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et it sit there until it was worth a billion. But I like to think — my favorite story I'll tell myself is that maybe they're stolen. Could be somebody hacked them. But wouldn't it be fun if they didn't know they had the Bitcoin and one day they just were looking through their papers and said, oh wow, yeah, I forgot I bought some Bitcoin 14 years ago. Oh, I wonder how. Oh, here's my instructions o…
← Previous segment →did, I don't know if that rescue of free speech is what ended wokeness. I feel like what might have ended it is finding out that most of the country was against it and Trump made it illegal, at least the DEI part. He made it illegal.
Also the trans athletes on women's teams. So I feel like Trump is the one who did it by simply making it illegal to be woke at a point where it's destructive to society. I mean, you could be woke in your brain, but if you're going to implement it in society in a way that destroys the fabric of sports and the economy, well, you don't get to do that.
So I'm going to say I don't know, maybe 50% Elon buying Twitter and 50% Trump making wokeness illegal.
According to CNN's Harry Enten, and maybe this is more on the same theme, according to four different big respected polls, a clear majority of Americans back deporting all illegal immigrants. So depending on the poll, between 55% and 64% of poll respondents — these would be American citizens — want to send back all illegal immigrants.
Now, did you know that in 2016 only 36% of the respondents said send everybody back? So when Trump first was saying, hey, close these borders and deport everybody, he didn't really have majority support, a little over a third. Now he has solidly over half of the country saying send them all back.
Now mostly I would say that's because there was so much of it between 2016 and now. So people just said, yeah, you know, a little bit of immigration was good, but this is totally out of control and now you have to send them all back. So some of it is Trump being very persuasive and some of it is the situation worsened and so the news showed a different situation to people.
But does that surprise you? I did not know that a majority of Americans — so that's got to include a bunch of independents at least, if not Democrats — the majority want to send back all illegal immigrants. That's way more than even Trump recently promised because ICE and Trump were both saying we're going to start with the worst first. So they never dropped the idea that they were going to deport everybody. It was illegal. But there was a practical limitation to that, meaning that they could work for years just trying to get the worst ones, the ones that had broken laws after they got here.
So I thought, well, yeah, you can say you want to deport every single one. But if you start with the worst first, it's going to get harder and harder to find worsts because once you get all the low-hanging fruit, you'd be like, all right, well, I know there's more criminal undocumented people. They're just harder to find, you know, but we'll keep working on it. But apparently the public is on the same page as Trump's campaign promises, at least by a solid majority. So that surprised me.
The Wall Street Journal seems to be a little bit pro-Trump in terms of the big beautiful bill. So the editorial board is complaining that the Democrats are lying about the big beautiful bill. So that's sort of a pro-Trump message, that they're saying the Democrats are lying to you.
The things they're lying about is saying that the Republicans are going to take away all your health care or that people who are eligible and should be getting Medicare are going to be dropped from it. They think the CBO had said that 4.8 million people would rather lose their Medicare that they have now than get a job or apply to school to learn something because if you're in school or you have a job and you don't even have to work many hours — it's like 20 hours a week — you can even volunteer just to maintain your health care.
But the CBO estimated that 4.8 million people wouldn't do that. Could you imagine being so lazy that you wouldn't take any kind of job at all to maintain your own health care coverage? No job, nothing for 20 hours a week, or even just sign up for a community college and barely pass. How hard would it be to do enough work to maintain your health care?
So that's amazing. So are we supposed to have empathy for people who want us to pay for them while they don't work even though they're able-bodied? So I think Democrats have convinced themselves that their relative who's in a wheelchair and can't walk, can't speak, that they're going to lose their Medicare. No. No. It's only able-bodied people. It's not people who are already in terrible shape.
So the Democrats have to lie that they're going to take away your health care. But also I asked this question on X this morning. I said when Democrats describe the hellscape of living under Trump's authoritarian rule, what part of that is touching them personally? Have you ever wondered that?
If all Democrats, probably maybe two-thirds of them, would agree with the statement that everything's gone to hell under Trump, do they have an example of something that affected them? Because I wake up every morning and nothing seems to be affecting me. There's nothing that Trump has done except maybe decreasing the number of dangerous undocumented people. I don't feel anything different. Every day I wake up and things are about the same.
But what are Democrats doing? Are they waking up into some hellscape? And if you ask them, all right, so what exactly is the hellscape? It turns out that according to the comments to my post that a lot of people believe that regular citizens will be deported. How many of you believe that just regular citizens will be deported, just minding your own business, and that one day ICE will
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break down your door and say, all right, your family's been here for four generations, but Trump has decided to deport you somewhere to a country you've never had any association with? Apparently Democrats believe that's real. So they think that citizens will be deported. What? So they think that their health care will go away even if they deserve it, which is not true. And they think that the de…
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