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ve to tell you more about that at some point. All right. So OpenAI, the company that's beyond ChatGPT, their valuation is apparently $500 billion. Now the way you calculate that is because some of the current and former employees are already selling stock on the secondary market. So you can't publicly buy the stock, but you can do it privately. And they have sold 6.6 billion worth of shares. That…

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00% of Netflix employees donations are to the Democratic Party. Well, I knew that already, but when you think of this topic, it's sort of especially meaningful, isn't it? But apparently they've lost, Netflix has lost 15 billion in market value since people started canceling subscriptions. Now, I've got mixed feelings on this one. I'm not a huge fan of boycotts. Not a huge fan because, you know, in effect, that's why I'm canceled because somebody decided on your behalf that you shouldn't see Dilbert in newspapers. You didn't get to decide that. Is that a good model that the people who are the customers had no say whatsoever in whether I was canceled? Worldwide books and you know not the books I've republished but the original publisher all canceled. So I'm I've got a little bit of mixed feelings. But on the other hand I also have that what we call the internet dad energy. Meaning that if I had young kids in the house, I would cancel it today. Everybody know where I'm coming from? If I had any young kids in my house, I would cancel Netflix for sure. But I don't. So I also am going to start monitoring to see if there's even one thing I can watch on Netflix that I want to watch 'cause usually not. But something might come back. So I don't know. I'm not sure which way I'll go on that, but I guarantee if I had a kid in the house, even one kid, no way. There's no way I would let a kid watch that material.

So the meme story just keeps getting better and better. So you know the meme story which is Hakeem Jeffries was shown in a Trump passed around meme where he had a sombrero and a big fake mustache, you know, Mexican mustache. And there are three of them now that all have them in that, you know, one of them includes Trump playing them as the mariachi band. Now, the beautiful part about the third one, I think it was the third one in the same vein, is that if you've got Trump wearing the hat and playing mariachi music, is Trump making fun of Mexicans? 'Cause he's wearing the hat. He's wearing the hat. And I think he even has, did he have a mustache? I don't remember. I think no mustache, but he's wearing the hat. So he put himself in the meme in almost exactly the same context as Jeffries. You don't put yourself in the meme if the meme isn't, you know, meant to be a racial insult. So that makes it even more fun and interesting.

But Caitlin Collins, CNN's Caitlin Collins, is talking about how apparently the White House has been playing the memes on a loop over the loudspeaker in the White House for the press corps. They're not only are they not running away from it, they're doubling down, they're tripling down, and they're playing it on the White House speakers. Now, I could not be happier about this because CNN, one of their hosts, already called it a racist video. And I think it was Caitlin who said they simply don't care about the criticism. I guess they just figured it out. They just figured out that the Republicans are in breakout mode. Breakout mode. They had been contained by charges of racism. It was the most powerful product that the Democrats had. They didn't have arguments. They didn't have good candidates. They didn't have policies. They didn't have a track record. They didn't have anything. They had this one thing, this psychological wall that they built that if you did something they didn't like and it really didn't even matter, they could make a story that it was being racist. Oh, you want to lower taxes? Oh, well, that's obviously going to affect the brown community more than the white community. So I guess that's pretty racist. So they could do it with anything.

But by Trump and company going directly at it, like instead of running away from it, running toward it and saying, "All right, we're going to mock this. We're going to make a joke out of it." It totally worked. So Republicans have just experienced breakout. I think the Charlie Kirk thing changed everything. You know, I didn't know at the time that it would, but in my opinion, it changed everything. And what it did was it changed people from all right, I'm still on steroids at the moment, so if your four-year-old is listening, cover up the ears. I think the Charlie Kirk thing went from we have a preference that you would not be saying these things about us. Now it's you. It's you. We're going right at you. And you see it in a lot of domains. You're seeing it with the so-called black fatigue theme that's going around. And you're definitely seeing it with the Mexican sombrero. Although I remind you that I'll bet you will never find a single Mexican who's honest who would say that that bothered them. You won't even find one. So it's a fake everything is racist thing that CNN and MSNBC does, but now it's just a joke. And I believe that this creates the model going forward that every time they do the stupid racist thing where they torture the topic until it looks like they can make it racist, you just turn them into a meme. And then when they complain, my god, you're even more racist because you turned it into a meme. What do you do then? Turn it into a meme. And when they complain more, what do you do? Turn it into a meme. So good luck, guys.

Well, I told you that there was that Minneapolis had 50% of the immigrants had some kind of criminal, you know, outstanding criminal behavior. But I didn't realize that 50% of them had committed immigration fraud. New York Post is reporting. So apparently the former director of USCIS, some kind of Biden department, created a parole program that funneled unvetted military age migrants into Minneapolis, establishing an Islamic enclave. Yeah, that was a good idea, Biden. Let's funnel the unvetted military age migrants. They have some kind of a parole program and create an Islamic enclave. Great idea.

I'm going to say more about that in a minute, but I'm going to go through this topic to get there. According to the Post Millennial, 53% of Americans, there's a new Pew Research poll, 53% of Americans think that not having kids is bad for the nation. Only 53% think that it's a bad idea to not have enough kids. Do they understand what happens if you don't have enough kids? Are there really that many people who don't understand that if you don't have many kids, we're all dead or the country is dead? You people don't really understand that which is weird. I think my entire life I was told that we were overpopulated and we better have fewer kids. So I think a lot of people have just been brainwashed in the we're overpopulated climate change stuff. So think about how dangerous climate change has been that it actually talked an entire civilization into killing itself by not reproducing at replacement rates. That actually is happening. And you know, it's not all climate change, but I'll bet it's a third of it.

So what happens if you don't have replacement rates for your own population and at the same time you have an immigration system that is allowing in a lot of people from other countries? Well, depends what countries. If it's say a lot of people are coming in from England because they want to get away from their repressive government over there, probably they would assimilate pretty quickly. There would be high education in that group. Probably be fine. That would be one way to compensate for low birth rates. What if your people came in from an Islamic country, which there are lots of them. Well, that too would be okay if you kept that number lowish and they were distributed around the country so that you know they just assimilated. It might take longer, but you know that'd be okay. But what would be the worst thing you could do? The worst thing you could do is have a low population. Your native population is not reproducing while you're bringing in a lot of Islamic people and putting them in places where they will form caliphates effectively. They'll push for electing all their own people because you don't need to have a majority. Look at New York City. Look at England, look at London. You don't need a majority. You just need that minority to all vote the same way and then you control politics.

So the Islamic model where you really don't change religions. So that's a non, since you could actually be murdered by your own people if you change religions. It kind of locks you in to not assimilating because literally for some people it would mean death. Also if you put them in one place like this Minneapolis model, you are designing a system that guarantees in the long run we become an Islamic country. It's guaranteed because the Islamic thing is not about the people per se. It's about a, I'll call it a mind virus. You could call it a religion that is not compatible with other religions, but I'm going to call it a mind virus. The mind virus, if you put enough people who have the same mind virus in the same place, they will eventually take over your country little bit at a time. But we currently have a system which it looks like the Trump

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administration is trying to undo. But the Biden administration had in place an entire system which guaranteed we would become an Islamic country. Because if you simply brought in all kinds of different people at let's say the same rate, let's say 10% of your people coming in were from Mexico, 10% from other South America, 10% from Europe, 10% from Islamic countries. What would you end up with? You…

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