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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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Musk should take all these shirts and give them to the homeless. Not only that but I think that Republicans should make lots more shirts that also have Democrat slogans on them and also give them to the homeless. In fact I would give the homeless free clothes forever as long as that this is the free clothing had a pro-Democrat statement on it. And by the way I wouldn't have anything anti-Democrat. It would be their own. It'd be like vote for Hillary. You know Joe Biden is my president. You know that sort of thing. And just make it free but good enough quality and clean and maybe even do a laundry service.

Now imagine offering laundry service for the homeless like actually literally wash their clothes but also part of that provide them new fresher clothes that have Democrat slogans on. Come on that's, you love that idea. It's yes. Democrats for fentanyl. Ah that would be funny.

All right. And I saw a parody on Twitter that I honestly couldn't tell. I had to tweet to ask if it was parody or real. Good I didn't care. So it was somebody saying that they were a fired fact checker at Twitter and it was so spot on of what looks like it could have been an actual fired fact checker at Twitter that I couldn't tell. It was hilarious but I didn't know if it was hilarious because it was parody or it was hilarious because it was real. I actually couldn't tell. Like legitimately I didn't even have the best guess.

Now it turns out it was parody and it was labeled parody in the profile but I didn't want to check. Like obviously I could have checked in a second right but I didn't want to look because I didn't want to know if it was parody. I didn't want to know. I just wanted to enjoy it for its beauty without knowing for a while.

Here's another in the category of things you suspected that turns out are totally true. I saw Dinesh D'Souza tweet where he was talking about Twitter and said that the censorship was deployed as a one-way operation against conservatives. All right so that's a big statement, right? This is sort of conspiracy theory statement you would have heard a year and a half ago and you would have said well that just sounds like Dinesh is making just a purely political statement, right?

So censorship has been deployed as a one-way operation against conservatives. And then Elon Musk replies in the comments with one word: correct. Correct.

Now do you think that Elon Musk now knows exactly how things were being censored and why? Probably. Probably Musk knows exactly who got censored and why. And as someone else pointed out, maybe it was Dinesh pointed out I think Dinesh pointed out that you're not seeing a bunch of banned leftists coming back on the platform. Do you know why? Because there weren't any. And there weren't any. It was exactly what you thought it was. It was just a way to suppress conservatives apparently.

All right. So ladies and gentlemen I feel like there was a few funny stories that I missed. Oh the Krasenstein brothers. Yeah you know Kathy Griffin. Well Kathy Griffin was sort of a special case wasn't she? And you know I thought it was funny and smart that Musk brought Kathy Griffin back in the first wave of people brought back because that showed he was at least considering both sides of the aisle for comebacks. And I thought that was just a smart way to play it.

Do I have a MyPillow promo code? I don't. I do need some new pillows though. I should get some.

Now how many of you are noticing an improvement in the troll criticism activity on Twitter? I would say that my troll traffic is down at least 80 percent. In fact I'll even go further. The people who criticize me now might actually be real people. They might actually just be people who disagree with me. It feels very different. Yeah I can feel my metabolism doesn't do the same thing it did even a year ago on Twitter. A year ago on Twitter I could feel my body catch on fire after a few tweets but that doesn't happen now. When I check Twitter now it feels like a pleasant informational humorous kind of experience. Doesn't it? Feels very different now.

But here's my question. A hundred percent of my tweets still instantly get a spam. I think you've all seen it. It pretends to be Elon Musk giving away something right but it's all fake. But it's instant and it's as soon as I tweet. How in the world can Twitter not stop that? Because the content of the tweet is always the same. They don't have any way to instantly look for you know Elon Musk is not giving away any Bitcoins or whatever the hell this is. You've never seen it? Are you serious? It's in every one of my tweets including today. It happens instantly.

Let me do a test. I'm going to do a

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non like just a nothing tweet. Testing. How long before the spam hits my comments? Because I do wonder if anybody's watching to see if the content of my tweet is one that they want to connect to. So I don't know if it's content related. So I'm going to tweet this and if it's automatic the spam will be there like usually it's the first comment. So let's just test it. Let's test that tweet if any of…

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