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ent's son, what exactly is the reason for waiting on that? I'm not so sure that makes sense, does it? Anyway, and CNN reporter reveals there's new details but they also point out that the Republicans are definitely going to look into this Hunter Biden stuff when they get power, which they probably will. So do you think that maybe the Democrats want to make sure that the investigation of Hunter is…

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that we could, can you turn on slow mode? I don't know what that means. Is there a slow mode for the comments? Is that what you're saying? Is that a thing? I'm just looking at YouTube. Somebody said turn on slow mode. Do the comments have a slow mode? I don't think that's a thing, is it? It's not a feature, is it? Yes maybe. All right I'll look into that.

But I would just like to say publicly thank you to Cory Booker and Rand Paul and Mace and Blumenauer because to me it looks like they're doing a non-political thing that is simply good for the world. And probably, I'm just guessing, I'll bet they all had some personal experience with something, some loved one, some family relative or something because this looks legitimate to me. When was the last time I said here's a story in the news where everybody's acting appropriately, they're acting according to science, they're bipartisan and they're just doing something that's good for America? When was the last time I told you that? Ever. Ever. So let's give these guys a big hand. Now I don't even know if they'll be successful, if their attempt at legislation will get through. I don't know. But the fact that they're even doing this is like big standing ovation for both of them. All four of them actually.

All right. Somebody came after me on Twitter again for allegedly defending Bill Gates but here's the only thing I'm going to defend. I don't defend his personal life. That's up to him. I just I can't stand people telling me he's in it for the money. I just can't handle it because that's so obviously not true that I just don't know what to do. It just makes my head explode. What could be more obviously not true that he's not in it for the money? He's developing toilets for Africa. Do you think that was like at the top of his making money list? Don't think so. He's literally giving his money away. Do you think he has, has anybody ever made money through massive philanthropy? Can you think of one example where somebody gave away his money aggressively and made money because of it? No. Please stop saying that he's in it for the money.

Now others are saying he's in it for the power. I don't know. It doesn't look like it. If Bill Gates was in it for the power is this the way he'd do it? Is that the way you do it? If you're the richest person in America, do you think the richest person in America would try to get power by inventing toilets for Africa? That's how he's doing that? Trying to

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cure malaria? I don't think so. I think he would just buy politicians the way anybody else does, wouldn't he? You would just buy a politician. And have you ever heard that Bill Gates owns a particular politician? There are a lot of people who are owned by billionaires but I haven't heard him owning one. He's like the only name I haven't heard in that context. I don't think it could be more obvious…

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