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e bill? I'll bet a few of you. I'll bet that even got a lot of Republicans. And it's just so obviously propaganda. Well here's some fun over in Gaza. Two words you don't think you'll ever hear together. But turns out that Al Jazeera is reporting this now. If you didn't know, Al Jazeera is considered one of the most reliable news outlets. Were you aware of that? That you know people who pay attent…

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e border issue. Now I'm not looking for Texas to secede from the union. That's not my first choice. But if the bullets start flying I'm on Texas's side, period. Because they're in the right. That's just the way it has to be.

And with that understanding I believe that at least the men in the administration are going to assess the situation exactly as I just did. And they're going to say we could use our bullets and we could start locking people up like the governor but if we do it's going to get really wet and it's not going to be good for us. So I think Texas is heading for something like a temporary victory on the border. Now of course that will just push people to other border openings so it won't do much for the overall immigration except it will create a model where other states could emulate it. Texas obviously, California won't. So as long as California is open everybody can get in if they want to.

All right. So the other thing is there's this, I haven't heard too much about it but the trucker protest. Apparently there's going to be an American version of the Canadian truckers but maybe some of the Canadian truckers are helping. And I don't know how big it is or how organized it is or who organized it. But I'm a little bit suspicious about it because it feels a little bit like a trap. I'm worried that the truckers are just putting a target on their backs like the January 6 people did. And that what the Democrats really want is some violence from some right-leaning people. That would be their orgasmic perfect situation. Oh, can we get some going from people who like Trump?

So I would worry that the trucker thing is not as organic and grassroots as it looks. There might be something behind it that's a malign influence. So I'd be concerned about that. And under today's environment I don't think I would protest anything unless you were down to win at all costs. And usually protests are not a win at all costs because all costs includes, you know, all costs. Generally our protests are about talking and we want a political solution. So in our current environment protesting for a political solution is just painting a target on your back because we don't have free speech the way we used to. Now you've got jails that got quite a few political protesters in it called the January 6 people.

Now of course if you're a Democrat and you're an idiot and you wandered into this livestream you're saying but but Scott but but they committed some crimes. I'm sorry they did this to you. I really am. I'm genuinely... I look at the Democrats as victims to be so brainwashed into thinking that either all the people in jail committed an actual crime. How can you think that? Of course there were some crimes and those people will deal with the justice system as they should. But no, the January 6 jailings are not legitimate. They're political. Purely political.

And we do have a potential solution to it. And I've said this before but I'll say it again. I would support Trump if every one of his policies were wrong but he supported pardons for the jailed people including Peter Navarro. If he just said that I'd say okay, the first thing we have to fix is free speech. So fix that. Get the free speech protesters out of jail. And I'd say Navarro too. I don't think he's legitimately charged. Now when I say legitimate I don't mean that there isn't some technical violation. I just mean it wouldn't be addressed the same way. Yeah, they're more like hostages. You're right.

So I probably would have supported whichever was the Republican candidate or Trump or whoever it was who would just pardon them. Because you've got to fix free speech first. That's first. If you don't get that everything else is unfixable. So yeah, policies are a bonus. If you like Trump's policies I'm not even sure I'll ever argue them. I mean immigration's obvious so I'll argue that one. But I don't know what to do in Ukraine. Not really. I don't know what to do anywhere else. Not really. I'm not sure anybody does. But if we can get that one thing, just the one thing, we have to reverse the January 6 hoax because the January 6 hoax is maybe the worst thing that I've ever seen happen to the country. You know violence of course always looks worse but in terms of the Republic I think even McCarthyism maybe wasn't as bad as January 6. Not the attack. The hoax of it. The attack was, you know, had some violence and that's bad. But what was worse was that it was treated as an insurrection when it clearly was a protest to protect the country not overthrow it.

Somebody says you looked at Al Jazeera and the first article was about climate change in Sierra Leone. All right. Razor wire can be easily mended with ba

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ling wire. Is that true? Maybe it is. You could fix it with razor wire too. All right ladies and gentlemen this concludes the best short livestream you're going to see today. Hope you learned something about persuasion. That's always my goal, to make you smarter than watching regular news. And I'm going to say bye now to the three platforms. I'm going to say bye to YouTube, Rumble, and the X plat…

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