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Asian American violence thing is a little dicey isn't it? No I'm not saying that there isn't because I'm sure there is. I'm sure the statistics are right and that's a cause for great concern. So I'm not minimizing the problem, right? So hear me clearly. I'm not minimizing the problem. I'm just saying I don't feel like the way we're reporting this has any connection to reality. So we'll see. I've…

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d is Cardi B and Candace Owens.

Now if you're not up to date on this the two of them have had some words on social media and Candace Owens has ripped into Cardi B for her allegedly lewd performances. And then Cardi B at one point tweeted a horribly untrue rumor about Candace and her family. I won't even repeat it but just whatever you think on a scale of one to ten whatever is the worst false rumor you might hear it was a ten. All right. And it wasn't really a rumor that sounded like it could have been true. I mean it just sounded like it was fake on the surface and it was.

So then Candace goes back at her and blah blah. So Cardi B's last rejoinder if you will was one of the best things I've ever seen in terms of persuasion. All right. So you got these two celebrity type people and they're going at it in public and you figure that when one escalates the other is going to match it or escalate a little bit more and it's just going to get worse and worse.

But instead Cardi B giving Scott a little lesson on why she's famous. Because let me, you know I've told you before I'm not really a music guy. I don't really follow music so I don't even know a lot about the most popular entertainers. So I didn't know much about Cardi B. I couldn't except for WAP I couldn't even name a title of a song and I don't even know what it sounds like. So her most famous song I've never heard that I know of.

But and so I was thinking to myself does she really have all this talent? Because I was wondering where's all this talent? Because I wasn't seeing it. You know in little clips and stuff I saw of Cardi B it wasn't jumping out at me what is it that makes her famous. Like I couldn't figure out why is she famous. It just wasn't clicking with me.

And then I saw her latest tweet to Candace and this was the moment I said oh I get it now. I totally get it now. So here's what she did. She showed a video of I guess Cardi B doing a big old tongue kiss on some black woman who was not Candace. But Cardi B tweeted this to Candace. She says me you on a beach while debating about Trump and Biden. Think about it Republicans. Go watch WAP I guess that's her music video to see what this is about.

So Cardi B tweets a picture of her making out with a black woman and sends it to Candace saying me and you on a beach. Now come on. In the history of all public feuds is this not the best response you've ever seen? Yeah I get it that's gross and you know there's some of you who are turned off by the sexual part of it. I get that. I get that you can have that opinion.

But the fact that she took this thing that was a feud and turned it perfectly into a promotion for her music video and just took the argument into this whole weird place it's just one of the most awesome things I've ever seen. Yeah it's comedy, it's persuasion, it's promotion. So in this one little anecdote of this, just one tweet, suddenly you could see everything that makes Cardi B who she is.

Because let me say it this way. You couldn't have written this tweet. The average person can't do this. So whatever there is about her, you know whatever it is that made her famous she has something. There's something there. There's a type of intelligence that comes out with this that probably pervaded all of her other work and I think that's what people see. She's weirdly intelligent. I feel like that's what I'm seeing here. Am I wrong?

Yeah I'm saying in the comments everybody wants to judge her by her you know she was a stripper and she's raunchy and stuff. So you want to judge her by all that stuff but she is in the industry where all that stuff works right. And I don't know she's not dumb that's for sure.

Over at Breitbart, oh here's Piers Morgan. So you all know the Piers Morgan story. He walked off of Good Morning Britain, his popular show. He just walked off when his opinions about Meghan Markle were not agreed with by his staff. And since then Good Morning Britain has lost a third of its viewers. How do you win harder than that?

Because all Piers Morgan asked is that he would be allowed to present his opinion on an opinion show. That's all he asked. Piers Morgan only asked that he'd be allowed to present his honest opinion on an opinion show of which he is the host. Come on is that the most reasonable thing that anybody ever asked? I'd like to put my honest opinion on this honest opinion show. Most reasonable thing anybody ever asked. And apparently that was a problem.

So he walks off and it costs them a third of their business which probably puts them underwater. I don't know if you could lose a third of your audience and stay profitable in today's world. I don't know.

Biden had an interview with Stephanopoulos on ABC because apparently that's a safe space. So Biden I guess knows that Stephanopoulos will ask the right questions and they'll edit out anything that looks too bad. So this is a little safe space. But here are some of the dumb things that Biden said.

Biden denied that he should have anticipated the surge in migrants based on his softening of the rules. Really? I hope that was a lie. I've never hoped a politician was lying more than I hope it now. You didn't anticipate that the part where you said we'll make it really easy to come across the border and you didn't anticipate that that would cause some additional people to come across the border? I hope he's lying because if he's a liar well then he's just a politician. But if he really didn't anticipate it we've got a big problem. We've got a big problem. Because you know who did anticipate it? Everyone else in the world. All seven point whatever billion of

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us. Every one of us anticipated this but Joe Biden didn't. He's the only one. All right. Then he said he was defending the idea that people were coming here because of his policies and he goes the idea that Joe Biden said come because I heard the other day that they're coming because they know I'm a nice guy. Biden said here's the deal they're not. And I thought to myself that if that works as a…

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