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All right. Apparently the Oscars — I love this story because it's one of my too-far stories. So I keep telling you that wokeness has peaked, which is completely different from saying we'll have less of it. I'm not going to say we'll have less of it. I'm saying it's peaked in terms of you can openly mock it for being dumbass stupidity. You can just openly mock it now.

Here's what I openly mock. So the Oscars, beginning in 2024, in order to win an Oscar, the film producers and directors will be required to submit to the academy a dossier of the sort of points. I guess they have a point system for the film crew's race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability status of their films' cast and crew. So it's not just the cast, and now the entire crew has to be also diverse. You can't get an Oscar unless you're...

Now correct me if I'm wrong, this already is destroying the entire industry, correct? Wouldn't you say that Hollywood has destroyed itself primarily by forcing diversity into every product, which is a burden on the writing? Right. By the way, that's the least racist, most accurate way to describe it if you don't want to sound like a bigot. Is that if you're a writer, it's hard enough to write a good story about anything, but if you burden the story with and you've got to have a handicapped person in it and it's got to be multiracial and you know there's got to be three trans whatever it is, that the burden on the production definitely is going to affect your quality even if all the people involved are first-rate. It's just an extra burden on the writing, etc.

So Hollywood has completely destroyed itself because they've made their product so woke that you can't watch it. It's just unwatchable crap now. And I have to admit I kind of enjoy watching the Oscars become a complete joke to the point where the people who work in the industry are saying, all right, this is too far. This is way too far. It now is just ridiculous. Makes my heart sing.

I don't know. To me it's just funny because I always tell you that things that have gone too far generally hit the wall by continuing to go too far until it's just stupid. It's ridiculous and you can just laugh at it. And we're there. We're there.

I saw an article — I'm not going to reference it in terms of the URL — but the idea was that the country is falling apart because of a lack of general competence. Because the world is more complicated, but there are more promotions of people for social reasons over competency. And therefore we have more incompetent people in important jobs that are complicated jobs than ever before. And that that's the reason that everything seems broken now.

I've told you that if you try to get customer support anywhere, it's just a joke now. We always made fun of how hard it was to get help on the phone and stuff, but even if you can get somebody on the phone, which is hard enough, you're talking to somebody that you know is unqualified half the time. I mean, you can just tell they don't even know their own job. I can't tell you the amount of problems I've had because somebody tried to help me with a technical problem and didn't know how to do it and made everything worse. Yeah, my health care especially, trying to get help from my health care organization. Oh my God.

So would you agree that there's maybe in the last few years, three to five years, that there's a competency problem that's just glaringly obvious? That the United States is no