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taneous sip. It happens now. Go. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So here's another sign of the golden age. I'm going to make the following pronouncement: nobody is offended by anything anymore. You probably didn't notice. It kind of snuck up on you. And you think it's true, right? You think it's not true. You think that people are offended all the time by language and insults. Nope. What has happened i…
← Previous segment →nded. We're just pretty sure other people are. Do you know what it means when you think somebody else is offended? Think about it. Think about it. What it means for the people who say that, "Well, I'm not offended, but on behalf of those other people, I'm going to defend them." What's that really saying? It's really kind of offensive, isn't it? It's kind of offensive that somebody thinks they need to defend me, for example, or you, or somebody else. Why is somebody else telling me that I'm so weak that I'm going to be offended? Right? If you're offended by language, you're kind of weak.
Now if the language has a real world impact on you and you're complaining about that, yeah, by all means. It has a real world impact. But if I'm protecting you because I think you're going to be offended, I kind of think you're weak, don't I? I'm not sure that I want that.
Well, here's some fake news. It was uh, it wasn't on the real news, but it was on the social media, but it's fake that Elon Musk was considering building a private airport in Texas there near where he lives. But Elon responded to that by saying that he lives five minutes from the Austin airport. Who would be dumb enough to build his own airport? Kind of would be, because if you have a private jet, it just sits there at the public airport until you're ready to use it. Now you do have to compete for a runway. He said that they could use another runway. So probably there are times when he has to wait 20 minutes to fly or something. I don't think it's a big deal. If you're five minutes from an airport, you have a private jet that's just sitting there. You just got to wait your turn to use the runway, right? I can't imagine that he'd need to build his own airport in that situation. Seems like it'd be a waste. So I believe in what he says. That's fake news.
So as I've told you, Stephen Collinson is the person who writes opinion pieces for CNN when there's really no substance to write about, but you still have to say something bad about Republicans or Trump. He'll jump into the breach and find something there. And here's how the start of his opinion piece on CNN starts today. Quote: "Liz Cheney has posed the question with which America may have to wrestle for months to come." Here's the question: "If there is evidence that ex-president Donald Trump committed crimes in seeking to overturn the 2020 election, what message will it send if he's not charged?"
Stephen Collinson wants you to know that's a big question we should wrestle with. Yeah, I'm going to stop thinking about war with China, supply chain, inflation. Let me think about the hypothetical that the committee that has been investigating for however long has so far found absolutely nothing that looks even slightly like a crime. But if they did, in the imaginary world, if we could find a hypothetical imaginary world in which Trump did commit a crime, in the imaginary world, well then America would have to wrestle with it in that imaginary world.
Do you see where we're at? We're at a point where he has to propose speculative hypothetical crimes because the January 6 committee didn't find anything. Do you think that Collinson would simply say that if there was any evidence, if any evidence had been presented, if any evidence existed already? Do you think the January 6 committee would have said, you know, we're going to save the good stuff for last? Would they do that? Do you think we'd get to this point and have no evidence?
They even remember this is not me saying there's no evidence. That wouldn't mean anything to you. This is his biggest critic essentially admitting with his hypothetical question. I think that's how you'd have to interpret it. He's admitting that there's no evidence of Trump committing a crime. They've actually turned a complete lack of evidence into a hypothetical crime.
All right, here's another one. Hypothetically, if Stephen Collinson had murdered a prostitute, how would you feel if no charges were filed? I feel bad about that. I don't know about you. But as Stephen Collinson has ever, there's no evidence he's ever done this by the way. I don't want to suggest there's any evidence he ever has or would murder a prostitute. But if he did, if he did, I think we all have to wrestle with the question of what would happen if he didn't get charged. What would happen? That's all they have.
There's a great piece by Joel in Breitbart today in which he's noted that there's a lot of stuff moving in the right direction in this country. What could be a better endorsement that things are moving in the right direction than the biggest issue? Ah, there's nothing there. Our biggest issue is that so-called insurrection that turns out not to be an insurrection. And it wasn't an insurrection. It was just people getting a little worked up over something that was bad but not as bad as they say.
All right, Alex Jones apparently lost his case there in court, so he's got to pay 4.1 million to the parents of the Sandy Hook victims. Now let's check the fake news on this. CNN reported today that Jones has made dozens of millions or hundreds of millions of dollars, they say, peddling his conspiracy theories. And so 4.1 million would be a drop in the bucket because according to them at one point he was making over 800,000 a day in 2018.
Now let's compare that CNN reporting that he has tons and tons of money to the fact that he's declared bankruptcy, which doesn't mean he's out of money. That just means he might need time to generate the cash to pay any debts. With the fact that I asked my digital assistant what Alex Jones's net worth is, and it's pretty close to the 4.1 million. Amazon says 5 million if you use their digital system. Now what do you think? Do you think Alex Jones's net worth is closer to 5 million, in which case 4 million would take him
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down quite a bit, 80 percent? Is he already being charged 80 percent of his entire net worth? Or does he have tons and tons of millions left over? You have no idea. No idea. But Alex Jones has said that it was a mistake. He doesn't believe what he said about the Sandy Hook thing being fake, and he apologized unreservedly. In my opinion it was just a direct apology for a mistake. Now he does claim…
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