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t Meta's new glasses. You know, they look like regular glasses but it allows you to see things extra. So you'll see your regular environment but extra stuff added. And Joe Rogan was talking about some Harvard kid who figured out how to use facial recognition software with these glasses. So I guess you can add your own apps. And if you look at somebody with the glasses, that calls up their social m…
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Anyway, so there's two technologies that are going to change things. We'll get to the big politics in a minute.
So according to Fox News, Alexander Hall is reporting that San Francisco Asian American voters are basically walking away from the Democrats. Now of course it's not all of them. It's never all of them. Whoever you're talking about, it's never all of anybody. But does that surprise you? How many of you would be surprised to learn that Asian Americans in San Francisco are starting to turn toward Trump in a fairly dramatic and very measurable way? Who's surprised about that?
I would argue that you could only be surprised about that if you didn't have any Asian American friends. Anybody who has Asian American friends, you already knew it. You already knew it. So I'm not going to dig any deeper into that because I'd be sort of talking for a group that I shouldn't be talking for. But if that surprised you, it's only because you didn't have any contact with that community. Yeah, they're very common sense based. What works? Oh let's do that. What doesn't work? Oh we'll avoid that. Just common sense. So yeah, of course they'd be driven toward common sense solutions.
Meanwhile our favorite crazy Democrat representative Jasmine Crockett, she said on some radio show or podcast just recently that Republican voters don't like to read or learn facts. They don't like to read or learn facts. What I love about this is Democrats can't learn. There's just no learning happening at all. Yeah, if I could teach the Democrats just one thing, just one thing: don't do this. Do not make general statements about all Republicans. It's so dumb. It's like dumb on a level that is hard to even fathom. But still doing it.
And when I say this I just say to myself we need more Jasmine Crockett because the more Jasmine Crockett there is in the world, the longer Republicans will have total control of the government. Well maybe Jasmine Crockett will have a new job opportunity someday because Joy Reid's show on MSNBC has reportedly been cancelled. I guess it's going to run for the rest of this week and then she will be out.
Now what would be the worst name to give your own TV show if there were some chance you would ever get cancelled? It's called The ReidOut. Read as in her last name, R E I D. That's the name for the show. ReidOut. What is the news today? ReidOut. Yeah, so they should have confirmed with me at the beginning. It's like if we give it this name is anybody going to be able to mock it later? And I would say yes, yes they will be able to mock it later. So maybe rethink that.
It also made me think that if you imagine that someday the news reader will be robots and AI, who would be easier to replace than Joy Reid? Allow me to do my AI robot impression of Joy Reid's replacement. Today in the news the weather is 85 degrees in San Francisco because of white supremacy. Today in the news the New York Giants won a game because of white supremacy. I mean how hard can it be to make an AI that just reproduces Joy Reid? Because of racism. There's racism. Trump is bad. Orange Hitler. Orange Hitler. Chaos. There's chaos. Orange Hitler.
All right. Meanwhile Trump is on Truth Social dunking on MSNBC and he calls them MSDNC as in they're basically a Democrat function. He says MSDNC is even worse than CNN. They shouldn't even have a right to broadcast. Only in America.
Now I of course believe they should have a right to broadcast because of free speech. I think he's being a little hyperbolic but it made me think, and I don't know the answer to this, maybe you can tell me in the comments. If you're a news network do you get some extra government protection? In other words if you do the news, does the government say oh you can use these airwaves or whatever? Now I don't know if it applies to cable but is there anything like if you're in the news business you get some extra rights? Is that a thing? It used to be when the airways were limited in bandwidth but I think it did. So I'm not an expert on that but it does ask the question. If something is pretending to be a news network but yet in every way it functions as a propaganda organ, does it have a right to exist? I think it does because lying is still legal. You can lie all you want. You can be as biased as you want. But it does raise the question. Is there anything that's different about MSNBC?
Now there's some thought that the management of MSNBC is trying to move away from doing nothing but criticizing Trump. We'll see. Anyway it makes me wonder if the Trump effect took out Joy Reid. Do you think that Trump is the reason that Joy Reid is losing her job? I wonder because if it hadn't been Trump being president wouldn't she have some positive things to say? Let's say a Democrat were president. Wouldn't she have some positive things to say? And then maybe her ratings would not have collapsed. But when you've got a president who's pulling over 50 percent in popularity and he's doing a lot of things that people want, if the only thing you can do is call him orange shitler day after day after day, I can see how your management would get tired of that. So it makes sense to me.
And it also made me wonder if Trump can recoup all of his legal expenses from the lawfare and all of his business expenses from being boycotted or whatever happened to the Trump business itself. Because let's say he got 30 million he won from NBC for fake news about him or no, just I think it was just fake news. Somebody else at 30 million. And then he's suing CVS. That might be a multi-million dollar settlement. It seems to me that the only thing you'd have to demonstrate is that the fake news knew it was fake at least whatever story they're talking about, that they knew it and that they did it anyway. Which I'll bet is an easy standard to achieve because if you sue somebody you get access to their emails, right? You probably will always find some evidence in the emails that they knew exactly what they were doing. So maybe there's more lawsuits coming.
Meanwhile Hezbollah held a funeral for its late leader that Israel took out some months ago and it was an annoyingly and startlingly large gathering of Hezbollah supporters. But Israel apparently did a flyover. So all the Hezbollah people were dancing around and doing their thing and Israel just does a flyover with F-15s and F-35s I think it was just to remind them we're not done. So that happened.
Breitbart News is reporting, Francis Martel, that Doug Burgum, he's the interior secretary, and he says that Trump plans to sell energy to our friends and he's going to help defund the Russian aggression. So part of what he's saying is that the more energy the US creates the weaker Russia will be because Russia depends on its energy. So if we're competing with it, it should lower their revenues, increase our revenues and make us safer.
But here's the question I have. Although Doug Burgum might be a solid choice, he doesn't strike me as the person who can promote any successes. He's just not a promotional guy. It may be to his credit that he might be more about getting the job done. But it seems to me that the single biggest good news would be if we did something really good in the energy field. In other words creating more energy, lowering the cost of energy, approving more stuff. And I was unaware of what we're doing in energy but I looked at Daniel Baldwin had some list of things that the administration has already done, Trump administration, that would make a difference. But I don't know how real these are.
So one is finish the Constitution pipeline to bring natural gas to the Northeast. I don't think that happened. I think that Trump announced he wants to get that pipeline going because it would lower costs in the Northeast at least for natural gas. But I don't think it's going so I don't know if there's anything there yet. Could be in the future but at the moment no. Then also listed by Daniel Baldwin is a joint venture LNG project with Japan. Now does that lower costs of energy in the United States if we're doing an LNG project wi
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th Japan or does it just open up a market? I don't know. Apparently India agreed to make us its leading supplier of crude oil and petroleum. But isn't that just increasing demand on our energy? So here are the two examples of increased demand. Increased demand doesn't lower your cost. I mean if you increase production to meet the demand it's still not doing anything. Trump is reopening 625 miles…
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