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s on board just to say, "Well we'll wait and see how this turns out. Let's not judge this too soon. Let's see how it turns out." Yeah. Now of course plenty of people would be nationalists and plenty of people would be benefiting from the cartels and so you're always going to get lots of disagreement on anything but I got a feeling a lot of the public would be okay with it. I mean if you've got do…
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But her answer about fentanyl coming across the border was that the Biden administration has caught a record amount of fentanyl. They have interdicted a record amount. So that's pretty good, right? They got a record amount that they captured coming across the border.
I'll tell you there's nothing that makes me more angry than when somebody is bullshitting you and they don't bother to make it look like maybe they're not. If you ask what are you doing about fentanyl and the only answer is how much they caught at the border and they don't tell you how much got through. As in did more get through than ever or is all that catching at the border reduce the total amount that got through? Or is it possible you don't know? Because the only data I care about is what got through. If you're telling me what didn't get through you're not talking in the same conversation.
Oh very good. I'm glad you caught it. No, good job. Go catch some more. But has nothing to do with understanding what the problem is. If you are going to insult the public with that answer of how much you caught and completely ignore the fact that you don't know how much got through you suck. Like you're a shitty person and I can't respect you whatsoever because if you're gonna on me like I'm so stupid that I can't tell the difference between what got through and what got caught and I'm going to fall for this misdirection then you think I'm an idiot, right? And you treat me like an idiot and it's going to come back. It's going to come back.
Yeah you know I think the spokesperson is either a liar or completely incompetent which is pick one. Pick one. I don't care which one you pick. Yeah I know you want me to use the c word but I can't. I can't give it away gratuitously.
By the way for the purposes of this criticism I identify as non-binary. I'm just non-binary as long as I'm criticizing the spokesperson. As soon as I move to the next topic right back to my old identity of adult black male.
All right. I think the biggest risk to humanity is not just the teachers unions. I think it's the bad relationship advice on social media. I'm not joking. No joke. The biggest risk to America anyway is the bad relationship advice on social media. My God is it bad. My God.
Let me give you just an idea of the types of bad advice we're getting.
Number one, my favorite is advice that only works if the two adults are both functional humans who really have their shit together. That addresses almost nobody. If we were functional you know we and a couple if you were functional you probably didn't need much advice in the first place. But very few, how often do two functional people get together? Have you ever heard anybody talk about their divorce? Do they ever say you know I was very functional and so was my partner but you know didn't work out for some reason? No they always say the other person is bad, crazy or a narcissist, right? The guy is always abusive narcissist and the woman's always bad crazy even if they're not.
So there's no such thing as
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these two functional people getting together and working through their issues with their good tools. Oh I think that happens for some people. So if you're giving advice that could only work in the rarest of situations it doesn't help. Now this is analogous to my criticism of success advice. Do you know what kind of advice doesn't help? Success advice that only works for really smart people becaus…
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