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Now people are saying how come I didn't include the Jussie Smollett hoax? That was sort of borderline for me. I decided to leave it out because the hoaxer was Jussie Smollett and the people getting hoaxed were the media on both sides for a while, more of the media on the left. I don't think the media on the right ever quite fell for it, did they? So in the smaller case the victims were the anti-Tr…

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All right, I'm starting a list of things you would have to believe in order to be a Democrat in 2019. It's just a starter list. I'm going to add to it. But here are some things you would have to believe. You'd have to believe that Israel can't spot an anti-Semite. You'd have to believe that Israel's not good at that because they like Trump and they don't like some Democrats such as Tulsi. So in order to be a Democrat and buy into the whole sort of Democrat hoax-based narrative, you'd have to believe that Israel's not good at spotting anti-Semites.

You'd also have to believe that internal trade wars are good whereas external trade wars are always bad, right? Because they're doing an internal trade war, which is boycotting various companies that might donate to the Republicans or to Trump. So they have to think internal trade wars are good and external ones are bad. I'm going to add to that list as we go.

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So I've had a number of people talking about this Portland sporting event. You heard about the sporting event in Portland. So there were two teams. One team the Proud Boys and the other, there were others there but mostly it was two teams: the Proud Boys versus Antifa. And they all showed up in the field and they wore their little uniforms and they had a contest. Now the way you win the contest is…

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