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e're keeping the Congressional Redistricting Commission at the same time that he's pushing to ignore them. He's trying to sell that. Good luck. So I'm hoping Californians can see through it and maybe turn down that redistricting thing, but I don't know if that poll is telling us what we need to know about that. According to the New York Post, 75 homeless camps in Washington DC have been cleared.…

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n Eric Swalwell was asked to comment on Trump's meeting with Putin in Alaska. And if you can believe this douchebag, he's one of what I call the designated liars, the people who really push the big lies, like the really embarrassingly obviously false really big lies. And so he goes with, "I do not know if President Trump is or is not a Russian asset." What a piece of crap that guy is. What a piece of crap that in 2025 he's still pushing the Russiagate hoax like it was all real or something. Oh my god. MSNBC actually puts him on the air for that.

Well, I was wondering if you've started to notice a pattern, which is the stickiest criticisms against Trump are the things you can't prove or haven't happened yet. May never happen, but they haven't happened yet. So people criticize Trump because inflation will happen, but it hasn't. I mean, a little bit, but not enough to change things. They're worried about him becoming a third-term president, but it hasn't happened. It's probably just a joke. Well, it is just a joke. They're worried about him becoming a dictator. Well, I don't really see that happening because if the court rules against him, he still does what the court says.

And even the stuff with Ukraine is more about what will happen next than what has happened so far. So it feels like they really have to reach and they also do the mind-reading thing where they'll say, "All right, well, maybe nothing's gone wrong, but in his mind he plans to do terrible things in the future. In his mind, he's only doing it for the wrong reasons." So it's the weirdest set of criticisms because if they look at what he's actually done that has something like a conclusion, that stuff looks pretty good, right?

Because the NATO funding is done and that looks pretty good. The closing of the border largely completed. I mean, it's a permanent job they have to keep on it. But we don't have to wonder what it looks like. He already did it. So there's probably a whole bunch of things that he's already done like getting great investments to come into the US, onshoring stuff. And then what is it, six or seven wars he's helped end. You know, you could argue whether that's really four or seven, but he's definitely helping wars end.

So all the things that have happened look pretty good. We're only worried about the things we can imagine happening in the future but are not that likely, actually.

All right. Apparently the Trump administration is going to start cracking down on all-cash buyers. I think specifically companies doing it, purchasing American homes. As you know, there are a number of entities, some foreign and some domestic, paying cash for homes that severely limits the availability of homes for other people to buy and that raises the price, we assume. So Trump is going to look into that. And I feel like that's another 80-20 issue because there might be big hedge funds and stuff who want to keep buying houses for cash because it's one way to basically hide your money in an inflation-resistant asset because houses will go up in value if inflation goes up. So it might be just a way for people to hide their money until they know what's happening with inflation.

But if you were to query the public, I would guess at least 80% of the public, maybe 90%, would say, "Yeah, you should clamp down on all these non-residents buying houses." So that's probably a good topic for the president.

Apparently the biggest teachers union, Randi Weingarten's union, is suing the Trump administration to try to keep DEI in public schools. Corey DeAngelis is reporting on this. He's your school choice evangelist. You all know Corey. You should follow him on social media. And it just seems to me that topic after topic shows that the teachers unions are trying to destroy the country because if they have their way, the schools will keep getting worse because there won't be choice and they will pack it with DEI which will cause division and all kinds of problems.

And honestly, on one hand, you could say, well, the goal of the union is to help the union members. It's not to h

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elp their students. It's not to help the parents. So you could understand why, you know, in our competitive world, they could have a union and they could fight for things that are good for them, but there's not really a balance to that. There's nobody who's the one on the other side who's actually in the battle. So it's sort of a one-sided thing. And what it makes it look like is that the real goa…

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