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re? The jailing of dissidents. Well a dissident would be like a protester. A protester. Where have I seen a protester being put in jail for protesting? Oh, the entire January 6 hoax in which the thoroughly corrupt members of Congress who should all be in jail, the ones on the January 6 committee should definitely be in jail. And if Trump only does one thing and he puts them all in jail for real cr…

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t of office by having a sweep and winning everything in 2024. And oh here's a story about Ted Lieu. He's accused of using donor money to give $50,000 donation to Stanford who then soon after admitted his child to Stanford. So that's probably a coincidence am I right? And I tell you when I give money to a politician what I'm really hoping the politician spends it on is bribing a college to get his kid into it. Now there's no evidence that's what happened. That's simply an allegation and we have a correlation but not a causation. It could be that he loves Stanford so much that he wanted to give them money and he had this donor money so he gave him that. It had nothing to do with the admission of his child. Innocent until proven guilty right? Sometimes it's hard to say innocent till proven guilty but let's try to keep that standard.

Well if you're watching the protester situation at Columbia University, I'm not sure I'd call it protesting so much as anti-Semitism. And it's become super dangerous and scary if you're a Jewish student or even if you're Jewish and anywhere near that situation. But apparently they built a tent city in the middle of the campus. An orthodox rabbi who I guess is associated with Columbia and Barnard, he sent out a WhatsApp message to 290 Jewish students and he said maybe they should go home until it's safe to go to college. He actually said you should consider going home and just dropping out of college until it's safe and then come back. Now that's not a very practical suggestion for most people. You can't really easily drop out of college if that's your whole plan right? But that's how bad it is now.

You might say to yourself, Scott this is terrible because not only have the protesters created a highly anti-Semitic situation and it's scary and there actually been physical attacks on Jewish students etc. I think somebody at Yale got stabbed at a protest. So it's getting really dicey. But as bad as it is now I don't think you should be super worried yet. I wouldn't worry until the Columbia tent people start digging tunnels. If you hear that the Columbia protesters have started to build tunnels then that's the next level of worrying. I would take your concern up to another level. Right now I would put it at the level of seriously, seriously concerning and must be fixed immediately. But I think if they start building tunnels under the tents I'd take that up another level at least one more DEFCON. So that's my standard. Once they got tunnels then you got to worry.

All right anyway. But I think that if they do build tunnels I think there's a theoretical number of migrants who could be urinating outdoors that would flood the tunnels. Anyway let's not solve it yet. Let's wait till it's a problem.

The Democrats have a new campaign ad showing a young woman who's trying to go to another state to get an abortion because Alabama law would prohibit it. And the theatrical approach that the advertising campaign is taking is that you see the pregnant woman being stopped by the Alabama police saying you can't cross state lines to get an abortion and she's like frisked and arrested. Now apparently that's not yet a law but there are allegedly, can you give me a fact check on this, allegedly that Alabama is looking at making it illegal to go to another state to get an abortion where it is illegal. Is that actually something that Republicans are dumb enough to do? Is that actually being discussed? Because I have trouble believing that. It sounds like just something made up. Right now I wouldn't be surprised if there are some people who have suggested it because there's always some people who suggest everything. But I can't imagine there's any serious effort in Alabama to stop somebody from driving across the state line. Is there? Can anybody give me a fact check on that? Is there? Because I'd ask some serious questions if that's the case. Regardless of what you think about abortion your state can't stop you from driving to another state and doing what's legal in that state. There's no way that that's going to be a law is it? I don't know. We've seen some crazy things but I can't imagine that would become a law.

Meanwhile at Steve Bannon's War Room there's some new information from Kurt Olson. He's an attorney and I guess he's got some new information.

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You've probably heard this before but what's new is that they're using the updated information about the Dominion machines. Their claims about them, allegations I'll call them, that they found some data security issues. I'll tell you what they are in a moment. And that they're updating some Supreme Court filings. So there's some kind of Supreme Court case that is being pushed forward. Doesn't mean…

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