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raight up against JD there's no chance he would win. But if he sort of loyally stands aside and said, "You go first." And it doesn't work out. Now I don't know what the odds of it not working out are. Let's say 10%. You would go from 0% chance of winning to 10%. Without any risk whatsoever. So good play. Rubio being smart. So you've probably watched as the Minnesota fraud stuff makes more headlin…

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How about the homeless problem is one that can be solved by building them homes. Was there ever any hope they could solve homelessness by building homes for the homeless? No. No. There was never any chance that that would make a difference because it's based on the misperception that the homeless have a no-home problem. The reality is they have mental problems, drug problems, and if you gave them a home, they wouldn't be able to maintain it or live in it and wouldn't even want to live in it. They'd rather be on the sidewalk because they're insane or they're drugged or whatever else. So that would be what am I up to? The fourth hoax.

And then I'm not even throwing in reparations. So we've got a state that's trying to pay reparations when California never had slaves. None of the people who lived here were victims of California slavery. It's a complete hoax. What about the trans issue? That you could be born one sex but really you're the other sex. Now I usually stay away from that one, but I think most of you would say, "Hey, throw that one in there as another hoax." So I could probably go on, but I say that Elon Musk had replied on X that California would go bankrupt if all the federal transfer payment fraud was stopped. So you got the federal transfer payments fraud. I'm not sure what the hoax is there. That hoax might be the wrong frame for that. It's just crime.

But here's an example of what California did that other states did not. I think this was maybe Mario and Noel. I saw this on X. So apparently after the pandemic there were all these stimulus funds that came from the federal government and every other state used the government funding to pay down their debt except California. So California, instead of paying down the debt, and now we're basically bankrupt, they used it to just spend more on more stuff, which almost certainly was fraud or partially. So the result will be that the Californian businesses are going to be hit apparently with some enormous payroll tax to compensate for the fact that California was the only mismanaged state. We got 50 states and only one of them di

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dn't know how to handle the money from the federal government. And even the other blue states didn't make this mistake. It is the worst of the worst of even the Democrat states. How do you become president? How in the world did the person who was presiding over all that become president? Now I haven't even gotten into the $50 billion for the bullet train that never happened. How do you possibly b…

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