Back to episode — Episode 3060 CWSA 01/02/26
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ch about Trump as the only person who could have attacked the fraud effectively. But I don't think even that would have happened without DOGE and without Elon putting his finger on that button continuously. So somebody told me that the Nick Shirley account which blew up and became a giant thing was primarily because Elon boosted him. Is that true? I was trying to understand why since 2018 local n…
← Previous segment →cheaper energy to the local community? And I'd never really thought of it that way, but if they have enough regulatory relief, it seems to me that something has changed in regulations because why is it suddenly so easy for these big companies to build their own power plants? I feel like building a power plant would be the hardest thing you could ever get approved, but suddenly there are lots of them and they seem to get approval. So is that a Trump thing? Did the administration remove a bunch of regulations to make this practical? It must have, right? So again, could any other president have pulled off the AI revolution? I don't know because you would have to go massively after the regulatory structures in order to even imagine that private companies could build their own power plants on site.
Anyway, an update on the LA fires. The Post Millennial is reporting, Hannah Nightingale, that just 13% of homes destroyed in the LA fires have a permit to rebuild. Now do you know why it's taking so long? It's not all because of the state, although much of it is. Number one, there's no way to get fire insurance. Would you rebuild a home if you knew you couldn't get fire insurance, especially a place where they had a big fire? So some of it is the insurance companies and the homeowners not being able to do a deal. Secondly, especially if you didn't have enough insurance before the fire, if you're a homeowner you're probably short on cash. So even if you could get approval to build, how
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many people would have enough to just rebuild a new house? That seems like it would limit you. And then of course there are endangered plants. So apparently getting around the fact that there are endangered plants is slowing down permits. But as somebody asked in the comments where I saw this, how did the endangered plants do during the fire? Isn't a fire worse than building? Yeah. So we'll keep a…
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