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is reported on X by Mario Nawfal, who says that this year's WEF meeting at Davos appears to be heading in the usual direction of a drug-fueled bunga bunga sex party. Local escort service website officially announced all local service providers are completely booked during the WEF week, and sometimes in both holes. They didn't say that but it feels like they should have. The WEF's 2024 theme is, q…

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d that before? Isn't that where the World Economic Forum goes to have their drug-fueled bunga bunga parties?" "Yes, but your husband's not involved in any of that, right?" "I don't think so."

So if you want to take care of that, there's your path.

Well, as you know, Trump had a solid victory in the Iowa caucuses and broke some records. He got 51 percent, rounding off. It's the highest in the history of the Iowa Republican caucus, excluding the non-competitive years, the non-competitive years when he's not running against anybody in his own party. Trump got 51 percent. He won every county in Iowa. So that's not bad. How'd you do? I was all right. I won every county in Iowa. Every county.

Now, do you think this scared the people in MSNBC and CNN a little bit? We'll talk about that.

So let's see what else happened. So DeSantis got 21. I'm rounding off everything here. DeSantis 21 percent, Haley 19, and Vivek eight. So Vivek has conceded and he says he did not achieve his stated goal of surprising on the upside. In fact it was as if he had not even campaigned honestly. So the bad news is that doing an amazing campaign doesn't make any difference in Iowa. I mean no difference at all apparently. They'd made up their minds. So yeah, it doesn't matter the quality of your campaign, as MSNBC has pointed out, and I will point out as well.

It's kind of interesting that the Iowa results were in the exact order of whiteness. Now I'm not going to say that's why the Iowans picked who they did because there are lots of variables here, but it did come out in the exact order of how white they are, if you know what I mean. So I'm not sure that race isn't any part of this. You know, if we're going to be honest, there was probably a racial dimension. And I think a lot of people believed, this is what I heard, a lot of people believed that Vivek was a Muslim. No, I'd never even heard that. But you know, the people get confused with Hindu and Muslim and you know not everybody's fully versed in world religions. So I think that worried him. I think they were worried that maybe he wasn't as Christian as they are. And I think that might have been a small part of the equation, unfortunately.

But I think even more, a bigger part of the equation is they just love Trump. Can we agree o

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n that? I don't think it was a rejection of DeSantis. It was not a rejection of Haley and it was not a rejection of Vivek. It's just they really, really, really like Trump. They really like him a lot and they want the revenge and they want their safety and they want their fighter who's going to put it all on the line. So I do not begrudge them their choice whatsoever. I think the fine people of Io…

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