ve masks have come back out. And specifically they're out for people who are walking alone and riding bicycles by themselves. No joke. It's the people walking alone literally outdoors and on bicycles outdoors alone, fully masked.

Now what do I do about that? You know the only solace I can take is that there was recently a study that backed masks for one purpose. I don't know if you saw it, but it was a study that said that they studied mask usage and masks are 50% effective in curing ugliness. I'll wait. I'll let that sink in a little bit, okay?

You know I actually have a theory that some people like masks because they don't like how they look. The people who are alone and wearing a mask, I don't really think that's about COVID. I feel like they're taking the opportunity to cover their faces because they want to cover their faces. That's what it feels like. It doesn't feel like they're actually afraid of the virus. I mean not riding a bicycle. It feels like they prefer having a mask on for whatever reason. But anyway.

Glitch McConnell, as Emerald Robinson called them in a tweet. She tweeted that Glitch McConnell temporarily unfreezes. This is the way we're talking about our leaders. Temporarily he temporarily can talk. It temporarily unfreezes, disputes CIA talking points before returning to a meat locker somewhere inside the Capitol. The GOP is a joke.

You know you can take sides all you want, right? But the Republicans are a disaster. There's no way around it. The Republican Party is just a disaster at this point. Yeah, there are certainly individuals who are stars. You know I love my Thomas Massies and Tom Cottons and a lot of the people running for president. But really, do you want any credibility at all? Basically leaving McConnell in office takes all the credibility from the Republican Party. The Democrats quite legitimately can ignore everything they say.

I mean it's very much like the Judge Jeanine thing where if somebody lies to you about one thing, you're certainly within your logical rights to imagine that everything else they say is non-credible as well. And the Republicans are trying to look credible while keeping McConnell in place. Now you might say, but what can they do about it? Probably everything. Probably everything. You don't think that they can get rid of him if they were unified? I don't know. I mean I don't know what the problem is. My guess is he's got too much blackmail on people. Can you think it could be anything else? It's got to be either blackmail or he's the one who doles out the rewards. So basically the people who need him to give them rewards, you know some kind of assignments to committees or whatever the hell he does.

But this could not be a more broken government. To say that we have a functioning government would just be a joke. We don't have a government, nor do we have an opposition. We don't have anything. You know at least if your opposition was healthy and functioning you could say, well even if something happens to the government, the opposition is good.

Yeah, I think JD Vance was pushing for some legislation to ban masks, right? And I doubt it would be passed. I doubt it would pass. It doesn't matter what people want because the government doesn't work.

So I thought this was funny. You know the ADL, there's a pitched battle with Elon Musk. So the ADL tried to destroy Twitter when Musk bought it. And they're making claims which of course don't sound like they're factually true about things got much worse on Twitter as soon as Musk took over. But they said it before he took over. I mean they're making the claims before he'd made any changes and before the transaction was done. So you can see that the claims about Elon Musk were unrelated to anything that was actually happening factually.

So the ADL tries to destroy Twitter, now X, by punishing its advertisers and saying basically they'll have a big reputational problem if they keep going with advertising. So the X platform lost 60% of its advertisers, making a $22 billion dollar investment nearly worthless unless he does something extraordinary to increase its value. So how are you suing? And of course because Elon Musk is the whale in the fight, you know he's the big one that's hard to kill, it allows other people like me to be full-throated in our talking out against the ADL, which is a terrible organization. Terrible for the country.

Just imagine how terrible this is. If the X platform goes out of business, in my opinion that's the end of free speech in the United States. Would you say that's too far? Now it's not as if smaller publications couldn't publish. Breitbart could still publish, right? So if Breitbart can still publish you'd say well that's free speech. Except you know Breitbart is hidden, or at least it used to be, I think it still is, by Google search. If you try to look for Breitbart it's just hidden by the search engines and the social media companies. So is that free?

How about Fox News? Well Fox News, they're free, right? Fox News was taking advertisement from TikTok. Do I need to connect the dots? That's not exactly a free publication if they're taking advertising from a Chinese organ. That's not even close to being credible, unfortunately. I hate to say it but I mean that's sort of a line too far.

And so if in my opinion the X platform goes down, that's the end of free speech. And would you agree that free speech is the only thing that holds the Republic together? And if America falls apart that could have a ripple effect of a proportion we can't even imagine.

So the ADL and one person in particular, that Jonathan Greenblatt, who's a bad, bad hum