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the scientists would say hey I think more people should have access to this so we'll put together a little publication, nonprofit, and we'll just make sure everybody sees it. So that's the way it used to be apparently. Today the vast majority of scientific studies are in for-profit publications. For-profit publications. Do you see the problem already? The for-profit publications want to publish as…

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at you agree with cloture so that they can all go on vacation or whatever it is that they need to do. And I don't know if that's going to work. But once again it looks like the Democrats are in that performative mode where they're just going to pretend it's the end of the world and you know they're going to put on a lot of acts. So we'll watch that.

Kevin O'Leary, you know him as Mr. Wonderful, he was on CNN last night and he was talking about teachers unions being bad. And he said our reading and math scores are the worst in the G7 in terms of how many dollars we spend to advance our children. Why unions that keep mediocre teachers in place when we should be firing them? So I'm going to double down on that because of course I say the same thing. I think the biggest existential threat to the country except for debt, debt's number one, is the teachers unions. Because they're clearly creating a situation in which the test scores are down, learning is down, and America is falling behind its peers. I'm pretty sure that's all the teachers unions because if you had any kind of competition, competition almost certainly would have improved things.

So given that the teachers union, their two biggest objectives are to benefit teachers, that's what a union does, it benefits the teachers. But in this case it's a special case where they're also benefiting the Democratic Party. So they're the biggest donors and supporters of the Democratic Party. So if those are your two top priorities how in the world would you even expect that scores would be better? And they're all performative. You know that Randi Weingarten, she's the most performative actress you've ever seen and she gets all excited and she says things that generally might not get through your fact checker.

So now she's all upset about the Department of Education being gutted even though it shouldn't make any difference to the states because the things that matter they would just hand the money to the states. The things that didn't make any difference to anybody they'll cut. Probably won't make any difference at all. So it just gets rid of some bureaucracy at the federal level. But yeah I agree with Kevin O'Leary. He's right on. And the fact that we don't talk about this every day I think it's because it's this slow-moving disaster sort of like the debt. You know you could push that debt thing down the road for years which we did. But at some point when the amount of interest on the debt is going to be bigger than our spending for national

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defense, which is sort of where we're at, then suddenly you've got to do a DOGE or you've got to do something drastic. So I don't know if the schools would ever reach that point because next year is going to sort of look like this year and the one after maybe it's a little worse but not that much worse. And I don't know that it ever reaches that critical point where you just say all right stop ev…

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