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t I know, DNA or maybe a search of the public records, that they had descended from actual slaves in America. I'm not sure this committee is moving the ball forward if you know what I mean. I think they came up with a standard that is so provocative that they've reduced the chances of reparations. Am I wrong? I think they just reduced the chance that this could ever happen. Let me tell you what y…

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amaging information he has about the Biden family. Come on. Come on.

He's up something like I don't know seven points against whoever runs against him if he were to run as president again. You know he has this pretty much commanding lead in the situation. The only thing he could do wrong is say something that could be spun as him siding with Russia. It's the only thing he could do wrong. And he knows exactly what he's doing. He doesn't fly close to the sun by accident. If this looked like an accident to you you haven't been paying attention. This was no accident. This was someone saying watch this. Yeah watch this. I feel like that's all it was. I feel like he just said whatever is the most provocative thing he could say that would force people to demand an apology or clarification which would not be forthcoming.

So you know when you see this sort of thing juxtaposed with his statement about his hole in one, the hole in one statement should give you a tip off of when he's tongue-in-cheek but it won't because the people who want to interpret it as entirely serious they're just going to do that. So to me I wouldn't have done it. I wouldn't have done it. But would I have been president of the United States? No, no probably not. So whatever he does keeps working in some ways. And then we're all geniuses when something doesn't work. We're like oh we saw that coming why didn't he? Well I don't know why. You know we're all confused a little bit about why things keep working. They shouldn't work but he seems to know how to harness energy. In this case he created energy out of nothing and then the energy will come directed back at him. And then because he's an energy monster he'll redirect the energy to his advantage. So first he creates the energy then he hands the energy to his enemies. They throw the energy at him. Hey look what you said. And he says oh I got more energy back than I gave you. I gave you like 10 pounds of energy and you gave me back a thousand pounds. Thank you. Thank you. Redirect. Watching him do this in real time is just such a lesson on managing the public and everything else I guess.

Well even the friendly news sources, the friendly to the Democrat news sources are noting that Biden's gaffes are becoming a little bit harder to explain. A little bit harder to explain. But now they've resorted to the ridiculous. This is another, Joel Pollak also said this in a tweet by the way. If you're not following Joel Pollak on Twitter you should be. Don't wait for me to talk about it. But anyway when the White House defended Biden talking about you know Putin should not be in charge and it sounded like he wanted him removed but then he got walked back. And now they're saying that Biden was speaking in his personal capacity. And as Joel points out there's no such thing as a president's personal capacity. What? You know maybe in some weird philosophical way but not in a real way. If you are the president of the United States and you give an opinion about what should happen in foreign affairs that's not your personal opinion. Even if it is your personal opinion it doesn't even mean anything when you're the actual president. So and it's funny that it takes somebody to actually say that before you say oh yeah there's not really a difference.

All right apparently Chris Rock is selling tons of tickets to his stand-up show so he's coming out way ahead. So now we have the weird situation where unless this was fake news and I worry that it was because I saw somebody else say that he didn't make any statement about it but I saw a statement that Chris Rock said in which he apologized. That happened or was that fake news? Did I get taken by fake news? I think he apologized right? Somebody says it's fake. Oh really? Oh it's fake? Oh wow. Huh. Okay the fake news was very good. It was a well-written fake. So but at least I could smell it a little bit enough to ask the question. All right wow okay.

Anyway Chris Rock is coming out ahead because he's selling a lot of tickets and I think people appreciated that he didn't get violent and he didn't freak out and he went on with the show. And even if you think he shouldn't have said what he said you're not really goi

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ng to come down too hard on a comedian being a comedian. Especially I think there was evidence he didn't know about the alopecia which was perfectly believable. So no it wasn't a staged little flap I'm sure. So Chris Rock comes out ahead. How about Jada Pinkett Smith? Did she come out ahead? I'd say yes because do you think the women hate it when men defend them like that? They don't hate it. Nop…

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