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I would love to have a word that could describe a man or a woman without saying man or woman. They just isn't it. They and them is just not singular. You just need a singular, that's all. Just give me the singular, and I'm okay with all this. But it just seems creepy to me that anybody is trying to make news about their non-binary sexual identity, which again, to me, whatever you want is fine with…

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acists. But I feel like instead of calling them the extreme left and the extreme right, we should call them extreme left racists versus extreme right racists, because they're just ELRs and ERRs. Let's just turn it into an acronym. You know, the far left, they're just a different kind of racist. They're not less racist, just different. They just prefer different races, but no less racist. So the ELRs and the ERRs, to be distinguished from ordinary Republicans, who are neither of those things, and ordinary Democrats, who are neither of those things.

So let us reframe the extremes on the left and the right as just racists. And if they think there's a difference, we'll let them work it out. You and I don't need to work that out. If the ELRs and the ERRs think that they're different, well, okay. But it's not our concern. They're all just racist.

Had an interesting little encounter with the fake news this morning. So Ian Bremmer tweeted out that apparently Fox News had a headline that didn't quite match the story. So the story is that Black Lives Matter said it stands with the Palestinian people, whereas apparently, and I didn't see it because it changed so quickly, and Ian Bremmer pointed it out that it looked like a Fox News headline said that BLM stands with the Hamas terrorists, which is not exactly what they said. They said they stood with the Palestinians.

So about the time I saw that tweet and retweeted it, Fox News had already taken down the page. So I don't know if it's up yet, but it actually took minutes to change a headline from fake news headline to real news. Now, I think that's what happened. All right. Now what I see, I see in your comments you're saying it's not a lie. We'll talk about that because there is some nuance there, right? But if you were trying to be technically correct, then you would say that BLM favored the Palestinians.

Now, if you say that you're backing the Palestinians at exactly the same time as the leaders who were chosen by the Palestinians are sending rockets into Israel, is it completely unreasonable to say that it looks like you're backing the terrorists? It's not completely unreasonable. It's a little unfair, but not completely so.

I had to look up how many of the Palestinian citizens actually support Hamas. Do they support their leaders? Because if they do support their leaders, well, it's kind of the same thing, isn

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't it? And it's somewhere about, at least the latest best information, which is not very current, suggests that maybe, you know, 40, 50 percent of the Palestinians do support Hamas and their approach. So I'd say at least half of the Palestinian people are at least supporting terrorist actions as defined. So I'm not so sure that the idea is wrong, but I think the headline was out of whack with the…

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