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dividual behind that account is deeply into the AI space and tech space. And so he does a lot of tweets of things that are basically your future. If you want to know what the future looks like, follow this account because he's maybe three years ahead of where you are in the actual technology and three years out of where I am as well. You know, I pay attention to it because he's deeply into it. So…

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ind out.

All right. Well I would worry about AI getting its knowledge from me. So look out for that.

Did you see the Lee Zeldin attacked on stage? So Zeldin is a candidate for governor, Republican candidate for governor in New York, right? And he was — I'll say attacked but some disturbed looking person got on stage and got his hands on him. Allegedly he had a knife but it must have been the tiniest little knife because it was like internal to his fist. It wasn't a knife, was it? Somebody said a razor. It was a brass — I don't know. Who knows. He may or may not have had something in his hand. But I would just like to call out — so Lee Zeldin did not look even a little bit bothered by being attacked on stage. Did you see that? You know he continued talking, giving his speech as the guy comes right up to him. The guy puts his hands on him and starts like — and Lee just grabs the guy's arm, you know, to protect himself from whatever he had in his hand. And next thing you know everybody's climbing on and pulling Zeldin off. But did you see how completely unfazed he was? Talk about somebody you want to have in a pressure situation. My god.

Oh, is he ex-military? Is that you? Somebody said ex-military. Is that true? Somebody says so. Yeah, well that would make sense. I mean yeah. Okay, ex-military. There you go. Combat veteran. Because you know what it looked like? It looked like he thought he could take that guy any moment. It looked like he thought he could just kill him if he needed to. Like he looked just not worried. It was a damn this thing. Yeah. Oh well, we'll see. You do that, you freeze up? No, bravery. It didn't look like he froze up. Didn't look like he froze up at all. Not all military could pull that off. I noticed on some ex-military. Yeah, not all military could pull that off. That's true. But it's certainly got to help. Is that a picture of the actual knife now? It grabbed his wrist. All right. Well anyway, good for him. But it's more Republicans being hunted. Is anybody doubting my — what would the AI say if you ask the AI are Republicans being hunted? What would you say? Let's ask it. Are Republicans being — you might say targeted or something so that because hunted is hyperbolic. But I'd be interested. I'd be interested.

Did you see the video of Josh Hawley fleeing the Capitol? Have you seen those? They're really hilarious because there's no real useful context to it. We just know that being in the Capitol was a bad idea. So if he was walking really fast to get out of it but he's sort of scurrying and so they call it fleeing. I just love how they say he's fleeing. So he got people riled up and then he fleed or fled anyway. I don't know. Israeli's story that YouTube is asking if I'm high. Unfortunately no, I'm not. This is my actual personality. I know, shocking. Yeah. Scurry is a fun word. Skedaddle. He's skedaddled. There's no story to it. It's just that it's funny that he walked fast leaving so it looks like he was fleeing. He was fleeing but it's just funny.

Here's something I didn't know. Did you know that Pence staged a coup on January 6 according to Washington? Now I heard somebody — I saw on Twitter the accuracy of the reporting which is fair — but according to the Washington Post, Pence overthrew the country and he was giving orders to the military and the military was following him on January 6. Now I don't think that happened, right? Anyway, so yeah, maybe Pence overthrew the country.

One of the things we're hearing is that Trump didn't care about the safety of Pence under the situation that Pence wasn't doing what Trump wanted. Apparently. What do you think of that? Do you think that's a fair characterization that Trump wasn't worried about the safety of Pence because he didn't do anything about it? Now is there anybody else's safety that Trump we have on record in which he wasn't worried about that person's safety? Who would that be? And there was one other person that Trump named that he wasn't

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worried about. Now we don't have to read his mind because he said it out loud himself. Can I add a "himself" in the middle there? How about a little context please. Trump wasn't worried about his own physical safety. Why? Well he said they weren't there to hurt him. That's one thing. But why is the other reason? Probably because he thought it was important and that his physical safety wasn't the m…

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