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't know, several years now, probably at least once a day I've said to myself, you know what, I should sit down and I should dedicate a whole bunch of my time to writing up what the drinking bleach hoax was, how it was executed, and really do a good job on it. So yesterday I fell asleep working during the afternoon, which is not uncommon. I woke up next to my laptop, as I often do in my man cave, a…

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rain knows how to sort out this stuff. But I'll let you know if I write it anyway. I did have an earlier draft of it so I might be able to put it back together.

Thomas Massie tells us that the House Sergeant at Arms wants to fine him $500 maybe a day per day for having a post on X that shows a video of the House and a number of the members waving Ukrainian flags during the vote about the Ukrainian funding. Now do you think that the House Sergeant at Arms has the authority to fine him because of something he posted on X? Well apparently there's some kind of rule that says you can't have a video of the proceedings inside. And if it was his own video and he took it and then he posted it that probably would be a violation. On the other hand it does seem like absolutely legitimate news and I would be very happy to see it. So of course I reposted it to make sure that more people saw it. And I'd like to make an offer to Thomas Massie that if it turns out that he's going to pay $500 a day I will pay for one of those days. So I'll pledge $500. If he gets fined I'll pay $500 to his campaign or something. So I'll try to make sure that the blow is softened. And if anybody else wants to commit to paying for a day you can pay for your free speech because free speech costs $500 a day.

California, my state, has so much solar power it turns out that during the day there's more solar power than there is demand for it. Now we still have overall an energy problem because it's not balanced. But so many people in California took the government rebates and everything and put solar on their house that when we get that afternoon baking sun we're actually creating more energy than we're using. That's kind of amazing isn't it? I mean it's bad and good at the same time. So 25% of our electricity is now from solar. You know this is one of those things that kind of it's too slow and then it happens fast. You know there are a lot of things like that. It's like god it's slow it's slow it's slow and then it's fast. So maybe we'll have a lot of solar here really fast.

Did you hear Biden's latest gaffe, if it's a gaffe at all? He was saying in his speech about Trump but he talked about himself accidentally. He said how many times does he have to prove weak, can't be trusted. How many times does Trump have to prove that Biden's administration can't be trusted? Well I don't know how many times will it take. He still has half of the country on his side so apparently it's not enough. Well I don't know if we should make anything of that other than Biden's brain is toast and everybody knows it.

Constantine Kisin, who you know from Trigonometry, very fun and smart comment

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ator on world events, has introduced a new word into our vocabulary: the retardosphere. All right I'm just going to read you what he said because it's kind of funny the way he puts it. So Constantine Kisin says the woke left-wing sphere was created by sensible people on the left being silent when they should have said something. The right-wing sphere is being formed in exactly the same way. And he…

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