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voters saying, yeah, that actually does matter to me. But AOC and Stewart both agree that what it does when Democrats are in favor of keeping it, which they are, that it makes them easy targets for Republicans to say you hypocrites, look what you're doing. And interestingly, it's just interesting they're calling out their own side for this huge error. Now I remember before Trump was president, i…

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practical purposes, and you can't leave that alone. You're going to have to acknowledge that that was a great thing for you. And he does. But you also don't want to be killed in 2025 by all the wokies who can't stand the fact that you thanked Trump. So he picked his words so carefully that it reminds you how smart he is. And how smart he is is really sort of the big story on this. I don't think you all completely understand that he's not ordinary smart, Ross. He's extra. All right, he's one of the special ones.

And so when he picks his words carefully, I like to pay attention to the exact words. Here's what he said. He said, I'm a free man now, so let it be known that Donald Trump is a man of his word. Thank you so much, President Trump, for giving me this amazing blessing.

Now look at his words. I'm a free man now. Let it be known that Trump is a man of his word. Isn't that a great compliment? It really is. If you're Trump, this is like the best compliment you could ever get, that you're a man of your word. Like that is so just right. But also it's non-controversial at least in terms of the specific thing because if Trump said he would do it and then he did it, calling him out as a man of his word at least on this particular item is exactly right. So he didn't go too far and put himself at risk with the left part of the country. But yet he delivered a compliment which I say one of the best ones I've ever heard. And there's no arguing that if he said he'd do it and then he did it, yeah, man of his word. That's worth something.

ICE, I don't want to say rounded up. If you've watched any of the coverage, Tom Homan always corrects everybody who says that they're rounding up people. He's like, no, very targeted enforcement of specific people. We're not rounding up. And that's a good correction. So they got 538 criminal aliens, to use the new modern word. And in some cases they got some people who were in the same room. Exactly like you said they would. Everybody's been warned. They know if you're in the same room as the person they're looking for, you're in trouble. So warning is all you can do. I mean, you got to do your job, and I guess they're doing it and they're doing it hard. So they got criminal gang members. They got people with all kinds of bad crimes, sex offenders. That's 538 people who aren't going to be offending again if they really go away and stay away.

Trump signed some kind of executive order, or he said he would approve power plants that are associated with AI data centers. So if you didn't know, AI requires so much processing you have to build a whole data center, and enormous ones bigger than we've had historically, in order just to get to the next level of AI. But they use so much power that you would drain the grid. I think we need about twice as much energy as we anticipate having under baseline. So we got to really ramp it up.

And Trump's take on this is you can do anything. You can use natural gas. You know that would be ideal. Except he's better than coal. But he's not going to limit what they can do. They can build a nuclear power plant, gas, geothermal, whatever it takes. Now that feels to me like trying to win. In other words, you know, keeping America strong and powerful and having the right energy profile is everything you need to win. I mean it's the thing that feeds the military, the economy, everything. So having Trump say I'm taking the controls, at least the useless controls, I'm taking the useless controls off of the energy program in the United States and then tying it to the AI stuff gives them a whole bunch of fans in the AI world, which is basically everybody who's paying attention, and makes us competitive.

Now what's it do to the environment? Not ideal. Not ideal. But I think it was Chamath from the All-In pod who was saying that even if you wanted to build your own solar plant because you want to be green, if you want to build your own giant solar facility to accompany your AI data center, you wouldn't be able to do it because the approval would take so long that it just wouldn't be a practical project. So Trump, this is a weird thing, Trump by removing the ridiculous obstacles could make solar power finally reach its potential because it's the environmentalists who tell you you have to do solar and it's the environmentalists who tell you you can't. That's what Chamath is kind of explaining. You should see him on the

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Tucker Carlson podcast. I haven't finished it yet, but like I said, it's the most eye-opening, jaw-dropping, incredible set of useful points that you should understand. It's really special. You know, so you got to watch that. So that's a big deal. If you're looking for some optimism, this story about allowing any kind of power plant, you know, not stupid but just normal power plants to be associa…

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