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move this even if you wanted to. And so it's quid pro quo? Well, get over it. Get over it is sort of the summary after you've said yeah that's just the way the world works. You know, thanks for waking up and being an adult and noticing that everything is quid pro quo even if you don't say it. Yeah, yeah, welcome to the adult world. Get over it. It's pretty good. It's funny. It probably raises mone…

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D chess again. Look at her with that 3D chess. Maybe, maybe you do that. But don't you think, and this is just a question because I can't read minds, but don't you think that all over the country there are people who in their own quiet moments are hearing Hillary accuse people of being Russian assets, Tulsi Gabbard and Jill Stein. Do you think that her supporters in their private moments are saying to themselves oh looks like we dodged a bullet there. Sure maybe I don't like President Trump or his policies but I don't think I wanted that either. Whatever that is. Whatever we're seeing. You know whatever it is that we're seeing Hillary Clinton do now, remember that's who she would have been in office. That craziness that you're seeing, that would have happened even while she was president.

Could you possibly watch Hillary Clinton's performance this week in her private life and say to yourself you know I wish she'd been president? I don't see how anybody could have that thought. I think they would all have to say as much as I don't like President Trump I have to admit there were two bad choices that election. I don't think there's anybody saying man if only we'd gotten her in there. Don't you think it would have some effect on their confidence about how right they are about anything? It should shake your confidence to watch the candidate that you've been fighting for for years go bonkers exactly at a time when she would have been in her third year of the presidency. Do you want that making decisions? I don't think so.

All right, so a little more on Tulsi. So Tulsi quite cleverly took this opportunity to boost her visibility. I'm pretty sure it will help her. I think Tulsi will get a bump for this. The biggest problem that Tulsi Gabbard has is that Republicans like her. Have you noticed that from the very beginning it's been literally annoying me how many people have said to me what about Tulsi Gabbard Scott you know you never talked about Tulsi and I didn't just because I wasn't talking about people with 1% support. Just never seemed relevant to me. But the number of Republicans who were in love with her, and that's the best way I can say it. She's, because I don't think it's like it doesn't feel like some kind of a lust. They just think she's attractive kind of thing. The way Republicans talk about her is like they're in love, not like they're in lust. It really looks different. There's something about her that makes men crazy.

And you know normally I wouldn't even talk about that right. I mean that's not my thing and I'm trying not to be sexist about this. I'm just trying to be observational. My observation is, so I'm not making any comments about Tulsi's appearance. That's not my deal. I'm not about that. But my observation is that people keep coming to me telling me they're in love with her and the Republicans, I've never seen anything like it literally. I've never seen anything like it. So she has some effect on people, mostly men as far as I can tell, or at least more men. That is hard to deny. There's some kind of X factor thing going on there that I can't say I see it exactly. I mean I can see it but I don't have the same reaction to it.

So she quite cleverly used this to boost her exposure. I think her rank will go up. I don't know if it's enough but I think her rank will go up. And I love that she said, she talked on tweets, she talked to Hillary Clinton and said you the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party. Personification of the rot. That's good stuff.

Now I have not seen anything from Tulsi prior to this that made me think oh she's good at this persuasion stuff. There was something she was doing right, the X factor stuff, but I didn't really see you know persuasion talent. But then this tweet comes out and I'm thinking damn this is fire. You know you kind of expect it from somebody in the military. Don't you expect a military personality, someone who's been shaped by experience in the military, is that they would be extra controlled until they don't need to be, right? Wouldn't that be sort of a basic characteristic that you would learn? It would be like hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, hold, kill. That's what you learn, right? Don't kill until you're ready to kill. Don't pull the trigger unless you're ready to kill.

And it looks to me like Tulsi in my opinion was just a spectator in this process. Hold. This debate didn't have much to go on. Hold. And there's Clinton. She picked the, Clinton pops her head out of the foxhole and suddenly Tulsi says no. Now somebody says we told you so. I'll give an A+ for Tulsi for the week. I think she won the week easily. Easily won the week of the Democrats. And I'd be surprised if she doesn't hit 5% on the next, you know she's gonna be in the top six I think probably because of this. Just gives her a little more attention. So there's that.

So I hear the Huffington Post is for sale by Verizon. Oh the poor Huffington Post, my nemesis for years. The organization which has been slandering me for years. They're not making it financially. Oh I feel so sad for them. So I've put in my bid. I've bid $1 for the Huffington Post and I will take it over and fire everybody. So if Verizon would like to get rid of this financial sinkhole I will take it off their hands for a dollar and I'll do what they don't want to do which is I'll fire everybody. I'll just go in there and say I'm your new boss. I just bought your company for a dollar. You're all fired. Get out of here you stinking fake news people.

All right. Did you watch, oh here let me give you another example of loser think. When people are looking at the Hunter Biden thing the other team likes to say oh yeah well you can make fun of Hunter Biden but what about Ivanka. And the example that people keep giving me on social media is that Ivanka was granted a bunch of trademarks in China recently. Now if you're deep in loser think you say to yourself my god China is giving Ivanka trademarks, not just one but multiple trademarks. Has she sold out? Is she working for China now because they gave her a bunch of trademarks? No. Let me explain how trademarks work.

I have trademarks in China, quite a few. Do you know what it takes to get a trademark in China? Let me show you the process for getting a trademark in China. It looks like this. I got some paperwork. I got my trademark paperwork. It says what do you want? I want to have a trademark on this name or this product. What categories? This will be just for ashtrays and automobiles. Those are the only categories I need my trademark. Are you using the trademark actively? Yes I am. Now I put this in the mail or my lawyer does and you send it off to China. Then China in some office gets your trademark request and says huh let's see in my database if anybody else is using this. Nope nobody else is using a trademark called Ivanka Trump. Granted. Done.

That's it. I just described the entire process. You fill out some paperwork. China looks at it and says does somebody already have this one? Nope we don't have somebody called Ivanka Trump in China trying to sell things with the name Ivanka Trump on it. Approved. That's it. That's the whole process. And why does somebody get a trademark in China? It's because the Chinese will otherwise steal your product. The reason you get a trademark in China even if you never want to do business in China is because you don't want the Chinese Dilbert comic to emerge. If I did not have a trademark in China they could make Dilbert products and just call it Dilbert or Billbert or Gilbert or anything they wanted. They could actually even call it Dilbert if I hadn't already taken the trademark. The same with copyrights and other things.

So the people who don't understand a little bit about intellectual property hear the story that Ivanka Trump got trademarks in China and they say my god they're in bed together. They're in bed together. It's like President Xi and Ivanka. They've got some kind of unholy deal together. No. Somebody in Ivanka's organization probably a lawyer filled out some paperwork. Somebody at the lowest level of Chinese government looked at the name on the paperwork, looked at the database and said no we don't have an Ivanka Trump. Approved. That's it. That's the entire process. Yeah this it's like a big deal to people who don't understand what a trademark is.

All right, enough about that. Have you all seen the video of the Mexican police shooting it out with the cartel and losing, losing a shootout to the cartel. And you know there's a bunch of phone videos so you don't see any of it too well but you can tell that the cartel actually has these fairly large trucks which they've rigged up with armor on the sides and they've got these military-grade machine guns and military-grade handheld machine guns as well. And they just outgun the police and the police had some pretty good guns but nothing like that. And they're just driving down the streets of this Mexican city with a mounted machine gun in the back of a truck. This is a civilized or allegedly civilized country right on our border with a paramilitary that's completely owning the police and murdering them at will.

Now here's the question: at what point does that get our attention? At what point does the United States say well it would be nice to deal with the government of Mexico on a variety of things and we will when it works but there are other things. There are other things that we just have to do ourselves. Now one of the things that we might have to do ourselves is to start sending some snipers and some drones to just start picking away at the cartels. I don't know why we're not murdering them like actually murdering them. What would stop us from sending our, I know SEAL teams and drones and snipers and whatever else we have to just put them in place and have them start picking off the cartel, j

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ust actually murdering them wherever we can find them? Why don't we bomb them? Do you think we don't know where the cartels' facilities are? Well we could just carpet bomb the whole thing, the whole damn thing. Just kill everybody there. Why not? I don't really understand what prevents us. There must be a reason. I think there is a reason. Well I would say that we could declare the cartels, I thi…

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