problem, put the work in, and then it gets solved? How often does that happen? Pretty cool.

So good work, Christopher Rufo. Good work, President Trump. We're at least one step forward on that stuff.

Well, you already know by now Marjorie Taylor Greene has resigned effective early January. So there's so much to say about that because everybody took sides, blah blah blah. But I'll say a bunch of things about it in no particular order.

Some say that it was because she disagreed with Trump on a number of what she might call MAGA-related issues and she was more MAGA than Trump was in the end and then they could no longer work with each other. So Trump has said he wanted to primary her and there's not much chance she probably could have got elected. If she got primaried and the president was against her, it'd be hard to get elected. So a lot of smart people said, "Well, did she really quit or was she not going to be in office after the next election cycle anyway, so she's just getting ahead of it?" That's a fair statement.

Other people said, "Oh, is it just a coincidence that her benefits have vested? Now she's got health care." Well, that would be a perfectly good reason for retiring from any job. No problem.

Some say it's about Israel. Of course, we always throw that in there.

But let me give you a few other ways to look at this. Mario Knoff on X had a take that was that she just pulled off the smartest political move of her career. How many people think that? How many people think that this wasn't running away? She just saw an opportunity for the biggest move of any politician ever. And so she took it because she's smart and she said, "Whoa, this will never happen again. I'm going to take this opportunity."

What are we talking about? What opportunity? Well, here's what Mario said. He said this: she quit because she's playing the long game and losing in a primary with Trump destroying her is not really good long-term strategy. But you know what would be a long-term strategy? To sort of go out at the top. Now you could argue what the top is, but you know what I mean. To go out before she's badly bruised when she still has full name recognition and all that.

And she has every opportunity in the world now. I mean, I think she's got a book out, but I don't know if that's new or it's been out for a while. Obviously by now she would be looking at offers. Probably lots of them. Could she start her own TV show? Of course. Do you think anybody's offered to say, "Well, how would you like to be our next Matt Gaetz?" Well, she'd probably be good at it.

So the world of opportunities for her has just opened up. Did she become more powerful or less powerful because of resigning? You tell me. Well, it depends what happens next. If she just goes off and works on her construction business or family construction business, then that would be perfectly respectable. Patriot took a shot at improving things, decided it wasn't for her, wasn't making enough of a difference, went to do something else in the free market. No problem.

So that's sort of the worst-case scenario, is that she just has a normal life now, a good normal life, a very good normal life. But what's the other possibility? Well, the other possibility is she becomes a Tucker Carlson-like, Matt Gaetz-like, Ben Shapiro-like person whose influence just magnifies because she would be good on TV. You already know she's good on TV, right?

So now she suddenly has the opportunity to be way, way more influential and even President Trump might someday want to go on her show and answer some questions and she's going to have some tough questions. Tough questions.

So we don't know if any of that's going to happen. We're just purely speculating. But if you think that she's operating from loss or operating from weakness, doesn't look like it to me. It looks like she's operating from strength and she has lots of options. So you just don't know where she's going. That's what I think.

Anyway, we'll see where that goes. I think it's more likely that she'll come out of this more powerful. What do you think? I'm looking at your comments. Whether you like her or not, you know, I know it's always a mixed bag, but would you agree that she'll come out of this more powerful, not less? All right, we'll see in your comments what you say.

Meanwhile, in a somewhat related but not really, I saw user Matt Van Swall on X. It's a good account. You should follow it. Matt Van Swall noted that in Charlotte, North Carolina, that there were—he says hundreds of construction sites are completely empty and he believes the reason is that ICE came through and took all the employees.

How would he know or h