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her Facebook or Instagram. Thirteen billion views through June of this year. Facebook only had 12 billion and Insta had six billion. Now, profitability hasn't showed up yet, but with those kinds of numbers, I think Elon Musk is going to be okay in the long run.

But speaking of Elon Musk, in our totally normal world, we'll of course be talking about Trump's day yesterday. But so Venezuela had their election and Maduro is staying in power, it looks like. People are saying the election was fake, but somehow this ended up in Maduro challenging Elon Musk to a personal fight, and Elon Musk agreeing to the fight, and then Maduro telling his military to not let Elon Musk into the country because I guess he's worried that Elon will fly in and come beat him up. I don't know how any of this is real. How is any of this real? This is really happening.

And then Elon posts this morning, "I'm coming for you, Maduro. I will carry you to Mar-a-Lago on a donkey." How is this real? How is this real? How is any of this real? Come on.

And then let's talk about Venezuela's election. You know what the news told you, right? That it was obvious that the other team won, the one that's not in power, and that the election was rigged and cheated, right? How do you know that's true? How do you know it was rigged? You do know that our CIA is trying like crazy to overthrow the country, right? Do you know how they would do it? They would claim the election was rigged and then they would get the population all worked up and then they would organize some kind of a grassroots-looking overthrow of the country. Exactly what you're experiencing now.

I have no idea what to think. I don't even know who to root for. I mean, I suppose it's better if the United States conquers Venezuela indirectly like it has other countries, but we're not exactly the good guys. I think we just want the oil. So I don't know who won, but I do know there's absolutely no information from Venezuela that you should trust as true. Nothing about Venezuela you should assume is true. I don't think there are any good guys. Like, I don't think it's the good guys versus the bad guys. It's probably just all bad guys, at least at the political level. That's what I mean.

Well, meanwhile, the alleged mastermind of September 11th, KSM, and I guess two others, they worked on a plea deal where they will get life in prison instead of being executed. Why do we care about that? Isn't that just saving money and torturing them for the rest of their life? I don't mind torturing them for the rest of their life. I have no problem with that. I like keeping them alive. There was a sci-fi where the evil ruler of the universe put somebody in suspended animation forever instead of killing them so that they could live forever with the thoughts of what they've done and suffer. It feels like that.

I think I would be, you know, if revenge is what you want, then being dead is sort of the end of their suffering. If you want them to suffer, I kind of like the plea deal because it makes all the legal expenses go away, so it's good for taxpayers, and it's not like they're getting out. So I don't know. I think that's okay.

Anyway, CNN has decided it's going to do away with what it calls its opinion section. I didn't even know they had opinion writers. I thought they were all just news people because they make so little distinction between opinion and news on CNN that it seems like an almost hilarious outcome that they're getting rid of their opinion pieces. Do you know why they're getting rid of their opinion people? Because they're terrible opinions. Their opinions are probably so far off mainstream America. You know they are, right? You know it's going to be opinions that are just not even close to what the bulk of the country is thinking about anything. They just said, you know, let's just get rid of all of them. So that's funny.

Russia has apparently agreed to r

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elease that Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine Paul Whelan in some kind of a prisoner swap. Now here's the question that we must ask. Is the United States making a deal that it didn't want to make because it wants to prevent Trump from making this deal? I think that's all that's happening. I think the election is the reason the deal is getting done because I think t…

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