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mbarrassed about things. No embarrassment at all. I'm just degraded by 80%. So I have no idea what's going to happen. Well, what else can coffee do for you? According to new research, coffee can help protect your liver. That's why I soak my liver in coffee every day and you should too. So is there anything that coffee can't do? No. No, we can do it all. Here's some news that I can't get enough o…

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mean male frogs, not just every kind of male. But it sounds a lot like a wife faking death, except when humans do it they fake a headache. But frogs are more committed. You know, they're more like the Democrats of amphibians. So they're more into the drama of it. It's like instead of pretending I have a headache, which doesn't really work in the frog world because the boy frog is just going to go at it anyway. They have to fake dead.

It makes me wonder how often does the boy frog actually care if they're dead. Because if he gets in the right state of mind, that boy frog is just going to go nuts on that female frog even if she's pretending to be dead. And then once you realize that's their trick and you're the boy frog and you're like, I've seen this before, you're pretending to be dead. All right, I'll just Cosby you. So that's what's happening in the frog world.

Well, meanwhile it's a real slow news weekend. Bernie Sanders went to Coachella and gave a rousing speech that nobody cares about. But Trump went to watch a UFC fight, which is always a big event, and you know, it's great. Now compare these two approaches. If you were to just stop somebody in the street anywhere in America and say do you even know what Coachella is? How many would know what it is? I'm not even sure I know what it is. I've been looking at it for years and I see pictures and people say they're going and I read accounts of what happened there and I still don't know what it is. Apparently it's this really big dusty inconvenient thing that you go to so that when you come back you have stories of how horrible it was. It was all dusty and the bathrooms didn't work and then we got stuck and we couldn't get out. It's music. Somebody says it's music. All right.

So I don't think Bernie got a home run on that. But Trump as usual because he goes to the UFC and acts very manly. It's just a perfect fit. So Trump for the win.

I guess Meta, the Facebook company, is going to go to court on charges of being a monopoly, I guess. So they're being brought up on antitrust charges. And one of the possibilities is that they would be forced to divest Instagram and WhatsApp because apparently that's too much social media for one company to have. I don't really understand that. So Facebook had a service that showed pictures and you could share them with your friends. And then they bought Instagram but it was still worth only one billion and they built it into a behemoth. So why do they have to divest? Is it just because they were too successful? I mean it's not like TikTok doesn't exist and it's not like X doesn't exist. I feel like it just doesn't feel like they necessarily should be broken up. So I'm not pro-oligarch. Sorry, Bernie Sanders. I'm not all about the oligarchs, but I don't know. Is there any compelling reason why WhatsApp can't be part of Meta? That doesn't even make sense to me.

Well, speaking of Facebook, they're trying to make their AI Llama 4 more balanced, which means they have to figure out how to make it at least conscious of what the right-leaning part of the country thinks and wants. So they're apparently quite aware that the way they trained it, it made it a lefty, sort of turned it into a Democrat. And to Meta's credit, they don't want it to be just a Democrat. So they're putting effort into trying to figure out how to make it less left-leaning and more like Grok. So that's cool.

I saw a good thread by Rod Martin on X talking about Trump's new play. So apparently he went ahead and has executed, we've heard of this before, but there's a 60-foot-wide strip of land that runs across our southern border. And apparently that's now been designated to be military property. And so our military can operate on that 60-foot-wide space, which means that if you come across the border illegally, you're going to be on a military base. And then the rules of how the military treats things are in effect. So that would give them a little bit of flexibility, the military anyway, in how to handle it. And there'd be no sanctuary there.

So when I say that, I think to myself, why does the Trump administration always come up with these kind of radical but good ideas? It seems like nobody else ever had a good idea, but this whole 60-foot strip, that just feels like a good idea. So I'm kind of impressed by it.

You know, Jasmine Crockett, everybody's been watching the Democrats' rising star Jasmine Crockett. She said the other day that it's beyond wild that no one is questioning Trump's mental acuity. No one's questioning Trump's mental acuity. Well, we all saw what happened when Bill Maher met Trump in person. His biggest takeaway is that Trump is not crazy, but he plays a crazy person on TV, which he does.

So here's what the Democrats have gotten wrong so far. The Democrats were not able to judge that Biden had a severe mental disability. None of them saw it. They were not able to judge that Kamala Harris obviously has some kind of a substance or drinking problem. None of them saw it. Still don't. And then when it came to Trump, they got exactly the

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wrong answer that Bill Maher tried to straighten them out on, which is, huh, turns out he's actually a really nice guy and interested in people's opinions and nothing at all like what you see on TV. So Democrats are 0 for three, aren't they? I don't like to brag, but I'm three for three. I was calling Biden mentally incompetent in 2019. Jeez, I've been calling Kamala a public drinker, meaning tha…

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