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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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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 made the example of you know you wouldn't want to punish somebody in their adulthood because they cheated on a test in third grade. So sure enough Trump has made Democrats support crime. They're actually downplaying the importance of what would be a jailable offense. I don't know if it's jailable, but it looks pretty bad. Oh my god, you can't win any harder than that.
All right, let's talk about experts. I saw a comic Dave Smith was on Joe Rogan again and they were talking about how Dave Smith gets a lot of heat for getting into all these conversations mostly about Israel but other topics as well. And Dave Smith is a comic, not an expert. And so people say they shouldn't listen to him because he's not an expert. Here's my take on that. We live in a world where the joker and the expert, you can't tell which one's right. So the person who's a joker may just have a cleaner look at the world than the expert because the expert's usually working for a paycheck. The joker is outside the system and observing it and saying, hey, that doesn't look right. So if you believe you live in a world where the experts have better opinions than the jokers, that's not the world I'm in. I don't see that at all. I listen to people's opinions all day long. It's what I do. And I don't see these experts beating the non-experts. And I also think there's value in listening to the non-experts try to navigate the fake news, you know, because most of the news is fake, but that's all we have. So watching the expert deal with the fake news doesn't mean as much because they might be part of the scheme. You know, they might be on the side of the fake news. But if you watch somebody whose expertise is that they watch the news and you're seeing them try to wrestle with the news the same as you are, to me that's really useful. So to say that because he's not an expert yet he is capable of having winning debates with people who are experts on their field of expertise. I definitely want to hear more of that. Why wouldn't I?
And also there is something to be said for people who are better at spotting BS. So if the only thing that comic Dave Smith brings to the debate is they can spot things that are obviously they just don't smell right or they're too on the nose or they're just sort of obvious hyperbole or stuff like that. The people who are good at spotting are the most valuable people you could ever listen to. And there's not any recognized expertise or college major or anything that teaches you to be good at it. But I would argue that some people can demonstrate by their continuous opinionating that they are experts. And if a jester happens to be one of them who's just really good at spotting, yeah, you want to watch that. You don't always want to watch the experts because they have a really bad track record lately.
Speaking of experts, just to make my point about how bad the experts are. So Governor Kathy Hochul of New York is complaining that apparently they changed the law. So she was part of that changing the law to allow bail. So it's not all no cash bail. They do have situations in New York and it's because of recent law changes where presumably the cases that make the most sense there is bail. But the judges, she complains, are acting like it's still the old way. So literally the governor is complaining that the judges, let's call them the experts on the law, don't know the law. That's the governor of the state saying that the judges who probably are mostly the same political party, that the problem is the experts don't understand the law and that therefore they're not applying it. So there's your experts. How hard would it be to, I mean Kathy Hochul is not an expert on the law. Or is she? Is she a lawyer? I don't know. But she knows that the experts are wrong or she believes it in this case.
Well, apparently the DOJ is investigating whether the FBI under the Joe Biden regime destroyed some documents that would have been bad for Comey and Brennan. I guess Gateway Pundit is writing about this, Christina Laila. And I guess that's because they found a bunch of sensitive documents in burn bags, which would suggest that there was an effort to hide or conceal a bunch of documents on certain topics. So were some of the burn bags burned and some of them were not? And we just found the ones that were not. I don't know. So that might be interesting.
Breitbart's reporting, Jerome Hudson's writing that Hollywood is really quiet lately politically. Have you noticed that? I've kind of noticed that the Hollywood Democrat boosters, they don't seem to be running a lot of fundraisers and they're sort of keeping their head down because Trump is doing so well and Biden was such a disaster and the Democrat party is in total collapse. But apparently they're laying low and the people who would normally fund the Democrat party just are not seeing enough to fund. And apparently now some of the big bankers are starting to admit, the Daily Caller News is writing about this. There's some big bankers who are now confessing that the reason they debanked some people for political reasons was not because there was some risk to the bank, but because the Biden administration put pressure on them. And apparently they were not admitting that that was the real reason they did it. They were trying to act like these are just normal business decisions that these kinds of people would be debanked. Apparently that wasn't the case. It was pressure from the Biden administration. So now we have some people admitting it according to the Daily Caller News.
Well, there was a Chinese doctor who was working on I think an American base in Germany, and he was caught red-handed stealing cancer research and was taking it back to Beijing with him. So New York Post is reporting that. So don't you wonder if we're doing that too? Do you think we have spies in China that are stealing Chinese secrets or it feels racist to me, but we have this pervasive belief in the US that the Asian countries aren't so good at innovating. I don't know if there's anything to that. It just feels a little bit racist to me or a little bit what is it when you love your country more than other countries. I'm not sure that's a real thing. Or maybe it was. I don't know. Now I have heard that different cultures have different approaches to failure. So one of the superpowers in the US is if you tell somebody you started three startups and none of them worked out. In America you're almost as likely to say, oh wow, you're really experienced. Do you want to try another startup? So failure doesn't hit Americans like it does other countries. You know, there's a shame to your family or whatever is going on there. So I can imagine that maybe everybody is equally capable of innovation as far as I know. I mean I've never seen anything to the contrary, but that there are some cultures that would so punish you for getting one wrong that maybe there's just less experimentation. Maybe that's the whole deal. I don't know.
Well, the Trump administration is going hard in their investments to have rare earth minerals being made and processed in the US so we break China's grip. Newsmax Money is reporting about that. So there's just a lot going on there. So the bottom line is that the Trump administration is doing the right thing, which is going really hard on rare earths. Now, I was thinking today before the show, how many things that Trump is pushing hard that are exactly the right things to push hard? And then I asked, why wasn't Biden doing any of that? For example, this pushing hard on the rare earths, I'm sure Biden did a little bit, but probably nothing compared to what Trump's doing. It's this vital area. Then Trump's doing this major thing with ship building. I don't know if Biden did anything on the topic of ship building, but you know, it's a strategic critical area for us to be good at and Trump is going hard at it. I mean like really serious. Trump of course is innovating on crypto like that. Trump seems to be, I'm guessing he probably got rid of a lot of problems for the AI companies that want to open up their own energy sucking AI business. I feel like what Trump did is say you're welcome to do it but you're going to have to build your own power plant. And then they said thank you. You know, we'll do whatever we have to because we have to be in AI. We'll figure it out. And then they build their own power plants. Now to me again that seems like amazingly the right thing to do. So there are all these areas, I can go on, but I feel like there are all
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these major areas where Trump has either already solved it like the border or he's putting major resources exactly where you'd want them to be. And is it true that Biden just was incompetent or he didn't have the vision to get this through or he didn't have Congress? Maybe that's the difference. But I'll tell you the big stuff that Trump is doing that would have long-term strategic impact to the c…
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