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's not too old saw him in command and full of energy and seizing the moment and winning the day. So let's not pretend any of this is objective. Well as Adam Townshend said, and ex state senator Katie Britt is some kind of a rising GOP star. So she did the rebuttal. I would like to give you my impression of listening to Katie Britt give the rebuttal. Click. Let's see what the rebuttal looks like.…

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n. So that's something Tucker said. The most famous lesbian in television. I laugh because it's so wrong. Now the thing is that's not an insult to lesbians, is it? I don't believe anybody's trying to insult lesbians with that. It's more like it's more like Chris Hayes is just morphing to whatever he needs to be. So to me it just sounds like a Chris Hayes insult. It's kind of funny. But I wouldn't say it if I thought it was intended to be insulting to lesbians. I love my lesbians. I'm pro LGBTQ. You know I always say the same thing. I'll be anti-LGBTQ the same day that you say we don't want to go into that neighborhood because it's kind of a crappy neighborhood, it's full of LGBTQ people. Never happened. It will never happen. Yeah there's no such thing as that dangerous gay neighborhood or the lesbian neighborhood where they didn't clean up their yard or something. It just doesn't happen. Probably if you were going to just be a jerk and rank people they would rank near the top. If you just said what do you want a citizen to contribute to the world and just ranked everybody they'd be toward the top. So no I'm as pro LGBTQ as you can get. But you know everybody, every interest group can go too far. But I'm very pro.

All right, RFK Jr. said neither my uncle nor my father would recognize the version of America that we have today. And he talks about we're becoming a nation of chronic illness. So I mentioned this and violence and loneliness. He also mentioned the loneliness and depression. You know I think this whole loneliness and depression thing is maybe a lot more complicated than we think. You know your first thought is well go make a friend. If you're lonely go make a friend. That doesn't really work for men. Do you know most men have zero friends? I saw somebody say that like you're lucky if you have one. You know and by friend I mean somebody who comes over to your house and you go over to their house, that sort of thing. Yeah. And a lot of people are zero. A lot of people are saying it in the comments. You have zero friends. That's a lot of people with zero friends.

So why is that? Well I would like to offer some possibilities. One is you know we spend a lot of time on our devices of course, the obvious. But I think people don't have anything in common anymore. That we're so divided and so different in our interests it's hard to find somebody that you want to spend time with on a regular basis because your interests are so different. And then of course I remember a day when, it's funny that this used to be true and it's not anymore. Do you all remember a day when if you got invited to a party it didn't matter what the politics of the host were? Do you remember that? Didn't make any difference. Like literally zero difference. Not five years ago but before Trump. But after Trump I lost 100% of my Democrat only friends, which was most, you know where I live it was most of them. So that just wiped out most of my social life. Yeah. And then you've got the dating problem as well. So there are pretty good reasons why we're lonely. And a lot of it has to do with being out of shape and having chronic illness and all that stuff. So I think our food supply is part of it. I think our food supply is everything from our health care cost to our quality of living to depression to anxiety.

All right, so there's another story in the OSINT Defender account I saw. There's a US Army intelligence analyst who sold a whole bunch of top secret military things to China for $42,000. It makes me wonder, does China have any problem at all buying our secrets? This guy sold like really important secrets about our air defenses and stuff like that, our technology, for $42,000. I mean don't you think that China just has everything? They must have everything if you could get it for $42,000. So I don't know if this is, you know he's innocent till proven guilty, but it doesn't sound good.

The leftover fetuses from IVF bother you. All right, let's talk about TikTok. The House panel unanimously approved a bill. Now that doesn't mean the bill has been voted on. It's just the panel that's coming up with the bill that could ban TikTok from all US phones and tablets if enacted. US phones and tablets, okay. Now here's the thing. Do you think that's going to get voted on and it's going to get banned? Because I think the ban is really a ban only if ByteDance doesn't sell it to an American interest. Now my information as of this morning is that there's no buyer. Now that doesn't mean there won't be, but at the moment there's no buyer. So that would mean that if the bill passed TikTok would just be shut down. Now I just don't think there's any chance of it happening. What do you think? Is there any chance that the larger Congress and Senate will vote to kill TikTok? Because TikTok is very popular with the young and the Democrats need the young. And there might be people who are working for China. And then you've got your Rand Pauls who don't want t

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o ban it because of free speech. All right, let me deal with the Rand Paul complaint. So you know that typically I love my Rand Paul, but he's in my opinion analytically just totally wrong on this one. Now he says it's a free speech thing and you don't want to be against free speech so don't ban it. Now I like the simplicity of the argument. However it's not really a free speech question. Let me…

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