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nd when she hits that high note you'll be like, ah yeah. That's her. Her eyes look drunk and her demeanor looks drunk. But when she hits the high note you're going to say to yourself, yeah, you don't talk like that unless you're drinking. Meanwhile, Brazil as you know is trying to censor the X platform. They came at him again. And Musk has stated that the Brazilian attempt to censor free speech i…

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yelling at me. And even if I say you're drunk and using all caps it won't make any difference. Her next message will be an entire paragraph in all caps. I'm not going to read it Jenny. I'm just going to see your all caps and say never mind. But you just keep drinking and commenting because something good will come of it if you just keep it up. Just keep it up.

Anyway, my view on the EU is if they want to censor X we should stop funding NATO. Because if Europe is going to attack us and try to take our free speech, I don't think Putin would. So let Putin take as much of Europe as he wants if he doesn't go after us. If Europe is coming after me I'm not going to defend them. I don't want to pay for their defense in Europe. Just because Putin might absorb Europe and then come after me, I don't think Putin can absorb Europe because it's going to be Islamic. So there you go.

So as you know, the less you see of Kamala Harris the more popular she becomes. Politico is talking about the convention coming next week. But they're talking about how she's slowly rolling out her proposals and not giving much detail about what she wants to do. And that the other Democrats are kind of happy with that because they think that you know more general approach works.

Now I hate how much I agree with the Harris campaign on their strategy. It really is, it's bold to not have any details. And I hate that it's right. I hate that it's right. But they're totally in the pocket on this, meaning that they understand that the news is just bad for everybody. Anytime you do an interview all it does is produce negative talking points. And so even talking to the friendly press, there's just no upside.

Now

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once you see that even the Democrats see that the news doesn't work for them, that there's no upside, that news is just looking for something to criticize or at least the other side is looking for something to criticize, that instead of running on policy, who would win if the conversation came down to policy? Who would win? Well the top three or four policies that the country cares about, Trump is…

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