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Democrats, Republicans, basically everybody's pretty sure they're a victim. But the Jewish numbers are crazy how high they are anyway. Somebody named Abigail Shrier wrote in something called Commentary, and then the Wall Street Journal picked it up for an opinion piece. And she asked this question: Why are the BLM supporters, climate extremists, academic feminists, and trans activists so quick to…

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rking them for destruction. So I think you could sell to the undereducated public that Marxism is based on the word mark, to mark somebody for death or mark them for destruction. Because that's how it plays out in reality. In reality it's a complaint about the oppressors. You're marking the oppressors, and the oppressors tend to have the money. So Marxism is marking people for destruction if they have more than you do.

All right. I'm going to call this a Fox News story, not that it was in Fox News, but sort of one of these perfect anecdotal stories that they use to, let's say, be a proxy for some larger thing, right? So it's the smallest possible story. There's a BLM leader — BLM, not BM leader. BM leader is completely different. The BLM leader who's endorsing Trump for 2024. Now you know that's going to be on Fox News, right? If there's a Black Lives Matter leader who flipped to Trump. But a few paragraphs down — I saw it actually in a New York Post story, but I'm pretty sure Fox will cover this, or they did, I think they already did. But here's this part they leave out. It's true that a BLM leader has endorsed Trump, so the story is true. Here's what you don't notice right away. It was the BLM leader, or one of them, for Rhode Island. Rhode Island. Now I don't know how robust the Black Lives Matter movement in Rhode Island was, where they have 5% Black population, about half of the national average, and a small state. But I have a feeling that Black Lives Matter of Rhode Island wasn't putting on the most aggressive demonstrations. I'm just guessing.

But I was thinking that if that job is open now, the Black Lives Matter leader for Rhode Island, I was thinking of applying. Now don't laugh. You're probably saying to me, Scott, what are the odds of an old white guy could become the leader of Black Lives Matter in Rhode Island? Right, that's the first you think. What are the odds of that happening? Well I would ask you, what were the odds that a Black Lives Matter leader would say he's voting for Trump? Hello. Yeah, right back at you. Not likely, huh? But I would also point out that the odds of me getting a job as a leader of Black Lives Matter in Rhode Island are no worse than my odds of, let's say, getting a job in a TV commercial or getting a job at any big corporation in America. Which would be harder? Yeah. Now it doesn't look so stupid, does it? Suddenly when you look at it in context, my odds of becoming a leader in Black Lives Matter are actually almost identical to my odds of getting a job in corporate America as a white guy. Pretty close. I mean they're not exactly the same, but you know if you round a little, rounding about the same.

Well, I have a question for you. Am I allowed to be impressed at the work of a horrible monstrous dictator? I need a vote from my audience. Would you be offended if I compliment the skill of a horrible oppressive dictator? Is it okay? Seeing a no, yes. All right, I think I can go forward.

So Putin has announced that he won't negotiate with Biden about the end of the Ukraine situation. Instead he's going to wait for the next president. Putin, Putin, Putin. All right, I'm going to have to walk like Putin. Anybody? I'm going to have to do my Putin walking impression. This calls for it. It's going to require the Putin swagger. Now I'll have to take off my — I got to take off my microphone for YouTube for a second. But if you don't know, Putin has the KGB swagger, and it's notable because one of his arms swings more than the other. You know, one stays sort of at his side and the other one does more swinging. So let me show you the Putin swagger. Yeah, yeah, it was perfect, wasn't it?

Do you need a Joe Biden walk? All right, if you insist, I'll do the Joe Biden walk. Good. I also do a lovely Mick Jagger singing, and my talents are almost endless, really. All right, but back to Putin.

Putin took out two presidents. Just think about this. How in the world could Joe Biden win reelection when he's the only person on the planet Earth who would not be able to negotiate the end of the Ukraine war? Which, if you

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did nothing, would end on its own because they're basically out of bullets. Ending the Ukraine war might be the single easiest thing that any American leader could do, because they really, really want to stop. Like both sides super, super want to stop fighting. I mean they really, really, really want to stop. That is the simplest, lowest bar of performance you could ever imagine. And Putin just to…

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