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convince people you are one, right? It's not like it's a government licensed role. So why not have like hundreds of them until they're all useless? You know the problem with the old search engine before AI is that if I Googled anything the problem wasn't that I would get no results. The problem is I'd get too many and they'd all be all over the place. It'd be like go into the library and look thr…

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s, there's a gay advocacy group, they just stripped Anheuser-Busch of their good rating because they didn't like Anheuser-Busch basically caved to the pressure about Dylan Mulvaney. So now you can't make the right happy because they didn't like how that was treated. But now the left is unhappy because they changed their minds because of the pressure from the right. Do you think that big companies are learning that social advocacy is a bad idea? How many times does a big company need to just get kneecapped before they say, how about we just stay out of all of this? How about you do you, we'll just make money. We'll just try to be a company for a change. How about that?

So anyway, have you noticed that when Democrats want to get reelected there's something that they often do? Tell me what it is. What do Democrats do? And I'm not talking about hoaxes. When they want to get reelected they act Republican. And here's the thing. It's as if Democrats know that their own policies don't work because when they need to get reelected they just suddenly drift into Republican policies to try to make you not realize that they never were there.

So here's a good example of that. Governor Newsom is trying to change the approval process for getting big projects approved in the state. Now a big project would be you know a big energy project or a big dam. So anything with water or energy, you can't get anything approved in California because there's some process. It's called the California Environmental Quality Act. It's a law that's known as CEQA. So apparently the Democrat governor realizes that — I assume this came from Democrats — the Democrats passed a law that made it impossible to manage the state because you couldn't get anything done because you couldn't get it through this approval organization. So Newsom is going to try to become Donald Trump by reducing red tape so he can get things done. Now how do you justify that? I mean he literally has to become Trump to save the state. Does anybody not notice that? Are we supposed to not notice that he has to adopt a baseline Republican policy to save the state because he knows he'

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s in trouble, right? That's so embarrassing. No that doesn't work the other way, does it? It probably does but I just don't know examples. I'm probably being biased about this. Does it work the other way that Republicans try to turn into Democrats when they're running for election? Maybe they do. Maybe they do a little bit. Maybe they soften. They probably soften on abortion a little bit in some…

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