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e *Daily Wire* and NBC, personal incomes increased by 0.8 percent in April, well ahead of the forecasted 0.3. CNBC is talking about that. So employment looks pretty good. Stock market looks pretty good. Inflation looks pretty good. Energy prices are coming down. And personal incomes have risen more than we thought. At the same time that we're in the middle of this tariff chaos, how can any of thi…

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he most brutal thing that we've seen, because it's such a direct claim that the monstrous problem we had with immigration was literally caused by Biden's brain not being functional and by our news people not calling it out and by Democrats lying about it.

So every time you think this is going to go away, it just gets worse. And this might go on for a while.

If you're like me, you're watching the Democrats try to learn. And they're trying to learn what was it we did wrong last time that cost us losing everything. And it seems like the things they're trying to learn are from two books. One, the Jake Tapper book with Alex Thompson, *Original Sin*, and that basically says that Biden was incapable and it was known to the insiders. And then there's the Ezra Klein book, I forget his co-writer, called *Abundance*. Now *Abundance* is basically we got to get rid of all these regulations and obstacles to building anything because we can't build anything in this country because there's too much blue tape, as Jamie Dimon would say.

So in summary, if you take these two books together, *Original Sin* and the *Abundance* book, the thing that the Democrats have learned is don't run incapable candidates with terrible policies. Yes, that would really help you. Don't do terrible policies managed by incapable leaders. That's pretty much the whole thing. Their backup plan to Biden was Kamala Harris. I mean, they weren't even trying to have capable people and they didn't even seem to be trying to have policies that would make sense, like closing the border. And I could go on, but that's as far as they've gotten.

And then Alex Thompson, the co-writer with Jake Tapper, he was on a podcast where Megan McArdle, who writes for the *Washington Post*, asked how legacy media can avoid running cover for Democratic presidents in the future given its bias. Now that's a pretty good question from the *Washington Post*. So Megan McArdle is acknowledging that the mainstream media is left-leaning, and she's saying how could we avoid running cover for Democrat presidents in the future like they did with Biden? And Alex Thompson said I wish I had good answers. Maybe one of the answers is get out of DC more and touch grass.

So in other words, there's nothin

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g that's going to change and the Democrats are going to run cover for terrible leaders on the Democrat side and it's just going to reproduce. So they will have more terrible leaders that they'll tell us are excellent until they've left office and then they'll say let me write a book about how bad they really were. Meanwhile, Tim Walz has some of the worst advice. I like him because he's so pathet…

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