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Here's my other favorite story. It's being reported. I don't know that you could consider this credible. Whenever you hear a quote from people who were not recorded at the time, usually you should say the quote is not necessarily credible. It might be accurate, but you can't really believe quotes unless you see them on video or hear them on audio. And even that it could be a deepfake. But if you'r…

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Oh, so I'm having a lot of people who, you know, people live in a binary world. So in our binary world you either love the president or hate the president. You can't be in between. You're either Democrat or you're Republican. You're a socialist or a capitalist. You know, we like to put things in two categories. So when I've been talking about Antifa, people like to jump in and say Antifa hasn't killed anybody yet. Now I know you can argue about that because the Dayton shooter, but he didn't. The Dayton shooter was probably just mentally ill. I don't think his association with Antifa was important. But my critics are saying, oh, so if you're saying Antifa's bad you must be in favor of the other side. Therefore you must be in favor of fascists.

Here's what I say when people tell me that if I'm against Antifa I must be therefore logically in favor of fascists. Here's what I say: your moral superiority is noted. Your moral superiority is noted. I personally, and then I follow up with, I personally loathe Antifa and neo-Nazis. And you, being the person who is challenging me, I put you all in the same group. You're all completely condemnable for different reasons. But for those people who can rank head injuries over murder, and that's what people are doing. The people who are pro-Antifa will say, hey, Antifa hasn't killed anybody. They've only caused brain damage several times. It's just brain damage. You can't get worked up about brain damage compared to killing. The other side is killing or has killed. To which I say I acknowledge your moral superiority. If you can rank giving people brain damage on purpose as a higher moral plane than killing somebody, good for you. You just go ahead and do that. Personally I put them in the same category. Personally I don't slice it that fine. But if people want to, you should praise them for their moral superiority and then put them in the same group as the neo-Nazis.

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All right, my tweet that's getting the most retweets this week was, I said in my tweet, I said, can someone remind me which politician is the anti-Semite? Is it the one Israel named a settlement after or the one Israel banned from entering their country? How do the Democrats process that? Because they're so sure that President Trump sided with the Charlottesville Tiki torchers who are anti-Semitic…

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