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professional male black athletes, putting on the hat and saying you know what, I've listened to both arguments, going Trump. You watch the UFC fighter types, every different race and religion, and you see how much they love Trump. And you say to yourself, huh, that's a lot of people who like Trump, all different kinds. Here's how Trump did it. When I look at Trump's celebrity endorsements, here's…
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All right. Colin Rugg had a little video and a post on X about Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin. She was mocking Trump's because his nominations were too white. And she said when they looked at the page of the nominations there were a thousand shades of white. Ha. She said I have to comment. When he put up all those faces, it was a thousand shades of white. Have you noticed that?
Well, I'd like to do a call out to one of my followers, Mike Bert. Mike Bert, what are you going to say about that? That's sort of an inside joke, right? We have within Locals, I've authorized one person to be inappropriate as much as he wants, you know, not too bad. But so we have one court jester who's allowed to say the things you really shouldn't be saying, but we've allowed one person to do it because it's actually fascinating. If you cut yourself off from the opinions that differ from you, you're not going to understand the nuance. But this was funny for reasons that you won't totally understand.
But I would note that they're not entirely white. I think there are some Asian Americans, there are some other flavors, and there's some Hispanic Americans. I think there's at least one. Some Middle Eastern American type. And Scott Turner was selected for head of HUD. So HUD has a black guy who was part of the executive team over there I guess, and he's got a good resume. Now what do you think? Do you think that the HUD appointment was a DEI appointment just so he could just so Trump could say well they're not 100% white? Well I don't know. I don't know. I also don't know if HUD needs to exist. Can anybody tell me why HUD exists? Is there anything that HUD does that couldn't be replaced by something far more efficient? I think they have tens of billions of dollars of funding that they kind of allocate, but couldn't that be allocated more locally?
So here's my take on what's wrong with every urban development problem. So somebody says if only there were a big bunch of money. And then somebody says all right, here's your big bunch of money from the government. And then it's allocated to people who apparently just steal most of it. How do you stop that? So if you have a system that's good at producing money and delivering it, but then once it gets delivered it's stolen somewhat reliably or it's given to the wrong vendors who can't get the job done, you're never really going to fix it.
So it seems like that what we need is to fix the funding oversight. I feel like the decision of how to spend money locally should be not in the hands of the elected representatives. And I know that sounds
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opposite of what makes sense, but if a small city can elect a mayor who then can make sure that the contracts go to their brother-in-law and anybody else who's going to give them a kickback, we don't have a workable system. See that's a system problem again. So what I'd like to see is Vivek and Elon coming up with maybe some ideas collectively for how we can make sure that if money is sent to an…
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