cry and worry and shake and all that other stuff. So most of the protests I think are propaganda and it's to make other people who are watching think there's more energy to get rid of Trump than there is.

And have you noticed that the people who want to get rid of Trump, they only have vague ideas of what it is that their problem is. It's so vague. It's like, well, he's going to steal my democracy. And then they also talk about all the things he's already done. To which I think, like what? Like what? He's done things that the courts have reversed. He's tried things that sometimes the court agrees on, but it doesn't look very authoritarian to me. And I loved his answer to it that he's far from a king because it's just hard to get anything done, which is a really good response. It is so hard for any president to get anything done that they're about as far away from being a king as you could possibly be.

But apparently all of the very worried, mentally ill Democrats have been convinced that he's up to no good and he's stealing their democracy forever. And I don't know where it's happening. I mean there are definitely things that I don't love about what the administration is doing, but it's not very dangerous looking. It seems all entirely 100% pro-American, America First stuff. So we'll see.

The administration is looking at adding 36 more countries to the travel ban. How many were there? Were there a dozen? Yeah, a dozen have already been added but they're looking at 36 more, mostly in Africa. The reasons for the bans are that the records from some countries are not dependable. So we can't tell what we're getting. And in some cases there's a foreign terrorist threat. And in some cases there are countries that have an unusual number of visa overstays. So if there's a country where every time somebody comes in legally they don't leave when it's time to leave, then they get on the list.

So is that authoritarian? Well, like everything else, if the court says he can't do it, then it won't happen. And if the court says he can do it, it just seems like he's protecting America. So it's about as authoritarian as I'd want it to be.

Well, apparently according to Newsmax, the administration is also dusting off this very long dormant law, the Alien Registration Act passed in 1940, which requires anybody who's not a citizen to register. And so it gives the administration one more thing to charge somebody with because if they're here illegally there's a good chance they have not registered. I guess it's a misdemeanor and they could have six months in jail or a $1,000 fine. And they're supposed to register and get fingerprinted and probably just about nobody's done that. So it's sort of an add-on just to make it more uncomfortable to be here illegally. So I think the Trump administration admits that the purpose of it is to essentially persuade the undocumented immigrants that's a bad idea to stay.

Well, in completely different news, there was a study to show who the best tippers are by state, and California is named. Now if there's one thing I'm getting tired of, it's that whenever California is in the news, it's always because we suck. When was the last time you saw a story where and then California was at the top of the list better than all the states? It's beating all the states in education? No.

So here is a story about the best and worst tippers. Can you guess how California is handled? Yes, of course. They're the worst tippers. Californians are the worst tippers. And the best are Delaware. So Delaware gave us the Biden family and really good tipping. Why would California be so bad at tipping? Does anybody have any idea? Is it because of our demographic makeup? Because we have a lot of non-citizens, but that wouldn't affect tipping, would it? I don't know. So I guess California just sucks at everything.

BBC reminds us that world fertility is at dangerous levels basically everywhere. But they go on to say that the affordability of having children might be the main reason and that seems right. You know, we spend time trying to think, well, why are birth rates going down everywhere? And we're thinking, oh, it's because testosterone is lower and we're thinking it's because of the news or because of our devices or whatever. But I think it's just money. I think it's money everywhere. I think every country that has an affordability problem, they're just having fewer children. It's just cause and effect.

So how do you fix that? You somehow having children has to become affordable. And I think that daycare is the biggest thing. If you could get rid of the daycare costs, it's not like the kids eat that much. But the other thing that is crazy expensive is if kids are involved in a lot of events like organizations. If you have a kid who's in a sport and they're good at that sport, they're traveling all over the place and you've got to travel and sometimes you've got to spend the night and you've got to outfit them and it's really expensive. So if you were to fix the schools so that kids are not being required to pay for all this extracurricular stuff and you could fix the daycare which feels like it's fixable with some kind of shared responsibility sort of thing. Seems like you could do it. Then maybe you'd fix the population. We'll see.

I see in the comments we spend $10,000 a year on sports. Yeah. And that's probably common if you have kids in sports.

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