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curated by humans, it's not just sales, then you already know that they're going to pull out the books that they don't like, and they're going to be conservative. So you didn't really have to study that. That was kind of obvious from the setup. I would go further on this story and say that I think this is true: that for a long time, publishers and also authors, we kind of look at the Amazon numbe…

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t the woman, but it does happen. It actually does happen. It's usually the man who does the hiring, you know, for safety reasons.

But just think about the fact that this has been going on for as long as I've lived in California. And do you know how many problems I've heard where it didn't work out? None. It totally works. The people coming in from Mexico on average are so law-abiding and so interested in just working and taking care of business. They just show up, they work hard all day, they take their money, which isn't that much, and then they leave. They don't sue you. They don't give you trouble. They just dig that trench, take the money, and go home.

So I'm very pro-Hispanic immigrants because I live in a world where they add so much to the lifestyle here and ask very little in return. They just want a chance to be part of the system basically. So I get it. You can't have uncontrolled immigration. I get that. We have too many. You don't have to convince me to close the border. But if you wondered why I'm sort of emotionally on their team, it's because they're awesome people. That's the whole reason. The Hispanic south-of-the-border people are just a really good class of people, and I love having them around. But we do have to close the border and we have to be tight. That's just a separate question.

Well, it's the pandering season. Biden says he wants to ban medical debt from your credit reports. Trump says he wants to cancel federal taxes on service workers' tips. Biden's trying to cancel debt on student loans. So it's sort of smart and sick and terrible at the same time. I thought Trump's play was pretty good because there are so many service workers. So many service workers that that probably sounds pretty good. If your buying power went down by 25% lately, that would look pretty attractive. So it's a good offer. But it's all pandering and buying votes.

CNN had a bit on home ownership. Home ownership costs are up 26% since 2020. Now that's on CNN. So CNN is making it very clear that under Biden's watch you just got abused financially. So again, I'm going to call out CNN's finding the middle. When was the last time I did a look at these CNN hosts being crazy? It's been a while. But I've been doing MSNBC being crazy almost every day. I mean, they're just terrible at this point. But CNN legitimately looks like they're heading toward the middle. I'm going to give them credit.

I saw David Sacks was on Jesse Watters, and Jesse asked him if the Silicon Valley people are moving toward Trump. And Sacks gave a few reasons that at least some number of them are. That California is getting regulated too much. They don't like that the business is regulated. Kamala is in charge of AI. They're not big on AI regulations. Well, not everybody is big on AI regulations because, as other people have pointed out, if you regulate too hard in the beginning, you just give your opponents, let's say China, a big advantage if they're less regulated. But you can kind of figure out the regulations as the industry evolves.

Now, others would say, well, that would work in every case except AI, because if it gets out of hand you can't put it back in the bottle. But I'm on the page that AI will be less of a risk than people imagine and that we can let it run a little bit before we decide if something just absolutely has to be regulated.

And I guess Biden is for crypto regulations. And I guess there have been regulations against mergers and acquisitions. So basically the business environment under Biden, and especially in California, not so good. So that probably moves a lot of people.

But I'm going to double down on this and say that there are no smart people anymore who favor Biden for president unless they have an obvious case of TDS. Let me give you the examples. Stephen King, obvious TDS, doesn't count, but probably very smart. Rob Reiner, probably very smart in his work life and otherwise, but yeah, he's got TDS. So the actors and the crazy people, I'm not counting them.

But 100% of the people who are not partisans or crazy are now in favor of Trump. All right, so Sacks is in that category. Elon Musk is in that category. Bill Ackman is in that category. A lot of the VCs are just looking at what works. The people who look at what works first versus what party is saying it, they're all on Trump's side now. All of them. It's only the people who can't get out of the two-sides-I'm-on-this-side-you're-the-enemy mode. The TDS people.

So Joe Rogan went super hard on the Biden regime about the lawfare and the corruption and the banana republic and stuff. What does Joe Rogan have in common with Elon Musk, Sacks, Bill Ackman? They're all people who can take whatever side makes sense. They're not obligated to vote one way or support one way. Everybody who's able has gone Trump now.

I keep saying it because I'm waiting for somebody to say, what about this exception? There's always somebody's going to say there's an exception, right? And there isn't. There's actually no exception. At least I haven't seen one. Show me somebody who's smart, capable of seeing things on both sides, has no TDS, and thinks Biden is a good choice. I don't think that person exists. And it's a gigantic story that apparently I'm the only person that wants to talk about.

Anyway, there's a CBS host who was finding out in real time on the show that 62% of

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registered voters support deporting all illegal immigrants. 62% of the country is in favor of deporting all illegal immigrants. That's, I think, the highest that's ever been by far. Now, of course that's nearly 100% all Republicans, but that doesn't get you to 62%. So it must be all Republicans plus 30 to 50% of Democrats are willing to ship every single non-citizen back home. That's pretty extrem…

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