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 fire on I guess it was the first of the year, but it was spotted and the fire department put it out before it injured any structures. Had burned a lot of grass, but they got it all out. Well, not all out, but they thought they put it out and then they monitored it for a while because that's the protocol. They know that sometimes the fire will have some underground smoldering things that they can't detect. So they hang around a little while just to make sure the smoldering doesn't take off. However, depending who you talk to, which fire experts, they will tell you that the fire department did not stay there long enough. Now some would say that you need to stay there, I don't know, 36 hours. Some would say, "No, that's not even close. You might need to stay there for two weeks." I think that was the other estimate. So they definitely didn't stay there for two weeks, but they did stay there more than just putting out the fire. So nobody has been found guilty in any kind of a lawsuit, but I think some of them might still be pending. So the LA Fire Department probably has some questions to answer because there does seem to be some alleged certainty by the at least by the police that they definitely got the guy. He definitely set the fire. It definitely was put out and it definitely recurred some days later. So is that enough for the fire department to get sued? I don't know. Guess we'll find out.

Somebody sent me a clip yesterday that it cut out the mention of my name, but it was about me in one part. There was a comic Dave Smith talking to provocative Nick Fuentes. Both of them are provocative I guess. And so Dave Smith mentioned me and a story about he saw what I shockingly said to get cancelled in 2023 and his first reaction was oh man you went too far. So his first reaction was like most people's some form of disgust and shock and condemnation but then he said I wasn't expecting this he said that a minute later he realized that what I had advised which is to get away from people who say they don't like you which seemed like just reasonably good advice in all situations to stay away from people who say they don't like you. Not people you suspect, but if there's 30 or 40% of some group that you know says, "I don't even think you should exist or there's something wrong with you," you should stay away from them. Doesn't matter who it is. Doesn't matter at all who it is, you should just always take that advice.

So anyway, Dave Smith said, "A minute later, I realized that that's what I had done." Meaning what he had done. And then he tells the story of looking for a place to move with his wife and I guess children. And they were looking for a good school. And he humorously tells the story of looking at a school they ended up picking. And it was a I'm paraphrasing so this is not exactly what he said, but it was stuff like okay their college acceptance A+, their math teaching A+, their English teaching A+. And then it got to the bottom of the list. It was like they got a grade for diversity and their diversity was I think D minus and comic Dave Smith jokes that's the one. So they picked the one that had the highest academic standards and the lowest diversity. And he liked both of those things. And he joked that unfortunately the level of diversity can really reliably tell you what the life would be like in that school and that he didn't want that for his children. So I feel like that was one of the more honest things that anybody said this year. And that's pretty honest. I will also go so far as to say 100% of all adult humans did the same thing. All of them, black, white, Asian, all of them. Every single person who was trying to get their kid into a good school if they had the ability to move. Not everybody has the ability to move, but the ones who had the ability to move, you don't think they looked at the quality of the school first. You don't think they looked at the diversity to see if their kid fits in? I mean, if you had a black kid, you'd want enough diversity that they feel comfortable. So it's you're not always going the same way. But aren't you making the decision based on diversity? Of course you are. Every single person, black, white, rich, poor, everyone. You just admitted it. So that was fun.

And then just because I was having fun watching the people who were the most provocative, I was watching a clip of Candace Owens. Now I've told you I have a very positive just personal feeling about Candace, having just met her once. She's very warm. And so I turned it on and it was a whole episode. It wasn't a clip.