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Well, Rasmussen has a poll asking should the Democratic Party be more like Biden or more like Harris. What do you think Democrats said? The Democratic Party should be more like Biden: 36%, but only 11% thought Harris. So how's the progressive wing of the Democratic Party looking? Not so good.
Now, you want to hear some more bad news for the progressive part? I was asked a question on the Locals platform just before I went live on YouTube. They get a little extra over on Locals. It's a subscription service. And I was asked what has the worst recent murder rate. We're going to compare two regions. I'm going to ask you this question. It's a serious question. It's not a rhetorical question. I actually don't know the answer to it.
And the question is, has the death rate and the murder rate, let's say, has it been worse in the last few months in Chicago or in the occupied separatist regions of Ukraine? Which has been the more deadly place? Now it kind of doesn't matter what the answer is. Kind of doesn't matter what the answer is. It's the fact that we can even ask that question, and it's not a joke. I actually don't know the answer to that question. I don't know. Maybe it'll be a crossover point. But if I had to bet, I think I'd put my money on Chicago because, you know, I assume there's shelling and there's chicanery and there's false flags and all kinds of stuff happening in the separatist regions, but they didn't kill as many people as a weekend in Chicago does. Am I right?
I don't know if I'm right, but you seem to think I am, and that's good enough. You know, we live in a subjective reality, and while I strive to be correct and right about everything, I will settle for you agreeing with me because it feels the same on my end anyway. So thank you for that.
Speaking of wokeness, it's a story that the media is talking about. This story, which is the Newsweek and L.A. Times are both recently warning Democrats that they better get over the wokeness because they're looking at this one anecdote here, I guess the situation where in San Francisco the Democrats voted out some school board members for being too woke and not being useful enough. And the striking part about it is that they were overwhelmingly voted out. The wokesters were just driven out by even Democrats because it's a Democratic city. So that seems like a pretty big story.
But are things getting better or worse for the locus of the woke? Well, shall I continue? It's turning out to be a really bad year to be woke. Am I right? Part of it is because Trump is less in the news because there's not a natural enemy, you know, that's just really salient at the moment. So if you just let the wokeness exist on its own, it just looks like toxic bile and just like an acid eating itself. But if Trump were in the news every day, then the wokeness would have something to play off of, you know, some kind of a productive contrast. But when you take the contrast away and it jus
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t has to be looked at on its own, nobody likes it. Well, that's an exaggeration, but it's not so popular. And that brings us to Greta Thunberg. And I tweeted yesterday that Greta Thunberg caused this mess. And by this mess I mean Ukraine. Now do you all see the connection? Because I'm not joking. Greta Thunberg, she sort of caused the Ukraine war. Does everybody see it? I can explain it if... oka…
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