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think. According to Futurism, which is a publication, a website I guess, there was a recent experiment by researchers at Carnegie Mellon where they tried to create a company that was entirely run by AI. So there would be AI agents for each job. So they would staff the AI company with, instead of humans, they would give it an AI agent to be sales, one to be engineering, one to be whatever. And so…

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. Literally nobody's even suggested that except Democrats, of course.

So dumb old Joy Reid, the dumbest person in media, she was back making a little video in which she claimed the Roman Empire fell because they had a lack of diversity. Now I'm no historian, but even I know that Rome didn't fall because of a lack of diversity. Can you imagine being so boldly dumb that you would say that in public, that the reason the Roman Empire fell was a lack of diversity?

So I saw a post by Paul Sispula, and he went to history.com and asked it why the Roman Empire fell. Here are the eight reasons: invasions by barbarians, economic troubles and overall reliance on slave labor, the rise of the Eastern Empire, overexpansion and military overspending — a lot of this is just overspending — government corruption and political instability, the arrival of the Huns and the migration of the barbarian tribes, Christianity and the loss of traditional values, weakening of the Roman legions. So basically everything except diversity. You could argue that the diversity is what destroyed it because when the barbarians and the Huns and the slaves were filling Rome, that was pretty diverse, and it was also the end of Rome. Now I'm not saying that diversity is going to kill Rome. I'm just saying it went down at the same time it had the most diversity, but not because of it. It's because of this other stuff.

The thief who stole Kristi Noem's purse when she was at a restaurant has been captured. And just to make it fun, the thief is an illegal immigrant. And it makes me wonder how did they catch the guy? So he had a mask on. So presumably there was no video that could catch his face. And there were several theories I saw. One was I think her phone was in her purse, right? Did her phone get stolen? Because if her phone was there, I guess they could track her phone and go right to him. Or did they look for his phone? Maybe he had a phone and they just checked to see who was in the building that day that was sketchy and also had a phone. Maybe. Or somebody else said maybe he tried to use her credit cards and that flagged something. But my best guess is her phone was in the purse and that might have been enough.

But have you noticed that when a crime happens to somebody famous, they always solve it? But if a crime happens to you, the police will say, "Ah yeah, could be anything. Let us know if you find anything. There's nothing we can do." AirTag. Maybe. Maybe she had an Apple AirTag in the purse. We haven't heard of that, but maybe.

All right, let's do a little update on Trump becoming a dictator. All right, so this would be based on the Democrat frame for things. So what are the Democrats looking at that suggests that Trump is becoming an authoritarian Hitler dictator guy? His administration has recently — well, the Department of Justice has arrested two judges for harboring illegal aliens. Is that like a dictator or is that more like nobody's above the law? Because it does look like both judges quite obviously and somewhat publicly violated the law by harboring — in one case having an illegal alien in their own home, and the other case allegedly helping the illegal alien e

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scape from ICE after a court case unsuccessfully. So I would say if they broke the law and it's an important law and they're going to make an example out of them so that other people don't think they can just protect illegal aliens, I would say that's not exactly too dictator-like because it's very narrowly aimed at people who broke actual laws. And it wasn't long ago that the Democrats were tryin…

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