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I'm no lawyer but let me just trot this out, see if any of the real lawyers agree with this. It would be one thing if your doctor gave you a treatment and he honestly or she honestly believed it was good for you. That's fine. And then if things go wrong, well that's just the real world. I wish I hadn't but things went wrong. But what happens when probably every doctor who's in this space in Ameri…

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hat the reason he would identify these two individuals who you don't think would be at the top of the list at the moment, you know although obviously Jesse Ventura's had a serious government job at one point but I think they're both anti, I don't want to say anti-vax, I'll say they're not pro-vax. Would that be true? Which is different from being anti. So I think that he's just being consistent with his primary concern which is the health of the American public.

I think RFK Jr.'s consistent focus on the health of Americans honestly is one of the best things I've ever seen in America. It's one of the best things I've ever seen in American history. You know it's funny we're surrounded with such just horrible, horrible actors in politics and sometimes your fellow citizens but I don't see anything wrong with what Kennedy is doing. It doesn't look like a bid for power. It doesn't look like a bid for money. It doesn't look like there's any direct payoff for him other than completing his work of making the country safer. I have to say that my respect for what he apparently is doing is very high. Very high. I very much appreciate it.

While United Airlines has had a fifth incident in what the news calls fifth incident in over a week. May I take a moment to say if you're writing a headline and you ever write this headline it's the fifth incident in over a week, here's a better way. It might be the fifth incident in let's say 10 days but you know what is over a week? Everything else. You don't say the fifth time in over a week because over a week could be 10 years. That's over a week. Yeah, you know what, I've eaten a potato 700 times in over a week. I have. I'm not even exaggerating. I've eaten a potato 700 times in over a week. Yeah, and I'm not going to stop.

Um anyway United Airlines. So they continue to have these mechanical problems. All seem to have the same character that there's some component of the airplane that falls off. Am I right? Like tire falls off, part falls off, a wing door falls off. And I would like to suggest that if they have maybe one more incident in over a week that they have to change the names from United Airlines to Mostly United But Some Things Fall Off. It's longer but I think more accurate. Fly United? No, not completely United. Mostly United but some things fall off. You got to expect that.

All right. Well Axios is talking about the huge increase in Black and Latino voters w

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ho are moving to the Republican side. And they show some, apparently it's the most massive swing for Black and Hispanic voters since a long time ago, the 60s. Now what is the explanation for that? What's the explanation? Migration? Economy? Natural? Why now? Why now? Well here's what they say. So Axios should not be considered a genuine news source or more of a, they appear to present themselves…

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