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Democrats. Now keep in mind that she didn't turn away from the Democrats to Trump right away. She turned to the most Democrat family member you could ever have which was Kennedy. And that was enough to be like excommunicated forever. And you know she was basically dead to her friends and business people. Now here's the thing that I take away from that. Correct me if I'm wrong because I'm not a hi…
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Is that a good argument? I'm going to go with both of them are full of shit. So I'm going to say I can't back either argument because they both look like they're lying. So I don't believe the Democrats when they say oh it's a different bucket. But I also don't believe the Republicans when they say that's the reason that there's not enough money or even that there isn't enough money. The White House says there is enough. We're giving them everything they want. So I think both sides are lying on this story or mistaken. No I won't say lying. I'll say mistaken or they're adapting a version that's compatible with their preconceived notions. Let's say I don't know what to believe on that but I don't like it.
There was a story that the FEMA was blocking private flights and helicopters from bringing stuff in. Elon Musk got into it on the X platform because people were contacting him and saying we've got this stuff but they won't let us deliver it. And then Pete Buttigieg weighed in and said that's not true. Nobody's blocking any flights. And then Musk tried to get in touch with him and did. And Buttigieg was successful in expediting the approval of the flights. In other words Buttigieg was not aware that there was something that needed to be expedited.
Now is that a giant failure of FEMA or Buttigieg? Yes yes yes it was a giant failure. But I'm going to put some context on it. In the context of this big operation with so many moving parts it's not that unusual that the top person or persons are not getting the information from the bottom persons. That's not unusual. So my guess is that Buttigieg literally didn't know it was a problem until he fixed it. It was the fixing it that guaranteed it was a problem because there was something to fix. So even Buttigieg says you know that he expedited. You don't expedite during an emergency unless something's broken, right? Because the expediting is what the emergency response is. The entire emergency response is an expedited response. So if he has to go in and expedite the thing that should have been expedited, something was broken. But he did fix it so we'll give him that, right?
I tend to be very very generous in my scoring during a disaster because you know people are just doing the best they can and I think they are doing the best they can.
According to The Hill a Georgia judge has tossed out a lawsuit about voting machines because the judge says that the alleged holes in the voting machine process are purely hypothetical. So some security risks were presented to a Fulton County judge in Georgia and the judge said you have not made your case that these weaknesses in the system are purely hypothetical.
Now here's what you should learn from this. If you have a computer or you have a company you might be worrie
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d about the cyber security of your company or your own computer. If you're worried about the cyber security of your company you should see a judge. No no no. Some of you were saying no why wouldn't I talk to a cyber expert? No you don't need a cyber expert to tell you who can and cannot hack a machine. No you need a judge. Somebody went to law school. They're the ones who can tell you if the secur…
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