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00:50:14.640Now, I have some insight into this because I got sued for the same reason.
00:50:24.720There is a law that says if you hire somebody who's in the reserves and you know that they have an obligation to say, you know, work on work on some periods, that you have to let them do it and you have to pay them.
00:51:19.600I'd have to close my business if I'm paying this person to do the job, but then I have to pay a second person to fill in for them because they can't be there to do the job.
00:51:31.520If I have to do that, I have to close my company.
00:52:13.980And I'm not even sure that's a bad idea.
00:52:16.640So in his case, probably the chef was a weekday chef.
00:52:21.240But if you hire somebody who's in the reserves, you have to know that if you thought they were going to work on weekends, you're not getting what you thought you were going to get.
00:52:29.840So in my restaurant days, my restaurant partner hired somebody in the reserves for the job of the weekend manager.
00:52:40.280And then later, he informed us that he couldn't work weekends quite often because of his military service.
00:52:49.640So my manager said, oh, well, the only reason you were promoted is to work weekends because those are the days I don't work.
00:52:57.060So given that it was the only reason you were promoted and now you say you can't do it, we'll put you back in your old job, which was a server.
00:53:06.140The server, I think, made as much money, by the way.
00:54:52.620Is it not the strategy that when you first get power and before you've consolidated it, you tell the world that you're not going to be any trouble at all?
00:55:56.060But given that we know that war is going to be drone warfare in the future, the Middle East isn't going to be able to make a lot of drones.
00:56:07.300They're not exactly a manufacturing power.
00:56:10.440So, they'd have to depend on somebody like China to give them all their war drones if they wanted to conquer enough territory to have a caliphate.
00:56:52.960So, Fetterman continues to do smart things.
00:56:57.000He's finding very small ways, and this is a very small way, to act like a common-sense person who agrees with the Republicans when it makes sense to agree with them.
00:57:07.420And disagrees with him when, in his opinion, it makes sense to disagree.
00:57:11.640Now, I saw some people being confused that when I say good things about Fetterman, that it's like I don't understand that he votes for the most progressive things and, you know, he's a dangerous voter.
00:57:33.620So, the same way that I talked about AOC having good persuasion technique, which she doesn't anymore.
00:57:39.500I think she had an advisor that she may have lost.
00:57:42.060But Fetterman, every time he does something where, in the smallest way, he can say, you know, Republicans, you're good people, and I agree with you on this one.
00:57:54.580He gets closer and closer to being a national candidate.
00:58:01.340And the thing I appreciate about it is the technique.
00:58:04.620So, the technique is that when there's a little thing he can agree with, he says it publicly, and without any pullback, he just says it, you know, clearly and cleanly.
00:58:21.120Because when he disagrees with us, what's the first thing you're going to think?
00:58:28.720You're going to rethink your own thoughts or your own position.
00:58:31.760Because if somebody is just always on one side, and there only can ever be on one side, you discount their opinion completely.
00:58:40.420Because, you know, it didn't matter if they even thought through they were going to be on that side.
00:58:44.180But if somebody sends the impression that on every topic he's going to look at it commonsensically and give some examples, oh, this is a good candidate.
00:58:53.940It's a Republican, but it's a good candidate.
00:59:46.680Because, you know, you have ex-Democrats who presumably wouldn't easily embrace the right unless there was some common sense thing they could hang on to.
00:59:55.720So, Trump has the common sense advantage in the sense that it's clear that he will look at both sides and listen to the voices from both sides
01:00:07.060and go after it as a common sense thing, whatever it is.
01:00:15.660The Washington Post continues to move a little bit toward being useful instead of just being a propaganda rag.
01:00:26.800So, it could be that Jeff Bezos is pretty serious about turning the WAPO Washington Post into more of a credible publication instead of the propaganda rag it has been.
01:00:38.160But Byron York is pointing out that they've got an editorial about the Jordan Neely, the man who died with the penny situation on the subway.
01:00:49.400And I just want to describe how Byron York describes the editorial.
01:01:25.800So, this is the corner that the identity people paint themselves into, that if they want to pretend they're moving toward common sense, they have to somehow shed everything they've ever said and thought before because it was identity-based like this was.
01:01:45.200So, common sense screams that this poor Jordan Neely guy should have gotten some help and you wish the government had some kind of facility to do it.
01:02:26.560But before he does that, he's also apparently doing a bunch of promotions.
01:02:30.580So, he's promoting people into positions that unless Trump's FBI guy gets rid of him, there might be a lot of people who don't like Trump in major FBI positions.
01:02:46.860And there's a plan to slow walk the new FBI director's entry into the agency for three to four months.
01:02:54.380So, they're literally plotting to make sure that their own management can't be effective.
01:03:00.660Now, if any of that's true, 100% of them need to be fired, or at least the ones involved with it.
01:03:08.840If they're literally just trying to make changes so it's harder for Trump to do his job, everybody involved with that needs to get fired, even if you got promoted yesterday.