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a weird year and something happened that one time but you're not going to see that again, no. I think it's the opposite. I think that the Democrat Party is completely destroyed and there is no way to bring it back at the national level. Because if they get rid of identity politics they're done. If they keep identity politics they can continue but not as a competitive entity. So if they want to be…

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ng this but I thought I saw Jonathan Turley say that there's no obvious crime with the January 6 committee. They might have been liars. They may have not done their due diligence. They may have been unethical. They might have been immoral. They might have been bad in a whole range of ways, which is what I saw. They seemed like very, very bad people in terms of what they were doing to the country. But I couldn't identify anything that was specifically illegal. I'm no lawyer so I'm not the source for that. But I think Jonathan Turley said it'd be hard to find anything that was really a crime. And so I'm in favor of them getting pardoned. The reason I'd be in favor of a pardon for the January 6 committee is only if there's definitely no crimes. And because I don't want lawfare. But the next best thing to some kind of criminal action against them, if there is no crime, the next best thing is to give them a pardon. With Biden giving them a pardon. Because when somebody gives you a pardon everybody assumes you're guilty. Am I right? Everybody assumes you're guilty. So I'll take it. Yeah, give me the pardon. So if you're not sure you can find a crime with any of these January 6 committee people, let's give them the worst case scenario anyway: a pardon. And then the entire world can say, "Well why would you need a pardon?" And that would be a good question. Turns out the answer is simple. There were no identifiable crimes. But you never know if there'd be some lawfare. So yeah, I'm weirdly in favor of pardoning them if there's no obvious crimes. It might be somebody who knows of a crime.

All right. Here's a test of your fake news spotting. Mayor Eric Adams met with Tom Homan and I guess they were on the same page about the need to deport the dangerous illegal migrants. And Eric Adams later talked about it. He did a little press conference after. He said, quote, "We have 500,000 children who have sponsors in this country that we can't find." Now the implication is that half a million children are being trafficked basically. But it's not what he said. He just said there are half a million that you can't find.

Let me put that in context. And just for the dumb people, in case there are any NPCs here, nothing I say next is meant to condone trafficking of children. I only need to say that for the truly dumb people who may have slipped in here. The rest of you already know that. But here's some context. As citizens of the United States who were born and raised here, there are now about 73 million minors in the United States, people under 18. 73 million of them. At any given moment, how man

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y of them are not being supervised? Maybe 10 to 30 million. So yes, it's bad that there are half a million children that we don't know what's happening with them. That's bad. It could be very bad. It's also true that we have 73 million who are not watched that much. Do you know what your kids are doing on the phone? Do you know who they're texting? Do you know what they're doing after school for t…

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