Chapter 1: What holiday news did Trump make recently?
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Look for Owen Gregorian, and you'll see the link right at the top of his feed on X. And I'll remind you at the end of the show, too. Hey, I wonder if coffee is good for you. Oh, here's a study from Food and Function that says coffee is good for your liver and your kidneys. Not bad. Not bad. One sip and your liver and your kidneys will be better.
I wonder if there's anything else coffee can do for you. Oh, yeah. There's another study that says it can help control your blood pressure. As long as you drink a lot of it. You have to drink two to five cups a day to control your high blood pressure. But it can also lower your risk of type 2 diabetes and reduce your chances of endometrial cancer, Parkinson's, and even depression.
The depression part you knew about. Have you heard there's a new kind of fake bacon? It's made without killing the pig. So I guess they take a little fatty tissue from a live animal, and then they stick that fatty tissue in some kind of plant-based sugars and proteins and vitamins, and they let it ferment. And then two weeks later, They got something that looks disgusting and tastes even worse.
But it's technically a pig. I don't know. They say it tastes okay. I don't know. Meanwhile, something I talk about a lot is that in the Netherlands, they've got this Lego style snap lock brick system. So you can build a wall with bricks that snap together. Now, why hasn't that been around forever? is there any good reason that bricks are not already snapped together?
Because once you see it, you say, well, it's kind of obvious. Of course they should snap together. Anyway, there's a new study that says that American employees are hitting a new low in well-being. Johns Hopkins University. So do you believe that? In 2024... American employees hit a new low in happiness and well-being.
You know, I'm thinking of launching a comic strip that takes advantage of the fact that everybody's unhappy with their job. What do you think? Any potential? Maybe. Until I get canceled, anyway. Anyway. Well, Rosie O'Donnell is up in arms. She was talking to Jim Acosta on a podcast, and she was very unhappy. that Trump called the reporter a piggy. A piggy.
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Chapter 2: How did Rosie O'Donnell react to Trump's comments about reporters?
And they got no submarines. And then according to Elon, they held a hearing to say, where did the $12 billion go? And they were like, we don't know. And that was the end of it. That was the end of it. $12 billion for submarines just disappeared. I don't know. Where do you think it went? Well, probably stolen.
The Treasury Department, Scott Besant, according to Just News, wants to end the federal tax benefits for illegal migrants. So I guess they were still getting stuff like The earned income tax credit, additional child tax credit, American, a few tax related credits. But they're going to take that away. Does anybody mind? Anybody have a problem with that? Nope.
I did not know we were giving them that money. So Trump is claiming that a migrant earning $30,000 with a green card will get roughly 50,000 yearly benefits for their family. That sounds like a lot. I don't know if that's, I don't know if that number is reliable. All right. Um, And so the question you'd ask is how much of your tax payments are going to non-citizens? I don't know.
So I asked Grok and says that the net cost for all those things would be about two cents per dollar in the top tax bracket. So in other words, if you're in the top tax bracket, about two cents of all your dollars, 2% would go toward illegal aliens benefits, I guess, which feels like too much. Well, China's fertility has fallen again.
And did you know that China's birth rate in the 60s was six to seven kids apiece per family? Six to seven kids. And it's now down to one. Now, one is half as much as you need to reproduce to keep your population consistent. So what exactly is China's plan for survival? Well, they don't say it, but it's robots.
So by the time the population decline becomes serious, we should have so many robots that we'll be able to do everything that humans can do. Maybe it's just robots. So maybe your best situation is fewer people and more robots. Maybe. Maybe. It's not entirely clear what happens when we're only reproducing half as much as we need to. At the same time, robots are becoming fully functional.
It's robots. I feel like you can have families... that would be part human and part robot, like literally, legitimately, that actually will be considered family members. That's my prediction. Robot family members. Because, you know, if a robot learned enough about your family, you'd want to keep it around, right?
Because it would feel like a family member if you could have a conversation with it. It went with you on family outings. That's what's happening. Your robot would just be a family member. So we'll be all worried that the robots are going to take over. Nope, they'll just be our children. Allegedly, according to the European Conservative, that's a publication,
It's looking like Washington might want to recognize Russian control over occupied Ukrainian territories. So in other words, Ukraine might say, we own these territories like Crimea and Donbass. But the U.S. might be willing to say, we're done protecting those areas. They're gone. We're not getting them back.
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