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ng that exists now. It's not hypothetical. They actually have a button called "heat" where they can boost any message just by pushing the button. You don't think that anybody in China can think of something they could boost that would hurt America? Of course they can. Of course they can. Now I'm not saying that we have evidence they've used it, but that's true of nuclear weapons too. China has nuc…

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Republicans. And Biden basically said that today. He said, or this weekend, he was giving a speech at Howard University. He said the biggest security risk is white supremacist terrorists. White supremacist terrorists, which he'd like you to think there's lots of them and they're all Republicans. He basically just goes after people and not all people breaking the law either.

All right, I'm loving the fact that CNN is still getting spanked by its own people and MSNBC and everybody else. But have you seen the videos of Anderson Cooper lately? I just have to show you the one face. You see this face, right, when he talks about the event and everything? But I don't think you know. I suppose this is me talking about people. Of course to claim that Trump supporters had no, that's not what I wanted. There it is. So here's a picture of Anderson Cooper when he's talking about Trump and stuff. And if you look at that video, he looks mentally disturbed. Like he's putting off "I have severe mental illness over this topic and I'd like to share it with you." It doesn't look like news and it doesn't look like opinion, does it? It doesn't look like news or opinion. Well, let me put it this way. When Hannity says a bunch of stuff about Democrats, does Hannity look like he's actually mentally challenged, like he's having a breakdown of some kind? Never, right? He just looks like a happy warrior who's arguing his side, and you don't take all of it completely seriously, right, because you know he's an opinion person. He tells you that right up front. Opinion person. But he doesn't look like he's having a mental problem. But when you look at either Jake Tapper or Anderson Cooper, I can't get past the fact that that looks like a severe emotional slash mental problem, like a real one that you need some drugs for or some therapy or something. Am I the only one who sees that? Does anybody else see that? Now of course I can't read his mind, so I don't know what's going on in there. But as a viewer, that's what I'm receiving. I can only say what I'm receiving. I can't say what's true because I can't read his mind. But it's weird that only one network is sending out people who literally look like they're mentally having a terrible time.

All right, so apparently the reporting from Fox News says that CNN's president called in reporter Oliver Darcy after his comments about the town hall with Trump and allegedly scolded him, scolded Oliver Darcy for his emotional coverage of the event, and he has to be more objective. Now I didn't see Oliver Darcy, but was there anybody who didn't give you an emotional response? I thought everyone on the panel who wasn't a Republican gave an emotional response. It was only Oliver Darcy? He was the only one? How could you miss the fact that it was all emotional? It wasn't even, it didn't even feel like an opinion. It just felt like all emotion. I'm so upset.

Well, and then of course Joy Reid wanted to dump on her opposition, CNN. But there, and I saw a tweet by a writer Michael Stern. He was agreeing with her, and this is what Michael Stern said: Joy Reid is right on point with this analysis on both CNN and Anderson Cooper and more broadly on the stupid idea that because Trump's supporters exist, we have to give Trump more forums to spread his hatred and disinformation. Did you hear any hatred? When Trump appeared at the town hall, was there hatred? Yeah, projection exactly. It was projection. But disinformation, of course. But that's what the network presents. To say that somebody went on CNN and presented misinformation is to say nothing, because that's basically pretty much their main content on politics anyway is misinformation. So I love seeing this debate. But they're, by MSNBC and Michael Stern would have us believe that the news should not cover Trump or at least give him a lot of time. It's mind-boggling, isn't it? That the person who will probably be president, you know, just statistically it looks like he probably would be at this point. There's a lot that could change. It's too early to say that, but just at the moment it looks like a dominant probability. And they want to act like he's not news because they don't like him, and they want to act like the 70-whatever million people who follow him and voted for him are not important enough to put into a news segment and rather just shut it up. And as I saw somebody say on Twitter, that the Democrat strategy is to shut up both Trump and Biden. Do you know why? Why would the Democrats want less of Biden? Because you know he would make gaffes, but also less of Trump because of all of his lies and hatred, I guess they're saying. Isn't that convenient? Why would somebody who covers the news want the politicians to present less of it? It's obvious, isn't it, that the less you see of the candidates, the more that your narrative can be controlled by the press. The press doesn't want their narrative to be destroyed by the candidates talking. That's actually what that is. They don't want Biden talking because it will destroy the narrative that he's capable, and they don't want Trump talking because he might say something you like. It's unbelievable that we've reached a point where the news wants to suppress the news. That's what's happening. The news is telling you. They're telling you right to your face. Joy Reid is saying it directly. There should be less coverage of the person who has half of the country's political support. They say it directly. It's just so mind-boggling to watch it happening in real time.

All right, my favorite little story of the day is that Newsom is not ruling out cash payments for reparations. Not ruling it out. His initial comments made it seem as though he had dismissed it because he said stuff like, oh, reparations are not all about cash. It's also about other stuff. So it made you think he was just going to skip the cash part. But now he got so much pushback that he's going to say, uh, this is a response from his spokesperson: The sensationalized framing in pieces published by outlets like Fox News, boo Fox News, and others is inaccurate. The governor looks forward to reviewing the final report and all recommendations when complete. So they're saying that the report is not complete, so he didn't need to make an opinion yet. Oh, that's convenient. And that what it is, he'll make a decision then. Does this seem a little bit like Charlie Brown kicking the football to you? Do you believe that after this delay and after he gets the final report, the final report, do you think that he's gonna look at that and say yeah, cash payments, cash payments? No. He's just making the problem go away for a little bit longer like he did the last three times. He's so good at this. If ever there was a white guy trick, there's no more common white guy trick than telling people to go study it and we'll get back to you and maybe, yeah, maybe we'll take care of this. Absolutely we might look into this. Absolutely. Maybe. There's no way this is going to happen. There isn't the slightest chance there's going to be cash payments unless they could get those cash payments down to something like, I don't know, t

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en thousand dollars. Could you see that happening so he can say you did something? Because I feel like that would be more trouble than good, because even if there's some way to afford, you know, say ten thousand dollars per person, people think you can do it politically. I mean it's still going to look terrible politically, and the people who receive it will be mad too because they expected one an…

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