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right. Well, on X the phrase ADL is trending. And I said to myself, what's all that about? So there are a lot of people who are calling the ADL — what does the A stand for? What's the A in ADL stand for? Anti-Defamation League. The Anti-Defamation League, which Republicans have caught on — I think they caught on a while ago — that it's basically a Democrat group and a way to attack Republicans and…

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ink that the Democrats know that this is happening? If you're a Democrat, don't you think that people broke the law and then the law caught up with them and hey, that's how it's supposed to work? Do you believe they have any idea what's going on? I don't. I don't think they have any idea. How could they? The only place they would tell them are the media sources that their own side says if you even look at those sources, there's something wrong with you. You can't even look at them. You wouldn't even want it in your browser history, you know what I mean? Yeah, so they have no way to know.

So I'm going to call this my best prediction ever: that Republicans were hunted and are being hunted. How many of you would say that that's an accurate claim of success? That I accurately claimed that the way things would unfold is the Republicans would be identified and hunted. Now, I don't mean every Republican. I mean that they only have to hunt and abuse and jail enough so that the rest of you will shut the fuck up.

Do you feel that you've modified your free speech to not get caught up in the January 6 illegitimate prosecution sort of thing? Yeah, I would. So there have been a few times this week when I thought to myself of saying something online that would get close to sounding like I was organizing something. And then I thought, oh crap, if it sounds like I promoted something or organized any kind of response to what we're seeing, then I would be thrown in jail perhaps for inciting violence or maybe banned from platforms or something. So I feel that my free speech is at least on that topic completely gone.

But as I often say, you don't have to worry about some parts of the country until they're quiet. Now I plan to never be quiet, but my free speech is being eroded a little bit at a time because I don't want to go to jail. I didn't mind getting canceled, as you all noticed. Honestly, I didn't mind that at all. I didn't mind being canceled because I feel that's part of the system. People can act any way they want. It's a free world. But now I actually fear going to jail. Like actually literally. That's not a hyperbole. I spent a good time yesterday thinking about everything I do and everybody I've talked to and everything I've ever said to wonder if I could go to jail. Not because I broke any laws but because somebody could say I did. So I actually spent some of my time trying to figure out how not to go to jail for an illegitimate prosecution in America. That's a real thing. Spent my time doing that.

How many of you saw the greatest show that has ever been on the internet, in my opinion? And it featured Philip Bump, allegedly a writer for The Washington Post, being grilled. Oh my God, it was amazing. By, in a podcast, the owner of the Comedy Cellar, Noam Dworman. And I need a fact check on Noam. Is he an attorney who now owns the Comedy Cellar? Why was he so good at his questioning? Was he a trained attorney or is he just super smart? Like he really had the goods.

Does everybody know? If you know how about something not anti-Semitic? Maybe that would be better, right? Yeah, don't make the ADL be right. Don't let them be right. Calm down. Jesus Christ.

But is he an attorney? All right, well whether or not he's an attorney or he went to law school, he had the best game I've seen of any podcaster. That's a pretty big claim but I'll say it again. He had the best game I've ever seen of a podcaster in the political domain. He absolutely eviscerated Philip Bump, who most of us who were close followers of the news know he's not a real news guy. He's a regime cover-up guy, or at least allegedly. So allegedly he's one of the go-to top 10 Democrats when they need a designated liar. Somebody to cover up one of their ops.

So he's one of the ones who helped cover up the Russia collusion op, the laptop is Russian disinformation op. He lied about the upside-down Bible story. You heard that hoax. So he's sort of a hoax supporter kind of a guy. Now nobody thinks he's a real writer if they follow, if they pay attention. When I got canceled, he was one of the main guys who came after me in public to dunk on me for getting canceled. So you can imagine my glee in watching his entire career being dissected while he was still alive. It was like a human autopsy.

All right, so I'm not going to play you a clip because anything you see out of context like a little part of it would never give you a sense of what happened. It was a live murder. He was destroyed. And mostly he did it to himself.

Now some of you are going to say — I'll just give you a sense of it. Can I give you a five-second impression of Philip Bump answering any good question? And there were just lots of good questions. Just ordinary good questions. But here's him answering any good question: "Well, if you're not going to listen to all the counter-information I had... it's a setup. It's a setup. Well this, I should just walk right out if you're not going to listen to anything I say." And then Noam would say, "Well, you know, what are you trying to say? What's the answer to the question?" "Well, how many times do I have to tell you? Do you read my articles? Do you read my articles? If you haven't read my articles, this looks like just some kind of a setup."

I now made that all up, but imagine that was his reaction from the start of the interview. That was his first reaction. Imagine what he was like in an hour and 15 minutes. He got poked so hard in the first five seconds that he completely flipped out. Like his body language was just like he couldn't even sit in the chair. He was sitting in the chair like this. Like he was just completely wrecked. And at some point he realized — he stayed. Yeah, by the way there's some fake news that he walked out. You know, so the political right is not without their fake news. So the way I saw it reported is that he walked out, and nothing like that happened. In fact it was the opposite. He stayed way beyond the time he had committed to stay. So I'm going to defend him on that. He did not walk out. He walked out when really he was winding down and it was time to leave. But he did flip out.

Now a number of people said to me, "Ah, that's cognitive dissonance. The way he's acting, it's a tell for realizing something that he didn't think was true before." But I'm here to tell you I've seen a lot of cognitive dissonance. It's one of the things I talk about the most. That didn't look like cognitive dissonance to me. I didn't see any cognitive dissonance. I saw somebody who knew he was a liar and knew that his job is to cover for the regime hoaxes. And he was going to get caught because he ran into a buzzsaw that he didn't know was a buzzsaw. He probably thought he was talking to some Comedy Cellar guy who would have all the understanding of a comedian, you know what I mean? He probably thought that because the guy owned a comedy shop he was probably more of an artist who got lucky in business or something. And that this would be an easy one and he would just say everything he wants to say and the guy wouldn't know what the good questions were or what was wrong with his answer. Oh no, that's not what happened.

Again, I can't say enough about Noam Dworman. I've never seen a more capable or competent political interview. I mean he's a star. He's a freaking star. And he never lost his cool even while Bump was flipping out, which made it even all the more interesting to watch. So I would not say that was cognitive dissonance. It was not cognitive dissonance. That was somebody who got caught.

And so here's the best part of it. After all of that he made a reference to why you should believe him because he's the expert on the Hunter Biden laptop. So you should believe everything he says. But also that he has the credibility of a big institution that backs him. He actually said that. He said that you can believe him because The Washington Post backs him. The Washington Post.

Now let me ask you this. How many Democrats would know that that's a laugh line? Like how many actual Democrat voters know that saying that The Washington Post backs you is really literally hilarious? Probably not many. But I'll bet a lot of Republicans know it. The Washington Post reportedly and allegedly gets their direction from the CIA. Reportedly. And it seems obvious that some of the writers are more on the page of wherever their direction is coming from than others.

Okay, so The Washington Post ac

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tually ended up backing him when he's been conclusively debunked as a liar on several of his stories. Like there's no doubt about it. It's not even opinion. It's just the legal system itself showed that he was a liar or that his information was wrong. Not necessarily he was lying because that's mind reading, but that his stories were factually incorrect. And The Washington Post, instead of saying…

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