ms he was in the perfect position to cover up his own behavior and that of people who he might want to protect.

Now I'm not alleging he did that because you know he's a lawyer. I don't want to get a suit. I'm just saying that if you had two explanations for your observation I wouldn't discount either one of them. He might need a paycheck. Possible. Maybe he's not as employable as I imagine. But have you seen the meme that teaches you how to talk to your friend who believes in every conspiracy theory? It's like a meme of one friend consoling another. This is how you talk to your friend who believes every conspiracy theory: "There, there. You were right about everything. You were right about everything." That's how you treat your friend who believes every conspiracy theory.

Immediately fired Jim Baker or as Musk says he exited him. And then he was asked – Musk was asked on Twitter, "Did you ask Jim Baker to explain why he was in the middle of vetting the stuff when it didn't make sense that he should have been?" And Musk said, "Yes, they did ask him to explain but his explanation was dot dot dot unconvincing." I love that Musk basically called him a liar in public on Twitter. So the head of Twitter just called the top counsel for Twitter a liar on Twitter. That doesn't get any better. Our entertainment value, I'm getting my money's worth from Twitter let me tell you. Let me tell you the dollar for the per hour of entertainment. Very good value.

So Jonathan Turley did a good article. I would refer you to it so you can see all the ways that Jim Baker has been connected to the worst things that have happened lately. He has central roles in all the sketchy things. All right.

I believe that this laptop from hell situation and especially the cover-up part allows us finally to divide all journalists into two categories. You can divide anything into two categories but I like this one. Two kinds of journalists: disgraced and useful. Disgraced and useful. That's it. Everybody who's saying this is a non-issue or they're hiding it or they said it was Russian disinformation as of today they weren't just wrong, right?

I don't really give reporters a hard time too often. I don't think for having a fact wrong because I'm very permissive about okay you got it wrong then when it's corrected just correct yourself. Say you got it wrong. That's the process. I don't because I don't expect any perfection. People get stuff wrong, right? But the laptop story was not a case of people getting things wrong, was it? It really wasn't that. It was a case of journalists who decided to disgrace themselves in front of the country. And every day there's a new list of disgraced columnists or journalists who are still going after Matt Taibbi for all the wrong reasons.

I went after him myself for not giving us more examples of what came out of the Trump administration which I'm still quite annoyed about but it could be that this Jim Baker thing was holding things up and maybe we'll learn more soon so I will relax my criticism until we learn more.

So NBC News Ben Collins seems to be the primary person who's trying to debunk this whole situation and make it a non-story. Don't you wonder how many consumers of news understand that NBC isn't a real news organization? And I mean that like literally. They're not an actual news organization. Yeah they're some kind of cutout or operative of our intelligence agencies. Now that's just well understood by people who follow the news closely. That's not even a controversial point. We know for sure that NBC says what the intelligence people say tell them to say even if it's a lie. Like I don't think that there's any question about that anymore, is there? Glenn Greenwald has covered this so well that I think it removed all doubt now. And it's just amazing that people would out themselves so publicly as a member of the disgraced journalist class.

And I think that forevermore any reference to any one of these journalists should be with "disgraced." The same way that Trump was referred to as impeached ex-president Trump, right? Yeah, generally when somebody has that big of a mark against them it becomes part of their title. You know, disgraced leader, you know that sort of thing. So I think "disgraced journalist Ben Collins" would be a perfectly accurate and objective statement, wouldn't you say?

And then there are a bunch of useful journalists. Taibbi even though I criticize him on the Trump part you know he's very useful. Greenwald useful. Bari Weiss useful, etc.

Right now what do you think? Should we always refer to anybody who bought into it as disgraced journalist XYZ? Yeah. Miranda Devine, a great national asset.

Here's something that occurred to me yesterday and I've been laughing about it ever since. I think Ye is the new Don Rickles. Do you feel it? Ye, who used to be Kanye, he's the new Don Rickles now. If that doesn't mean anything to you go to YouTube and find a clip of Don Rickles working the audience. You will know that everything he says is insanely racist, bigoted but because he treats everybody the same way including you know his own people I guess whatever that is then people say "oh that's just the act" and then they laugh at it because he's really it's more like he's mocking racists than being one. Everything he says if you heard it out of context every individual is like totally racist but if you hear it all you go okay he's mocking racists. He's being so racist it's sort of like a joke on racists.

And I think Ye – look at all the things that he's criticized. Taylor Swift didn't deserve to win. Did Ye say that Taylor Swift didn't deserve to win? But those are my words not his but did he say it was because of color? Am I correct? Yeah race was part of that, right? So he treated white people and black people like they were a monolith and so he basically said something racist about white people. Might have been accurate, might have been accurate but it was racist nonetheless because it treats white people as you know sort of a group that's acting in one way.

He said that slavery looks like a choice which is a deep insult to Black Americans. So he's insulted white Americans and black Americans. He said "White lives matter" which is an insult to black Americans according to some black Americans. He said "I like some parts of Hitler" which is an insult to everybody but especially the Jewish community. He said that Elon Musk looks Chinese which sounded I don't know what that was but it sounded a little bit racist or something I don't know.

Now correct me if I'm wrong has Ye ever said something in his lyrics that would be considered misogynist as Ye? Everybody accused of saying anything about women that would be misogynist. He had a song called "Gold Digger," yeah of course. Has Ye ever used any derogatory words about gay people in his because that's sort of common for rappers but I don't know if he has. I'm not aware of it.

All right but anyway so the point is this. Has Ye insulted everybody yet? Has Ye insulted everybody? Because when he supported Trump – I mean Ye has insulted black people more than he has insulted anybody else. Would you agree that the group he has insulted the most as a monolith are black Americans? Now he didn't do it like directly but he said he liked Trump. That was an insult to Black Americans according to many Black Americans. He said slavery looks like a choice because there were so many black slaves compared to their owners. Right. I feel like he's insulted his own category more than he's insulted anything else. But he's kind of hit everybody, didn't he? Didn't he hit everybody? Yeah.

So I wonder if he can pull off the full Rickles. It looks like he's going full Rickles. If you go full Rickles there's actually a way out and it looks like he's in his third act and there's no escape, right? Doesn't it look as though Ye is completely done as what he was anyway and that there's no way out? You cannot recover from this. It is totally unrecoverable. But what if he goes full Rickles and he just insults every group as if every member of the group were the same because he's done a lot of it. Why can't he do some more? If he does enough of it, if he insults everybody in every group – I know it's going to look different.

When was the last time you complained about Ye being misogynist? When was the last time you heard anybody say that Ye was a misogynist? But I'll bet they used to say it. I bet they used to but because he made so much trouble lately you forgot about the last thing. You did right? So if he keeps making new trouble you'll keep forgetting about the last thing he did until it all looks like a Don Rickles act and you'll be like okay he's just the person who says these things about ev