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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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s. I don't care about their systemic racism which is real by the way. I don't care that the legacy of slavery is bad news for people. That seems real. I got problems too. How about my problems are just as good as your problems? Well I don't have that many problems but other people do. There are other people who have a lot of problems and I don't think anybody's problems are special. I think everybody's got their own little problem. If you've got an alcoholic parent that beat you as a kid, well that's a little bit bigger than your systemic racism problem because you can go to any Fortune 500 and you're the first in line right?

So we don't care how offended you were at all. And I think that's new. I feel like that attitude is maybe becoming more prevalent. Don't pretend we care because we don't. We just don't care that you're offended by it. We're going to talk about normal things in normal ways like normal people. And if you're really really offended by that, who cares? Has no interest to me whatsoever. You don't have magical problems.

So Trump managed to completely change the conversation from everything about Kamala Harris is the best in the world to now the energy monster has taken over the conversation as he does. The energy monster. He creates energy, aims it at himself, and then turns it into conversation about policies and other things that are useful.

So let's see what else we got here. Now of course people are going to look into Kamala Harris's background. There is Fox News had a flashback in which Harris was comparing ICE, you know the people collecting up the illegal immigrants, comparing them to the KKK and said the images of border patrol agents evoked slavery. So there's your border czar who is not really a czar. Have you ever noticed you can't spell crazy without czar? Like czar is four of the letters in crazy. I'm a little dyslexic so it just looks that way to me. Doesn't mean anything.

Then we've heard that separately the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua has a green light to shoot US cops according to Homeland Security. So now we have a Venezuelan gang that has some kind of alleged authority to kill American cops. Are we going to be taken over? Is the invasion on? I don't know.

Let's talk about the VP choice. In my opinion whoever Kamala Harris picks for VP will be a negative for her polling. I don't think there's anything that would improve it. You can think of situations where you've got some generic white guy running for office, Biden, and he could improve his situation by adding some diversity to the ticket. So that's a real thing. But anything that Kamala Harris does is going to make somebody mad. If she picks a man like a generic white guy then all the people who are happy because she's a person of color, whichever one you'd like, are going to say well are you just picking him because he's white? Like why can't the person who would be next in line to be the next president also be a woman or also be a person of color? Because if you think it's important that part of the country is represented why would you just set up for the next white guy to be another president? So she's going to have to explain how this is setting up the next presidency. That's always part of the conversation with the VP and it's going to be harder to explain.

Now the person who keeps bubbling to the top is the Pennsylvania governor Shapiro who is Jewish and then today I'm reading the news saying that might be a problem with Muslim supporters in Michigan or maybe other places. Do you think it would be? Maybe. I don't know. Maybe. But would it gain votes? Is there anybody who would vote for her that wasn't planning to because she picked a Jewish running mate? I don't know. I don't know if anybody would vote for tha

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t who wasn't already going to vote Democrat. So I don't see any Republicans jumping over and saying oh I'm a Republican and I'm Jewish let's go for the Jewish vice president. That doesn't seem like a big reason to switch parties. So it seems to me that every choice would be a slight negative and there's nobody really who could be a positive. If she picked another Black woman people would say hm is…

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