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a clever joke. You have to listen to all the words. He says, at this point I'd rather Hunter Biden be our president than Joe. Hunter lines his blow and screws prostitutes. Joe blows his lines and screws us. Pretty good. Pretty good. All right, let's talk about wokeness. So you've heard my opinion that I think calling people what they would like to be called is just good manners. And then I also r…

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the woman gets served first at dinner? I don't know. What is the purpose for me opening a door for another person who is perfectly able-bodied? I don't know. None of these are really based on reality. Yeah, just some bothers you when some stuff doesn't. That's it.

So women eat first or somebody says there's a reason because women are slower so they have to get their food first. Oh, nice try. That was a nicer try than I would have imagined.

All right. Aaron Rupar got a little public conversation on Twitter. There's a clip of Governor Youngkin of Virginia being interviewed. And Aaron Rupar tweeted it and his own words that he put on the tweet, Aaron Rupar was, Governor Glenn Youngkin on CBS indicates he'd support a full abortion ban in Virginia with exceptions for rape, incest and health. And then I saw other people tweeting at him and saying I just listened to it. He didn't say that.

And so I thought, why would you send a clip around and say it says X when the other people looking at it, I'm listening to it too, he didn't say that. So I listened to it and he didn't say that. He did not say it. So what's going on? I mean, it's very clearly he didn't say it. This isn't one of those yawning and laurel things. I just looked at and go, okay, he didn't even actually even answer a question like that, right? He just sort of did his political answer that was sort of a dodge, but he didn't answer it one way or the other.

And so I said to myself, my God, what's happening? And then I thought, I don't know. It feels like he must really believe what he's saying because sometimes you think maybe they're just taking a side and they know it's not true, but if they retweet it, maybe you'll think it's true. But that doesn't look like what's happening. I see what you're saying in the comments. I'll get to that. I don't think that's what's happening. It looked to me like he believed what he said because he said it publicly and he doubled down and he didn't delete it and he said it's right there, blah blah, and even made fun of people for reading comprehension if they didn't hear it too. And I didn't hear it.

And then I reread his tweet. It says he indicates. And I thought, oh wait, I was listening to see if he said it. He didn't say it. But if you say he indicates, that does say that you're — it's an opinion, right? So the word indicates suggests that Aaron Rupar's opinion is that he's revealed his inner thoughts. And on that I actually agree. I agree with that as an opinion, meaning that you don't know. We don't know his inner thoughts. But I think it's a perfectly reasonable opinion. Once you heard the video that you would say that the governor was avoiding a direct answer to the question, but he was so obviously avoiding the direct answer that it did indicate that maybe he would go there.

However, I will add this caveat. There are two reasons he might not want to answer the question. One is that he's signaling that he would in fact be in favor of a total ban, but he doesn't want to say it on TV because it'll hurt him. The other is that he doesn't want to say he wouldn't support it because he would lose votes either way. So the politician thing is just to not answer a question you don't need to answer because if you do answer it, somebody's not going to like it. But if you don't need to answer it at all, you don't give people reason to vote against you.

So I think the way he answered it was clever, but it opens up two possibilities. One is that he

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wasn't answering the question because he doesn't want to say yes, but also because he didn't want to say no. They both would be bad for him politically. So Aaron Rupar's, I guess I'll call it an opinion, that good reading comprehension would suggest that his avoiding of the question is a pretty strong signal of which way he would go. And on that I would say that's a fair opinion, but it needs to b…

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