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s based on the value of the house. Now I can afford it because I bought it about 10 years ago. No, how long ago? 2009. So my property taxes are artificially based on what the early value of the house was, not its current value. And it would be about double if I paid the property taxes based on current value. So it makes it very hard to sell your house because even though it was affordable for you,…

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uption in the world. Would you be surprised that the LA Times did a research and found out that there was a LA Fire Department after-action report about the Palisades fire? And do you think that that after-action report, which is basically the fire department reporting on themselves how they did, do you think that it was honestly reported what possible mistakes the fire department might have made? No. So once again, the people who are in charge are also in charge of telling you how they did. And the people who are in charge, the LA Fire Department in charge of the fire, had decided that they would remove some substantial parts of the report that made them look bad.

So the after-action report according to the LA Times is, and they in fact were definitely the problem. And part of the problem was that they knew there was an existing fire that had been the thing that reignited. They almost certainly should have been there. They should have had water. They should have been more ready, etc. So essentially a cover-up. Yes. So how often have we seen that if the government is involved and they have the ability to either not audit or to do a fake audit that they will do the fake audit or no audit every time? Every time.

All right. What else? I'm going to skip that for now.

So I was thinking today how hard it is to understand the news. So think about all the things that had to happen for me to understand our current situation in the world. Right? If any of the following things had not happened, I would be so lost and so would you. Let me give you an example. How confused would you be if you had not learned that the news is fake? Have you ever talked to somebody who thinks news is real and it just feels like they're from the past? Really? Really? You think the news is real? Oh. Oh no. You think that the news on one side is real? S

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orry. If you don't understand the news is and maybe always has been fake, you would be very confused about what you're seeing. Right? So that's number one. And I would say that Trump was the biggest reason that we understand the news to be fake. Not only did he tell us, but we could watch through his experience how often there were hoaxes in the news and you could really learn, oh my god, the news…

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