think anybody would like no other president would ever write like this. So this is the most voicey optimistic fun way he could ever introduce this thing. And then he brags about his ability to build things which most people would agree that he has, right? I mean you'd have to be a pretty hardcore Democrat to say that Trump doesn't know anything about construction. I mean really of course he knows construction. So yes he's probably the ideal president for adding a major addition to the White House. And then when he gets to the end he talks about this being his fun project that's not interfering with all of his other stuff with Russia and China. That's what you are thinking.

So one of the things I teach with writing is if you can say something that is exactly what your reader is thinking and then you take it off the table because they're thinking that they've got a question and then you just sort of automatically answer it. That's a home run in writing. So by the time you got to the end you probably would have been thinking why are you wasting your time on this when there's so many important things to do? And then he gives you the answer. Now I don't know if the answer is adequate or true or covers everything it needs to cover but the fact that he knows when you're going to be wondering and then he supplies the answer to your wonder, that's really good technique. So it's voicey as hell and well constructed in a way that I don't think historians are going to fully appreciate that he's the best writer we've ever had in government probably.

All right. I've told you before the California government seems to me a criminal racket and almost every day there's another story in the news that kind of bolsters that opinion. So according to Interesting Engineering Sujit is writing that there's a new study that reveals the deep corruption in California's clean energy push. So apparently the process of getting everybody on solar has created a sobering array of corruption. So I guess there are some of the alleged corrupt practices. Shocking abuses of power in the approval and licensing phases. Now how many of you are surprised that a very expensive project has a shocking abuse of power in the approval and licensing phase meaning the contracts are going to friends of the people who have the power to allocate the contracts. It's also as well as the displacement of indigenous groups. Okay I don't know about that. And also nefarious patterns of tax evasion or the falsification of information about the projects. Now I don't know how much of this is true but every single time California gets a bunch of money to do something that sounds good on paper somebody just steals the money. It's like you might as well just dump it on the ground and let everybody come and grab some.

So remember the high-speed rail that we didn't