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ho has written books, I think it's going to be the author world that dies because that seems like the older technology, the one that doesn't really support the country directly. It's just something people like. Whereas AI is more existential, necessary for defense, for economics, for everything. So I did a little test where I went to Grok and I told it to summarize the book Atomic Habits. And it…

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tire Republican concept of common sense or you have to stay against common sense. There's only two paths. How in the world do they come back from that? Well I guess they have the media to keep them in business.

Well let's look at the designated liars on the Democrat side. You know the designated liars are Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin, Swalwell, and Elizabeth Warren, and some more. Now what's different about the designated liars, this is my own name for them, the DDLs, Democrat designated liars, is that they will lie in public about something that's already been debunked or is easy to check is not true. Goldman, yeah Goldman I guess you could add to the list. But not all of the Democrats will do that. There's a whole bunch of just sort of normal Democrats who might spin things, they might leave something out, they might say their idea is better than it is. They might exaggerate a little bit, but they don't tell the big whopper lies.

So here's what Elizabeth Warren did recently, and I saw this in a post by Mazie Moore on X. So as Mazie is pointing out, in early March there was a story about a French scientist, and this is a fake story, but the story was that the French scientist was denied entry into the US because he had some anti-Trump text messages on his phone. Now apparently I just missed that story because it seemed too small I guess. But so Elizabeth Warren is going to pretend like that's true after it's been debunked. I guess the real story is that the scientist did something with some confidential materials. So it had nothing to do with text messages about Trump. It was something about confidential materials. But so Elizabeth Warren is at the Senate Finance Committee and she wants to bring this up after it's been completely debunked. So unambiguously didn't happen. But as Mazie points out, listen to how carefully she words her statement because she knows it's been disproven for weeks. But the way she talks about it is she says that reportedly, reportedly it happened because reportedly is accurate. It's accurate that somebody reported it, but by now she knows it's not true. And she can still say reportedly if you had a bad message about Trump on your phone, you might be denied entry to the country. Reportedly. Now that is something that only the designated liars could say. I mean it is so shamelessly obviously a lie, but you know she's using the weasel word "reportedly." Reportedly.

So that's my lead in to my next story, which is James Carville has the most insane claim here. He was talking to Ryan Lizza on a podcast and according to Carville, he said, "People say to me all the time, James, why don't we just do like the Republicans do? Just stand up and lie." All right, so this is Carville claiming that the Republicans lie and then he's going to tell you why they can't do that. And he says, "Because our effing people wouldn't stand for it." Carville says, "If I stood up and lied, you would be the first person to say James Carville lost all credibility last night when he said X, Y, and Z." Really? Has James Carville never noticed that Democrats lie? I mean I don't even know what to say about that because I can't tell if he's actually stupid and clueless and he doesn't know or is that just one of his lies and he's just sort of a happy warrior, lies about anything.

But Carville is not one of the designated liars. He does try to weasel his way around to something that's closer to spinning or omitting some facts or leaving out some context or something. So he's not, I wouldn't call him one of the designated liars. He doesn't like to get caught in a really direct lie, but he certainly said some things about Republicans getting ready to cut Medicaid and Social Security to which I say, but the president says he won't do that and there's no support for that. And then he would argue, well but you know there are reasons to think they might do it anyway. So that's not the worst lie. It just lacks context I guess you'd say.

All right. But at the same time Jen Psaki, Democrat, she was asked about the so-called cover up of Biden's mental decline. And she was on some podcast and she argued that she doesn't like the word cover up because that suggests that they were aware of the fact that Biden was mentally incapable and they were hiding it from people. And she doesn't believe that she ever saw Biden with any mental decline. Now is she a Democrat who is lying? You can't really tell because maybe by weird coincidence she just never saw it because he had good days and bad days. So it's wildly improbable that she was not aware of his mental decline. Wildly improbable. But you can't say it's impossible. So again she's not one of the Democrat designated liars. She's more of a spinner, more of a leave out some context, allow you to believe something that you shouldn't believe. But anyway, I guess the Democrats think they don't lie.

So Ilhan Omar was asked on some interview about the rise of Islamophobia and she was asked

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if that's a legitimate fear that people are afraid about the rise of Islam I guess in the United States. I would say that I'm afraid of that because the Islamic system is such that it's built to dominate and usually there's a very clear plan to get more people, have more babies, carve out your own little area where you say, "Oh you know we'll be a little Muslim area." Next thing you know they're g…

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