at's why it's not being reported.

So here's another example of why we don't trust the press. CNN is now going full-throated: Generation IV nuclear is a good idea. And there's a story on there about how Bill Gates and TerraPower is building a plant in Wyoming that will be one of these next-generation, cheaper, smaller, safer kinds of nuclear energy. And CNN is treating it like it's just all good news and that the problems of the past may be solved by this new technology.

Now, did you expect that? Did you expect that CNN would just go full-throated, hey, this is looking good. We're going to need some of this nuclear energy to solve climate change. It's green. It's all green. Now, some of this may be the change in management leadership at CNN, because I've been tracking that sort of calling it out whenever they do something that doesn't look like it's just complete. I call it out because I'd like to see that. That's funny but bigoted. Cut it out. But funny. But funny. So I want to tell you the joke on YouTube, but I'll get kicked off, so I'm not going to. We'll keep that at Locals.

The reason I have a Locals community, they pay a subscription fee, is because we don't worry about the getting offended over there. You can offend me all you want. Nobody gets offended over there. And it's all good people, so you know there's not much to worry about.

All right, so that's a big deal now. If you're trying to wonder why the public doesn't trust you, what was it that CNN learned about nuclear energy this month, let's say, that causes them to do a positive story about nuclear energy? What did CNN learn that's new compared to, let's say, two years ago or three years ago? What's new? Well, they've got a story about this power plant, but I think it's been at least five years since this company existed. Longer, I think. TerraPower. So it's been a story in the news for I don't know, five years. And the whole time the story was it's going to be newer, cheaper, safer, and we're pretty sure we know how to do it. But now it's news.

Now, this is why people don't trust the news. Because three years ago they were reporting the story as the opposite of what they're reporting now. The opposite. Ooh, nuclear energy. It's kind of scary stuff. It's never going to help us. Too slow, too expensive. And that was just the opposite. And nothing changed except some years went by and there's a whole lot of persuading in between. So that's why people don't trust it.

Here's some new, maybe fake news. I don't know. But Democrats in some PAC are accusing Republican Representative Lauren Boebert of having had an abortion, which her spokesperson denies, and also having been a sugar baby escort, which her people deny. So these are two things that Democrats are saying about her that have no basis in truth according to her side, according to her spokesperson.

Now, I was trying to ignore this story, but I realized I couldn't. I tend to reflexively defend anything that has "bert" in its name, whether it's Dilbert, Dogbert, Ratbert, Catbert, or in this case Boebert. So Lauren Boebert is now, I'm putting her under the umbrella of my protection. Just sort of a random thing. It's just because she has that last name of bert. No other reason. Do I need another reason?

But I believe her when she says that she was never on a sugar baby website. I'm not going to finish this. Damn it. I had a pretty good joke, but I don't know. I'm going to bail out on that because I just realized there's some implications to that joke that I hadn't thought through. I hadn't entirely thought it through. I'll tell you on Locals. I'll tell you on Locals after we turn off YouTube. Okay? It's worth it.

All right. I love watching CNN try to spin the fact that not only is Biden's approval at its lowest level — we'll talk about that — but these January 6 hearings, in my opinion, are failing. Now, I think that's purely a point of view. The Democrats are saying succeeding and the Republicans are saying it looks like just a big cluster. It looks like a failure. So of course we're all looking at it through our own eyes.

But Stephen Collinson, who is CNN's official attack dog for Trump — he does regular opinion columns in which he just mocks Trump with big sarcastic words and sometimes reasons — but here's how Stephen Collinson is trying to take a win from the January 6 stuff. Because I think at this point it's obvious that Trump's not going to jail. Is everybody on the same page there? At thi