Back to episode — Episode 2965 CWSA 09/21/25
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e were showing up as early as 3:00 and 4:00 in the morning and walking long distances because the parking lots weren't even opened at the venue yet. And the spirits are very high. I mean somber of course, but something's happening. I would like to read to you, um, where is it? Uh, maybe I won't read to you that. All right. Well, one of my friends is there and gave me a little report on what's ha…
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Now I thought that TDS, Trump derangement syndrome, was actually already in the literature as a genuine mental health issue. Am I wrong about that? I mean, I don't think it's in the most official DSM, whatever six or whatever it is. I don't think it's there yet, but I'm pretty sure that the literature recognizes it as a major problem in mental health. It's not nothing.
So even though I'm pretty sure the president was being humorous and it worked, I do believe that it needs to be added to the literature. There's not the slightest chance that this isn't a genuine mental health gigantic problem. One of the biggest. I mean, it's probably the single most damaging mental health problem in the country. I'll bet if you added up the next three biggest, they probably wouldn't be this big if you really were honest about the size of the problem.
Yeah. I mean, it's broken up families, it's people losing jobs, people yelling at strangers. We don't have any mental health problem that has one name that's anywhere near that big. Not nowhere near. I mean, it's in a class by itself. It's affecting entire populations at the same time. And almost certainly it caused at least one murder, Charlie Kirk. There's no way that that happens without Trump derangement syndrome. There's no way that happens.
Anyway, you know, I've been yammering off and on about how the only way that the affordability thing will be fixed will be finding cheaper ways to live that are still really good ways to live. You know, then you're not giving up much. And apparently the young are, according to NewsNation, there's now a minor trend, maybe it'll get bigger, of co-buying a home. So people who are not related or in a relationship, they will say, "Do you want to buy a home? I want to buy a home." And then they'll go in together and split the cost. So they both get half a home, basically. And then they try to figure out some agreement for living there.
Now, as you might imagine, the part about living with a stranger and having some stranger have that much control over your real estate and you over them, it's not going to be easy. But it does make me wonder if this will be a growing trend. I think it will because the alternatives are worse. But my take is that you need to design the house from the ground up to be a more than one person house. You know, there's probably ways to do that. You definitely don't want to be waiting for the bathroom while the person who helped you buy the house is in there.
And apparently a survey says 70% of Gen Z would be willing to do this. So if 70% would be willing to share a home purchase, right there the cost of housing went down 50% at least within the home ownership group.
Well, allegedly the news says that the TikTok purchase deal is done and that China agreed and we agreed and maybe there's some paperwork to sign, but basically it's all agreed. And the details were told and this is still fog of war because the details that I heard even yesterday are already wrong. So who knows if these are right. But it would be majority American-owned when it was purchased. Oracle would be sort of the tech company in charge of privacy. So it'd be an American company in charge of that. And there'd be some other big investors. So it's not just Oracle here. And the algorithm would not be maintained by China, which was the first thing we heard. The first thin
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g we heard is that China was going to own the algorithm and just sort of feed it to the American company. There's no way that worked. I mean, that was sort of defeating the whole point. But according to Caroline Levitt, the algorithm will now be controlled by Americans, the American owners. Do you believe this is going to get signed? There's something, there's a dog not barking in this story. Isn…
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