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r whether she thought it wasn't important and the committee thought it wasn't important so it wasn't that it was suppressed it was misinterpreted. It's going to be one of those stories but since nothing that Liz Cheney says is anything but ridiculous partisan bile I think there's a greater chance that Fox News has the story right in this case. There's a fund called Avanza which because it uses ES…

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their Jewishness and the Holocaust but that's how it got reported on social media by a lot of people that you follow probably.

Now what he did say might be equally odd and terrible to the people who are his critics but it wasn't what he said. Just to be clear that wasn't what he said.

Interestingly you know we always you always hear people saying that Hollywood is run by Jews. I'm not saying that that's a common meme you hear yet. It seemed like the biggest theme was pro-Hamas. How do you explain that? How do you get a job? So a number of the people who went to the Oscars were wearing pro-ceasefire messages. So a lot of them were pro-ceasefire.

Now if you were Jewish there's a good chance that you interpret pro-ceasefire, not everybody of course everybody's different, but there would be a lot of Jewish people who would say that if you're pro-ceasefire you're kind of pro-Hamas because that's what they're asking for. It's literally what they're asking for and you know that would give you the problem of how do you solve it in the long run if you do a ceasefire.

So how do the actors who are pro-ceasefire ever get work again? Is that going to be a problem? Or has something happened in Hollywood? They just opposed the whole town where the town is full of Jewish actors and Jewish managers etc. But they've all gone to or have a substantial number of them turned into ceasefire supporters which would feel to many like Hamas supporters. I don't know. I feel like Hollywood has done every single thing they can to destroy their own industry. So the wokeness made it terrible to watch and movies are boring in general because other things are just more exciting these days and faster and get to the point faster. So movies are like a dead art form in my opinion.

But then they add this thing like why do the Hollywood actors think that they need to be making comments about Israel during the Academy Awards? Like where did they get that idea? You can't separate those a little bit anyway.

Jimmy Kimmel was the host. He was pretty cringey according to people who don't like him but according to the wild seal-like clapping in the audience to his bad jokes when he made fun of Trump being up past his jail time and then the audience wondered oh Trump in jail were you so happy? Were you so happy Trump in jail? So it was disgusting on that level that they were cheering for an innocent man to go to jail. Innocent would be my opinion. Innocent till proven guilty.

And then the biggest surprise of all apparently there were guidelines for the Academy Awards and movies. Well guidelines for movies. So the guidelines for movies were to include a lot of diversity and they had pretty specific guidelines of make sure you've got at least two from this group and etc. And then after all that pro-diversity stuff let's see how it went. Pachy Keenan is reporting this on X. Best picture went to well that was an all-white cast right? Probably an anomaly. The best supporting actor went to oh white guy. Best actor though went to well that was white guy. However the best actress went to well a white woman but not to feel bad because the best director went to well white guy and but at least to redeem the best director for short films went well white guy.

So a lot of white people won stuff. I'm not complaining about it I'm just saying how the hell did that happen? Does Hollywood have some kind of a weird self-hatred internal revolution that's going on? Is there a civil war in Hollywood? I don't know what's going on. I have no idea.

Also the best supporting actress to a white woman. Do you all know Shaun King who is famous as a black activist who many of his critics say Shaun you don't even look black. I don't even think you're black. So that's one part of his story but apparently he's upped the ante and he's become he's embraced Islam. So as of yesterday Shaun King is a Muslim. So he's a black Muslim. So that's good.

So I don't want to say that Shaun King is the poor man's Andrew Tate but I really do so I'm gonna say it. Shaun King is the poor man's Andrew Tate. I just like saying people are the poor man's something. It's always funny. It's never not funny.

All right meanwhile Trump was posting on Truth during the Academy Awards and Jimmy Kimmel actually read his post live. Here's what it was from Trump on Truth. He said has there ever been a worse host than Jimmy Kimmel at the Oscars? His opening was that of a less than average person trying too hard to be something he is not and never can be. Get rid of Kimmel and perhaps replace him with another washed up but cheap ABC talent George Stephanopoulos. He would make everybody on stage look bigger stronger and more glamorous.

And he says after a really bad politically correct show tonight and for years disjointed boring and very unfair why don't they just give the Oscars to those that deserve them? Maybe that way their audience and TV ratings will come back from the depths. Make America great again.

Trump is never not funny. It's like he doesn't have the capability to not be funny if you like his whole act right. If you hate him you hate him.

Let's talk about ABC News. George Stephanopoulos who you know as Stephanopoulos. So he got into it with Nancy Mace Republican on the show and it was fascinating because they both are so both of them are really good with media right. George Stephanopoulos obviously great understanding of media and how to use it but a biased partisan for Democrats. Nancy Mace same thing. Super good at all media things. You know the camera loves her. Lots of good quotes and stuff. So these are two people who really understand how the media works.

Do you know what people do when somebody who really understands the media and is partisan interviews somebody else who really understands the media and is partisan? Well it was kind of hilarious because Nancy Mace kept trying to frame the questions from Stephanopoulos as quote trying to shame a rape victim which she repeated over and over and over again. Meanwhile Stephanopoulos was framing as the jury found Trump liable for rape which didn't happen in the real world by the way. But also what didn't happen in the real world is Stephanopoulos trying to shame Nancy Mace as a rape victim.

So both of them just continually repeated their claims which were ridiculous. They're both ridiculous but they're both so smart about the media that they know that all that mattered is what they repeated. So they were actually in just not even in the same conversation and neither of them cared to fix it. You have to say it was fascinating. There you might if you were a little less let's say informed about how things work it would look like two people who couldn't have a conversation or somebody avoiding a question or somebody asking illegitimate questions and trying to score points. That's sort of the old way to look at it.

But if you understand that the two people are brilliant at handling media events, brilliant I mean they're top 1% easily, then you understand that they know that the audience can't follow an argument. The audience can't follow any complicated argument so what you can do is just repeat over and over something you want them to hear.

So if you were a pro-Nancy Mace and you spent any one second looking at that video you'd say man I hate that Stephanopoulos guy to quote Trump. He's trying to shame a rape victim. I watched the whole thing. Nothing like that happened. Not even a little bit. At the same time did the jury find Trump for rape? Nope completely made up but he wants everybody to think that happened.

So what did happen? Well Byron York tries to explain what the jury did find and I think you can join me in saying what. All right so here's Byron York trying to explain it. He said in fact the jury specifically found Trump not liable for rape. It found him liable for quote sexual abuse. The judge later tried to spin the decision citing laws that did not apply. Okay according to Byron York laws did not apply to argue that the jury implicitly found Trump liable for rape.

I don't even know what that sentence means like I understand it as English but like what's it really mean in the real world? How in the world does a judge cite a law that doesn't exist to argue that the jury found in their own minds they were thinking something other than what they said? But I guess something like that happened. You know Byron York is very credible in his analyses.

In the absence of an actual jury finding of rape the judge guessed that the jury's decision necessarily implies rape. Do you understand why Nancy Mace would not want to get into a decision about the details? Because you can't you can't explain the story in the details. You could read that sentence like 15 times and go I'm not exactly sure what. Do any of you even understand that issue that the judge used a law that doesn't exist to read the minds of the jury? What anyway so those are two good media pros at work.

Did you know that apparently half of the country is unaware according to recent survey that the non-documented non-citizens get counted in the census? Now you might say to yourself well so what the census is just trying to figure out who's here so they're here might as well count them. So what? You might not remember is that the census is in part and maybe largely the main reason is to figure out how many representatives are applicable.

So if they can, they being the Democrats, if they can pump up areas with extra non-citizens then the census when it rolls around will say hey you need some extra representatives because you got some extra people. Those extra representatives would allow the Democrats to have a majority and rule forever as kings and queens.

The Trump administration I guess tried to get citizenship to be the only valid answer on the census you know so that it didn't have this distorting effect and Musk is pointing that out. Elon Musk. And it's obvious that this is, isn't it obvious to you that this is all intentional? I mean that's what Musk is saying. It's obviously intentional to pump up the power of the Democrats at any cost and the any cost would be extra crime etc. and cost.

So you think the problem is the immigrants right? Do you think the problem is the migrants? Do you think the problem is the cartel? Do you think the problem is George Soros? Well to me it looks like the problem is coming from inside the house because none of those things would matter if the Democrats didn't want it to happen because we would just have stronger laws etc.

So the problem with migration is coming entirely from inside and it's intentional because if a system continues to give you one kind of output and you don't change it that must be the output you want because you do have the ability to change it. So we must assume that this plot to increase power at the cost of American citizens is exactly what it looks like.

Speaking of things that are exactly what they look like do you remember me saying the only explanation for why we're not doing anything useful about fentanyl and about the border must be that the cartel is on our side? Now when I say our side I mean must be working with American power interests otherwise we would stop it.

And then Mike Benz who has more information than I do I was just looking at the system and saying hey if the system keeps giving you the same result and the government has the ability to change it but does nothing that must be the result they want and therefore they must be working with the cartels to control Mexico and Central America.

But I was just talking through my ass based on the system. All I did was look at the output. I simply looked at the output and said all right if nobody's trying very hard to change it they must want it. What could be the possible explanation for wanting this? And the only explanation is that we're the ones doing it. If it were coming only from the outside as a risk to Americans we would have stopped it somehow but we're not even trying in a way that looks like trying. You know there's little stuff but not really.

So Mike Benz says that the reason that the Department of Defense, CIA in the State and Department of Homeland Security they all tried to stop Trump from building a border wall because as Mike Benz says if we lose the cartels we lose Latin America. That's right we need the cartels for America to have control over the governments of other countries because the only way we can control the governments is to control the cartels because the cartels control the governments.

So basically we are consciously, we meaning these groups of three-letter people, are consciously allowing 100,000 people to die from overdoses and consciously allowing us to be overrun with crime and migrants because it gives us control over the other countries.

Now is that a bad decision? I'm going to surprise you because it surprised me but as you know I've been probably one of the most vocal critics about the border as well as fentanyl and not doing enough about it because in my opinion it was a contributing factor to my stepson's overdose and so I was really really mad at the government for seeing the problem much like Elon Musk points out you can see the flames why are you not trying to put them out? And that was really frustrating to have a death in the family that looked like it could have been maybe if not preve

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ntable there could have been a lot more that could have been done and then not to watch nothing being done was like the worst most painful feeling you could imagine that I couldn't stop it from happening to somebody else's kid. I mean really that's all you have left. All you have left when you lose your own kid is you can make something good out of it you know you try to turn it into a positive an…

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