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e he was lying to me. Right? Because I'm pretty good at seeing if people are weasels. And he doesn't have any weasel energy whatsoever. That's the weirdest backhand compliment I've ever given. He has no weasel energy. Like you can tell weasel energy when you see it, can't you? Like even if they're not lying to you at the moment you say to yourself but they could lie to me. Like they have that pote…

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monstration of how smart and how psychic my audience is. I can ask a question that they do not know the answer to and watch how well they perform. Just watch this.

According to Rasmussen, what percentage of the voting adults say that vaccines — and I'm talking about the COVID vaccine — what percentage of adults say that they are very effective at preventing infection, preventing the spread? Four percent. Ah, look at you. Oh you're so smart. Yeah it's 26%. But I think there's a one percent at least margin of error there. Yeah, all right.

How about — I'm going to try again — how many Democrats, this is just Democrat voters, how many are quote not at all worried about any harm from the vaccination itself? How many Democrats are completely unworried about the vaccination might have some side effects? Wow. 26% are not worried at all. 26%. Some of you are answering the obvious, the 70, 75. Yeah, but congratulations again. I feel that your brilliance and genius has exceeded only by your sex appeal, if I may say that.

And again, how many of you thought it was ridiculous the first time you heard me say that in any poll 25% of the public will get the wrong answer reliably? Yeah, you thought I was just spitballing on that, didn't you? You didn't think it was going to be so consistent, did you?

All right. And how about reparations? What percentage of the total public — now let's do it by party — what percent of Democrats, and this will be harder to guess, what percent of Democrats support reparations? What do you think the answer is? 60%. This is of the population in general. 60%. How many of you knew that? Was that about what you imagined? I'm not sure I thought about it too much but I don't know. Not too surprising.

All right. 36% of voters support the California plan for reparations. The California plan for reparations is you take California, a state that never had slavery, and then the state that never had slavery will be taxing a little bit extra the people who are not involved in any way with slavery. And then they'll be transferring that to the people who were also never slaves. So that's the plan. But some of those people might be related to the legacy of slavery and so that would be their argument for reparations. And yeah, as you might imagine it's divided by party affiliation just like you think it would be.

All right. Opinion person Liz Peek wrote on Fox website. How many of you would agree with this opinion? I'll just read this one paragraph. So Liz says the midterms were a referendum on the increasing unpopularity of Mr. Trump. So she's saying the midterms were not about the Democrats. It was mostly about voting against Trump. That's her take. And she says yes he still has a lock on some declining portion of the Republican party. And yes, the Trump always voters may refuse to back anyone else ever. That is unfortunate because Trump's greatest achievement was bringing hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people into our political process for the first time.

Now the problem is that she thinks that Trump is now a drag on Republicans because Trump won't bring in new Republicans but he might bring in more heat from people who want to make sure he doesn't get back in. Here what do you think? Do you think Trump is now a plus or a negative to Republicans in general? And she's riffing off the fact that Herschel Walker lost. If Herschel Walker had won that would have been a stronger argument for Trump. I think I'm interested just that the argument has been made. Meaning that Fox News carried this opinion piece that's unambiguously anti-Trump. And so that's where Fox News is, which means that's where Murdoch is.

No, I'm not supporting him. Is that a surprise? I was just asked if I were supporting Trump. You all know I'm not, right? Yeah, I don't support him for age. I don't support him as the best person who could do the job. Yeah, I don't support him on fentanyl. I don't think he did a good job there. He couldn't even get TikTok banned. Yeah, so there's lots of stuff. I'm generally in favor of a seesaw between the two parties. I think that one party gets in there and does some good things especially for their base. The next party gets in there, does a few other things. But the things that are good for everybody tend to last. You know, it's a messy process but I kind of like going back and forth a little bit. I think it helps.

All right. There is a really interesting article if you look at the Timcast website, you can find it. And apparently after Ye and Fuentes were on Tim's show, Tim Pool show, and after he walked out, he left the interview early, one of the Tim Pool associates there followed Ye and got a lot more interaction with him and then actually met with him in LA and interviewed at length and then talks about it.

Here's the two things you need to know about it. Number one, it's a really long piece and it's the longest piece I've read completely t

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o the end in a long time because it never got boring. And I kept waiting. Pretty much everything I read I skim. Pretty much everything, right? But I didn't skim it because it was so well written. So kudos to the writer. So it's just good writing, right? So if you want to just see good writing, read it for that because it's so rare. And just tell yourself how long you stayed with the article withou…

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