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the world and believe that when you know Ben Shapiro is talking that you're listening to a dumb guy? Come on. If you wanted to have an IQ off or an SAT off where let's say the ten smartest conservatives were put up against the ten smartest Democrats just to have some trivia or some kind of mental IQ contest, how do you think the conservatives would do? I think they'd do pretty well. Don't you? The…

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ay from the BBC. According to an ex-user called Chaz Mizelle who's been in the past, he's been a chief of staff at Trump's DOJ, and he looked at some data and found that since 1963, listen to this, 75% of all nationwide injunctions have been against President Trump since 1963. 75% of all the ones done in the country for any reason were Trump. Now again, I didn't fact check this, so you might want to fact check that. And then he says 90% of those injunctions came from Democrat-appointed judges. So 90% from Democrat judges and all of them just recently basically.

And yet with all of those injunctions, how did the Trump administration do fighting them off? Well, it won 92% of the time. 92% of the time. Now that is just about as anti-authoritarian as you can get, right? If 8% of the time you said, "Okay, you win," and you walked away, but 92% of the time you were just dead ass right, so you just won. Isn't that like the least authoritarian thing you could think of, right? If you could walk away from 8% of the things you really wanted to do, but the court said, "You can't do that." And you can just walk away and say, "All right, we really want to do that, but we'll work on something else." Not too authoritarian.

According to a federal audit, and there should be federal audits of all the states all the time, every day in my opinion, like I actually mean that the federal government's main job should be auditing the states because the states are just out of control. They're just taking our money and throwing it in the ocean. 62,000 commercial driver's licenses were handed out to people who were in California illegally. 62,000 illegal driver's licenses. 62,000. So if you're wondering, is it a big problem, small problem? That's a lot. 62,000 seems like enough that it could move a lot of different races. I mean, I don't know how many races that would be able to change depending on the distribution.

Do you know how many of you know who Michael Saylor is? S-A-Y-L-O-R. Michael Saylor. He's sort of one of the big names or maybe even the biggest name, I don't know, in crypto. He's in the commercial side of things. So he owns a company called MicroStrategy and I've only watched a little bit of his content, but it basically goes like this. Buy Bitcoin. And then I'll watch some extra other of his content and that content will go like this. Buy Bitcoin. But then something big will happen. They'll change the nature of everything. So you can rethink all your strategies and then he'll come out and he'll say buy Bitcoin. And the annoying thing is he hasn't been wrong yet. If he could be wrong a few times, that'd be nice.

But in the short run, such as right now, it actually is. It's taken quite a haircut. Bitcoin has. So if you're a very casual follower of crypto and you're sort of wondering, you know, I have a little bit. Should I sell it? I don't give advice, by the way. So this will not be advice. I don't give financial or health advice. You wouldn't want to listen to any of my financial or health advice. But it's way down, way down, I don't know, 50% or something. So some amount from the beginning of the year. But that's not unusual in the Bitcoin world. And Bitcoin is not like the other cryptos because it's got this mathematical sort of perpetual value whereas the other ones are literally backed by nothing. They both sound like nothing, but one of them is treated as if it's a something. So there's a difference.

Anyway, he's probably going to be right again because I would be amazed if he didn't say buy Bitcoin. The argument for Bitcoin is that there isn't really any way for it to go down forever. It's just one of those things that if you just waited, there would be periods where it's down for sure, but the odds of it just sort of going away, a lot of people think it's low. So when somebody like me, who's not your financial adviser, says something as bold as, "I don't think that Bitcoin's just going to go away." What happens next? When people like me say, "That's never going to go away. You better watch what happens on Monday because it probably won't go away on Monday because it's just the way the world is organized. It's just the way the simulation works." So no, you should not listen to me. But if that helped, let me ask, was that level of detail because I know many of you are way past that and you understand crypto. How many of you found it useful just to hear like a little top level what's up with crypto? Like, I wouldn't go further than that. Was that useful or no? I'm just looking at your comments.

Apparently Chicago's downtown office vacancy rate has now hit a record high of 28%. Can you even imagine a city that's 28% v

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acant? How does it survive that? I always speculate that there are some magic numbers for things to fall apart. One of them is 10%, the other is 20%. That if anything goes to 10% problem, whatever it is, whatever the problem is, if it gets to 10%, then things could start getting out of control, but also 20%. Depending on the thing, you know, so whenever I see a 10 or a 20 coming, I'm like, whoa, 1…

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