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e under 30 would be I don't know 10% of them. So that's not most of them. But I do wonder if the time in history is sort of weirdly perfect that there are a lot of unemployed young people for reasons that probably have nothing to do with AI, but AI is going to make a lot of people maybe underemployed. Maybe part-time work is what we all want and then AI fills in for the rest. Would you be happy if…

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e Navarro or Bannon went to jail for not talking to Congress or I guess they went for not talking, not for lying. That's different. I don't know. I feel like as a juror, I might just say, "Go screw yourself. If you're just going to put this one guy in jail, that looks like lawfare to me. I'm not in favor of that."

Now that would be if I'm a juror, but I'm not a juror. So I get to sort of look at it with my dispassionate, not my responsibility kind of public opinion. My public opinion is that you can lawfare the lawfarers but not anybody else. All right. I don't want to see anybody getting lawfared because you don't like their politics. No way. It wouldn't matter if they had a technical violation. No way. I'd find him not guilty if it was just lawfaring. But if you're lawfaring the person who tried to lawfare you literally out of office as the presidency and into jail, yeah, lawfare him as much as you want. I call that fair. I don't know if I'd call it fair if I'm on the jury. But from my current perspective, yeah, lawfare the lawfarers. Absolutely.

Dana Bash was talking to Nancy Pelosi and her last name sounded right. She actually bashed her. So Dana Bash points out that the Republicans I'll just read it. Republicans are voting yes to open the government. All right, this is CNN Dana Bash. She's saying to Pelosi, Republicans are voting yes to open the government. Democrats are voting no. So how are they shutting down the government? Republicans. It's a pretty good question, right? So the yes would be on the continuing resolution that just keeps things the way they are funded for 7 weeks until they start arguing about the new budget on the schedule that they plan to argue about it. So yes, all the Democrats would have to do is sign the thing that says, "Oh, we'll just pay everybody for another seven weeks, then everybody gets their Obamacare subsidies. Nobody loses anything. Everybody gets a paycheck." That's what the Republicans want. And the Democrats are keeping it shut. So was that a fair question from CNN? Yeah. Yeah, that's a fair question. How are you saying that the Democrats are shutting it down when all the Democrats have to do is sign this document that keeps everything exactly the same, which is what they're asking for at least 7 weeks until you can work out the details. And what did Pelosi say when challenged with that? She said, "It's not a clean CR. A clean one means all it does is say we're going to continue the way we were." A non-clean one would be adding things. But the whole point of the CR is that it doesn't add things. That is what it is. It's a thing that doesn't add things. That's exactly what it is. A clean CR. Nothing added. The Republicans know they can't add and get away with it. Of course, there's nothing added. And they're also smart enough to know that if they give the Democrats what they're asking for, they'll still say no. And they did. And even CNN isn't going to let Pelosi get away with that.

So Bash says, "What's not clean about the CR?" What do you think Pelosi said? I quote, "The point is, would you like me to repeat that again?" Pelosi's answer was the point is destroyed. That's what I call getting Dana bashed.

In other news, the White House says if the government doesn't reopen that it will use maybe tariff money to pay for some of the nutritional programs that are very important that are being cut. So the White House will be able to say, "Well, we're not monsters." So we're going to make sure that people are eating. And we can do that with some tariff revenue because I'm so darn smart. I've got all these tariffs and it created this money that's not spoken for. And why don't we just use that to plug the gap? I mean, better would be you sign the clean CR and then everybody gets what they want right away. That's better. But if you Democrats are going to starve people, well, we'll feed them. And we found a clever way to do it that only Trump could do. Tariff money. It's pretty good. That'

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s pretty good politicking right there. Anyway, in other news, the Palisades fire starting bastard has been caught. It's a 26 year old or 28 or something. Young guy with long hair looks to have mental problems would be my guess. Based on the fact that he speaks French. No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding. But he does speak French. I don't know what that means. But anyway, this young man set the…

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