Ep. 1997 - I Hate Soccer, But Even I’m Rooting For USA… Lib Congressmen Can't
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Summary
The World Cup is happening in America, and I ordinarily I wouldn t care or even know that fact except for a strange phenomenon. While America hosts and competes in the big soccer tournament, foreigners from around the world seem to be falling in love with America. All while American politicians, Democrats are rooting for other countries to beat us.
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And I ordinarily wouldn't care or even know that fact, except for the strange phenomenon
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While America hosts and competes in the big soccer tournament,
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foreigners from around the world seem to be falling in love with America.
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All while American politicians, Democrats, are rooting for other countries to beat us.
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They're going on TV and talking about how they are rooting for other countries to beat us.
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delivered. This is an amazing display here. Soccer is happening. FIFA, World Cup. I would
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not even really know this was going on had the Democrat politicians not done what would seem to
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be the stupidest political move you can imagine, rooting against their own country. And yet,
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New York, New York's Congressional District 13, you have an incumbent, Adriano Espayat,
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Democrat. He's running against this woman, Daria Liza Chevalier, Democrat. They both go on the
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local New York channel. They bring up the World Cup. They're Democrats, so they have to like
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soccer. And they're asked, this is a real layup question. Hey, Democrat politician,
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US representative, that's actually the title of a congressman. Hey, US representative. And hey,
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lady who wants to be a US representative, what team are you rooting for in the World Cup?
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And they somehow blow it. World Cup is here. The first match this weekend at MetLife Stadium
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taking place in New Jersey, even though some people say it is technically New York. But what
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do you think will win it all? Who are you rooting for? I like Mexico. Mexico. There you go. I'm
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rooting for Senegal. Senegal. Okay. I'm rooting for Mexico. I'm rooting for Senegal. Not a hint
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of irony, total obliviousness to how impolitic this is. That answer, even from a Democrat
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politician, even from the most lib, deep down hates America politician you would have ever seen,
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that answer was unthinkable before Trump. Even Obama. Obama obviously hated America.
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Obama ran for president the first time, don't forget, campaigning that he would fundamentally
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transform America, that that was what he wanted to do. And you don't try to fundamentally transform
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things that you like. You don't go to your wife at night and say, hey, honey, love you so much.
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I want to fundamentally transform you. That's not what you say. So Obama was getting pretty close.
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that was a real break with precedent to say, yeah, I really hate this country.
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But even Obama, if you had asked Obama, hey, what soccer team are you rooting for?
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Well, I'm rooting for America. I'm president of the United States of America.
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There's no red America. There's no blue America. We just watch soccer now. There's only gay
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America. I don't know what he would have said. But in any case, he would have rooted for America.
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After Trump, and especially after Trump won the popular vote when he was reelected,
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that the Dems let the facade down. The Dems just became so nakedly anti-American that you now have
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US representatives and would be US representatives coming out saying, yeah, I'm rooting for other
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countries against our own country, even as we host the tournament. If that doesn't sum it up,
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I don't know what does. And in this case, because America is the global empire, we have ceased to
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be what the founding fathers and the framers established, which was a country that had a
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common identity, that increasingly over time would even lose their state identities to just
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have one cohesive national United States identity. No factions. They didn't even really want political
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parties because they were afraid of factionalism. Now it's just the global empire where all of these
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different ethnic groups, all these different tribes come in and try to get whatever they can
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for their own kind. Or best case scenario on the left, they just root for some abstract other
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faction, other party, other tribe, but not for the country. And the irony of this happening
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during the World Cup is that while that's going on, you have foreigners coming to the country
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to watch the soccer games, and the foreigners are falling in love with America. Phenomenon
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has taken over social media. There's a guy, Mr. K, this is translated from Japanese. I guess a
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Japanese guy comes in, posts a picture of a steak with that little basket bowl that you get at Texas
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Roadhouse, a little thing of corn, says to those heading to America for the World Cup, if there is
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a Texas Roadhouse near your hotel, head there immediately. It's a chain restaurant, but you can
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get the best cost performance steak, especially the ribeye is the absolute best. And I'll be real,
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he's right. Texas Roadhouse is great. For an affordable steak, Texas Roadhouse is awesome.
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I was driving with sweet little Elisa the other day, and sweet little Elisa goes,
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you know where we haven't been in a little bit? You know where I kind of want to go?
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I want to go to Texas Roadhouse. Oh, I love it. I love those little rolls. I love it.
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I do. Now, why do we like Texas Roadhouse? We agree with the Japanese guy because we love America.
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So you said, Texas Roadhouse is awesome, man. It's not just Texas Roadhouse.
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The big winner of these foreigners coming to visit, you have this guy, Freddy. I guess Freddy's
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from Germany. Takes a picture of Bucky's, both the superstore with the jerky and the beef and
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all the rest and the popcorn and all of it. And also the mile long gas stations. He goes, dude,
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LMAO, this is a gas station. Freddie then posts another picture. He goes, dinner from Bucky's at
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1 a.m. Just got all that nice corn, those tasty salmon. I love Bucky's. I love Bucky's. My kids
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love Bucky. If we're on a road trip, they are much more excited about Bucky's than they are
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about wherever we're actually going. One time we were at Bucky's and the Bucky beaver was just
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chilling like the guy in the suit was there. My middle son, you would have thought he just met
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Elvis. He was so taken. It was just it was a great experience. We had the same response
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that the German guy had. I promise you, not a single Democrat politician
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would have that experience. They would look down on Bucky's. They would say, oh,
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this is gross American consumerism. It's all too big. It's so garish. It's so decadent. I hate it.
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me, me, me, me, me. Freddy, even not just Bucky's, Freddy found Waffle House. And, you know,
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obviously when you go, I love a good Waffle House too, but you got to put your Kevlar on when you're
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going to Waffle House. Sometimes gets a little rowdy. Sometimes Waffle House punching above
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its weight on the old violent crime statistics. Anyway, Freddy goes, late night snack in New
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Orleans at Waffle House again. Unfortunately, we had to eat in the parking lot because you don't
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want to catch lead. We had to eat in the parking lot this time because they closed the
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dining area and only allowed takeaway. Okay, whatever. I love a good waffle house. I don't
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even eat the waffles. I eat the ham and the egg with the cheesy grits. It's great. Anyway,
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these posts on social media are getting millions of views, millions and millions of views.
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Saying, man, that's so good. You got our ruling class talking about how much they hate our country,
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how much they think our country sucks. And then you got foreigners coming in from the supposedly
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much more cosmopolitan, civilized places. So advanced, according to the liberals, like Germany
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and Japan, Europe. They come here and all the foreigners say, man, this is awesome. We don't
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have buckies. We don't have this kind of abundance. Now, they're not the only ones. There's another
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girl who's gone viral, Elsa, Elsa Thora, who says, Indiana is exactly how I dreamed America
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would be. Small towns, wide open spaces, cornfields, barns, cute houses, diners, water
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towers, friendly people, great food, American flags everywhere, so much more. Time for the next
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part of this adventure. Thank you, Indiana. Now, when I saw this one, let me see, where is this?
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Do I have any? Yeah, here we go. This is from The Atlantic. The Atlantic hit on something that I
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wondered when I saw these posts, which is you can't believe anything you see on social media
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anymore. So are these real? Are these real or are these organic or are they too good to be true?
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Or is it just something that we want to be true? So those first two, Freddy and the Japanese guy,
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Those are apparently real. Those are real people. They've spoken to media, to press.
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That's a real reaction. Little Elsa here, though. Apparently, little Elsa is an OnlyFans chick.
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So maybe she really likes Indiana. Maybe she's just trying to promote her pornography website.
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There's another one. This one's gone really viral. This one, I knew the minute I saw it,
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I knew it was fake. This is another Japanese account, Nobonaga. This is USA, a hibachi
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restaurant. My American friends brought me here to enjoy the cuisine of my homeland,
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and I witnessed a ritual I've never seen in 800 years of being Japanese. And it talks about the
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whole hibachi experience. It goes on and on and on like a really cheap novel. And the minute I read
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this, I said, this is AI slop. The guy's probably not even from Japan. And it seems to be true.
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The Atlantic has this piece here. The World Cup tourists are genuinely fascinated by America,
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right? Some of the people celebrating American excess are not what they seem.
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The liberals at the Atlantic, of course, saying, hold on, these people don't really love America.
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But if you go on and read the article, they'll say, no, no, no, some of them are real.
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Some of them might have ulterior motives, like the OnlyFans chick.
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And some of them are just AI slop, like Japan nobunaga.
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But even that doesn't make the point that the Atlantic wants to make here.
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Because even for the fake ones, the AI ones or the porn ones or whatever,
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the fact that those have gone so viral reflects that there is an appetite for American patriotism.
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Even if some of them are real, but even if some of them are fake,
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the fact that they've gone so viral reflect that Americans love these stories. We are so
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starved for anyone saying nice things about America that we'll even buy the AI ones. We'll
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even buy the porn ones. We don't care. And the reason we're so starved for that is that our
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ruling class, by and large, hates us. And they don't even hate us in the kind of polite,
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to get started. We've got Harry Anton over at CNN. What does 4th of July mean to you? He's
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he on CNN is reading from a Reuters Ipsos poll. Here's how the Dems think of it. Here's how the
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GOP thinks about it. What does July 4th mean to you? Celebrate America, friends and family time
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among Republicans. What do you see? You see the clear majority say it's a time to celebrate
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america 65 among democrats however the plurality disagreed look at that will display the flag on
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july 4th the american flag you come over to this side of the screen republicans basically are where
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they were 25 years ago right 64 but look at that democratic percentage absolutely plummeting just
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27 of democrats say they will in fact display the flag what about this idea are you proud to be an
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American. Look at this again. The Democratic percentage absolutely plummets to just 29%
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of Democrats say they're extremely are very proud to be an American. That's the craziest number.
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That's the crazy. All of them are bad. Are you proud to be an American? Extremely very proud
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to be an American. January 2001, 25 years ago, 90% of Republicans said they're extremely are
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very proud to be an American. 85% of Democrats. So the Democrats were always less patriotic than
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the Republicans, but only a little bit so. If you have boomer Democrat relatives,
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I have plenty of boomer Democrat relatives or greatest generation Democrat relatives.
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They actually struggle to understand the right-wing criticism that the left hates America.
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They think we're being hyperbolic and uncharitable, but it's not true. They just
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come from a different generation. And many of them have probably lost a lot of their patriotism too,
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because 25 years later, the GOP, the Republicans, are exactly as proud to be American as they were
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a quarter century ago. The Democrats have plummeted by, what, 56%?
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56%. Sorry, 56 percentage points. They are now less than one-third as likely as Republicans to
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say that they're proud to be Americans. These people should not be allowed to vote. I don't
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even mean that as a joke. I don't even mean that as cute little hyperbole. These people should not
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be allowed to vote. If you don't love your country, you should not be allowed to vote.
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If you are not, bring it right back to soccer, if you are not rooting for America,
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you should not be able to participate in the American political process.
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This is the danger of democracy that the framers were writing about.
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Let's not forget, the word democracy appears a handful of times in the Federalist Papers,
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the Federalist, which was written to explain the Constitution and to sell the Constitution.
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The word democracy appears a handful of times, always in the negative,
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always as a danger, always as something to be cautious about.
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In the early days of America, throughout much of American history,
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we have an almost popular vote for the president anyway.
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That was simply not true at the beginning of our country
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The Senate was elected by the state governments, not by the people.
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many many people just could not vote and now we pretend that voting is an end to itself and some
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sort of sacred right but voting is an instrument voting is an instrument to get us a good government
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good government which is there for the common good of all if you have well over two-thirds of
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democrats who are now saying they they're not proud to be an american they don't love their
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country. They're not rooting for their country. Why would we let them vote? They're telling us
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they are not interested in our best interests. They want us to lose. Why would we give them a
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say in our government? How do you actually disenfranchise the people who openly hate
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your country? I don't know. That's a little bit tricky. I guess one way to do it is to deport a
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lot of people if you can deport them. Another way to do it would be to denaturalize some people who
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We are denaturalizing some people right now who committed immigration fraud.
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One way to do it would be to restore our previous system of voting, which is that if you committed very serious crimes, you would lose your right to vote.
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One way to do it would be to install basic measurements, basic responsibilities in order to exercise the right to vote.
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Like you have to go get an ID card to prove who you are.
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Like you have to actually show up to the polls on Election Day.
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like you have to care at all. Like you have to care at all. That would be one way to do it.
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But you cannot have a good country. You cannot have a thriving, successful country
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if two-thirds of the people voting actively want to destroy the country.
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If two-thirds of the people voting don't want the good of the country.
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We are starved for the legit foreigner posts and for the bot and even porn posts.
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that say they love America because so many of the people running our country and participating in
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our elections openly hate the country. Unsustainable. Now, speaking of Democrats,
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there's one Democrat who, I don't know if she's actually rooting for our government or maybe she's
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rooting for our country, but she does like, this is weird, she's one of the most anti-Trump
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Democrats and she's apparently charmed by President Trump's heir apparent, J.D. Vance.
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I thought it was pretty good that his press team told him that this was a table of MAGA Republicans.
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You told him during the break that he should run for president because he has a good vibe.
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I think that even though for a Republican, mind you, I said to you in the beginning of this conversation, I don't think that he's a bad guy.
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So if he runs against, say, Gavin Newsom, that will be an interesting debate to see those two because they're both intelligent.
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Joy Behar is super duper lib. I'm not saying she's like an Antifa operative or something.
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She's more representative than that, actually. She's a kind of not all that with it, not all
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that informed, reflexive liberal who just has Trump derangement syndrome, who hates anything
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conservative and Republican. But J.D. Vance goes on her show and she says, you know, I think that
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guy's intelligent. Furthermore, I don't think he's a bad guy. This is an amazing breakthrough
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because Democrats, I mean, this has almost become cliche to understand it this way.
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Republicans tend to think Democrats are misinformed. And sometimes they have bad
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intentions, like the ones who are rooting against America. But mostly they're misinformed. As Ronald
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Reagan said, it's not that our liberal friends are ignorant. It's that they know so many things
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that aren't so. They just don't quite get it, and they don't understand us. Study after study
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has shown that the right understands the left much more than the left understands the right.
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We disagree with the left, but we know where they're coming from. We see how they arrived
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at their conclusions. It's just based on mistaken premises, both about hard facts and also about
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first principles. The left doesn't understand the right, by and large. And so the left has
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to conclude that people on the right are either impossibly stupid or malevolent, that we actually
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have bad intentions. Those are basically the only conclusions. And what's so notable about Joy
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Behar's response to Vance's, she knocks both of those things down. She says, look, for a Republican,
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I think he's pretty good. Look, I don't think I agree with him. I don't think, but he's not stupid,
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and I don't think he's a bad guy. I don't think he has bad intentions. And I pointed this out
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yesterday. I said that the clip to me that really showed JD's prowess on The View was when he was
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talking to Whoopi. And Whoopi said, you know, what do you think about them? Erase some black
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history. And he said, well, Whoopi, what do you mean? And he didn't even say it in a condescending
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way. He didn't say like, can you cite your sources? Boom, you can't, owned, lib, destroyed,
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facts, logic, boom. She didn't say that. He just said, hold on. Even when the audience started to
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boo him a little bit. He goes, no, no, I'm just trying to, I just, I want to make sure I'm
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responding to your actual point so that we're not talking past each other. What specifically
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are you talking about? And it was so disarming. It was devastating because she had no answer.
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She ended up going viral because she said, oh, I mean, there's so many examples that I can't pick
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even one. And it totally took the air out of that conversation. What's really amazing about
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the Joy Behar clip is you're seeing some people on the right who are attacking J.D. Vance for
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charming Joy Behar. I think, hold on, this is one of the most conservative people in American
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politics. In many ways, much more conservative than the GOP. In many ways, drawing on deeper
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wellsprings of conservatism than what has passed for conservatism in the last four or five decades,
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and he was able to pull them into his coalition. That's how he won. That's how he won the popular
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vote. The fact that Vance could do that in maybe the most hostile enemy territory on mainstream
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media, from joy-freaking Behar, that's impressive. That gives me a little bit of hope for the future
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of the MAGA movement, conservatism, and the Republican Party. It's funny. You'll even hear
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from the people who are going after Vance. They'll say, we need to restore civility to our
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politics. We need to be respectful to our opponents. We need to whatever. And everyone
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wants you to be respectful until you're respectful to someone they don't like.
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Everyone wants it to be their political avatar to be respectful until it's to someone that they
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don't like. But if you just show, I'm not saying you'd be obsequious. I'm not saying you flatter
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or anything like that. But if you can just have a basic level of respect, talking to some communist,
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talking to some wacko, talking to some radical or reactionary, if you can do that, it takes the
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temperature down a lot, sometimes you can win people over. But the attacks that are coming in
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on Vance right now are really, I think, just the reemergence of all the old attacks that you saw
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on Trump back in 2016. And they're coming from many of the same people who hated Trump in 2016.
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I think as we move into the 2028 primary, which we're almost into right now, got to get past the
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midterms first, but we're almost into it. I think you are going to see the reemergence of all those
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President Trump at the G7 in France, obviously very concerned about this Iran war, which has
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upended global energy markets, which has destabilized the Middle East even more so,
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and which is really threatening the midterms, the conservative coalition.
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Trump has secured this memorandum of understanding. They're flying to Switzerland this weekend
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to try to get the first stages of a deal with Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
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And this has caused a lot of consternation, including with the US's co-belligerent in the
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Iran war, which is Israel. And President Trump has a very good relationship with the state of Israel.
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The U.S. has a good relationship with the state of Israel, allies for a long time.
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Trump's so beloved in Israel that they named a town after him in the state.
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Trump getting a little bit tough on the Israeli prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu.
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And you'll see that when you see the agreement, but it's appropriate that we release the agreement.
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Again, I think they could do better with respect to Hezbollah.
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I'm not saying they shouldn't protect themselves.
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I'm saying when two drones are shot into the desert and drop harmlessly,
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you don't have to knock down buildings in Beirut.
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But they could do a much better job with Hezbollah.
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On that, I don't think they're doing well.
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Lebanon's been, you know, it was a great culture.
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It was a great, they had the professors, the doctors, the lawyers.
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Maybe the highest in the Middle East for years and years, centuries.
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And for the last 50, 60 years, they have been just trashed.
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Beirut's a great place and they were destroyed by the Muslims,
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but it doesn't help when there's major instability in the Middle East,
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which includes the wars with the state of Israel.
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So what does Trump say here? I think he says exactly the right thing in exactly the right
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tone. Because in the debates on the American right right now, you have these two crazy extremes that
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do not reflect reality. On the one hand, you have some people saying Israel is the worst country in
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the face of the world and absolutely perfidious and totally dominates Trump and they're blackmailing
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him and they really run the show and whatever. Just this very, very deeply anti-Israel
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kind of stuff, really, which is anti-Semitic at a certain point. I mean, at a certain point,
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it's no longer criticism of Israel. It's going into another realm. So you do have that. That
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really does exist. And then on the other hand, you have this totally obsequious slavish devotion
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to a foreign nation where people will say they're our greatest ally that we've ever had,
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and we have to back them in everything, and we have no divergent interests, and you can never
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criticize them. And that's totally preposterous too. They're both forms of Israel derangement
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syndrome. They're both two sides of the same coin. And what does Trump say? Trump does not say
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Israel's awful and I hate BB and they're the worst state ever and they're pariah. He goes,
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no, no, they're a good partner. They're a good partner. I've gotten along well with them.
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I support them broadly. I have a good relationship with Netanyahu, but they're undermining America's
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efforts and America's interests right now, and they need to cut it out. And he's using this
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issue of Lebanon where he's saying, look, he's already said this probably, he says, look, if
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Hezbollah is really hitting you hard, and you need to respond to that, obviously.
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But you don't need to go knocking down buildings and whole blocks of a city
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when a drone lands in the desert and no one's even injured,
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especially in this case because we're trying to secure a peace deal.
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And the reason this is such a hot issue right now is because,
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while the U.S. and Israeli interests are substantially overlapped a lot of the time,
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It is in America's interest to end the war for reasons that Trump explains momentarily.
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But it's in America's interest to end the war in Iran.
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There's still some open debate over whether or not it was in America's interest to start the war in Iran.
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But I think there's a plausible case that there really was to set back Iran's nuclear program.
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But nevertheless, now it's very much in America's interest.
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Even the Israeli state admits that to end the war.
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And it's in the Israeli interest to keep the war going.
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Because Iran poses a different kind of threat to Israel than it does to the United States.
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and with declining support for Israel in the United States, this might be Israel's last chance
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to really take out the regime. So I see it. But Trump says, look, we're getting the peace deal
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and you need to play ball. You need to be restrained. And then so there's some people
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who say, well, how dare you tell the Israeli state that they can't respond? They're a sovereign
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country. They can do whatever they want. You say, well, not really, actually. I mean, they are.
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They're a sovereign country, but we fund their military. We are their chief. We're actually
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their only protector among the great powers on the world stage. We're their co-belligerent in
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war. We're the senior partner. They're the junior partner. And so if you're going to take that kind
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of aid, if you're going to be reliant on that kind of support, if you're going to lobby us
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to go in and take out one of our chief shared threats here, then you need to play ball with
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us. If we're the senior partner, then we're really going to be the senior partner. And you're going
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to have to deal with that. That's how politics really works. Why was it so important to President
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Trump to end this war. He explains at the G7. And I'll tell you what, Israel's fighting Hezbollah
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too long and too many people are being killed. And you don't have to knock down an apartment
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house every time you're looking for somebody. Because there are a lot of people in those
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apartment houses and they're not all Hezbollah, that I can tell you. And I suggested to Israel
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to let Syria take care of Hezbollah. Because to be honest with you, I think they do a better job
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up doing it okay so hold on here he's real this is before he explains why it needs to end he really
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turns it up here right because he there's a lot of consternation coming out of the israeli press
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and the israeli government and he's saying oh yeah you want to you want to play tough with me
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i've been very good to you i've been very good to you we've been good partners we had a nice
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relationship you told me i'm the greatest president for the state of israel ever now when i need to i
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need to end this war and you're going to try to undermine that hey i'll tell you what maybe i'll
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maybe, you know what I'll do? Maybe I'll give Lebanon to the Al Qaeda guy in Syria. What do
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you think about that? Maybe he would do a better job. Now, I think this is hyperbole coming from
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Trump. I don't think he's really seriously arguing that we're closer allies with the
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former Al Qaeda operative who's running Syria right now, who, by the way, we all, with the
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support of Israel and the United States, we did kind of install him to oust Assad because Assad
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in Syria had the support of Russia. So even that, you know, even that we were backing Jolani,
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the former Al Qaeda guy in Syria. Nevertheless, I think he's using a little bit of hyperbole to
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say, hey, hey, hey, I'm the boss. I'm the senior partner. And when you have a partnership like
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this, you got to deal with that. Politics is not totally abstract. It's not the United Nations
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where we pretend that every nation is equally powerful and equally significant on the face
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of the earth. We're in a kind of alliance here and we have a bigger role in the alliance and
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we have to end the war. Why? If we didn't do this deal, we could have dropped more bombs
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for another three weeks, two weeks, four weeks, two years.
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You would never have the harm was straight open.
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Your market would have, instead of going up at levels
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would go down at levels that nobody ever saw before,
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Yeah, but we could have done it a few more weeks,
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My pal Andrew Klavan was making this point yesterday
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I mean, from the beginning, I was skeptical that it was worth even leveling the second
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The Fordow strikes last year were a different matter, but actually going in, trying to decapitate
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the regime, I was skeptical because I knew that it was always going to end this way.
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I hate to say I told you so, but I was completely right about my prediction of what would happen
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in Iran, which is you would ultimately be left with two choices.
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you would either have to accept an unsatisfying deal or you would have to go all the way.
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And I think there was greater hope that you could go all the way very quickly. You could get a
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total regime change. It would transform the Middle East. I mean, there was a chance. No
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one predicts the future perfectly. There was a chance that could happen. When it became clear
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within a few weeks that that wasn't going to happen, then you were going to end up in a
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situation where you could either have an unsatisfying deal. There's no question it's an
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unsatisfying deal, of course. Or you could radically escalate boots on the ground,
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regime change, occupy 10 years, election overseers, basically the same thing that
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happened in Iraq. And even if Trump wanted to do that, which he doesn't, even if that would be a
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good idea, which it's not, there was just no political appetite at all for that. So that
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wasn't going to happen. So you had to take the unsatisfying deal. And you can still say,
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but the people who say this was totally pointless, they say, no, no, hold on. We got a lot out of
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this. We completely destroyed Iran's military. We, at the very least, seriously set back Iran's
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nuclear program by 10 years maybe. We might, and I hope we will, get the nuclear dust. They won't
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get sanctions, serious sanctions relief if we don't get the nuclear dust. So we achieved a lot
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of shared goals for the US and Israel, but we basically got all of the US goals taken care of,
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the most important ones. We didn't achieve the most important Israeli goals, but we did achieve
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most of the important American goals. And now we're going to move back. Why?
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Because the war was time limited. It was time limited by the markets. It was time limited by
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the fact that Iran actually does control the Strait of Hormuz. It's their most powerful weapon,
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much more so than a potential nuke. And because we're almost out of our strategic petroleum
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reserve. I'm going to get bad press. I know that. Now, if I did the opposite, if I went out and
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continued to bomb them for another floor, just bomb the hell out of them, I'd get bad press on
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that. No, there's nothing I can do. But what this does is it allows the ships to go. If we keep
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bombing, those ships won't be going. And you're talking about 500, 600, 700 million dollars
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a day. It's a lot of money. A lot of money. That's why the world is okay. It's liquid.
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It's fine. Also, we run out of reserves in about four weeks. You know, there are reserves
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all over the world, and we would really run out. And there'll be a time when you wouldn't
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be able to get it. And you want to see Bedlam? So for all those so-called geniuses that want
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to show me how smart they are. Ask them why didn't they blow up General Soleimani. Ask that of the
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general and a couple of other people that I like very much, but boy, are they wrong. Go ahead.
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How about you? Yeah, this is the key. And so many of the ideologues just totally miss this.
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There are real facts and resources on the ground here. And this is why the question I asked to the
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people who are upset by this mou what's your alternative what was the alternative boots on
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the ground that is the answer but they don't want to admit that so they'll say no we'll just keep
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bombing okay we'll just keep bombing and then what we'll just bomb forever and we'll lose 20
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of the world's oil supply just in ad infinitum and then we'll run out of all of our strategic
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petroleum reserves and then gas will go up to two or three hundred dollars a barrel and then we want
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to petrochemicals we want to fertilizer we want and then what and then we'll we'll keep this open
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situation where the iranians eventually are going to keep striking not only israel but also our gulf
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allies and we're then we're going to weaken and probably lose the petrodollar and then china's
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going to come in and clean it up and then and then and then and then and then what's this what's the
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end of it then the end of it is the only thing we could do to deal a death blow to the regime is to
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invade the country with boots on the ground take a bunch of american losses inevitably and probably
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occupy the place for 10 years and and almost perfectly recreate iraq that's what's going to
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happen. And this is, you see Trump's frustration here. He says, all these geniuses who want to
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tell me what they should have done, how would you have solved these discrete problems? None of them
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have an answer for it. So now what's very clever, and you're kind of seeing this play out in the
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political press, is Trump is right. They don't like that Trump is right. They want to oppose
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Donald Trump, the people who are very upset about this MOU. And so they're trying to place the blame
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on someone else. They're placing the blame on J.D. Vance. But ironically, it's just creating the
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exact same fissures that you saw at the beginning of the Iran war, and frankly, all the way back
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klm royal dutch airlines when you travel travel well my favorite comment yesterday not from youtube
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it's from spotify because i didn't realize that you could leave comments on spotify and now i'm
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really tickled by that. And the Spotify comments are great. This is from White Pilot who says,
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justice for the indigenous people of Britain. That's a great point. And all this talk about
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anti-colonialism, the rights of the indigenous. What about the indigenous people of Britain
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who are being colonized by a hostile foreign power? What about the Me Too movement? What about
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you have a quarter million British girls are raped over the course of decades,
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some of them murdered by a hostile foreign colonial power. Why don't, where's the outrage?
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We got to defend the indigenous rights of the Brits.
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What you were seeing before we move on, before we move on from the G7, one last point.
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It's very, very funny. At the opening of the Iran war, a lot of people on the right
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were attacking, not a lot of people, sorry, on the media right and the prominent right.
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A lot of the rank and file people on the right, they just kind of trust Trump.
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Trump's best foreign policy president of our lifetime.
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But a lot of people in the media on the right and some political figures,
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And one thing they would do is they would blame not Trump, but the people around Trump.
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It's always those wicked advisors around the king who are giving him bad information.
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You see, we Catholics sometimes do this about the Pope.
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The Pope never really said or did anything wrong.
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It's just the wicked advisors around him giving him bad information.
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So you saw this play out on the right at the opening of the Iran war.
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I think Tucker really started to go after Trump.
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But a lot of people were just kind of dancing around.
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It's the people in the media, the people in the government.
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And what's so funny now is now the sides have completely flipped.
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And all the people who were cheerleading the Iran war at the beginning
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are not only going against the Trump administration for the peace deal,
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You think J.D. Vance is doing this peace deal without Trump's approval,
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We're denying that Trump has a role in the world of affairs.
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They're just doing the exact same thing now when Trump's doing something that they don't like.
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And they're saying, no, it's Vance or it's Steve Wyckoff or it's Jared Kushner.
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It's mostly Vance because he's the number two guy.
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He was asked a joking question from Peter Doocy.
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And Doocy goes, hey, why are you putting Vance so front and center on this?
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And he goes, oh, it's very easy because if it works out, I'm going to take all the credit.
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And if it doesn't go well, I'm going to blame JD, which is a joke.
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You know, in every joke, there's a little bit of truth.
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And what's very curious is you're seeing these, I guess it shouldn't be curious.
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You're seeing these fault lines reemerge in the GOP, which is that the people who are
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most vociferously opposed to the memorandum of understanding in Iran, the Venn diagram
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of those people and the people who really, really opposed Trump in 2016, it's like a
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It's just, it's really the kind of the never Trump faction is the one that is most outraged
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And they're directing a lot of their ire at J.D. Vance, which tells you, you don't need
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a PhD in logic to know that that means that J.D. Vance, whether he wins or loses, whether
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he even gets a nomination or not, J.D. Vance is the heir to Trumpism because all the people
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who hated Trump specifically in 2016 really hate J.D. Vance in 2026. So that tells you that for
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better or worse, J.D. Vance is the heir to the Trump political movement. You're going to see
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these fault lines reemerge. It's not that they went away in 2016. It's not even that Trump really
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persuaded all of these people to support him or to change their views on tariffs or immigration
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or foreign policy or whatever. It's just that Trump was too big and he won over the people
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and you could not be in Republican politics if you didn't play ball with Trump.
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And then when Trump, the individual, goes away, all of those fault lines are going to reemerge.
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This is just how it is in the conservative coalition.
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There are lots of different groups, the neocons and the paleocons and the libertarians and the traditionalists, and there's not a ton holding them together.
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There was at least something holding them together during the latter part of the 20th century, which was the Soviet Union.
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The Soviet Union, which could get the traditionalists and the religious right opposed to the secular material atheism of the Soviet Union, could get the libertarians opposed to the collectivism of the Soviet Union,
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could get the Warhawk Democrats, the neocons, opposed to the imperialism of the Soviet Union.
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But then the Soviet Union fell apart. The conservative coalition ceased to make a ton
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of sense. That's what we're heading back into. And a lot of these fights over the Iran deal are
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proxy battles over that. One last story before I go, I have to get to this. This is really,
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really funny. It's from the New York Times. The New York Times accidentally admitting
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that the Epstein scandal is not a Trump scandal.
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We'll get back to some of the kind of crazy conspiracy theories about Israel.
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They say they've got blackmail on him, on Trump, and they run the show,
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and he's a puppet for, and they were, Epstein was a Mossad agent or whatever.
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And they say, you know, Epstein's got all this dirt on Trump.
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That's how they're all controlling the government.
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Because I've got this New York Times piece right here.
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You have the Democrats basically making this argument that Trump is,
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lengthy New York Times article, the untold story of Jeffrey Epstein's death. Worth reading.
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Here's just a little take. This is actually from Forbes.
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Jeffrey Epstein's attorneys were in discussions with prosecutors before his death about potentially
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trying to get him a more lenient sentence if he gave up information that could help them in other
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cases. And who did they want to get? They wanted to get Trump. The New York Times reported Tuesday
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with notes suggesting Epstein wanted to pass along information about Donald Trump. Okay,
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here we go. We got it. Now, Trump, we know that Epstein was blackmailing people. That's what we
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thought initially. Then everyone said, no, no, he wasn't blackmailing people. Then Bill Gates just
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came out in testimony before the House of Representatives said, no, he was blackmailing
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me. So Epstein was in the blackmail business. Was he working for a criminal enterprise? Was
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he working for foreign state or states, plural, potentially? Was he just working for himself?
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It's unclear, but here's the reporting. It's unclear how far those discussions proceeded
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was preoccupied with trying to provide information
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about Trump based on notes he took at the time.
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Trump killed Epstein because Epstein had dirt on him.
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And Epstein's associates probably still have dirt on him.
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he didn't actually have anything noteworthy about trump who was then in his first term
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making only vague comments like trump is a total con artist smoke and mirrors he never had money
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in other words jeffrey epstein who we're told was so close to donald trump we're told they
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committed all these terrible crimes together they spent all he was member mar-a-lago
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the best dirt that epstein had on trump are all the lame stupid political slogans that you hear
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on msnbc and on the view he's a con artist he lied about his wealth or whatever that's it that's all
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he had he i've come to the conclusion donald statistically speaking trump might be the
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cleanest person in america billionaire playboy you know basically worked with the mob doing real
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estate in New York. Well, you'd think, but they have nothing on him. They have nothing on him.
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The New York Times has to admit it. Jeffrey Epstein, the best thing Epstein has is he's a
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con artist. He inflated his wealth. Wow. Crazy. In any case, love to hate to say I told you so
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here. My original thesis, totally right. You remember what I said about Epstein? I've said
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it for years. I said, one of two things are true about Epstein. Either Epstein is a super-duper
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triple agent for Mossad, MI6, CIA, KGB, FSB, whatever. Either he is this international
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James Bond, Blofeld man of mystery, in which case you're not going to learn anything more
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than you already know about him. Or he just kind of is what they said he is, this criminal guy
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