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the UK. All right, how I'm going to go with this: Andrew Tate's running for prime minister. Anything else you need to know? But it gets better. Now, first of all, I do know that you don't run for prime minister. So before you jump in and say, Scott, you don't understand the system. They, you know, the prime minister is selected by the other elected people to be their leader, blah blah blah. I don…

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. I know you want to, but the government's preventing you. Now we're going to protect the country. We're going to keep out the bad elements, etc. Now, I'm assuming and get rid of the grooming gangs and stuff like that.

Now, what's interesting is that Tate allegedly has converted to Islam. So is it possible he would get some Muslim support as long as he's said some version of, you know, I'm Muslim too, but you guys are crazy. We're not going to make a caliphate. That's crazy. I'm going to prevent you from trying to form a caliphate. I'm going to prevent you from trying to create your own society within England. I'm going to stop it. And I'm one of you. I'm one of you, and I'm going to stop it. That'd be pretty strong, right? You know, Trump went from Democrat to Republican. Is it a stretch that Tate went to Islam and then he could control, not control, but he would be influential potentially with other Islamic citizens and with men? We already know he has a superpower because men kind of like his audacious. They like the whole act.

So here's the thing I'm going to warn you about. I wouldn't bet that he will become prominent in the UK political system. I would bet against it. I would bet against it. However, if you think it's crazy or you think he doesn't have the talent, you're wrong. He has the talent. He does have the talent. He has the talent to just hollow out their entire government and wear it like a suit like Trump did. Exactly like Trump did. So if you don't think there's a path, there's a path. There's a path. I would bet against it, but there's a path.

All right. The only defense that they could have against his persuasive abilities would be the legal system. Just put him in jail. And of course control of the media so the media never gives him any attention. So that might work. I don't know if it's enough. Didn't work in America.

Let's see. So Musk did a poll on X. He said you want a response to this: America should liberate the people of Britain from their tyrannical government. 58% of people said yes. I have no idea how serious he is about that. I don't think it's serious. I think he's just sort of making a point and trolling them a little bit. But now the UK prime minister, that Keir Starmer, who needs a name I can pronounce, I demand he change his name, is accusing Musk of spreading misinformation, blah blah blah. They're all mad.

And then other countries like France. So Macron in France is complaining that Musk is interfering with other countries. So what did Musk say when Macron said in public that Musk was interfering with other countries? Musk says, oh, like the time Starmer called real Donald Trump a racist and said the British government should do everything to stop him? That happened. Good point. Or how about when Starmer sent British Labour Party members to campaign in the US against President Trump? Was that interfering? And those aren't even the good ones. You want a good one? Have you heard of something called the Steele dossier where an ex-intelligence person from the UK came up with this whole fake thing? Yeah, an ex-intelligence person from the UK. There's no ex-intelligence people. That was just Great Britain interfering with the United States. That's what that was.

And then my funniest part was this. A British politician named Ed Davey, he went on X to speak his mind. He said, quote, "People have had enough of Elon Musk interfering with our country's democracy when he clearly knows nothing about Britain. It's time to summon the US ambassador to ask why an incoming US official is suggesting the UK government should be overthrown." So there's nothing funnier than a person saying that Elon Musk doesn't understand their complicated situation because, you know, that's not been his domain. To which I say, really? Elon Musk doesn't understand a complicated thing and doesn't have the ability to get up to speed really quickly? Because I mean, how could he? Come on, listen to Jordan Peterson's book. I probably won't.

All right, so nothing's funnier than telling Elon Musk he can't handle a complicated situation. And Elon said in response, said, what exactly do I fail to understand about your failure to stop the mass rape of little girls in Britain, you sniveling cretin? Okay, that covers it. No, nothing else to say. But the audacity of the sniveling cretin Ed Davey to imagine that his world is the complicated kind that somebody like Elon Musk could possibly not understand. Like, oh, well, we don't understand the complications of why you're allowing these horrific crimes. Yeah, maybe he doesn't know the nuance. I swear every time somebody says that Elon Musk is dumb or doesn't understand something, I just shake my head. It's like, have you watched anything he's done for the last 30 years? Anyway, it's literally all he does. The reason he's world famous is he enters domains in which he knows nothing about and almost immediately is the best one in the domain. Like that's literally what he does.

All right. And Keir Starmer said he's considering cutting ties with the US unless Donald Trump distances himself from Elon Musk. To which I say it's about time. Yeah, why don't we cut our diplomatic ties? I'm totally okay with that. I think if the UK is really threatening free speech in America, and Elon is in America and he has free speech, if they're going to attack the United States because of free speech of anybody, doesn't matter if he's part of the government, elected, not elected, advisor, citizen, recent citizen, it doesn't matter. He gets to say anything he wants within certain decency standards. So now if Great Britain is trying to squelch the free speech of anybody in America, we should cut ties. We've done it before. Yeah, we should cut ties.

Then of course Musk has been advocating, I think, for what they call the far-right alternative party in Germany, the AfD. Now, the part of the story you need to understand is that when Musk says the quote far-right party in Germany is the one that would do a better job, it's not far-right. So that's just something the news says. If you looked at their policies, it would sort of look like MAGA. That's my understanding. Now, unlike Elon, I don't know a lot about Germany, so I'm not going to pretend to. But I don't think it's true that there's some kind of extremist group. I do think maybe they ha

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d something in their past like that. But remember, the Democrats have the KKK in their past. But if you hold it against them today, that would be just stupid. And I see people doing it, and I just always bristle when I see that. It's like that was a long time ago. If they're not currently supporting the KKK and they couldn't be further from it, then it doesn't really matter what they did in the pa…

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