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me kind of antitrust collusion over ChatGPT because you know if you have an Apple phone it's sort of mated with OpenAI and I guess X believes that maybe they're getting less visibility because of that. So we'll see where that goes. I feel like all these big companies are just suing each other all the time. Have you noticed that all the news is about lawsuits now? Like that's all it is. Or court ca…

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ght? $45 billion doesn't sound like it would be maybe the biggest in history, but could they really have one shipment that had $45 billion of value? Would the cartels put $45 billion of product on one boat? I mean, I don't want to tout or talk up the cartels, but aren't they pretty good at this smuggling stuff? Would you put $45 billion product value on one ship? Would you? That would be a weird choice. So I don't know if there's a typo in this story or what, but let's just say I'm skeptical. There's something about that that doesn't track.

Well, J.B. Pritzker, governor of Illinois, wanted to make sure that you knew that Chicago is no hellhole. Oh no. Chicago is no hellhole. In fact, he proved it by taking a walk in one of the safest Chicago neighborhoods early in the morning when all the bad people were still asleep. And he said, "Look at this. Looks safe to me." Is it my imagination? And maybe, you know, I think maybe it's entirely based on my own bias, but does anybody else have the feeling that the Democratic governors are sort of clowns? Does anybody have that impression? Now, arguably, you know, John Bolton is kind of a clown in his own way, but doesn't it seem like the Democrat governors couldn't possibly be serious with half of the stuff they're doing? They just don't seem like they're serious politicians. They seem like they're there for the jester work or the clowning or the attention. I mean, honestly, J.B. Pritzker, he doesn't even look like he's trying to be some kind of professional politician. He just looks like he's clowning. Every time I see him, I can't even take him seriously. I don't know any Republican governors who when you watch them your impression is, is he even serious? Are you even trying to do your job? Is that all on one side? Am I just biased? You know, maybe you could name 10 Republican governors that are just ridiculous characters. What about Tim Walz? Isn't Tim Walz a ridiculous character? He just looks like a clown. Like a crazy clown. Well, who is the Republican version of that where forget about your politics, it's just that you watch them and you go, "God, what a character. What a clown." I don't know if there are any. Or they stay under the limelight, which would make sense.

Anyway, UC Berkeley is getting sued by Dr. Yael Nativ, a woman who tried to get a job there and was told that she wouldn't be hired by UC Berkeley because she's Israeli. They didn't say Jewish, but they said because she's Israeli. And they thought that the atmosphere there would be too dangerous or you know it would cause too much trouble to have

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an Israeli on their staff. And so she was denied the job for which apparently she was qualified and would otherwise have had. Can you even imagine that? Now, I don't know how that lawsuit's going to go, but I've got a feeling that the person who got turned down because of their country of origin probably has a pretty good case. Have you heard about there's a movement called Raise the Colors? It o…

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