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change and that climate change is out as a topic and energy affordability is in. In other words, the Democrats just found out that everything Republicans have been saying forever is the right approach that you want energy affordability and ultimately that will get you better climate and everything else. So yes, affordability. So let me ask you this. If the Democrats thought that was their existen…

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viewer has a little bit of safety. I suppose AI could do it now. You could say hey AI look at this interview with Joe Rogan and some guest and you say what's the pushback what would the critics say about that podcast that would actually be very useful so maybe you just need AI maybe you don't need a fact checker as long as you're willing to fact check it yourself with AI. Although half of that would be hallucinated.

Anyway, imagine if Sam Harris had gotten his way and he had managed to persuade people to vote against Trump and Trump had never come into office. Would more or fewer people die if Trump had not been president? Oh, now we're getting into it, right? I believe that Trump's ascendancy to the presidency, the second term especially, probably will save an immense amount of lives. Gaza being the obvious one, maybe Ukraine if he can get that done. So yeah, free speech definitely kills some people.

According to Wall Street Apes, I saw this on X. Allegedly GoFundMe created over a million NGO pages and was accepting donations without the NGOs knowing that they had a page. A million. A million. So an NGO is a non-government organization that usually exists to grift money off the government or off of rich guys. They made a million of them. A million and then put them up there and collected money on it without the organizations knowing that they had one. Where did the money go? Did they give it to the NGO or did they just keep it? I don't know what they did.

Anyway, it created 1.4 million 501c3 organizations using public IRS data. So is it my imagination or is everything that's associated with Democrats a complete scam and everything's just a money laundering operation? It's hard for me to, I don't know the news that I watch is just one Democrat organization after another being determined to have stolen millions and sometimes billions of dollars. And are any of them Republican? Am I in a bubble? Am I in a bubble? Because I can't think of one example where a Republican dominated organization turned out to be a complete corrupt whatever this is. But don't we have situation after situation after situation where it's obvious that the Democrat leaders are running just money laundering operations? I actually don't know if that's my imagination. So I'm looking for a real actual fact check. Is there a list of Republican bad behavior that matches what we've been seeing for the last several years from the Democrats or is it really all Democrats? I can't tell because social media is only giving me one side of the story. But at least I'm aware of it. I'm at least aware that I've got this big gap in my information. I think unless there's nothing there.

So anytime you find Democrats in anything that's funded, you could pretty much guarantee it's corrupt. And what I'm wondering is, is there a way for AI to be the ultimate government auditor? Seems to me that we're probably at a place where we need to say nobody gets any money for anything if it comes from taxpayers. Nobody gets any money for anything unless there's an AI automatic audit. Meaning the AI will monitor everything they spend and then report it in a way that you can connect the expenses to whatever the outcomes are. Because right now there's just no control over the spending. They just give it to some organization and it goes into a black hole and they give it to their friends and spend 10 cents on the cause and nobody even checks. But in theory AI could be your automatic always on auditor, right? So somebody needs to develop some kind of a product, maybe a third party product that can automatically audit any funded organization. We got to have that because right now we're just drowning in corruption. The corruption is so out of control that it looks like nothing works. I think all of our systems are broken by corruption at this point.

Well, George Santos, Republican who got sentenced to jail for wire fraud and identity theft, has had his sentence commuted by President Trump. I did not hear an argument for why. So this is one of those ones that makes you scratch your head and say, "Am I on the same side with this?" Let's see. I'm on the same side with the Republicans. I'm on the same side with MAGA usually. I'm on the same side with Trump. But why would I support this? Am I supposed to say that Republicans get out of jail for free? Because why does he get out of jail for free?

Now to be fair, Trump has also commuted sentences for Democrats who did real crimes but tho

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ught maybe the sentence was too much or something. So there's some noise about maybe he was being mistreated in jail but nobody gets treated well in jail. So I don't know if the thinking here, what I wouldn't want, I wouldn't want the thinking behind this to be he's a Republican so we're going to get him out of jail. I hope that's not the thinking. I do like Trump being protective of his base. So…

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