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a few years. So anyway, in case you don't know, I do own some Tesla stock. So when I talk about the stock price and the future of Tesla, you should know that I have a monetary incentive. I don't think it's affecting what I say, but you know, people are biased people. So in all likelihood, it's biasing what I say about Tesla. I saw a post from an X user, Ryan Long, who showed a picture where he t…

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uin your garage and then there would be cars parked where you don't want them. But I like the man-cave idea that's open to the street. Kind of cool.

Well, the Wall Street Journal tells us that the reason our government data is so bad is that people are not responding to surveys as much as they did. So whenever the government says did you get a job or not get a job or whatever they're surveying, they get the wrong answer because the people are just not answering. And so that doesn't give you a representative sample if people don't respond. So that's why all your government data looks a little extra hanky lately. It might not be entirely because people are lying weasels and they're trying to manipulate the numbers. It might be that they're lying weasels who don't know how to get the right number. They just don't have a mechanism and they don't want you to think they're useless because they would get fired. If somebody said to their boss, "All right, here's the deal. We can't get the numbers you need and there's no way to fix it because people don't respond to surveys and there's not any other way to do it." So what would your boss say? "All right, I think I'll keep paying you and putting out these bad numbers." Well, not in the long run. In the long run, you don't pay somebody to produce numbers you know are wildly wrong. So it's hard for the employee to ever say, "Yeah, you know, maybe you shouldn't be using these sketchy numbers. They're always wrong." But remember what I say: all data is fake.

Now, is that literally true? No. Not for, let's say, some engineer is measuring something before making a decision. That's probably true. You know, they probably got the right data if it's just some engineer measuring something. But for anything that's big and complicated and national and important in scope, that's all fake. It's all fake all the time. Every time. And that's probably the single hardest thing that I could ever convince somebody is reality. That all data that matters, you know, the big stuff is all fake. And there are reasons for that. I mean, you could go through the reasons. There's always somebody who can make money from it. In this case, the data wasn't even available. There's always a reason, but all data of anything important is fake.

Did you know RFK Jr., I guess, said at I believe he was at Charlie Kirk's vigil. There were lots of them around the country, and he was at the one at the Kennedy Center. And he revealed that Charlie Kirk was what he called the primary architect of putting RFK Jr. together with President Trump. Are you having the same reaction that I'm having when you hear that? Wait a minute. If Charlie Kirk had never done anything else in his life, if he'd never done a single thing in his life but that one thing, he was the architect, and I think that's the right word, an architect, to put RFK Jr. into a productive, super important role and have President Trump be comfortable with it, if that's the only thing he ever did. Now, of course, it's early and RFK

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Jr. still has to come through and produce the goods, but I think he will. I think he will. That's one of the biggest accomplishments in the world. Let me say that again. Putting RFK Jr. and Trump together and making it work. If Charlie did that, that's one of the biggest accomplishments in the world. And he got there honestly by being the person who would talk to everybody. So everybody would talk…

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