his own without being primaried and then for him to have his infrastructure just move over to Gavin. Because apparently it's a good infrastructure for fundraising and stuff like that. So I think that's the right play.

But here's the fun part. Who really is deciding if Biden's going to run again for real? I mean he says he's running but we don't know. Do you think it's Biden? You say it's Jill, but I don't believe it. I don't believe it. I don't believe that the president of the United States ever really listens to a wife. It doesn't matter who the president is. Do you know why? Just imagine yourself as president of the United States and then your wife wants to give you some advice. How would you take that? Here's how I would take it. This might be just revealing a personality defect on my part. I would see the lips move, blah blah blah, but then my brain would be saying one of us and only one of us in this room rose from absolutely nothing to the president of the United States, the leader of the most powerful military in the history of humanity. One of us did that and then you're the other one. Blah blah blah blah blah. I'm not even going to listen to your blabber. And by the way this is not a sexist. You can reverse the sexes. Same thing, right? If it's Hillary and she's got her opinions and somebody

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's telling him, not Bill. Obviously his opinions would be valuable. But if somebody who's never done anything, never accomplished anything except getting married is like blah blah blah, Hillary this is what she did. What should Hillary do? Hillary should say all right, I became Hillary Clinton. You became whatever you are in the room and I'm not going to listen to that. I can't listen to that. W…

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