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r who knows what, maybe loss of confidence that AI is the thing, and Apple might be the smartest player in the space. So Apple's stock did not go down when some of the other AI ones did. Very interesting. I sold my Apple stock as I said, but you have to say that Apple does hire smart people. So every time you tell yourself you're smarter than Apple, maybe check that. Maybe check that. You're prob…

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give the Democrats advice, you know, be it accidental, but I'm going to give you some persuasion lessons here, and if any of them are listening, maybe they'll learn something, but I doubt it.

So a lot of people on the Democrat side are saying that what the Democrats need is a fighter. You've heard that, right? Every time they talk, it's like, no, we need a fighter. A fighter. We got to fight. Do you know what's wrong with that as an approach? If you say that the thing you want is a fighter and then you get one, what does that get you? A fight. Because that's what you asked for. You didn't ask for a solution. You didn't ask for a great health care plan. You didn't ask for reducing the budget. You asked for a fighter. So if you got what you wanted, you wouldn't want what you got, would you?

So the reason that they say we want a fighter is because you can't really measure the output of the fighter. If I say I want a good health care plan where premiums do not cost more, then I would be able to measure whether I did that or not. At some point you'd be able to measure it. But if I say I want a fighter, how do you measure that you got one? Would it be that person swore more than normal in public? That's part of what they think it must be because they're doing it. Would it be that you simply wouldn't vote for things such as a continuing resolution until people suffered because that would make it look like you're fighting?

So when you look at the fighting, you have to think of that in terms of theatrics because the fighting thing is not something that has a deliverable. There's no deliverable. So in order to claim that you fought, you've got to have video clips of you looking like a fighter. So if you're Jasmine Crockett, for example, she's doing the best that any of the other Democrats are doing because she's creating unlimited viral clips of someone who looks like a theatrical fighter girl. "Oh, I'm fighting. Look at these words I'm using. Look at me fighting." Tomorrow there's going to be another video clip of me fighting just like this. Deliverables? I don't even k

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now what you're talking about. Policies? Never heard of them. Fight, fight, fight. You got to fight, fight, fight. And whoever does the best acting job of being a fighter will be the standard bearer for the Democrats probably. They're so not on the right page. The right page is not to do a theatrical rendition of a play that you call the fighter. That's not what anybody's asking for. They actuall…

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