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ate that at some point you'll say see I told you that these tariffs would cause a problem, but then we will later find out that that was temporary and that maybe it wasn't caused by tariffs at all. So expect some up and downs in the economy and people are going to blame the tariffs or not blame the tariffs and nobody knows because economics is just guessing. Well, the head of the BLS, which woul…

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that person because here's what that person should have done. Here are the numbers, but they're preliminary and they're only accurate to within like a thousand percent. Which means you would understand they're useless. Now if you were the boss, you'd say, "Hey, wait a minute. You're acting like your organization is terrible." Because if that's your best estimate is within a thousand percent of being accurate, why are you even doing this?

And then you would say, if you were the head of the BLS, you'd say, exactly. Stop asking me to do this before we have all the numbers or approve the expense for us to fix the system so that we can go get the data and it'll be accurate because obviously there's another way to do it. Whatever that is. And there might be a better way to do it.

So if I were the head of that group, it's a Bureau of Labor Statistics, if I were the head of that group, I would have said, I'm either not going to give you the numbers until we know what they are, which might be three months, or I'm going to have to note that they're useless numbers, or you're going to have to approve for me the budget to fix it.

So yeah, she deserved to get fired because she didn't do any of those things. She just printed the stupid numbers and got us all worked up about nothing.

Well, UCLA has agreed to pay $6 million in a settlement over their anti-Semitism. Allegedly, I don't know how deep that anti-Semitism went, but some Jewish students were harassed and banned from certain places. Sounds pretty bad. But rack up another win for the Trump administration.

Meanwhile in Texas, so Texas did some redistricting. So we call it gerrymandering and it would create five new Republican seats in the House. And the Democrats in Texas don't want to vote on that. They don't have enough votes to stop it, but they do have enough people that if they don't show up to vote, there won't be a quorum, so they can't have a vote.

So they did this clever thing where the Democrats all went to, I don't know, Chicago or something, and they're not going to come back because if they don't come back, then the vote can't happen. Now, I don't know what they expect to happen. Are they never going to come back? It's not like they can put it off forever, can they? They got to sort of come back.

Then Greg Abbott has threatened to have them arrested or removed from office. I don't know if any of that's illegal, but I suspect we'll be finding out pretty soon. Yeah, it's a quorum fight. What's called a quorum fight.

According to Rasmussen poll, 69% of people polled agree that Russiagate requires accountability. And 54% of likely US voters believe it's likely that members of Obama's national security team committed crimes when they manipulated and manufactured intelligence to promote a false narrative about Russia and Trump.

Now, did you ever wonder if we had this gigantic 2016 election question about Russia interfering with the election? Did you ever wonder if they interfered in 2020? Russia? Because I didn't remember that they did or didn't. So I had to ask Grok. And here's what Grok said. They said that in the 2020 election, Russian hackers did sniff around, but there was no reports that they hacked into anybody's email the way they did in 2016, allegedly. Then the Russian publication RT did a bunch of things that were propaganda, but that's continuous. RT is propaganda all the time, not just election time. And then Russia did some fake social media in 2020 allegedly and it was some of the social media stuff was reportedly designed to exacerbate current divisions. So there wasn't so much of a we want Trump to get elected. It was more of a just making everything a little bit worse like they always do, I guess.

But you know how I always talk about the world being two movies on one screen. Even though we're looking at the same stuff, we have a completely different interpretation of the world. And that is definitely happening now because this Russia hoax cover-up is so damning for Democrats that if you were to accept it the way Republicans frame it, you know a lot of Democrats have to go to jail, high-ranking ones.

So the Democrat-leaning media is trying to disappear it and they've probably succeeded because my bet is if I talk to my smart Democrat friend I sometimes reference, I'll bet he would say nothing happened. There's no new revelations. No, there there was. He would probably say, "Well, all they said was that Russia interfered and they preferred Trump and that was demonstrated." So that's all everybody ever said. So why would anybody go to jail for that? They're just saying that Russia interfered and they preferred Trump. And that's exactly what happened. And here's the evidence of it.

And they would present as evidence things like they tried to do some hacking. They had $100,000 budget for some online stuff. None of that, of course, would move the needle any more than 2020 moves the needle. They're a little poking around and doing a little hacking. But you also have the media trying to cover it up because they got Pulitzer prizes for reporting it incorrectly. If they correct their own reporting and say, "Well, okay, turns out this wasn't so much a Russia collusion situation as it was a treasonous act by the people that are on our team." And then we have to give our Pulitzer back because now we realize that we were just supporting the criminals and that we were telling a lie.

So if you're the New York Times, you don't want to do that. So instead, you try to minimize the story and try to turn it into a, hey, all we said was t

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he Russians interfered and that they preferred Trump and we proved it. So let me remind you what this Russian interference was allegedly. So the accusation is that the Russian military intelligence, the GRU, hacked the DNC as well as other emails like John Podesta. Now, how do you and I know that the Russian military intelligence hacked those? How would we know? Because our government told us the…

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