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er and could be stars. But it seems to me that the CNN hosts, none of them have an audience. If they were to leave, I think they would all turn into Don Lemon. And you would find that it was CNN that made them famous and successful. I mean, if successful is the right word. Whereas at Fox, the talent made the network. At CNN, the network makes the talent well known. It seems opposite. Is that a fai…

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s the Trumpy thing that anybody ever said from Trump. The Trumpy thing is making fun of CNN and then saying that CNN complimented him, but he can't confirm it because nobody watches CNN. Now that is just genuinely funny.

All right, speaking of fake news, there's a story today that's either two separate stories or fake news or too complicated for us to understand. So I woke up to see that Trump has said the US military just entered the great state of California. And according to Trump, under emergency powers, they turned on the water flowing abundantly from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The days of putting fake environmental argument over people are over. Enjoy the water, California.

All right, so he's drawing a picture where all you had to do was send in the smart people to turn on the spigot, and then all of LA's California water problems would be solved. So California wouldn't do it because of some environmental thing. So we send somebody in to turn on the water, and we're all fixed. Now, does that sound true to you when you read that? Do you say, oh yeah, there's nothing else I need to know about that story? Did that just hit the bull's eye for you?

All right, so here's a reporter for I think it's the LA paper saying that military did not enter California. No, I think it was somebody from the water district or something. The military did not enter California. The federal government restarted federal water pumps after they were offline for maintenance for three days. State water supplies in Southern California remain plentiful.

All right, so Trump says there's not enough water. California says water is plentiful. Trump says he created a whole new flow of water. The state says no, they just turned on some things that were down for maintenance for three days. So basically nothing. So was it nothing or was it something? And I still don't know. But I will refer you to a long thread on California water situation from Joel Pollak. You can see that in my feed or you can see it in his feed on X. And here's the situation. The water situation in California is complicated. It's complicated not only because there's a whole bunch of different aqueducts and sources and different things going to different places, but there's also a history. So there's a history of what was and what they had to change and what was an environmental change and what was the natural situation with the weather when it rained and when it didn't. And you'd kind of have to know it all to know what's true and what isn't.

I don't know at all what I do know is it's complicated enough that I have no idea what happened. I don't think Trump gave California more water. I don't think that happened. But I'm just guessing because the story is too complicated. So what will be interesting is to see how CNN and other places handle it. Because if this just turns into two movies where Fox News says Trump turned on all the water and everything's fixed, and then CNN says nothing happened, we'

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re not really going to be well served as a public. And I worry that that's going to happen. One will say it happened and one will just say it didn't happen, and then we'll just go to the next topic and we'll never know what happened. And we'll just keep our individual views of that forever maybe. But let's talk about Karen Bass, the mayor of LA, who is getting a lot of heat for her handling of th…

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