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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 an…

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now.

But I have to admit, since I'm in my own little bubble, I don't often see everything that the other side is thinking. I stopped for a while and I thought about this. Is it true that Trump is sort of maybe it looks like it's a bunch of coincidences, but is the media becoming more pro-Trump? So CBS maybe, we don't know yet. We know Media Matters is having some issues. They might run out of money. We know Gawker went out of business, you know, for its own reasons. The whole Hulk Hogan lawsuit took them out. Is it true that Trump is chipping away? And well, he also sued ABC News successfully, right? So maybe there might be something to it, but I wouldn't say it's the end of the world. It's more like an attack on existing bias. So we'll see.

What I don't expect is that CBS will turn into a pro-Trump news network. I don't think so. They might shoot for a middle ground, but I don't think they're, you know, they wouldn't make money. They wouldn't last long if they went the other direction.

Well, here is the persuasion play of the day. Do you remember the, well of course you do. You all know the story of the CEO that went to the Coldplay concert and he was hugging his mistress and

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they got caught on the cam where everybody at the stadium gets to see them and then he ducked down because they were caught in the act and eventually very soon after that he resigned. The company that he resigned from is called Astronomer and they sell some kind of technology product that I don't understand but today they launched a commercial featuring Gwyneth Paltrow who used to be married to t…

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