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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…

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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 because in order to be a Democrat you would have to also believe that the black people are not good at spotting racism. Do you believe that? Because to be a Democrat you have to. Because look how many, there's not a lot as a percentage, but there are plenty of black Republicans. There are plenty, not as a percentage but there are plenty, of black supporters of President Trump. How do you Democrats explain that? The only way they could explain it is that they're either bought off or all of them, like every single black Republican, is just paid off somehow. You'd have to believe that. Or you'd have to believe that black people are not good at spotting racism when it's right in front of them and so obvious you couldn't possibly miss it. And I just don't know how you buy into that.

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All right, the latest fun is that Bill Maher came down on the BDS movement, that's boycott, divest, and sanction Israel, that Tulsi representative, Tlaib, is behind. And so Bill Maher sort of broke ranks, which is not that unusual. He broke ranks with the Democrats to say that that was a dumb idea. And so Tlaib has responded by saying that people should boycott Bill Maher's show. Is this, could th…

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