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n day. Which should raise a little flag in your mind that says, “Huh, huh. The administration that’s in charge says the economy is extra good right before the election. I wonder if there’s any data they left out.” Well, according to Republican researcher Jackie Kitz (I think that’s at least somewhere close to the way she pronounces her name), since Harris took office gas is up 46 percent, electri…

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cost Taylor Swift for that several hundred million dollars. Now you could argue that Elon Musk cost himself way more than that for endorsing somebody. You might say that me endorsing Trump cost me some number of millions of dollars, which it did. And it’s expensive.

So I have to admit I kind of appreciate that she’s willing to basically lose hundreds of millions of dollars to use her free speech and have her free opinion of how things should be. But it’s going to be expensive, Taylor.

All right. Elon Musk saw that and responded humorously on X. He said, remember she signed it off as a single cat lady. And so Elon Musk posts this. He goes, “Fine Taylor, you win. I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.” Okay, that’s really funny. “I will give you a child” coming from Elon Musk who’s got 11 children for various baby mamas. “I will give you a child and guard your cats with my life.” See, this is why I doubt that Elon Musk is on the spectrum. Now he says he is. I mean he’s referred to himself as having Asperger’s. But you can’t write that joke if you’re on the spectrum. That is not the kind of joke you normally—this is a sophisticated joke. I mean it’s actually really well written. So I don’t know what is up with you Musk’s brain but it’s not operating like your brain and my brain and that’s good for him I guess.

You know I do wonder if JD Vance’s “single cat ladies,” you know, one-time reference he made that—of course they’re making a big deal about it—does that feel like his “deplorables” moment? Meaning that single cat ladies represent a pretty large percentage of the total voters and people who love single cat ladies I suppose. So it kind of feels like he insulted a group of Americans who are not going to forget it, very much like the deplorables comment. And I don’t think that he meant it as anything but a colorful way to talk. But so did Hillary. It’s just that sometimes these stains don’t wash out. And I think he’s got one that doesn’t wash out but it only affects that one demographic and they were probably all going to be for Kamala Harris anyway.

So I saw yesterday this compilation of yet again the media that backs the Democrats using the same language in every newscast. It was after Joe Biden did the State of the Union, the most recent one, and all the newscasters were saying it was fiery. That’s fiery. Fiery. Fiery. And you could look at it and go, oh well they obviously had some kind of memo that they’re all supposed to say fiery because when you see them back to back they’re just all using the same word. It’s fiery. He was fiery today. It’s pretty obvious that it was sort of a talking points memo when they all got it. Or

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that’s what I used to think. And when I say used to think I mean yesterday. I have modified my belief on this topic because the moment or even before the debate was over I saw the first person on the right say, “Hey that was really three against one.” And I thought, oh yeah that’s a clever way to frame it because you’re saying that the moderators were for one side three to one. And I saw somebody…

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