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sident? Now the fact that Letitia James said she was going to go after him but didn't know what she was going after him for and then they searched until they found something. How is that not illegal? There's no law against that. There's no law against saying I'm going after somebody and then going and looking for a crime and then finding a victimless crime and taking his whole business away from…

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many cases to understand how anything works. Republicans tend to be business people who succeeded in business and maybe became a senator later. You know they ran some kind of a serious enterprise and then maybe ran for office. But there are a lot of Democrats who never had any kind of business experience.

Let me give you some real world examples. I saw a user on X, Michael Harriot, who is explaining why DEI. Well here's what he says. He says well here's the thing while most people think DEI policies have something to do with increasing minorities most DEI policies focus on recruiting and retention. And he says instead of lowering your standards you can increase diversity by inviting more diverse students to apply. Now that's somebody who it looks like somebody has no experience in the real world. That's like stupid isn't it? How does he not understand that the problem is there's not enough supply? It's true that any one company can improve their diversity if they do better than the other companies at attracting a higher percentage of supply but it's not true that they can all do it. There's too low of supply. The only way you can fix the number of adults being enough to have a diverse workplace the only way to fix that is to fix it at childhood. You're going to have to fix the pipeline. You're going to have to get them really early like first grade kindergarten and train them so that eventually there's enough people to do every job diversely. But how could you possibly be an adult and not understand that the problem is a supply problem and not a how you do it problem? There's no way to do it to create the supply once you're an adult. You got to start with 30 years earlier or forget it.

So we should, and so I looked at Michael's profile and he's a writer and some kind of a race profiteer kind of guy. He does some kind of race grift stuff. Everything about race is grifty. So I don't know his details but are you surprised that somebody who's a writer and obsessed with race related things can't do even counting and knowing how supply and demand works? No it's very ordinary. Very ordinary.

Okay here's another one. Apparently the law in New York and some other places maybe California too allows a gang member to buy a firearm. An illegal migrant can buy a firearm legally. These are the Democrat laws. So they can come in they'll actually be helped to bring in and then they can find an empty rental property or even your own house and just move into it when you're on vacation and it would be illegal for you to move them out. You have to let them stay and if they stay for a certain amount of time it becomes their property. So basically MS-13 knows they can just find an empty house and move in and it's theirs. They get to keep it. That's real. I'm not making that up. MS-13 can come here illegally but we've made it legal to be here illegally. They can go to the store and buy a firearm or they can possess one and they can move into your house while you're on vacation and keep it. That's our current laws. Is there anybody here who didn't know that? Because this is new. It's not every state but I'm sure California and New York the squatter has the rights not the owner.

Now do you think that people who understand how anything works would be making these rules? No of course not. Nobody who had any business experience or experience with the real world would allow that to happen because it's pretty obvious what's going to happen. Obviously MS-13 is going to take over every house they can get. Why wouldn't they? It's free houses. California and New York are giving away free houses to MS-13 members and I'm not even making that up. That's like a real thing. Now they don't say it that way. It's just that they've created laws that guarantee it.

Now this is my second example where there's something wrong with not just the philosophy of Democrats. They seem unable or unable to think through really basic stuff. How incentives work. How any system is designed. Really basic. You want another example? I'll give you two from Ted Lieu. He's one of the California Congress people and there's a video of him. It's not a new one but not too long ago a couple years ago he was on MSNBC and he was telling the viewers that the best way to combat fake news is for people to watch MSNBC because they report real news all the time. He actually said real news all the time. I didn't even add the all the time part. Those were his exact words. He looked at the camera and said without any tinge of sarcasm that the way to combat fake news is for people to watch MSNBC because they report real news all the time.

Now you might say to yourself Scott that might be the dumbest thing I've ever heard an elected official say. Do you think he's unaware? Do you think he's unaware that MSNBC is all fake? Because he might be. That would even be more frightening. It would be one thing to imagine you know he's just lying and he wants a job there someday so he's just buttering them up. I mean that's not terrible. You know it's bad to lie but it's not the worst thing. But the worst thing would be if he actually thought it was true. What if he thinks it's true? Have you ever considered that? What if the Democrats believe what they're saying? Because I always assume they don't believe it because it's so weird and stupid. How can you possibly believe it? It's just something you say to win. But he might actually believe that.

You want another one? Here's another from Ted Lieu. He said on a post he said Trump claims he is a billionaire but he can't pay 464 million judgment. That means he is lying. How do I know math? Wow. Wow. Do you know who had to school him in public that Donald Trump is not to blame for not having the cash? Mark Cuban who couldn't even stand watching his own teammate. You know somebody who would be anti-Trump. He couldn't stand watching the stupidity coming from his own side so he had to do an extended thread to explain how in an atmosphere of low interest rates somebody like Trump would put all of their cash into assets because the assets could grow but cash isn't worth much in zero interest rate times. So Mark Cuba

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n had to explain the difference between cash and assets to somebody we elected to make laws. So Ted Lieu thinks MSNBC tells the truth all the time and he doesn't understand how money works like really basic stuff. So yeah I contend that the Democratic party can be explained by not understanding how business works in general. So they get everything wrong in terms of incentives every time and also…

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