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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 o…

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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 think fewer black women will be allowed into college? No. The answer is no. It's not black women. Do you think that they will accept fewer LGBTQ because they need room for the Chinese? No. No, it won't be that. How about women? Just women in general? Nope. Nope. It seems to me that every single one of these 300,000 extra Chinese students is going to go to college at the expense of a white guy. Am I wrong? So President Trump, I feel like we need a clarification here. I know it would be illegal for these colleges to discriminate based on gender or ethnicity, but what is going to stop them from doing it? What would stop them? It's obviously going to come out of the pockets of white guys. Obviously. And so let me just say hard no on this because if you don't have a way to do it without hurting white men specifically, then you don't have a plan that I could ever be behind. So yeah, I saw Jack Posobiec was coming out clearly opposed to this and I joined with Jack in clearly opposing it. Now, if there's some good reason that I have not yet heard that's beyond anything I've mentioned, I'm open to the argument. I do believe that Trump has earned some flexibility, but he also owes us an explanation. And if he can't promise me that this isn't coming out of almost entirely white men, no. Hard no. Nope. Nope. Nope. And no.

According to I saw a post by Wall Street Apes talking about how juries are very biased. Now, I'm not sure I totally believe these stats, but they're shocking. And there's some study that claims that black juries have a 12% conviction rate against black defendants, but a 59% conviction rate against whites. So that would indicate that they're far less likely to convict somebody like themselves. And then we should expect to see this everywhere, right? Like everybody would be the same. They would all be less likely to convict somebody who looks like them. Except white juries have a 33% conviction rate against white defendants versus a 26% against blacks. Meaning that white juries are more likely to convict a white person than a black person. And also black juries are more likely to convict a white person than a black person. Does that sound like the data is real? I'm a little uncertain whether these are, I don't know if I would bet my life that this is accurate data. This looks a little fishy to me, but that's out there.

So Lisa Cook, the Fed governor, and by the way, what does a Fed governor do for work? Is that even a real job? So yeah, they have their experts crunch some numbers and they make some decisions on interest rates. What else do they do? Because I don't see that Lisa Cook and the other Fed governors are going to be there with their spreadsheets and a bunch of papers on the desk like all right I'm independently trying to figure out what the interest rates will be and when I've got my number I'll compare it with all the other Fed governors and we'll take a vote. I mean, probably there's like one or two people who are not Fed governors but work for them who figure out what the interest rates should be based on what would happen if you did this versus that. And then the bosses just sort of look at the politics and put their finger in the wind and say, ah yeah, these other factors, we're going to go this way. But what else does the Fed governor do? Because I don't think that they have much to do with what the interest rate is. Not the Fed governors, you know, except for their one vote, I guess. It's not like they're doing the spreadsheet. What do they do?

Anyway, so Lisa Cook has been fired by President Trump, but she's doing her best George Costanza impression and has decided that despite being fired, she's going to keep coming to work. George Costanza. All right. I mean it's a version of Costanza. I know he quit. He didn't get fired in the TV show. So don't be pedantic and tell me that. But of course she's going

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to sue and then the Fed will decide based on how the lawsuit goes, I guess. So that's happening. I saw on CNN it was Krugman, the economist, who was arguing that since she did this alleged problem with the mortgage where she said she had two primary homes, but it was years ago and it was in a prior job when she was a professor. So you know, maybe that shouldn't haunt her during this job. And he m…

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