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orld is a persuader. The only thing that can save the world is persuasion. And that's exactly where we're at. So not bad. Now you can't buy that book because I got cancelled, but it will be reissued in the coming months. Look for that notice. Well, Libs of TikTok tells us that a court in Canada has ordered that the Canadian government has to pay for it. And it's a, uh, well Libs of TikTok calls…

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rs there. You know, they put that wire across the street that records your speed as you go by. And they figure out what speed people will drive if there's no sign. Were you aware of that? That's how they figure out what is a reasonable speed limit. First they see how people actually act in the real world. They actually just monitor them. They go, oh it looks like people are going to go 45 miles an hour here if there's no sign. They're just going to drive 45. So they'll set the speed limit at 35. They don't set the speed limit at what people actually go at. You know, they pull it down a little bit because they know people will exceed it.

So the idea here is that they simply see what the public thinks is reasonable and then they set the speed limit right in the middle of that reasonable zone. So if later people complain you say, well I mean you're a human being. We checked with human beings and this was a reasonable speed limit for this area.

Now it looks to me like there might be something like that going on with abortion. Now if you don't like this, just understand that whatever the abortion laws are, a lot of people aren't going to like it no matter what it is. Some large percentage isn't going to like it. But if you have two-thirds of the country roughly in the same area, your most stable law, the one that holds society together, would be something close to what two-thirds of the people want.

Now that's not my opinion of what should be right. I'm not giving you a moral ethical opinion and I'm not even saying you should go there. That's up to you. I'm not an abortion opinion guy because I have a penis and I think my opinion should be deboosted on this topic. I'll be happy to tell you which topics I think my opinion should dominate, but not this one. Not this one.

So anyway that's probably where it'll end up, somewhere where you know the states will eventually wind up with something closer to what the majority wants.

All right. NBC is doing another hit job on the X platform saying that they found a bunch of Nazi accounts in a secret way that they're not telling anybody how they found them. Nobody believes that, do they? As soon as you see it's NBC and you see it's X, they're just competitors. NBC may or may not be influenced by our intelligence people and they want to put pressure on Musk. Maybe. I don't know. But I wouldn't believe anything that NBC says about what's happening on X. Is that fair? Don't listen to a competitor to tell you what the other company is doing. That's pretty basic adult behavior. You don't listen to the competitor to describe their competition, right? They might be right but you can't depend on it.

And if they don't show their work, as X is blaming them, they're not showing how they found these Nazis because the ones that they mentioned, as soon as they were mentioned X said, oh thanks, we got rid of them. So if every time you mention a Nazi, X says oh yeah we'll get rid of them no problem, then why are you hiding the number of Nazis and how you found them? Obviously they're up to no good. I mean it's not like they're trying to make the world a better place. And X said if you find Nazis why don't you tell us first? Why are you making a story out of it? All you have to do is tell us and we'll take them off. And it's not because it's NBC News. It's their ordinary business. They remove Nazis. So you just got to tell them. So you should see that as just a hit piece from a competitor.

All right. If you're not following all the lawfare trials against Trump, I know they get confusing because they all kind of run together. But the Stormy Daniels one, I think I can summarize that for you. I tried to see if I could summarize it all in one sentence. So here's the one sentence summary of the Stormy Daniels trial. It goes like this: years ago Trump allegedly issued Stormy a gag order and then blah blah simulation karma bop bop boop. Do everybody get that? Yeah. Trump issued Stormy a gag order and then some kind of simulation karma thing popped into existence and then bip bop boop. That's all you need to know.

All right. In Newport Beach, California, Colin Rugg is telling us on X that there was a shootout. So I guess two people tried to go into this five million dollar mansion, some kind of home invasion. Maybe the homeowner might have known them from something, but it turned into a shootout and the homeowner waxed one of them and the other one shot himself in the head, allegedly. I've never heard of a home invader getting in a gunfight with the owner and then shooting himself in the head when he's not actually injured. But he probably thought it wasn't going to go well after the first guy got shot.

What do we think about homeowners shooting invaders? All for it. We're all for it. I'd like to see a lot more stories like this. There's no doubt about the fact that homeowners are increasing their security and they're increasing their weaponry and they're going to start shooting. And I'm not in favor of violence and I'm not in favor of vigilantism, but I can observe it and I can tell you that our current situation guarantees it. It guarantees it.

And if you've got a high-end house and you don't have a gun and it's legal to get one, you should really think about it because I think it's going to be dangerous to just have a high-end house because the home invasions are going to go through the roof. I don't think there's any end in sight for this. And here's what I would recommend. If you can put an American flag anywhere around your home, it should cut down on the number of home invasions because it won't take long for the criminal elements to say, wait a minute, that American flag looks something like what a conservative would put on a house. Wait a minute, conservatives are bristling with firepower. Wait a minute, maybe I'll rob that other house. So I would expect to see a huge uptick in Democrat homes being robbed and Republican homes killing the robbers until only Democrat homes are robbed.

Well, Google employees tried to do a little sit-in on one of their executive's offices trying to get Google to discontinue doing business with Israel. And the police came and took them away. So Google is of course imploding with its own wokeness. The wokeness is eating it from the inside. So the same company that gave us a black George Washington is now protesting itself. So there's that.

Anyway, I could not be more entertained, and I mention this all the time, by the X account called Bria. And he's publicly creating a sex toy in which he's using the computer to design it and AI. And it looks like he's building a pretty serious sex toy but it's going to be married with AI. So it'll be the sex toy part of it but then I guess you'll have a screen where you can swipe left until you find the man or woman who would be an AI who will be let's say somehow connected electronically to the other part. So you could have something like a relationship and something like sex with AI.

Now as you might imagine, people are going nuts. So what does BriAI do to his critics on X who come after him hard? He uses them for marketing. So here's an example. So he's got 14 million views on one of them. I think Timcast was featuring it yesterday. So he's just killing it on the exposure.

So somebody wrote this on X about his product: this is satanic. It's been a while s

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ince I've been floored by the malignant presence of something I've seen here but man I am effing floored. So BriAI responds: 55% of men spend their leisure time fighting in pretend wars with Call of Duty or some other BS. Of course they're going to play pretend sex. It's risk-free. How many men you know want to fight in a real war? Reproductive sex is worth the risk. All other sex ends. All other…

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