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rything, and then you go out and you talk about it and then you become Sidney Powell and then you lose everything and you get sued. And you know, now in the end, Sidney Powell I believe was shown to be faultless. Am I correct? Now she was going to lose her license or something, but I don't think any of the claims she made about the election ever became a legal problem that was confirmed by a court…

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ain, are they organic or is somebody's campaign paying for them? I don't know. But there's a lot of them. So something big is happening with Black America. I think it's probably in a good direction.

I saw that the Amuse account on X had some information that Kamala Harris did the Catholic Church event but she made a video instead of showing up in person. The Al Smith event, whatever it is. And it was kind of a little bit blasphemous because it showed Molly Shannon acting like a Catholic schoolgirl, seemingly mocking the faith a little bit. And that was generally considered a huge fail. But I didn't realize that the Harris campaign was blaming Mark Cuban for suggesting it. Do you think that's true? Do you think Mark Cuban suggested this exact idea? I'm going to say no.

Here's what might be true. It might be true that he said something like, you know, play it for fun or make sure you have fun with it but do a video or maybe something like that. I don't think that he suggested the specific failed skit. Do you think Mark Cuban was writing the jokes for the skit and decided who had to cast it and that it would... I don't think so. I don't think so. He may have suggested doing a video, which might have been the suggestion when he found out that she wasn't going to attend in person because a video would be better than just skipping it. So he may have been involved. But I feel like maybe they're looking for dumping off a little blame on him. That my best guess is that that's overblown.

Did you know that the British government seems to be trying to defeat Trump? The claim is that members of the British government are coming over to the United States to help campaign for Harris. Like really? You're sending your politicians to campaign for Harris? I don't know how much of that is true. And apparently the Labour Party over there in Great Britain has somebody — according to Paul Thiel, who's worked with Matt Taibbi on this story — there's some documents showing that the Labour Party's political front's objective was to quote "kill Musk's Twitter" through quote "advertising focus," meaning harassing the advertisers. Is that true? Is the government of Great Britain trying to kill Twitter, now called X? And are they interfering in our election?

If either of these things are true, then they must be punished. They must be punished. Yeah, they're our best ally, sure. But if this is true, there has to be a response and it has to be big because this is really, really, really not okay, Great Britain.

So here's what I think. If Great Britain is trying to kill freedom of speech in America, I would pull out of NATO and I wouldn't defend them, period. There's a bottom line here, right? If Great Britain is trying to destroy freedom of speech in America, I don't want to protect your stupid little island. You can all fuck off. You can all become Russian. I don't care. But don't ask me to spend a penny if you're trying to remove our only last remaining source of free speech. Every one of you guys. Every one of you. And by the way, the citizens of Great Britain, you better do something with your government, right? It's not my job to change your government. But I can certainly suggest that my government stop protecting you. Yeah, if you're going to come after us and destroy our system, I'm out.

So I think we should have an actual conversation, like literally, about whether we're protecting Great Britain anymore, whether we could work with them. Now I know how ridiculous that sounds because the connections are so deep and so long. But no, this is a red line. This is a solid red line that they're crossing now. Musk says he's going to fight back and maybe something can be done in the courts, but I doubt it. This is the line, man. You cross the line, buddies. So the next thing that Great Britain asks from the United States, the answer is no. I don't even care what it is. Just fuck off. Leave us alone. We're not going to forget that.

Well, the publication *The Hill* doesn't know what racism is. There's an article by Cheyenne Daniels and she was talking about Charlamagne was laughing at Lara Trump when Lara Trump said that President Trump has never said anything racist. And then the writer Cheyenne Daniels wants the reader to know several examples which prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Trump is racist and he said racist things.

So here are the things that *The Hill* allowed a writer to write were racist. Number one, she said despite his comments about the Central Park Five in the 80s. The Central Park Five. No race was ever mentioned, nor did he specifically mention the Central Park Five. He did a full-page ad saying that they're criminal animals or are preying on the population and maybe you should have the death penalty. Race wasn't even part of the conversation. This is completely made up. So you'd have to read his mind and imagine that he secretly was thinking race when he never mentioned it. He talked about behavior. The behavior in the city is terrible. Too many criminals. Maybe we should kill them. Behavior. That's the opposite of race. If you don't say anything about race and the story didn't have any racial element except that race was... people were different races, I guess. But he didn't even mention that. That was all made up after the fact that there was some racial part of it.

Then there's the birtherism conspiracy theory. What the hell does that have to do with race? Birtherism. He said the same thing about Canadians. The most common criticism in politics is that the politician you're running against is not a legal resident of wherever they are. So you see it a lot in more local politics. Like this person has a house here but I don't think they really live here. This person spent one month a year in the state but they're running for senator. It's the most common thing people say. Is it you were born somewhere else or your background doesn't make you capable to be president based on national origin?

Now I don't think it's true that Obama is not a citizen. In my opinion he's very much a citizen, very much an American. But it's not racist to question his birth certificate. Racism isn't even part of the conversation. Again, who's bringing in the race? It wasn't Trump. It would be the same complaint about anybody.

Then there's Trump's rhetoric regarding migrants. Is there some quote I should see? I'm not aware of any racist rhetoric about migrants. I am aware that Trump says there are too many criminals coming across. Are we so dumb that we think he meant every one of them? The babies? What was he blaming the babies coming across as being criminals? No. Obviously he didn't mean all of them. Obviously he didn't mean that there are more criminals in this racial group. But there might be more criminals who are being released from jails. I don't know if that's true or not. But that has nothing to do with the race. It would be whether or not they were in jail. So there's no evidence o

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f that. That's just something that happens on the fake news. And the last one is his recent embrace of a conspiracy theory about Haitian migrants eating people's pets. What is the racial component of that? If you replace them all with Americans or not Americans, let's say you replace them all with Irish people. But if you were under the impression that this specific little island and their specif…

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