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t do it. So at this point it does not look like the executive order is going to make a difference. I think it's going to be too easy for the states to say, "Nah, we're in charge of this. Get out of here." I guess Trump and the top Democrats are going to talk today as a last-ditch effort to try to work out a budget compromise. I don't think there's any chance that'll happen. Do you? I mean, I thin…

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ine the Justice Department is investigating him and one of the reasons that Trump gave is that apparently Wray had said that he didn't know how many FBI people were attending the January 6th thing but now we know that there might have been close to 300. But what I don't know yet, because it's divided into two movies on one screen, I don't know which one's true. One of the movies is, oh, now we have proof that the FBI was behind instigating the trouble because now we know there were 274 of them, and why would there be that many unless they were there to influence the bad result. The other movie says, no, these are people who were called in after the people had already penetrated the building and they were there to try to assist with law enforcement and maintain order, but they were in plain clothes and no way to identify them. So I don't know how much they could have helped.

So what do you think? Which movie are you in? Are you in the movie where the FBI has now admitted that they had so many people there on January 6th that they were in fact to blame for the bad outcomes or the one where all of those law enforcement types, FBI, came in after the people had already entered the building? Which one do you think is real? I don't know. I don't know which one's real, honestly. And I don't think there's any way to find out because everything's a lie. Everything's fake. Everything's a lie. I don't even think we'll ever know. So all it does is give people an opportunity to believe whatever it was that they were inclined to believe before they found out there were 274 FBI people there.

Eric Adams, no relation, dropped out of the New York City mayor race. So that means it's Mamdani, Sliwa, and Cuomo. And it turns out that Sliwa is spell-checked to slow. I just realized that because it says slow instead of Sliwa in my notes. But nobody thinks that Adams dropping out will swing enough votes to one of the others for anybody else to win except Mamdani. So Mamdani is on a glide path to easily winning. And then the big question would be what if Curtis Sliwa also dropped out? Would that be enough? Would that get the race close enough that Cuomo could win? And do you want that? Do you want that?

I mean, maybe that's worse than Mamdani because there is an argument that if we sacrifice New York City with a terrible mayor who would destroy everything that would be pretty expensive, but it would give us another 20 years without a socialist in office because we would just say, "All right, come on. Look what this guy did. He just ruined New York City. You can't vote for that guy." So it could be that both the left and the right want Mamdani to win but for different reasons. The left wants him because they like him. The right might want him. Some members of the right, obviously not people who live in New York City but people who don't live in New York City, might be saying the very best thing that could happen all things being equal is that the left finds out that their philosophy doesn't work by trying it and just showing that none of it works.

As you know the problem with the left is that they do not have a cause and effect gene where they can tell if we do this the way people will react will be that and we don't want that. They can't do that. Apparently that's only something people on the right can do. If you make it free, everybody's going to come here to get it. The right just automatically sees cause and effect. The left, nope. They see some kind of weird ideal principle. But then the way that they try to attack that principle is by doing something that couldn't possibly work. I mean, it's just bad crazy.

There's some bad behavior going on catwise. Okay. I've got one cat with his head in my shoe. And now two cats. Two cats with their heads in my shoes. They both came over and just put their heads in my shoes.

There were two shootings yesterday. One with multiple victims. We don't have a full complete count because one of them shot up a church and then set it on fire. So there might be more victims that they haven't found yet. Just truly horrible. So this one was a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. So it's a Mormon church and you know that should be the first thing in the story, should be where it happened. Somehow I did not write down the state. What was the state where the first shooting happened? Michigan. Okay. All right. Michigan it is.

It's apparently an ex-military guy, ex-marine I think, and he drove his vehicle into the c

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hurch, just drove it right through a window or something and then started shooting and then set it on fire and by the time the law enforcement got there they took him out in the parking lot. So he's dead now. But was that the only shooting yesterday? No. There was a gunman that fired from a boat into a North Carolina restaurant, killing three

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