nvested it will grow faster than inflation if you do it right. I don't know. I'm open-minded on that one. That might not be a gigantic mistake, which would be quite a difference from everything else California does.

By the way, is anybody experiencing a blizzard today? Any blizzards? Nice day here in California. I'll be taking a nice walk with my tee, just in my t-shirt. Might be shorts weather. I'm not sure. But that's why I live in California. If you say why do you live in California with all these many, many management problems, this is why. This is why. I wanted to live somewhere where I wouldn't die just because I went outdoors. That's not a good enough reason. How'd you die? Well I made the mistake of going outdoors. Nope, won't kill me right away here.

The Daily Mail has a report that says there's a new study, a landmark 50-year study about trans kids. Are you surprised to learn that almost all the trans kids grow out of being trans by the time they're adults? It's just a phase. So I don't know. It said most. I don't know if that's 51% or 91%, but most go through a phase. So if you knew that most, whatever most means, at least 50%, it's a phase, how in the world is it legal to transition kids? How in any sane world is that legal when it's a 50-50 bet? Yeah, at best. It's probably less than 50-50. It's just amazing.

And how many of you are surprised? Is anybody surprised that it's a phase that many kids go through and grow out of? Of course not. Because you can kid about absolutely anything. Kids will believe whatever. And if their body chemistry is not caught up to their sex, you could totally see why they would think they're the other thing. Yeah. How hard is it to imagine a, let's say, a tomboyish girl who's just going through a phase thinking it's not a phase? That would be pretty normal. Yeah. Same with, you know, some little boy who wants to wear a dress because he thinks it's funny and then likes it a little bit. Probably just a phase. Yeah. So maybe we should stop mutilating children because it might be good for one of them? Well.

Charlamagne tha God, who's hosting on The Daily Show, he said among other things the truth about DEI is that although it's well-intentioned, it's mostly garbage. And then he played a montage of conservatives mocking DEI by changing the letters, you know, to mean something besides diversity, equity and inclusion. One of the clips he played was Greg Gutfeld saying DEI is "didn't earn it." Now I didn't make that one up. I stole it from somebody on the internet whose name I didn't manage to write down at the time. But that one's just a killer. Yeah.

Well, when you see "didn't earn it," that really should straighten out your thinking because the issue is that people will think that. Not that it's going to be true for every person. It's just that that's what people will think. It's just automatic. Of course you're going to think that. But although Charlamagne did say that DEI allowed racists to be openly racist, the examples he gave were things like people saying, oh, must have been a DEI hire that caused that barge at the bridge. Is it racist to speculate that the barge might have been a DEI situation? Is that racist? Give me the ruling. Racist or not racist? What do you say?

It sounds a little sus to me, so that's why I didn't do it. Since there was no evidence that there was any DEI or even any racial element to the accident whatsoever, I think it's a mistake to try to sell your DEI philosophy based on an accident, right? I think it's a persuasion mistake to overapply the DEI thinking to say, oh well I think I'll win an extra point by saying this accident might have been DEI. It's just not. It's not a good look. It's not good for the world. It's not good for your argument. It's a little racist. Do you agree or no? I mean, you know me, so I'm primed to not see things as racist, but that looks a little too far. So that's my take.

I would agree with Charlamagne on both points, that DEI is well-intentioned but mostly garbage. Exactly. And the garbage is, you know, all the BS corporate part. You know, good idea ruined.

Why getting a lot of comments on that? Well, it is funny. Okay, I'll give you that. Blaming the barge on DEI, it's a little funny because it's a, what the thing that makes something funny is an oversimplification. That's just automatically funny. So if you say, oh the barge is a DEI hire, that is a humorous exaggeration, oversimplification with no evidence to support it, which is why it's funny. It's funny because it kind of doesn't fit. That's what makes it funny. If it was just what happened, well then it wouldn't be a joke. It would be description of what happened. So yeah, it's because it's a little bit too far. Well, it's just too far. Let's not say a little bit.

However, my take on this is that the dam has broken on DEI if Charlamagne tha God, being a prominent voice, can say in public, you know with lots of thinking about it in advance, that DEI is mostly garbage and that it's probably having a backfire effect. I think the dam just broke. That means that other people can say it too. He's making it safe. So he's taking the arrow in the back on this, and I think he's doing a public service. So good for you. I'd say good work.

Not only that, but I thought Charlamagne is growing into the job. The first clip I saw of him doing The Daily Show, my first impression honestly was, you know, I'm glad he got a chance but he can't really deliver the joke. You know, I felt he was falling short on the delivery. But I don't know how many shows he's done now, but I watched this clip and I would say yeah, he grew into it. He actually grew into it. Yeah, he actually solved it. He went into a new situation which, by the way, is my highest compliment. My highest compliment is he went into a new situation which could have been super embarrassing. Did it stop him? No, no. He just did it anyway. Was his first day out a huge win? Nope, nope. It was a little bit embarrassing, honestly. But did he feel the embarrassment? I don't know. All I know is he kept at it and then he got good at it. So that's my, that's A+. There's nothing you can say about that but A+. Good job. I like to see good work. I like to call it out when people do good jobs. That's a good job.

Well, China apparently hacked into Microsoft's mail and got into the accounts of some top US officials. And people are saying that Microsoft, the critics are saying that Microsoft has a culture of not taking security as seriously as they should. But you know that's something critics say. Who knows how seriously anybody's thinking. But here's something that was a quote from that story. While no organization is immune to cyber attack from well-resourced adversaries. No organization. There's no organization that's immune from cyber attack. Huh. No organization. Wow. Well that's not entirely true, is it? That no organization is safe from hackers. Well let me give you an example of an organization that's completely safe. All 50 states' election systems. All of them pristine. Boy, do they take security seriously there. Not at a place like Microsoft. No. The Microsoft, smartest people in the entire world on security and technology. They, you know those clowns, they're not even taking it seriously.

But luckily, luckily people, and this is what protects the Republic, every single person involved in our elections and especially the election security, unlike Microsoft, you bunch of clowns just walking around. The Microsoft people, yeah. Have I ever done an impression of Microsoft people just walking around? They're like this. Really just idiots. Complete idiots. I know, I know what you're going to sa