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e technology and he's not against using it in his state. And he said directly he's no longer progressive. He just likes to be called a Democrat. So what exactly is left? What topics does Fetterman favor that a Republican wouldn't? I think he's pro Second Amendment but he would be more restrictive than others or not. What kind? Well I'd like to just know more about his situation. Don't buy it Scot…

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think a perfect Democrat for Pennsylvania because Pennsylvania is not like super progressive I would say. Even I would go further and I would say that you know I grew up in Upstate New York. No, Upstate New York is not exactly Pennsylvania. They're a little different but not a lot. You know if you grew up in Upstate New York you probably have some sensibility about what a Pennsylvania person thinks, right? It's not that different. And Fetterman seems very Pennsylvania to me. He could work in Upstate New York too, you know, even though that's more Republican or it used to be.

All right, so he's just an interesting story. I like to keep an eye on him. It's funny that a Democrat can make news by not being crazy. Oh there's another Upstate New Yorker is agreeing with me about the Pennsylvania similarity. Yeah.

So End Wokeness, one of the fun accounts on X, says it's going to cost, this is according to a 2023 estimate, the cost for the illegal immigrant population or migrant population is 451 billion just for one year. So America is paying 451 billion to make sure that the migrants are safe and taken care of. Relative to that, End Wokeness says it would cost 15 billion to build a wall to keep them out. So we're paying 451 billion to take care of somebody, the people that we could have kept a lot of them out for. I don't think it's 15. I think it's closer to 25 and that means it's closer to 50. But it's not close to 451. I mean if money is what matters, apparently it isn't, then

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walls are pretty good investments. All right. Kamala Harris is apparently going to be the leading face for abortion. So that will be her job in the coming election year, to talk about abortion. And you know I usually say a lot of bad things about Kamala Harris but this might be the perfect job. Because think about how this goes over with Republicans. The Republicans are going to look at Kamala sa…

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