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hat you do is then you wait. That primes the detector. What you're waiting for is for somebody to say "Swimming is the best form of exercise." And then you got them. That's an NPC because the NPCs will only say the most obvious thing you could say in that situation, right? So just ask that. Just say, "Oh, this new form of exercise." And just wait. "Swimming is the best form of exercise." Gotcha. I…

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w anything. If you can't win that lawsuit, I don't know anything about anything. Am I wrong? Don't you just have to show up to win that one?

So why was he fired? Well, he was fired because he's a white male and that's the end of the case, isn't it? Or could you get a jury in San Francisco who said, "I'd like to hear more. I'd like to hear the other side of this."

Only in San Francisco could the actual employer say, "Well, we do stipulate, we do admit performance was great. He was only fired because he was a white male." And then only in San Francisco would somebody say, "I'll need to hear more. I'd like to hear, you know, because probably, you know, there's an argument on the other side." I'm not so sure. No standing.

All right, here is the most horrifying humorous story of the day. Can we agree there's nothing funny about people dying because we're all good people, right? It is not my fault that there's a story in which this is just horrendous like a human tragedy of the highest level and still something came out of it that I can't ignore.

All right. I didn't want to talk about mass shootings but you all know there was an LGBTQ nightclub that got shot up. I don't want to talk about those details although except there was a, I think an army veteran who took him out, took him down. So thank you for your service twice. There's somebody you can thank for his service twice. Once for I think three tours in Iraq and once for taking down the shooter.

And the LGBTQ club interestingly he was neither. He was not LGBTQ. He was just a fan. He just liked the environment. He was having a great time with his family and, you know, they have some connection to the community I guess. So he's a big fan of the LGBT community. But I bet they're pretty happy he was there because if you listen to his description, I'll tell you this is the best argument for diversity you'll ever get.

Now when I say diversity I mean all the ways people think differently, act differently, have different experiences, different life truths, you know, like all the whole realm of diversity. Do you know why? Because this military guy in that club, as he described it, when the shooting started he ran toward it. He ran toward it. How much training do you have to have to run toward gunfire? Well I don't have that although I can't guarantee I wouldn't run toward it because I do like danger more than I should. That's amazing, isn't it? It's amazing.

So if you didn't have one person with that kind of, let's call it diverse, the person with diverse experience and diverse, I don't know, maybe even philosophy about what to do in that situation, if you didn't have that guy there would have been a lot more people dead, right? So there's a case where diversity of one type really made a difference.

But here's the story which I hate to be amused by this because you know the larger story is a tragedy of course. But apparently the accused shooter is identifying as non-binary, which we cynical people suspect may not be entirely on the up and up because part of the charges would be hate crime related because of where it was. But he, the they apparently, we do not speak of the alleged shooter as he anymore. That's the old way. We now refer to the shooter as they.

So they has established a non-binary identity. And I don't know what is funnier, the fact that it might work, might work you know, and maybe he is. Can we rule out the possibility that the shooter actually does identify as non-binary? I think that's entirely possible. I don't know. That's why it might work.

And but the funny part is that the left has a very strong rule that you get to identify yourself. It's not for other people to tell you what you are. So I believe he's embracing and amplifying, if you know what I mean. He may be taking the left's own philosophy and just saying, "All right, if those are my rules I'll play by your rules. How do you like it?" Or his lawyer is. Right, some combination of him plus his lawyer.

So watching CNN's Ellison Camarado deal with this news and not know what to say about it because she can't be anti-identify whatever you want. That's not going to really work with the CNN brand, even the revising in brand. And she can't say it's not true because they don't have that reporting. There's nobody to say it's not true. So what are you going to do with it? You just got to say it and then sit there with a look on your face like, "Oh God, why do I have to be involved in this news?"

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on-binary cook. Somebody say, does anybody have any evidence that the non-binary was indeed non-binary before the shooting? Is there any actual evidence of that? Because that would make it even, I hate to say interesting. That's just a horrible word. Prior by two years somebody says. All right, well we'll see. We'll see. We don't know about that. Anyway, so of course the Democrats are accusing Re…

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