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edit that out too. Yeah. And all of his wild womanizing. Maybe they'll get rid of that too. But here's the good news. James Bond so far is still a white man. Still a white man. I'm pretty sure they're gonna use their AI to replace him with a black woman any day now, but at the moment still a white man. Well, Bad Bunny, the artist Bad Bunny, as you know, has been selected to do the halftime show a…
← Previous segment →not have a Puerto Rican top star in the world? I'm actually kind of curious because I'm not familiar with his work. So I'm probably more likely to watch it than not because I want to see what all the noise is about. So we'll see.
You know how Trump brought the troops into Washington DC and brought the crime down immediately. Did you believe that? Did you believe that there would be a somewhat permanent reduction in crime because the feds were there for what, a week or something? Did that ever make sense to you that the criminals would just stop doing crime? Or would they wait a few weeks until things calm down and then just go back to what they were doing? Well, Reuters is getting a little skeptical about the long-term impact in DC. Apparently the murders did go down, but there's no reason to believe that they'll stay down. And other crimes didn't really change that much. So maybe it feels a lot safer in Washington DC, but I'll bet you in six months it will look like nothing happened. It'll be right back to where it was. That's my guess. Still worth doing, you know, even if it's only an experiment. Still worth doing. Still successful, but I don't think it'll be as big a change as people want.
Speaking of sending in the troops, the federal judge has stopped Trump from using troops, the National Guard troops, in Portland. So that's being blocked at the moment. I think it was a Trump-appointed judge that blocked that too. And the judge said this is a nation of constitutional law, not martial law. Meanwhile, Trump is trying to get Chicago to accept 300 members of the National Guard to help with their crime situation, but JB Pritzker and I think the mayor of Chicago are not in favor of that. So Trump's option is to federalize them. So he could just say, well, if you're not going to put them there, I will federalize them and put them there myself. So that might happen. I don't know if there'll be another judge that stops it, but it seems likely.
Have you ever thought what would be the best form of government? Like if you really could have just the perfect form of government, I'll tell you what it wouldn't be. It wouldn't be a panel of people. It wouldn't be a pure democracy. That would be a mess. It wouldn't be Marxism. It wouldn't be an evil dictator. By far the best form of government if you could get it, now the problem is there's no way to guarantee that that's what you're getting. But if you could get it, the best form of government would be an authoritarian strongman who had your best interests at heart, which turns out to be Trump. Is he an authoritarian? Yes. Is he a strongman? I'd say yes. Yes, he is. Is he benevolent in the sense that although he's tough, everything he does clearly is for the benefit of the public? Yes. Does he put himself at
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personal risk for the benefit of the public? Yes, very much so. He's had two assassination attempts. That's as much risk as you could put on anything. So while I understand all the criticisms and I understand why people would be wary that it might turn into something else, I get that. But we are experiencing the golden age. I hate to tell you, but you could not design a better government than a s…
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