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ime or something to look into that and find out that yes, there were armed gang members standing outside the apartment building? There was no way they could have figured that out on their own for a year. Sorry. Trust in the media pretty low. Pretty low.

All right, here's a story that as far as I know has not been debunked, but it doesn't sound real to me. So I'm going to tell you the story but we're going to play a game where you tell me, does this sound real or does this sound a little too on the nose, like a little too perfect?

All right, here's the story. I see Ian Miller is reporting this for Outkick but I believe there were other outlets that are reporting it. And the report is that JP Morgan Chase CEO, the famous Jamie Dimon, said the following while at an overseas event. He said that quote, "I have a lot of friends who are Democrats and they're idiots." Bloomberg is reporting this while he was speaking at a foreign ministry event in Ireland. Oh well, I guess Ireland is where you go to say terrible things like Rosie. Then allegedly Jamie Dimon went on and said, "I always say they have big hearts and little brains. They do not understand how the real world works. Almost every single policy rolled out has failed."

Doesn't that sound a little bit like me? Or maybe Greg Gutfeld. One of the things that Democrats are often criticized for is policies that don't seem to understand how human beings work, that we have incentives and stuff like that. So that is so on the nose that that makes me a little suspicious. And then it goes further and he describes how the Democrats lost their way. And allegedly, and again I'm not totally sure this is real, but allegedly Jamie Dimon said they overdid DEI. "We all were devoted to reaching out to the black community, Hispanic and LGBT community, the disabled. We do all of that," Dimon said. "But the extent they got to, stop it and they've got to go back to being more practical. They're very ideological."

And I'm thinking to myself, all right well it's sort of real-ish, but he would have known he would have been quoted. Would he really say that all of his Democrat friends are idiots? Would he say that and then go back to New York City where his subordinates and his friends are Democrats? Who says that? He's a little bit too smart and too savvy to insult 75% of all of his friends knowing that it will get back to them. So is that real?

All right. But it goes further. I guess he was asked about Zohran Mamdani, who by the way you could call him Zohran Mamdani or you could call him Mamdani. So it's either Zohran or pick one. Anyway, what Jamie Dimon allegedly said, and here I'm still a little skeptical he really did, but allegedly quote, "He's more of a Marxist than a socialist." And now you see these Democrats falling all over themselves saying well he's pointing out some real problems, affordable housing and grocery prices. Okay, maybe there's the same ideological mush that means nothing in the real world.

Now again that's the sort of thing that I would say that it's sort of a word salad, meaningless nothing. Does that sound real to you? I'm going to put a pin in this one and say I'm not sure because a lot of the news today is fake or looks fake. This one I don't know. I'm not buying it. I'm willing to be talked into it being real if Jamie Dimon says, "Yeah, I said that." Or there's a video that comes out someda

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y, but at the moment I'm going to say probably not. I'm leaning toward fake news on this one, but I could be wrong. I'm going to say 55% fake news, 45% real. That's my final answer. Well, somebody named Eddie Zu has developed AI glasses that will be used to train robots. And the way it will do that is they'll put these AI glasses on Chinese factory workers and it will watch them work. So the glas…

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