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Back to episode — Episode 2426 CWSA 03/27/24

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Post is reporting there was an animal lover who was trying to care for a sick baby hedgehog. And so she took the baby hedgehog to the veterinarian, and the veterinarian had to give her the bad news about the hedgehog. It was very bad news. Very bad news. It turns out that the hedgehog was actually a hat. It was a fuzzy hat, a pom-pom hat. Oh no, it was a pom-pom for a hat. So it wasn't so much a…

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country, he's just perfect, isn't he? Like he just knows how to make us feel better and to talk about our pain.

So here's an example of how Joe Biden calmed the fears of the community, showed his empathy. He said that he had commuted over that collapsed bridge to Baltimore many times by train. Okay, we don't know how he did that because there are no train lines that run over that bridge and there never have been. But somehow he managed to make it not only about himself but about a version of himself that doesn't exist and never has.

I think that's a new record for bad leadership. Let me try to give you the ranking. Good leadership would be you show up right away, you show empathy, and you talk about the victims. That's A-plus leadership. You've seen Trump do that a number of times, yeah, including East Palestine. But the way Biden does it is he shows up, and if he had just talked about himself you'd say that's not as good. No, I'd rather that empathy, talking about the victims. That's number one.

But number two, talking about yourself? Well, at least you showed up. At least he showed up. But Biden managed to find a new low ground where not only do you not show the empathy that you need to, and you don't even talk about yourself, you talk about an imaginary version of yourself that everybody knows didn't exist. So I don't know if that's better than not going there at all, but

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it might be a tie. Meanwhile, Elon Musk says that the new version of Grok is coming and it's going to be a banger. He's calling it Super Grok. And if you, I don't know, Premium Plus or whatever user, you can get it. Will Super Grok be the AI of all AIs? I don't know, but it might be the most unfiltered one. It might be the closest to at least attempting to be honest. We hear that the new Claude…

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