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All right, I'm starting a list of things you would have to believe in order to be a Democrat in 2019. It's just a starter list. I'm going to add to it. But here are some things you would have to believe. You'd have to believe that Israel can't spot an anti-Semite. You'd have to believe that Israel's not good at that because they like Trump and they don't like some Democrats such as Tulsi. So in or…

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So I've had a number of people talking about this Portland sporting event. You heard about the sporting event in Portland. So there were two teams. One team the Proud Boys and the other, there were others there but mostly it was two teams: the Proud Boys versus Antifa. And they all showed up in the field and they wore their little uniforms and they had a contest. Now the way you win the contest is not by how many people you beat up. You win the contest by luring the other side into bad behavior that gets caught on camera. Because if it's not on video, it didn't really happen, right? That's the way we're built. If you don't see the video looping, it's like it didn't even happen. So that's how you keep score.

So the group that goaded the other side into doing things on video, and the on-video is important, that looks bad, that's how you score. So based on that and based on the video I've seen, the Proud Boys won hard. It looks like a complete victory for the Proud Boys. Now before my critics jump on me, I'm neither supporting nor condemning the Proud Boys. I'm not making a comment about my opinion of them. I'm simply saying that I'm watching the game like the rest of you, the game in Portland, and they won the game because the way you score the game is by embarrassing video for your side versus the other side.

Now I did see embarrassing video of Antifa attacking different people. Somebody says, so you're for it? You fought our world is so stupid that if you don't say you're for somebody, must be from the other team. The nuance is gone. So Proud Boys won that event. As far as I know there's no video showing them starting a fight or being bullies, but there is plenty of video of Antifa doing all of those things. So Proud Boys win. Congratulations to the Proud Boys.

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Now I asked a provocative question on Twitter. I still don't have an answer because I've seen no reporting on it. And here's the question: as a percentage, are there more black members of the Proud Boys or are there as a percentage more black members of Antifa? Do you know the answer to that? Because I don't. I have no idea. I am pretty sure they both have black members, which is hard to explain b…

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