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sitive about Trump. You got at least one cartoonist. Snoop Dogg and Carrie Underwood are going to perform and that's a pretty strong signal. And by the way Carrie Underwood, oh my god do I have respect for that. Did you know Snoop is a unique character? There's nobody like Snoop. He's the only person who could do all these bad things and be popular with everybody. Now I don't know exactly his sec…

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e like putting the toothpaste back in the tube. You know it could be somewhere. Well that's a bad analogy. Forget that analogy. But anyway.

The New York Times shows some polling that Americans now overwhelmingly support GOP positions on numerous trans issues. So Daily Wire is reporting this. Amanda Prestigiacomo. Wow what a nice name. Amanda Prestigiacomo. That's just a great name. I can't pronounce it but I feel like if I could it would sound extraordinary. Anyway she's writing that according to a New York Times Ipsos survey 79% of Americans, I looked at myself in a recording I realized that I look down too much and you're just looking at the top of my head so let me lift up my notes so it's not as egregious. 79% of Americans believe males should not be able to participate in female sports even if the athlete identifies as transgender. 79%. 79% on the same page. Now obviously it's weighted toward conservatives but even the Democrats by majority. So yeah even 54% of Democrats were against medication for minors. So converting minors wasn't popular with the majority of Democrats or Republicans. And look how far it got. I mean everything was broken. Everything was just broken. And the reason it was broken is because honesty wasn't allowed. You just couldn't be honest about it without getting canceled. So honesty is making a comeback and that changes a lot.

And then 77% of respondents agree that society is quote gone too far to accommodate trans people. Well only 21% say we haven't gone far enough. 21%. A little bit more and it'd be one quarter. Couldn't even get up to 25%. You know I joke if you're new to me I always joke that 25% will get every poll question wrong like no matter how easy the question is. The poll question is is it better for the economy to be strong or for the economy to be weak? 25% weak. What? No this isn't really a question. Strong is the only right answer. Weak 25%. It's just so consistent. Couldn't even get 25% to say that we hadn't gone too far.

Mike Johnson talks about Biden not even recalling that he had paused some LNG shipments. And so first of all I'm a little angry at Mike Johnson for not telling us this until it didn't matter. It wasn't that long ago. So maybe it never mattered because Trump had already been elected. But apparently Biden insisted to Johnson that he never issued the order to freeze new liquid natural gas export permits even though he had just signed off on it. Now that tells you a lot doesn't it? It means that Biden certainly wasn't in charge. Maybe there were specific topics where his influence was bigger but when it came down to the nuts and bolts of running the government he didn't even know what he was signing. They didn't even tell him what he was signing or he couldn't remember it which is I guess equally bad.

Yeah Johnson should have said something before but I don't think it mattered. But we would have felt better about Johnson if he said it. You know of course let me revise this. If it didn

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't really make any difference because the election was over and it would just make it hard for Johnson to work on the transition I probably wouldn't have said anything until I was sure the transition was working okay. Because it would have been creating a problem that didn't need to be created because there was no benefit from it. It was good that we found out eventually. That part's good. I'm goi…

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