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a coincidence, just a little bit of a coincidence that Taylor is getting so lucky in her choice of boyfriends. It looks like it's intentional, but I won't make that accusation. I'll just say every bit of it looks like that. And in fact the New York Times is saying that Biden is going to pursue a Taylor Swift strategy of getting her to endorse him if possible. Imagine being Taylor Swift and having…

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t's a separate question. But you can say for sure it wasn't a fair trial. That much you can say for sure just based on the relationship.

All right. This next category I'm going to call the blackification of Trump. The blackification. I believe that the more Trump is abused by the justice system, the more support he's going to get from black men. Women, different situation. But we saw that Snoop Dogg said he had nothing but love and respect for him because Trump pardoned his death row co-founder, the publishing company, music publishing company, death row co-founder. And we saw that Charlamagne tha God was saying that he's getting a lot of calls from his community, as he would call it, saying what's up with this border, which is an indirect way of being more Trump than Biden.

And interesting, Chris Cuomo posted, based on the Snoop Dogg story, and he posted this. He said, as Snoop goes, so goes the country. Or is this an example of what should be painfully clear at this point? People aren't going to just like or dislike a leader because the media and the players in the game tell them to. At the end of the day it comes down to self-interest these days. Perceived self-protection. Perceived self-protection.

Who do you think Chris Cuomo is supporting when he says people need to realize they have to vote for their self-protection? It's not pro-Trump but it's not anti-Trump, if you know what I mean. And I've told you, I've hinted at this before, but Chris Cuomo is not the CNN Chris Cuomo. CNN Chris Cuomo might have been more of an invention. Human being Chris Cuomo, I think you'd find a lot to agree with. That's all I'm going to say about that.

But not only that, but the number one black hip-hop artist in the world is amazingly a strong Trump supporter. Who is it? Ben Shapiro. Ben Shapiro. He's the number one black... wait, hold on. Oh, he's not black. Ben Shapiro. But he is the number one hip-hop artist along with an actual hip-hop artist. They got the number one hip-hop. Tom MacDonald. Is that who's the artist? Tom MacDonald. Somebody says, is that the name? Anyway, so there you go. So it looks like hip-hop has turned strongly pro-Trump. So UFC is pro-Trump. Even The Rock recently mentioned, you know, did you see with the crowd reaction to Trump? And when The Rock said it, it wasn't pro-Trump or anti-Trump, but it definitely wasn't anti-Trump.

So you see a whole bunch of people that you didn't necessarily expect to be a little bit more open-minded about Trump.

Well, Lindsey Graham wants to bomb Iran. That's what I call perpetual news. Let me read the news that hasn't changed in 20 years. The pope is speaking out against war. Oh, didn't see that coming. Lindsey Graham wants to bomb Iran. Oh, another surprise. There's two surprises. I didn't see either one of those coming, did you? That's your news. That's the news.

Well, here's a counterpoint from David Sacks. Now I'm going to tie this together later with another story. So David Sacks, as you know, one of the PayPal founders along with Elon Musk, along with Peter Thiel, and along with Reid Hoffman and a few others. Now when David Sacks gives you an opinion online, I'm going to read it to you. I think I'll just read his wh

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ole opinion because I want you to see how clear it is. Right? You don't have to agree with it. It just has to be clear. Just watch how well expressed it is. And then later I'm going to compare it to something else. Right? So you don't have to focus too much on the argument. Just see how clear it is and then we're going to compare that to something later. All right. So David Sacks says it feels go…

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