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tigieg to build any infrastructure because as you know he completely failed in building any infrastructure. So this is going to sound like a joke. It'll sound like stand-up comedy but I swear this is the real language from the government. So apparently shortly after Biden took office he signed an executive order mandating that the beneficiaries of 40% of all federal climate and environmental prog…

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se Environmental Justice Advisory Council which monitors agencies such as the Department of Transportation and it was to ensure, this is quote, that voices, perspectives and lived realities of communities with environmental justice concerns are heard in the White House and reflected in federal policies, investments, decisions. So how would you like to be a company that builds stuff and you run into that buzz saw? Boss, did you know about this? What? Hey what? We're applying for that big grant so we can build that thing that they want to be built. Yeah. And we know how to build things and we'll have the money to do it. So we're good to go, right? Well but only if we hear the voices, perspectives and lived realities of the communities with environmental justice concerns that are reflected in federal policies, investments, and decisions. And that in order to qualify for the grant the applicants must demonstrate how meaningful public involvement inclusive of disadvantaged communities will occur throughout a project's life cycle. So you can't even like do a big thing in the beginning. It's better for you to make sure that it's spread out over the life cycle of the project. And apparently the phrases like public involvement are all unclear so you don't know if you've got enough but it should involve intentional outreach to underserved communities. So who gets to decide if there's enough and if you were intentional enough?

But wait I'm not even to the good stuff yet. You ready for this? According to the Department of Transportation the outreach to these underserved communities can take the form of, and I swear to God I'm not making this up, I'm not making this up. The outreach to these communities could take the forms of games and contests, visual preference surveys, or neighborhood block parties. So long as the grant recipient provides multilingual staff or interpreters to interact with community members who use languages other than English. So do you have any questions about why the Biden administration didn't get anything built? The incompetence that's layered in this goes beyond just oh my god it's bad. It's actually just funny to read their actual words. Anybody who's been in any kind of a real business, you know you could never satisfy these requirements because as long as they're vague it allows everybody who says they're in an underserved situation to say you haven't done enough for me. So no matter how much you're going to do somebody's going to say you didn't do enough for me.

I guess President Xi is meeting with Putin. I think that's today. I saw the video. I think it was today. Maybe it was yesterday. And he's there because there's the big victory day parade that's happening that Putin is putting on and I didn't realize that Putin has connected everything from Hitler to the Ukraine war and has always framed it. I guess I knew this but somehow you forget about it. You forget that Putin has always said that what he was doing in Ukraine was getting rid of the Nazis. And then I look at the United States and the Democrats want to get rid of the Nazis too. Like we're still fighting the Nazis. And Putin apparently is making that work because he's selling that version that he's just denazifying the world and he's trying to get President Xi to help I guess. So Xi will join the celebration of getting rid of the Nazis according to them.

Well as you know India and Pakistan are lobbing weapons at each other, artillery in one direction and missiles and drones in the other direction. But you heard there was an enormous dog fight. Did you hear that news? So both Pakistan and India had a large number of jets in the air who were directly fighting each other and they called it a dog fight. And then later we find out that they stayed on their

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own side of the border. So none of the Indian jets went into Pakistan and none of the Pakistani jets went into India but they had an enormous multi-hour dog fight. So does that raise any questions with you? Like what the hell kind of a dog fight is it if you're not even in the same country at the same time? And the answer is they were shooting things from I don't know over a hundred miles away so…

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