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or Brandon Johnson of Chicago is saying, according to CBS News, that their finances are a complete disaster now and they've reached a point of no return. So what would a progressive mayor do if he were running a city and he ran out of money because he was doing such a bad job of managing the city? What would he do? Well, he says the state needs new quote progressive revenue options. What do you th…

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hey're looking at them to see which ones they think are honest and useful. We're reviewing them now. What do you think will happen? What I think will happen is that when a government that was in charge and really wanted to move a lot of money around for climate change, they found studies that really said it was an emergency and existential threat because that worked into their entire philosophy. And then when we have our current government that doesn't really think that climate change is a risk and that it's mostly a hoax, do you imagine that they're going to look at the science and decide that they found new and better science that suggests it's not that much of a problem? And might they find that the old science that the Democrats were using had flaws in the data or the methodology and could not be believed?

So now that in your mind you have agreed with me and I can feel your agreeance from a distance. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. All right. We're on the same page. If we agree that the science of climate change is going to conform to what was in the best interest of the political party who happened to have been elected, what does that tell you about science? Is there any lesson here? Have we learned anything about science by watching the fact that the scientific consensus will completely change based on who got elected who is not a scientist at all? Very much like nuclear power. Yeah. So suddenly it feels like the science will change whenever the people in charge decide that it changes. I don't know.

So I don't know what data will be real and what will be fake but I believe in general that all of our economic data for the country is questionable and all of our temperature and climate change data and models are also highly questionable. So what would be more important than our economic data and our climate data? Not much. And that data is probably just at least 50% wrong no matter even if some of it's true.

But at least our crime data is reliable, right? You know, if a place says, "Oh, our crime level is going down." Well, you could trust that, right? Because just because all of our economic data looks like it's warped and all of our climate data looks undependable, that

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doesn't mean that our crime data is going to be — wait, what? Oh, yes. There's a story today that the DC police commander is placed on leave for quote deliberately falsifying crime data. Oh god, everything is corrupt and it's all because people make up the data. So the police union has accused this guy of deliberately falsifying the data. Apparently the way they do it is by what they classify as…

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