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als, and if you assume that Democrats don't have an option, they have to be diverse, it's their brand, so they're forced to be diverse but they're demonstrating to the rest of the world through what I would consider the most incompetent administration of all time and the most incompetent campaign and the most incompetent spokesperson, and all of those things are permeated with DEI hires which, if…

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strategy because they don't have anything of substance. Trump has substance. He can say you see all that crime, I'm going to do the normal things that people normally do to get less of it. Is that imaginary? I don't think so. Seems pretty real. He says he's going to negotiate with Putin and Zelensky to end the war. Now it might be hard, but is it imaginary? It's not imaginary. And the entire reason we're in Ukraine, do you think the government told you the real reason that we're in Ukraine? No, they gave you an imaginary reason. The imaginary reason is that Putin's going to roll up Europe if he gets Ukraine, with no regard to the fact that some of us know the history of Ukraine and that, as Mike Benz can explain better, the whole thing looks like an energy play between two criminal organizations, one United States and the other Russia. And basically it's like we're stealing their drug stash so we can sell it ourselves, their energy. That's a better way to look at it.

So I can't think of anything the Democrats are doing that isn't imaginary. Because once you realize that your imaginary case will always be stronger than the real world one, why would you ever use the real world? It's unnecessary. They've actually found a way to depart from all reality without paying for it. It's free because as long as their press keeps backing them, their own people will never go read Breitbart. You know, the Democrats will never go over to Fox News just to see what the other people say. Although surprisingly Fox News does have a lot of Democrat viewers, but I feel like they might be conservatives.

All right, let's go on to some more. This is going to get better as I go, by the way. I've organized my materials so that I'm going to reach a crescendo. So don't leave before the crescendo. That'd be crazy.

All right. So disgraced DA Alvin Bragg. I like just using disgraced in front of everything. All right. So there seems to be a whole bunch of trolls on YouTube. All the behavior of social media looks suspicious now. You know that I don't believe that the trolls are organic anymore, at least not during the election season. They're really active and they're yelling imaginary things. So the trolls are literally saying imaginary things about me to try to embarrass me on my own live stream. Let's see who would do that. Imaginary things. What group of people really, really, really love imaginary stuff? It's probably exactly what you think it is.

All right. So here's something I didn't know about Alvin Bragg. He went to Harvard. Are you telling me that all the times that people have been ripping on Alvin Bragg, nobody thought to mock him for having a degree from Harvard? Come on, people, improve your game. It's not for me to help you avoid these mistakes. No, it's funny. It's funny you went to Harvard. Now to be fair, not recently. So maybe he went to Harvard back when it made a difference what your credentials were. If he had just graduated from Harvard, I would be saying DEI hire because Harvard's become ridiculous about their standards. But maybe when he was there it was closer to he belonged there. So I don't know. I'm not going to say he didn't belong in Harvard because there was a time when Harvard was at least a little bit credible. But according to my digital creature from Amazon whose name I don't want to say out loud because I'll trigger it, he has a net worth of $41 million. But I didn't see that explained. Do you think it's true? So first of all, I don't know it's true. It's just coming from the digital assistant. So somebody could have put wrong information on there. But is he independently wealthy and how so? I guess I would ask for a fact check on that. I do not assert that to be true, just to be clear. I do not assert that it's true, but it's on at least one source of information. So I'm curious about that.

Did you know that Michigan, they were looking at a law to make it harder to cheat, but the Democrats had the advantage and they passed laws to make it easier to cheat, right? It's 2024 and in Michigan the Democrats unanimously passed legislation that would make it easier to cheat, not harder. Can you think of a reason why they do that? Do you think they're planning on an imaginary election where you imagine that you knew the results but really you don't? Well, that's what I'd worry about. That was from the Gateway Pundit. They're reporting. Also Gateway Pundit is saying that there's some poll of Arab American voters and Biden is way off in his popularity. He had a 60 percent Arab American vote in 2020, but he's down to about 20 percent support now. I don't think the Arab American community is big enough that it's going to move the election, but wow, I think it's one more sign of complete collapse. I don't think we realize how close the Democrat Party is to total collapse because until it happens it doesn't look like it's going to happen. You know, nothing happens until something happens. So I feel like the major tent pole holding up the Democrats is really creaky right now. And if that one cracks, the rest go.

Do you know what the tent pole is that holds up the entire Democrat Party? It's the fine people hoax. If the fine people hoax can be debunked so that Democrats can see it in a way that's credible, that takes everything away. And the fact that the Republicans don't go after that, you know, basically just people like me, pundits, do. I never really understood that anyway.

Tim Pool abruptly cut his own live stream because he had Laura Loomer as a guest. And Laura Loomer was talking about getting back at Democrats and that there was enough crime there that if Trump got back in office there would be a number of people who should be dealt with with the legal process. However, I think her rhetoric reached a point where Tim Pool's entire show was probably at risk if he didn't pull it down himself. So I'm going to give Tim Pool a big compliment. Nicely done. Nicely done. So I'll tell you in softer words what Laura Loomer said so that I also don't get cancelled.

All right. So Laura Loomer said that the level of the criminal behavior consistent with the laws on the books for treason might go to the level of the death penalty. Now here's the problem. If you were to say hey, people might be guilty of certain crimes, here's why we think they are, the penalty for that could be the death penalty, it should be on the table. That's okay because you're just talking about the law. Here's what I think is too far. And let's see if you would have spotted it because Tim Pool did. So he's good at this, right? If you say let's get a list of names of people and then before you've tried them you say we want to kill these people, then you sort of become Alvin Bragg yourself. You hear what I'm saying? You don't want to start with the person and then talk about the death penalty unless you've really had a lot of conversations and in a court case that's credible about those charges. But it's real dangerous to go full Fannie Willis or who was it, Letitia James, and say you're running for office to get Trump. That's too far. Somehow she's not paying for that, but it's way too far. So Tim Pool I think very smartly and very decisively said oh shoot, she just gave YouTube a predicate to cancel my whole channel and I'm not going to die on this hill. It wasn't even my opinion. This was a guest's opinion. So nice move. Nice move, Tim Pool. Because the information still gets out. You know, the social media picks it up, but he reduces his risk on YouTube and he lives to fight again. Total respect for that. Nicely played. Good decision-making. And I don't think you could have played that better. And you know I don't mind that Laura Loomer has her opinion, so it's not about her opinion. I think that part was fine. It's just you don't want to give YouTube this fresh batch of red meat to cancel you because they want to cancel Tim Pool. So well played.

Jonathan Turley, still national treasure, talking about any of the legal elements of politics. So he talks about the fact that the whole situation where the government or the Republicans were trying to get a hold of the audio that they only have the transcript of Biden doing his testimony to Hur. And of course the Democrats say hey, you have the transcript, that's good enough. And then the Republicans say yeah, but we don't trust the transcript. We think you might have edited it and it might be way worse than the transcript shows. And we have a right to know because if Biden is not capable, it's got to be 25th Amendment situation. So they definitely have a right to know. I completely support their attempt to get that. But listen to, according to Turley, the Justice Department is making a new claim for why they can't release the audio of something they've already released the transcript to. Can you think of any reason why you wouldn't rel

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ease the audio when they've willingly and already and publicly and everybody's seeing the transcript? What reason could there be other than it sounds really terrible? Like really bad. It must be awful. Just guessing. But listen to one of the arguments that they just proffered. They say that the audio tape must be withheld due to the risk that it could be altered by artificial intelligence and pas…

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