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yourself, well Scott, there's still that one place that's going to do it anyway. That's probably true. But that conversation is largely tabled in my opinion because the money we're spending on the migrant population now — you could say to yourself but Scott, didn't you tell us that money is fungible and that's not how it works and just because you're spending money on one thing that doesn't mean y…

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out Trump? The one thing we know about him for sure is he does stay up late. Like that's like saying he doesn't golf. Did you not notice he kind of golfs and he also stays up late? So that was a kind of a weird thing to say about him. But here's what I got out of that. Nikki Haley only exists because Trump exists, doesn't it feel like that? Now you could imagine if there was never a Trump that she may have risen in politics anyway because she's capable. But I feel her entire existence is only based on Trump. She's defined by Trump. What a terrible place to be, isn't that a terrible place to be in life? That who you are is defined by another person you don't even like. You're not even defined by your own anything. You're just compared to Trump. So that's just a weird situation.

Well Harvard is still stupid. They've invited a radical Palestinian speaker who has defended the Hamas massacre. So Harvard's actually got a speaker who said something along the lines of October 7th was totally normal and you got to expect people to defend themselves. That's what she said. And they're like, well that'd be a good speaker. Now do I think that she should be allowed to speak? Absolutely. Absolutely free speech. Do I think that this is a good decision by Harvard? Well it doesn't seem like it because I'm pretty sure they wouldn't allow the competing message to be there. If it was there would be so many protests that it would turn into a mess. So yeah, that's a little bit of a problem. A little bit of a problem managing the reputation. So Harvard still looks stupid. But maybe not as stupid as my state.

There's a story in the San Francisco Chronicle, which used to be a newspaper. I don't know what it is now. But the San Francisco Chronicle was the last big paper to pick up Dilbert. They just weren't convinced. They just couldn't be convinced. Yeah, they wanted to hold out anyway. So the Chronicle is garbage. But anyway they report that Hayward, just down the street from me, had an elementary school that was struggling with their low test scores. So in order to help things they spent $250,000 of federal money for an organization called — and I swear to God this is the actual name of the organization — Woke Kindergarten to train teachers to confront white supremacy, disrupt racism and oppression and remove these barriers to learning. So that was their response to the low test scores, is to teach the students to be more aware of white supremacy. Now you're probably saying to yourself, wow that probably helped their test scores, huh? So let's check in on the test scores because once they've addressed and confronted white supremacy I would expect those test scores to start zooming up to the sky. And the update is, oh yeah, the test scores went down. Well nobody saw that coming. I mean how could you even see that coming really? I mean because people are stupid. I thought the antidote to stupidity was moral wokeness. Am I wrong? Did I have that wrong the whole time? That if your kids are not performing they're not woke enough and maybe it's the white supremacy that they haven't fully confronted. It made so much sense to me. I'm surprised it didn't work because on paper, on paper it looks so right.

Have you noticed that these good plans on paper — for example take our border situation. On paper the idea of opening your borders and rewarding people from all ov

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er the country that we can't vet by the multi-millions, on paper that seems like a terrific idea. But then sometimes reality gets in the way and it's not really working out in reality. But on paper doesn't that sound good? Let all the strangers in from the prisons and anywhere without checking. On paper it sounds great. So you can understand why you get caught by surprise. And weirdly Woke Kinderg…

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