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t. You know, I never thought that eggs would be like a luxury good, but I was in the grocery store the other day and I saw I was going to get some eggs and there was so much activity in the egg section. Like people were talking and it looked like there was going to be a fight. There were plenty of eggs but it looked like there was a whole thing happening and I just looked at it and said nope, I'm…

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whatever Biden was doing was incompetent or evil or corrupt because it feels almost a little too easy to do the things that didn't look possible under Biden. We'll see.

According to Steve Watson writing for Modernity, mental health experts are seeing a big increase in Democrat clients. So a lot of Democrats with mental health problems because of the despair and burnout that they're experiencing over the Trump first 100 days or so or whatever it's been so far. And Axios has an article talking about that, how people are feeling burned out because they can't keep up with the rapid fire policies of Trump.

Now to be fair I also feel that the pure weight of all the changes, even though I like them, so even though I'm positive about the changes, it is overwhelming. And if you're, I guess I could call it my job in a sense, is to look at the news every day, it's really work. Oh my God. You know I love doing the podcast. It's one of my favorite things so it never feels like work but it does now. I feel like I'm on the DOGE project because I'm like oh my God I've got to read all the background of this NGO and how it fits into the larger architecture of everything and how everything's connected and who all the players are and then there'll be like seven more of those stories every day, every day.

So yeah it's pretty exhausting and I definitely feel it on my own mental health even though I like everything about it. It is just so overwhelming. So yeah if you're a Democrat you're probably having some tough times right now.

Well you probably saw the video about Trump was in the Oval Office and he was talking to the press and Musk was there with little X, his young son, and little X was stealing the show by being like little John John Kennedy and hanging around the Resolute desk and just basically stealing the show. But my take on it was wow this is great. It's very transparent. You're seeing the two of them so that you know you can answer pretty much all questions between the two of them. They were very open. Musk did most of the talking I guess because DOGE is the big thing at the moment so it makes sense. And I thought it was all good, nothing negative.

So what do you think MSNBC thought about it? Now that you know MSNBC and CNN are not real news, it's not just that they're fake news, they're just part of the resistance basically and their propaganda networks when it comes to political stuff, how do they frame it?

All right, MSNBC's Morning Joe wants you to know that we're in a constitutional crisis and there's a lot of chaos. There's a chaotic flow of activity and that Trump doesn't care what the Constitution says. But their own legal analyst said no it's not a constitutional crisis, it's working exactly within the bounds of the Constitution. I'm paraphrasing but basically you can do some stuff and then if somebody doesn't like it they can go to court, which they did. And then Trump was asked what he's going to do about all these judges that keep ruling he can't do this and can't do that. I think there are several rulings like that now. And he said I always obey the court. So yes of course whatever the court says goes.

Now nobody was expecting that, at least the bad guys weren't. But yes they're blaming him for a constitutional crisis and he says we always obey the courts. And I was trying to think is there any time in the past he didn't obey a court? I couldn't think of one. So I thought yeah that's exactly the right frame. I always obey the court because that really just eliminates the whole you're a dictator constitutional crisis. Oh if the court is involved we'll listen to them. Separate form of government.

Yeah. Now at the same time it's completely legal to impeach a judge so that's on the table. But I don't think there's any way we could impeach a judge. I think you need two-thirds of one of the houses or both or something and we never get there. So I don't think there's any practical way. But apparently that's what El Salvador had to do. So the miracle in El Salvador was being completely blocked by several of their judges at the highest court so they impeached them.

Now I don't know too much about the government of El Salvador but how do they have enough power to impeach judges like multiple judges? I don't know. There's probably more to that story but they got away with it and then when those judges were gone they rolled up all the bad guys, put them in jail, and now the country is looking pretty strong. So it could be a thing in other countries. I don't think it's going to happen here.

So MSNBC is going for the constitutional crisis and chaos. There's chaos. Lawrence O'Donnell says that Elon Musk quote humiliated Trump in the Oval Office. See they're going for the oh let's drive a wedge between them because they think that Trump is a narcissist and that if they can just get him thinking he's not the star then suddenly they can cleave them apart. But I think they have a complete misunderstanding of who Trump is.

Trump likes, not likes, loves the highest functioning people, the best athletes, the smartest people, the most capable, best entrepreneurs. He loves excellence. He's all about it. And if that excellence accrues to the legacy of his office and my God this would, can you imagine if Musk pulls off balancing our budget which looks like it's at least within reach, Trump will forever be the best president of the United States.

So do you think he's going to get rid of Musk because MSNBC, a propaganda network, said that oh he's stealing your limelight, he's taking all your attention? No. I think Trump is playing the long game and he knows that if Musk succeeds that in 100 years we might not remember Musk's contribution but you'll definitely know that Trump was the best president we ever had if he pulls that off.

So they're going for that. He humiliated. Of course Joy Reid on MSNBC she's like oh Elon Musk is the co-president of the

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United States. The pushback is not sitting well with the co-president who held court blah blah blah blah. It's all so stupid that it's barely worth repeating. You know it was so annoying when I thought MSNBC was at least trying to be honest or trying to give the news. Once you realize that they're not trying it's just funny so I just mock them. Well one of the things that came out of that Oval Of…

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