la is releasing prisoners for the purpose of coming to the United States. There seems to be evidence according to one source. Now that's not enough for me. If you're saying that one source is enough, you haven't been paying attention too much. You should probably never take one source. So even though one source that doesn't have any credibility problems that I'm aware of, it's just a good idea to have a second source. So it's a one-source story, and the one-source story doesn't go to the second question whether the Venezuelans are doing it intentionally.

But does that matter? Once again, Trump is directionally correct even if he's not technically correct. So he might not be technically correct that they're intentionally emptying the prisons so that those people can come to America and get them out of the country. It might be correct that they have some reason to reduce the prison population for whatever reason, and that some of them went to America. So I would say that Trump is correct enough in a Trumpian, directionally true statement that there are prisoners, people who were in jail recently for pretty bad crimes, did in fact come to America. How many? Well, he's probably exaggerating that. But how many would it take before you were pretty worried about it?

So there is more evidence that the so-called Venezuelan gangs conquering territory is a real thing. We just don't know the details and the extent of it, but it does seem that Venezuelan gangs are conquering territory in the United States.

Here's a story that I don't know what's the most outrageous story of the day, but in Great Britain, in the UK, they're looking to, since their prisons appear to be full and they're going to be jailing a lot more people because of their new anti-free-speech laws, they're looking to maybe rent space in Estonian jails, which have lots of space. So the Estonian jails are just plenty of space, they're not full, and they've decided that they'll ship some of their prisoners there. Maybe. I think that's unconfirmed, but one of the plans is they might ship their prisoners to Estonia.

Now what's wrong with that story? Let me tell you what's wrong with that story. If you heard that Estonia's prisons have lots of room, what's the best way to play this? What's your first thought? Whoa, Estonian prisons have plenty of room. We could put our prisoners in the Estonian prisons. Okay, that's the way the UK is going. Now I don't know if they'll do it, but they're definitely considering it.

Here's how I would have played it. Hey Scott, did you know that the Estonian prisons are largely empty? Watch how I play this. Why? Why are the Estonian prisons largely empty? Did they overbuild their prisons? No. But why are some of them empty? Does their Department of Justice not work? No, it works pretty well. Yeah, no, they have a pretty good system. So what are they doing that is not producing criminals? Because you should be asking more questions about that. So the question you should not be asking Estonia is, can we use your prison space? No, you should ask, what did you do right that you don't have to put your citizens in prison? What did you do right?

Because do you know what the answer is? Do you know what the Estonians do right? Almost everything. Estonia is this weird little country that just got to be sort of a special case in the world where for whatever reason their leadership are rational. I know you didn't see that coming, did you? You could vote by an app. You just open your app and you can vote. Estonia has one of the best internets, pretty low crime. Estonia is killing it. The only problem Estonia has is they don't want Russia to conquer them, which is always a risk. But no, let's ask why they don't have people in the jail. Let's ask if we can use their jail space. That is the loser approach.

The story about that school shooter, that the father bought him the rifle for Christmas after he had already been talked to by the FBI for threatening a school shooting. So it looks like the father might be in some legal trouble for buying a deadly weapon for somebody who had been interviewed by the FBI as a potential school shooter. So, I mean, everything about this story just screams, what is wrong with this country at the moment?

Author