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lls. He goes, "They're ruining our country." Now, I'm not a fan of windmills. I think his argument is pretty strong. It's not great for the environment and we can do better and blah blah blah. It's ugly to look at, but I'm not sure they're ruining our country, but I do like his hyperbole. However, do you believe that he's on the side of the majority in his hatred of windmills? Well, no. So this is

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a rare situation where he's closer to the 20 than the 80. The public likes windmills, turns out. So there was a Washington Post University of Maryland poll in '23 that found that 68% of Americans would be comfortable living near wind turbines and the Pew Research Center in 2023 said that 77% of US adults support expanding wind turbine farms. So this is one of those rare situations where Trump is on the minority side. But keep an eye on this because this will be a good test of Trump's persuasion. The more he talks about it, I'll bet you that this, it was 2023 that these numbers came out. I'll bet if you did a 2025 poll, you would find that support for windmills is maybe not negative, but I'll bet it's closer to half now.

Oh no. Damn it. Here we are. Gary the cat is visiting if you hear some commotion on my desk. All right. All right. Don't sit on my notes.

Then speaking of Trump's hyperbole, he said all these things during the cabinet meeting. He said that MSNBC maybe is worse than Tren de Aragua. Real scum. Now here's why this is so clever. He said that they're worse than Tren de Aragua. And I spent 10 minutes this morning trying to decide if they were actually literally worse. Now, if you added up all the people that Tren de Aragua has killed or victimized in the United States, it wouldn't be a gigantic number, would it? You know, it might be an alarmingly large number in raw numbers like hundreds or something but it wouldn't be 10% of the population died or anything. So yeah, Tren de Aragua as horrible as they are and how important it is to get rid of them. I'm thinking that MSNBC has torn the entire structure of the country apart and that what they're doing is closer to treason in the biggest country, most powerful military country in the world and that although they may not have killed as many people, they have destroyed the quality of life. I mean they're part of a larger structure that has been propagandists and not news. And so I spend all this time. I don't have an answer for you. It could be that Tren de Aragua is winning on murders, but MSNBC is winning on destroying the fabric of society. So he makes me think about the comparison. If the only thing he'd done is say MSNBC is scum, then I would just go he always says that and I would move on. I would spend no time thinking about it. But when he says they're worse than Tren de Aragua, first I laugh because it's such a wild comparison coming from a president. I mean no president would ever say that. That's why it catches your attention. But then I actually spend time thinking whether it's true. And that is so much more persuasive if it makes you spend time on it.

Well, Denmark is apparently angry because they say there are some Americans over in Greenland, which Denmark owns and controls, who are trying to influence the locals in Greenland to want to join with the US, I guess. And so Denmark has summoned a top US diplomat in the country because he's got to give them a talking to. So does it make sense that we would have sent some undercover people, some intelligence assets to try to talk the Greenlanders into loving America? It kind of makes sense. It fits with everything I know about how the world works. So yeah, makes sense.

Well, you know the story of the 600,000 Chinese students that Trump says he will allow to go to college in our country. And if you're like me, you said, I'd like to know more about that. I'd like to know a little more about that. Why would you say yes to that? And how is that America first? Now, part of the answer is that the foreign students pay so much for tuition that it's the only thing keeping a lot of the colleges in business. So it could be that Trump doesn't want a bunch of colleges to close on his watch. And he figures if the majors that they're pursuing are not STEM majors, maybe there's no harm and maybe we're just making a bunch of people who like America. You know, if 600,000 people came here from China and they went home really liking America and wishing they could come back and thinking about working here, that might be good, but I don't know if that's why we're doing it. But here's my question that I don't see an answer to. Maybe you do. If colleges have room for 600,000 people, which again would be twice as many as we h

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ave now, so an extra 300,000 people. Who is it who is not going to get accepted in college because of the Chinese students? Let me give you a quiz and see how well you do it. All right, let's say there's an American college and suddenly they can admit twice as many Chinese students. So to make room for the Chinese students, will they decline admission for black women? Black women, anybody? Do you…

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