y people would say that's racist, which would be racist, which is the weird part. If you think that having an IQ test would be racist, you're the racist. Just think about it.

Well, apparently Harvard wants to settle with the Trump administration because Columbia settled with that $200 million fine that they agreed to pay. So maybe Harvard figured out it was cheaper to just pay a bunch of money and maybe agree to a bunch of stuff. And we'll see. So it might be a little early to assume that that's really going to happen, but Harvard might want to take the easy way out.

And Trump continues to monetize bad behavior. So he's literally figured out how the government can make money by going after racists in the college community, specifically the people running the colleges. So I don't mind that they're a little bit racist as long as we're reducing my tax burden or we're paying down the national debt. All right, you can be a little bit racist, but it's going to cost you. I don't know. I'm just perpetually amused when Trump does the Trumpiest thing you could possibly do, which is I'm either going to solve this problem, such as Ukraine or fentanyl or whatever, or if I can't solve it or until I solve it, I'm going to monetize it. I'm going to make whoever is involved with this just pay me a bunch of money. Nobody else would do that, but he does.

Well, do you remember Terry Moran? He worked for ABC and got let go recently. So he's got his own thing going on Substack, I think. And he was talking to Chris Matthews. And he was worried that Trump is going to close down or somehow force the sale or merger of all the big news networks to his cronies so that he would be able to control the news. So for example, CBS was part of Paramount or still is and the merger has just been approved for Skydance. Is that the name of the company? But that would be run by Larry Ellison's son. So Larry Ellison's son would be in charge of CBS News because they've merged and Larry Ellison is a Trump supporter. So I'm sort of guessing his son would be supportive of Trump.

Now, that would look like a win for Trump because it would make one of the big news organizations appear to be, at least on paper, appear to be, well, maybe they'll be a little more pro-Trump biased. And Terry Moran is sounding the alarm that if it's not stopped, Trump will roll up all the traditional media and make it somehow his puppet.

To which I say, do they have any awareness of why at least a third of the country believes it's all fake news? Are they aware at all that nobody would need to move against them unless they were just monstrously biased in one direction? We wouldn't be having a conversation about Trump trying to control the media if you believe that's what's happening. We wouldn't have that conversation unless the media was so bad that going after it and destroying it seems like your best strategy