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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 EL…

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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 story.

So look how quickly that got fixed. You know, a knowledgeable citizen sees a problem, points it out, gets it amplified on social media, and in minutes, in minutes, it changed. Now, I think it's because of that, but it could have been they just decided to change it on their own. You know, maybe internally. Don't really know. But it looks like something happened there.

Big news on the Trump legal front. So now the New York attorney general's office is saying that they've informed the Trump organization that they're no longer looking at only civil potential infractions, but they're also looking at possible criminal activity. But not really any details. How long do we have to go hearing about these potential criminal things without really hearing the details? Because every day that I hear that there's a crime without hearing details makes me think there's not one. Because if you have an actual crime, I feel like that gets out even if you don't release it. I feel like that gets leaked.

Now, I hear what the scuttlebutt is. It has something to do with some buildings or a building being valued differently for property tax than it was for banking and lending reasons. I think that's the charge. I don't even know if that's unusual. Do you? Is that even illegal? Is it illegal to say that your building is worth just what basically the building is worth if you're doing your property tax, but if you're going to get a loan, could you say, well, you also have to account the Trump name and intangibles and stuff like that? It feels commonplace.

Yeah, as somebody says in the comments, I don't know the details of the charge, but if you just go by the little rumors that we're hearing, I still haven't heard a crime. So you have to ask yourself, it's been, I guess, two years or so they've been investigating this. Is the entire point of this to make it look like he's a criminal and just keep dragging it out until people believe that there's something happening? And then let's say that all charges are dropped or he gets off in some way. Half of the public is still going to believe it's real.

I feel like this is a lot like the Russia collusion hoax. If you were to do a poll today and ask people did Trump collude with Russia to win the election, I think about half of Democrats would say yes, wouldn't they? I think they would. In fact, I run into them all the time on social media to this day. They still think it's a fact that Russia and Trump colluded, even though that seems to have been completely debunked. So if the attorney general's office in New York investigates Trump long enough, it just becomes a fact in the minds of half of Democrats. It just becomes a fact that he's a criminal. And no evidence. No evidence.

How about all of that Matt Gaetz evidence? Still waiting. Right? There is a new Matt Gaetz-related story almost every day, and still no specific crimes. Right? There are some specific allegations that he may or may not have done something, but it's very unclear that there's any crime involved here. And the longer you wait, the less likely it's real.

I asked on a Twitter poll, highly unscientific, do you think space aliens have been visiting regularly? 29 percent of my respondents said yes, 24 percent said maybe, and 47 percent said no. So the yeses and the maybes are over 50 percent. I wonder how different that is from just a few years ago.

So my take on it is that it's possible that over the 15 billion years of the universe, you know, Earth, that you happen to be alive at exactly the time we learned that UFOs are really aliens. Pretty

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lucky, huh? Pretty lucky for you. 15 billion years, and you just happened to be alive at just the time we learned there are aliens floating around the planet. Somebody says 4.5 billion. I think it's 15 billion. 15 billion for the universe. 4.5 might be for the planet or something. But for the universe, I think it's 15 billion. So I'm not going to say it's impossible, but I would bet a million dol…

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