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ld take it from let's say a pure manager perspective. You know if you knew at the moment it was better than the alternatives I'd probably do it and try to figure out something later. But here's my question. Since you cannot use math and economics to support limiting natural gas because it's a questionable proposition economically and even CO2 wise would you say that the Biden administration is fol…

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How many of you did not know that you can make the models do anything including match the past? It has no predictive value. None. Yeah some of you do but if you don't do this for a living or you don't listen to somebody like me who did it for a living which is projecting the future as funny as that is you would never know. If you're an ordinary person you don't know that a meta-analysis is usually fake. You don't know that an observational study shouldn't be trusted at all. You wouldn't know that peer reviewed means coin flip. Doesn't mean anything. It's just a coin flip. Yeah yes no about 50%.

So anyway here's another funny thing that Axios is treating the weather the way they treat Trump. They're treating the weather. They're reporting on the weather the same way as Trump. So you know how the left-leaning people are covering Trump. What they're not saying is that his policies from his first term were bad. Have you noticed that? Which of his first term policies are they railing against? Oh we don't want to do that again. None. There's not even a single policy that they oppose. Which of his new proposed policies are they saying are a bad idea? I can't think of any. Well you know but abortion is settled. It's going to the states. That's not even a Trump issue in my opinion. You know you could federalize it but nobody's going to do it. I don't think it's going to get federalized. So instead what did they do about Trump? Well first of all they're trying to gaslight you that he's the one with dementia. I love that one right. Yeah he's the one with dementia.

Do you have any names? I forget when I'm just doing my podcast here how many times have you heard me try to remember like the name of the Speaker of the House or something like really easy names and I'll be like what's that name and then you'll say it in the comments. I'll go oh yeah. I just forget names. It's very common when you're talking about politics. Do you know how many names that Trump has had to remember in his life? The people he's met is like an insane number of people. Not hundreds it's thousands. It's way over hundreds probably. The number of people he would need to remember would be I don't know 8 to 10,000 or something. Just crazy numbers.

But here's what Axios says about the weather. February's extreme weather event did some bad things. What do they call Trump? Extreme MAGA. Because there's nothing wrong with the MAGA so you call it extreme. What was wrong with the weather? Well apparently the cold weather doesn't really match the whole global warming thing you know even though I know climate change could be extremes in either direction but it doesn't fit the narrative so well so they just say it's extreme. They're actually insulting the weather the same way they're insulting Trump because they don't have a better thing to say. Extreme. If they start saying that the weather is chaotic or possibly white supremacist I guess that's where we're heading. That weather. Have you noticed that the snow is always white? Yeah the snow is too white and too extreme. Yep they only have one set of things to say.

And I have a prediction. My prediction is if it rains hard on Election Day Axios will report it as a coup. All right that's my joke of the day. They'll report it as a coup because they can't tell the difference between the weather and Trump because they're both extreme.

All right I have a challenge and a question for you. So our debt is approaching 35 trillion. We're adding a trillion every 100 days or so. And how do we survive that? I don't know because the problem's been around long enough where people would at least be mentioning potential solutions because I've never seen one. And here's my challenge. I want to see Jamie Dimon or Bill Ackman and I pick them because they're credible. I would call them reasonably centrist but Democrat. I think they're both Democrat but reasonably centrist and experts at finance. And I want them to explain to the r

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est of us how in any scenario we're not doomed. In any scenario. Because I'm not aware of one. I honestly can't think of any way we're not doomed. So have you ever heard, have you ever seen Jamie Dimon say look there is a way out. You'd have to let's say cut government 20%. You'd have to get GDP up to six which would be crazy at the same time. You'd have to manage inflation so maybe you'd want mor…

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