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known as tweeting, and then eventually I'm going to stop. I'm going to lose the formerly known as, and I'm just calling it tweeting again. So I'm going to say, well, I was Xing today, formerly known as tweeting, and I'll start just saying formerly known as tweeting. I'll drop the X, and then I'll drop the formerly known as tweeting, and I'll be right back to tweeting. That's how I'm going to play…
← Previous segment →ion? It did not happen this week. Is that a good community note? I'd say yes. I say yes, because that's good context. You need to know when stuff happened to understand it in its fullness. So good note.
But it also went on to say that it was more about the question of the original buying of the company. Now that doesn't change my tweet, would you agree? It doesn't invalidate my tweet. It just takes a little edge off it, gives a little context. I thought this was all good. Would you agree this was nothing but good? A good context? Yeah.
And the reason I'm bringing it up is because it happened to me. Trust me, if you get a context note your first reaction will be negative. And to that point, one of the things the context note lets you do if you're the tweeter — maybe everybody unless you rate the context note. So the context note kind of rates you, but then you can rate the context note.
And my first reaction was, damn it. And I said it was useless, so I gave it a useless grade. And then I slept on it and I looked at it the next day and I thought, oh, maybe I was a little hasty. Maybe that context note is 100 percent accurate and adds something to the understanding of the tweet. Okay, damn it, you're right. So I'm going to give you the win. You get the win, Twitter, the company that formerly was known as Twitter.
All right, let's talk about the summer news. I think summer news is so funny. So summer news usually is somebody misinterpreting a public figure and then pretending to be really angry about it, and that's called summer news.
So when Jason Aldean does his song and people say we see some racist stuff in there that's totally not there, they go, ah, they get all theatrically upset about it. But they're not really upset. Literally nobody cares. It's just summer news.
And of course, you know, we've talked about Kamala Harris. Now she's talking about the Florida school lessons for history, and she believes that they're teaching kids that slavery had an upside. There was something good about slavery. Of course that's non-existent, right? Of course if you look for it, it wouldn't be there. But fake news. So they said in Kabul — out to do to get angry about fake news.
Imagine if you had been elected the vice president of the United States and they're saying, okay, what valuable portfolio can we give you? So first they give you immigration, you know, the border control, and you do absolutely nothing useful for a few years. So all right, all right, maybe that was just hard.
So then AI is an existential threat to humanity, some say. So they give the AI portfolio to Harris. And what did she do to make everything better? Well, nothing. Nothing. So I don't think there's any job you can give her that will result in some kind of positive outcome.
So while if you had an employee like that, you know, sort of a Wally employee if you use the Dilbert analogy, if you had a Wally employee and time after time the projects don't get done, what do you do with them? What's the next project you give them if you don't want to fire them or it's too much trouble? You give them the least important, most job something that only needs to be done so that people know it's being done but has no value to the world, has no possible benefit at all.
And that would be complaining about the Florida curriculum by imagining what it is and then getting really mad at what she imagined, what is not real. And that's her current job.
Now do you think she's going out and talking about this topic because that was the thing she came up with on her own? Oh yeah, I think this is where I'll put my time and energy. I doubt it. To me it looks like an assignment. How many of you would agree that her talking about this topic has to be certainly an assignment? I don't think the vice presidents just go out and on their own pick a topic and start complaining about it.
Yeah, she actually would. Just think about this. Do you believe that the people who assigned her the topic think that the topic is real? Meaning that Florida is actually teaching kids, you know, Florida, that slavery wasn't all bad. Do you think that's really happening? Of course not. No, there's nobody in the White House who believes it's real. They actually assigned her an imaginary job. Tell me that's not true. Tell me that's not true.
Kamala Harris was intentionally assigned an imaginary job because she could not fulfill any real assignment. They Wallied her. She's being Wallied, right? That's what the point here. Boss doesn't want to go through the paperwork of firing Wally, so he just gives him — he usually lends him to another manager who asks for some resources. You know, hey, could you maybe lend me an engineer for this project? You know, somebody would sort of dotted line report to me for a while, you know, but it'll just be a loan.
And the point is your boss says, sure, you're not only my co-worker manage
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r but you're sort of my competitor in this company because if you get the promotion I can't. So I'll be glad to help you because I'm a team player. How about Wally? You can have him as long as you want. Yeah, so the qualification of the vice president continues. I saw a tweet from somebody named Andy Petro. He said this is a great tweet: All the imaginary people who think slavery was okay are th…
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