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on for their own good. And then they make a good case for it. Maybe there's some blackmail. Maybe there's some bribery. And then they just own anybody they want. They just own any politician they want. Now the bad guys don't have to own every politician. If you said to me, Scott, do you think Thomas Massie is owned by the intelligence people? No, I don't think so. Because they don't need to. All…
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All right, I'm going to give a little defense to Ari Melber. He had me on his show back when people still invited me on shows and I have to say he gave me full respect, let me talk, and it was not an opinion that was super comfortable for MSNBC. And he didn't dump on me or treat me unfairly. And I don't think he's the same as the other people on MSNBC. Just like I sometimes call out somebody on CNN who's like a good egg. He's their best egg. I'll just put it that way. Yeah, I'm not sure I would go full good egg because he's on MSNBC, but he's their best egg. If you're going to pick an egg he's their better egg.
All right. The Gaza situation has devolved into a war of definitions of words. And we all want to use the word genocide the way we want it to work. So I want this to be true so I'm going to say this word is defined this way. And somebody else will say no that's not genocide. It's defined another way. You're defining it all wrong.
But here's the thing. If you're arguing over the definition of whether it is or is not genocide you're kind of wasting everybody's time. Because we all see the same stuff. We all know that it's a war. We all know that civilians are being killed. We all know that Israel would prefer not killing a bunch of civilians if they could just take out all the Hamas people. I'm sure they would. So it is what it is. And we also know that there will be war crimes. Guaranteed. Guaranteed war crimes both sides all the time. It's war. There's no such thing as a major war action like this with no war crimes. I mean you can't really expect that. So if you're going to have war you're going to have war crimes. And sure enough there are.
And so I'm not going to give you my opinion whether it's a genocide or not a genocide. I'll just say that we all know what it is. We don't need to use one special word. Why don't we just say it's the thing happe
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ning in Gaza that we all witness. We all know it's horrific on a level that is sort of unusual. Well, maybe it's too usual. Yeah, so don't argue about the word. It's not about the word. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the US doesn't have any evidence of Israel committing genocide in Gaza. But again that's just about your definition of the word. So yeah, if they believe that Israel is trying…
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