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rth in your own mind. Well could it be this? Could it be that? What if it's this? What if it's that? The political right. And I'm not going to use the word intellectuals. I'm going to say the smartest people. So I'm going to include like your Charlie Kirks, your Steve Bannons, your Tucker Carlsons. Nobody would say that they're intellectuals per se. They're just some of the many smart people on th…

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if they were able-bodied, they would have to work to get their health care, to get their Medicaid. Now at the same time, Republicans are doing a mass deportation, which is taking workers away from employers. At the same time that the Medicaid rule should, if everything goes right incentive-wise, make people who were sleeping on the couch say, "All right, all right. I guess I'll take these jobs that have now been opened up by the deportations." So that would be an example of two policies that are complimentary. Here we're getting rid of the people. I don't want to say get rid of because that's sort of demeaning, but rather there's a mass deportation of workers that opens up a bunch of jobs that can be filled by people who want to keep their Medicaid and all they needed was a job. Very compatible systems, right?

Now let's compare that to the Democrats who want to push climate change and affordability at the same time. Is the climate change agenda, which would suck up tremendous amount of resources and put them in more expensive forms of energy and would decrease your ability to get the less expensive energy, is that compatible with we want to make things more affordable? No, it's not compatible. So once again, you see the Republicans build this beautiful system where they understand the incentives of human beings and then they build a system that matches those incentives. And then you look at the Democrats and it looks random. It just looks random. Like it's like they hadn't thought through anything. So look for that pattern. You'll see it.

Well, according to the Public Library of Science, there's an article there saying that loneliness predicts poor mental and physical health outcomes. Are you surprised that people who are lonely it affects their mental health and physical health? Now you know that I usually say, well maybe that's backwards correlation. Maybe people who have bad mental and physical health have trouble making friends. So they would end up being lonelier. So it probably works both ways, but I'm totally willing to believe that loneliness can cause you less good health.

And I'm going to offer you a solution to that. Many of you come to watch this show every day and you see that the reason I do it live is because of this loneliness factor. Don't you feel as if I'm sort of your morning friend who visits with you every morning in the comments that are going by live right now? I know you feel that because you tell me that all the time and I have very consciously, it's not an accident, I've presented myself as your daily friend because you are my friends, but you've also made friends with the other people in the comments.

And before I do the

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show that you're watching, my regular live stream for my subscribers on Locals, I do about a half an hour of a pre-show. Now I used to have a little bit of a resistance to doing the pre-show because people weren't listening to me. All I'm doing is preparing for the show and getting my coffee and I go down to my little putting room downstairs and I shoot three putts to see how the day will go. But…

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