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s himself he gets a sort of a theater and a stage to prove to the world that he's way crazier than you thought. And to that point he just did some kind of official court motion to challenge Trump to a round of golf. And he said quote about Trump, he goes, "If he wins he can execute me. I win I get his job." Now if he keeps doing that kind of stuff in his defense I'm going to conclude that he's not…

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the right answer for proposing and that if for example the diamond engagement ring that he should have ordered if for example that had been delayed and maybe he had meant to ask her on some special day but it got delayed the right answer is to wait for the ring. Am I right ladies? Can you back me on this? The right answer would be whatever you do don't give her a wedding band as an engagement ring. Even if it's a placeholder. No not even as a placeholder. That's my advice.

Anyway it looks to me like AI. So I don't know if the base story is correct. You know maybe somebody took a true story and added some AI pictures but it doesn't look real to me.

Now here's what's interesting about this. We know that there will be AI things that we believe to be true. I mean I already fell for the bear on the trampoline which by the way the more time that goes by the dumber I feel for falling for a bear on a trampoline. Like what were you thinking? I wanted it to be true so I just willed it into feeling true in my mind. But no there was no bear using a trampoline. But we're gonna have the opposite situation too. And this is funny. There will be some number of real things that people don't believe are real because you'd think only AI could create that right? Have you run into that yet? So sometimes it will be AI pretending to be real but other times it'll be a real thing and you'll say I'm pretty sure that's AI. This is one of those situations. Maybe I don't know if it's AI trying to fool me or if Cory Booker just looks like an AI generated character because all four pictures they were smiling and laughing like hyenas. And I don't think either of them in the real world would have allowed all of the pictures to be laughing hyena pictures. They would have picked at least one where they just were in love or something. Not like oh so that looked like an AI choice of poses. We'll find out probably by the end of the day. Somebody will know if that was real.

Well the Post Millennial is writing that Trump has ordered the removal of gender ideology from public school curricula and if they don't do it their federal funds will be cut. I'm no expert on gender or the psychology of it or the medical parts of it. I've usually tried to stay out of all the trans stuff and the gender things. You probably noticed that right? You've noticed that I just usually ignore those stories. Sometimes you can't but I'm just not super interested in it as a news topic. It just feels like the same story just over and over again with a different person.

However when we're talking about gender ideology being taught to children there is one element here in which I would claim some expertise and it goes like this. I can tell you with certainty that you could confuse a child about their gender or sex with hypnosis. And I can further confirm that you don't need to be a hypnotist to do it. And then further confirm that all it would take is any adult in an authority position to tell them something and say this is true. That's all it would take. So if a young child were to be influenced by a teacher who happened to say yes it's very common you might be in the wrong body definitely you know so if you have any inklings in that direction I'm sure it's true you should really explore that you might your life might be way better if you found out that you were in the wrong body. If you had a teacher who wasn't trying to influence you to change but simply that was the way they described it. So they have no bad intent. They have no intent at all. They're just trying to educate you. But if they described it that way how many children would effectively be hypnotized into thinking that they were the other gender and then a chain of cause and effect would begin that probably would not work out well.

Now for other people and this is the reason you know me not being an expert I usually stay out of the topic. There might be people for whom it exactly was the right thing and saves their life. I don't know. I mean I wouldn't vouch for it but it seems within the realm of possibility because people are so diffe

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rent that there might be somebody for whom it was a real lifesaver. But I can guarantee you, the only part I have some expertise in because I'm a trained hypnotist as all of you know, I can guarantee you that you can convince people that they're the wrong sex if they're young enough. Guarantee it. So that would suggest that Trump's idea of removing it so that it doesn't accidentally influence peop…

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