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gets me, a law-abiding voter who just has maybe different opinions, if he's targeting me and that's what I feel, then he's my enemy. He's not my president anymore. Now it would be one thing if I were breaking the law. Yeah, if your government targets you because you broke the law, well, you know, that's on you. But he's targeting me for something specifically that we know I didn't break any laws.…

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u better back the fuck up.

It's okay if you make this just political. Political's okay. We're all used to that. You can lie. That's political. But when you start painting half of the country as insurrectionists, that's a line. You need to back the fuck up off of it, okay? And we need to be as clear about this as possible. Lying's okay. I mean, we accept it. It's not okay, but we accept it. Politics is good. Words, words are good. Fighting hard, you know, trying to game the system, that's all okay. But you're getting really close to the line. And his last speech was dark and chilling and directed at citizens in my opinion. That's how I took it. I took it directed at citizens who are law-abiding and we're trying to do the right thing. I'm positive I think January 6 was people trying to do the right thing. They didn't, but I think they tried.

But I don't know how I can say this more carefully. There is a line. Back the fuck off it. Are you with me? Is this just me? You see the line too, right? Don't pretend there's no line. There's a line, and back the fuck off it. And when I say back the fuck off it, I mean with the insurrection talk. You need to correct that, Mr. Joe Biden and Mr. Democrats. This isn't play, right? You've been in the political play field and that's okay. A little bit of play, hyperbole, you know, even a little lie. It's all part of the political process. That's good as long as you're talking politics, as long as you're insulting politicians. You could even make some general statements about Republicans or general statements about Democrats. That's fine. Yeah, all the Democrats are socialists. Yeah, all the Republicans want to control women or whatever. That's fine. That's all fine. But you have to know there's a line. And if you don't see it, don't say you weren't warned. You make this personal, you better back the fuck up. So that's all I'm saying. Somebody needed to say it.

All right, that's about it. All right. Yeah, I don't even care about the hypocrisy. You know, there's just a whole bunch of stuff that's okay just because historically we've allowed that in politics. Yeah, the hypocrisy, the lying, the hyperbole, the dirty tricks, the scheming, the fake news. That's okay. Yeah, we're used to that. But just make sure you know where the line is.

All right, you want an insurrection? I'll give you an insurrection. Yeah, CNN headline, right? When cartoonist calls for civil war. Well, I'm calling to avoid a civil war is what I'm calling. And I'm saying that slippery slope thing I keep talking about where I'm usually debunking it but then changing my mind halfway through. Democrats can push.

Now let me ask you this. Do you have the same feeling I do that it feels like Democrats are people who complain about everything no matter how small, and Republicans are people who are okay until they're not okay? But that could be just I'm reading my own personality into some things. It feels like that, right? And here would be the blind spot. The blind spot would be if Democrats are looking at Republicans and they're not seeing as much complaining as they would expect. Because if the Democrats were in that position, you'd see lots of complaining. The lack of complaining from the Republicans should not make you feel comfortable, right? You feel me? Right. The lack of complaining from Republicans about the way they're being treated should not be taken as comfort because Republicans are okay with things until they're not. Democrats are just mad all the time about everything because the way they get resources is by complaining.

How do men get resources in the traditional, let's say, sexist world? They go work, right? They get a job, they go work. How do women get resources in our sexist world? Again, lots of exceptions, blah blah blah blah. How do women get resources? By making men feel bad. Complaining, right? Sorry, that's how it works. You know that. Yeah, don't give me any trouble with this because you know it's true. You know it's true.

Now if I said that's true of every woman, I'd be lying. And if I said that's true of every man, I'd be lying. And if I said the world were only men and women, well, I think that also is too simplistic because you've got lots of gender ambiguity. Some people's wives are the boss of the families. Plenty, plenty of exceptions. But when I say that the Democrat party is sort of the woman party, complaining is their operating system. That if you complain enough you'll get some stuff. The Republicans are more like if we have a good system we'll all get better stuff. You see the difference? It's a complete based operating system versus a let's say a system or machine based thing. Like if you make this machine work we all get good stuff. So let's work on the machine. And the Democrats are more like if I complain enough I can get some of your stuff. So one of them is based on an abundance mindset. I'll go work. I'll create a system that makes more for everybody. And the other is based on a shortage mindset. That you've got some stuff. I don't have some stuff. I need to get your stuff from you and it goes to me. You know, a transfer.

Now is there a difference between men and women in hunting versus gathering? I'm way out of my depth here, so I'm just speculating. Is it true that historically the men did the hunting and the women did the gathering? Yeah. The hunting is you go out and make something happen. And the gathering is you find things. You find it. You just find it. I think that the Democrats being sort of a woman-dominated party are all about, well, we don't have to make things. We just need to find them. And I found it. It's in your pocket. Hey, I found some money. It's over there in Elon Musk's pocket. Well, problem solved. I need some money. There's some money in Elon Musk's pocket. So let's put those together and problem solved, right?

There's a very big philosophical difference between hunting and finding. Very big. And I feel like the Republicans are hunters and the Democrats are finders. They're gatherers. Now again, huge number of individual differences. I feel like I can only say that to Republicans and get away with it. I could say, well, there's a general thing going on here, but you all understand there's tons and tons of individual exceptions. And then you and the Republicans all go, well that's true. Yeah, you're talking about a general thing, but of course there are plenty of exceptions. What do the Democrats do when you say that? You racist. I go, no, no, no. You sexist. No, no. I'm saying there's plenty of exceptions and we respect all the exceptions equally. Well, you bigot. I'm really just talking about a general theme here. I'm not talking about any individual. You misogynist. So that's the way it works on the left. On the right you can handle the fact that individuals can be different than the average. Apparently that's a concept that's not universally understood.

Somebody says that was a very funny female joke. That's extremely sexist and you can't say it. Well, why did you announce it? Don't announce a joke. You're not going to tell us. Let me introduce you to the humor rule. The humor rule goes like this. You can't tell me there's a joke. You can't tell me. You can either not mention it or you can tell me the joke. Those are the rules. I didn't make them up. I did not make them up. But I would not encourage you to say that joke on YouTube. If this were the Locals platform, they could tell that joke. Do you know why? Because people on the Locals platform would know it's a joke. That's the difference. And they say, okay, that's insulting, but it's pretty funny, right? On the Locals people insult me all the time, but if it's funny that's fine. It's funny.

All right. You're saying gathering and hunting are both harvesting. Yeah, I feel a difference. I see what you're saying. You're using a word to change the argument. Don't use words to change my argument. You know what I'm talking about.

All right, I haven't seen any big California fires. Somebody was asking me. It's possible that California has figured out how to stop the big fires because they now have that emergency helicopter brigade that gets on stuff quickly and works at night. Now they can operate at night as well. Is Y70 on fire? Okay, well it's not nearly as bad as it used to be. Our air quality is actually good where I am. All right, well I hope they get that U70 fire under control. All right. I'll catch up on the U70 fire. I haven't seen anything about that yet. Yeah, we get smoke from the Yosemite fire as well. All right, so I guess I didn't know about the Yosemite fire. I'll take a look at that. There's an Oakland fire. Did California clear the underbrush? You know, I didn't hear anything about that. But I also don't know. Is there any use for underbrush? Is there any way you can monetize underbrush? Can you collect enough of it to turn it into anything? Can you turn it into some biofuel? You can do

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a biomass thing, right? Mulch, fertilizer. Does it work as fertilizer? Underbrush makes the soil of the forest. Yeah, well yeah, I guess they do need soil. But do they always need more if you have enough for a tree? Oh, the oak fire's out. All right. What about Zelenskyy? All right, I think that's all we've got for today. And I believe that we've done our job. Is this the best livestream you've e…

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