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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 o…

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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 Office presser I guess it was a presser of some kind was the claim that USAID had allocated $50 million for condoms for Gaza meaning Hamas basically. That turned out not to be true and so one of the reporters asked Musk about that and corrected him in the question. Apparently there is a $50 million budget for condoms but it's for a place in Mozambique which I think is also called Gaza. So there was some confusion about which Gaza was. County in Mozambique or the Gaza that we always talk about.

And Musk's reply was that he won't get everything right and so it's good that they bring it up and then he'll quickly correct. Oh my God when does a politician ever say that? Get challenged during an open public thing and say well I won't get everythi

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ng right. Now he did complete his point which is $50 million for condoms seems like a lot no matter where they're going and doesn't sound like something we want to pay for. So his point stood. It just wasn't as clean and politically damaging as if it had been the other Gaza. But still it looks like something that the public is not going to support. But that's like a breath of fresh air. And one o…

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