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es not measure everything. Yeah, that's interesting. What does it mean when Twitter says there's a rate limit that's reached? Does anybody know what that means? I just saw a tweet as a rate limit. Yeah, I don't know what that means. Anyway, we'll get to that story. The rate limit on it. I just saw that go by on the Locals platform. Wall Street Journal has an editorial in which they're quite poin…
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All right. Here's what I think would be a hilarious conclusion to the student loan forgiveness situation. As you know, the Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness that Biden wanted. And we also assume that the reason Biden even offered to do the loan forgiveness is to get votes in the last midterm. So it looked like a political play that he couldn't really deliver. So now he's pretending that he can do some other clever way that probably won't work either. Even Nancy Pelosi said it was illegal. She said it directly. Totally illegal. Can't do it. It's not the president's responsibility. So since we think that Biden did this as purely a political move and never really expected to get any debt relief, shouldn't Trump match it with a matching amount? Don't you think? Because the most hilarious thing that Trump could do is to make a different plan that also is completely impractical and promise those same people that they're going to get money, you know, whether they vote Republican or Democrat. Well, okay, yeah, it's a long shot. But if you're 25 years old and you've got crushing debt from student loans, wouldn't you take a chance on Biden? I would. I think Biden's the worst pr
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esident ever. And if I were 25 and I had, let's say, forty thousand dollars of student debt and he said there's a 10% chance I might be able to clear that debt, do you know how to calculate the value of that? That's a straight expected value calculation. You say to yourself, well, it's a forty thousand dollar loan, but there's only a 10% chance that Biden will make it go away. So you've multiplied…
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