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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…

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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 goal of the teachers unions is to destroy the United States.

You saw it during the pandemic. You're seeing it with DEI. You're seeing it with their opposition to school choice. These are the most fundamental things. The quality of education is the most fundamental thing that would keep the country healthy and they're attacking it in every domain. It seems like so this is not an accusation but it almost feels like Randi Weingarten must be working for one of our adversaries. Like that. Does she get a paycheck from somebody we don't know about? Because the way she acts is like she's not in favor of the United States. I mean, it just looks like picking every destructive thing you could pick and then backing it. I think trans is another one of those topics.

Anyway, in the potentially good news category, Wired is talking about I guess DOGE didn't die. It just morphed into more of a permanent part of the government, which is good news. But I guess one of the DOGE smart guys—more than one, but one person's in charge of it—they're developing some AI-related tool that they want to eliminate up to 50% of federal regulations within the next year or so. And they claim there are 200,000 federal regulations.

Now, how in the world would you use AI to eliminate regulations? Would it just do the work of looking through them and then how would it know that a regulation was a bad idea? That's the part that AI doesn't know, right? Because if AI is trained on what is written, probably every federal regulation has some backing to it. You know, if they looked online, they'd say, "Oh yeah, this is why it was created, some safety." But how would it know that it created more problems than it solved? How would AI ever know that?

So I guess I'm a little skeptical that AI could make a difference in that domain because you would have to know a lot more than AI could possibly know to make a smart decision. But maybe it's sort of like AI helping a programmer that you just use it to ask questions t

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hat would be hard to research, but then a human makes the decision. That's a lot of decisions. If you're trying to get rid of 100,000 federal regulations, how would you ever learn enough to know that you made the right choices? I don't know. Anyway, so I'm optimistic and I don't think that the DOGE geniuses would be working on it if it didn't have promise, but we'll see. And there's a projection…

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