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physical and mental feeling, as a thing that's elevating your cognitive abilities, which is what it's for. You know part of the reason you get stressed and you get that fight or flight thing is because you need to elevate your performance to solve a problem. So you should look at the fact that you have elevated performance rather than look at that it doesn't feel good. Now this is one I also use.…

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cise when you're stressed because stress gives you all this physical and mental ability. So exercise. It's the one thing you can control and it works really well. If you want to get a little extra exercise, come home stressed from work. Real easy to exercise when you're stressed. Real easy. So use it.

All right. Stephen King, he posted on X. He said that notice the right wingers want to ban abortions and books but not semi-autos. So he thinks the right-wingers want to ban abortions and books but not semi-automatic weapons. Which I said when your political philosophy is nothing but a hoax, that would be the book ban, plus a bad analogy comparing gun ownership and abortion. That's just a bad analogy. I can guess your news sources. Imagine being so lost that your two main things you want to mention on politics are one literally a hoax, the book banning.

What is true is that conservatives want, Republicans want books that are not appropriate for children to be not available in a library for children but still available. Now I did see a few people in my feed who said, Scott I actually do want to ban books. I want to ban the super lefty Marxist books that are hurting people. To which I say no you don't. Not really. You could get talked out of that in about a minute. Here's me talking you out of it. Just put it where adults can see it like everything else you don't want kids to see. There's a lot of books that kids shouldn't see. We do the same thing with all of them. We put them where they can't see them. So no I don't think there are really too many Republicans who want to ban all books from adults. That doesn't seem like a real thing to me. Although people did say it was a real thing. So anyway, let Stephen King be Stephen King.

So I guess the Stormy Daniels trial, there are seven super good liars who got picked for the jury. How could you not be a liar and be picked for that jury? Juror number six, do you have any bias about ex-president Trump? No, no. Why would I have bias? I don't even understand the question really. No no no no no. If you put me in a situation where I honestly believe that Hitler was on trial and I could be on the jury, I'm going to lie any way I have to to be on that jury because it's my responsibility to take out Hitler. The idea that this would be some kind of a fair trial is so ludicrous. Do the Democrats even in their private moments think this is some kind of justice that's happening? Because I don't think so. Don't they know what's happening? Or are they so dumb they think Trump actually committed 91 crimes? I think they know that it's just an op. But maybe they're so dumb they don't know.

Anyway the fact that the venue was not changed for Trump's election, that basically if the Supreme Court doesn't throw that stuff out, I don't know what.

Speaking of Tesla, there're also I guess they voted today to reinstate Elon Musk's $55.8 billion pay package that the state of Delaware threw out. Now the reason that it was originally thrown out is that the judge who threw it out said that Elon Musk had too much control over his own board. So the judge said hey this board is not operating independently enough so it's not like they made their own decision. You know it's like you rammed it down their throat. So in response to being accused of having the board too much on his side, Elon Musk is trying to put his brother on the board, Kimbal. So maybe that's not the best timing. Not the best timing to get your pay package reinstalled. They had it killed because you had too much influence on the board and then at the same time you're reinstalling that, asking them to put your brother on the board.

Now it's not crazy because Kimbal actually was one of the early investors in Tesla and Kimbal actually owns a pretty healthy chunk of it. So putting somebody who is a well-tested entrepreneur and friendly to Elon and also has large ownership in the company, that's not crazy. So actually Kimbal Musk is probably a good pick because he's a serious person. But it's kind of weird timing that you do it at the same time as that pay package. But anyway.

More colleges are, according to the *Washington Times*, more colleges are having what they call affinity commencements. Meaning that it be an all-black commencement or an all-Filipinx, which I think is the gender neutral term for Filipinos. So I'm pretty sure, oh it's spelled with a P not a PH, pipic. All right so I'm sure all the Filipinos would be delighted to know that they're pipic. Now pipic, it's even got penis right in it. For a gender neutral term it shouldn't be pipic. This should be pipic vagina if you're going to be gender neutral. You might as well do it right. No, pilippenix is just wrong. There's too much penix in there. Pilippenix vagina. No that's gender neutral. No no wrong. No it should be pilipvaginapenix because you want the vagina to come first. Otherwise you got trouble. You got trouble.

Well in other news Jeffrey Toobin says that Justice Thomas is a disgrace for minimi

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zing the January 6 attack on the Capitol. Called the justice a disgrace. You know what would happen if a conservative had done what Toobin did and then had that opinion? They would call him a racist masturbator. Well if a conservative was Jeffrey Toobin he'd be called a racist masturbator. But because he's a Democrat he's described in this news article as a legal affairs journalist. A legal affair…

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