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ndependent sort of associated territory you're going to bristle at the idea that there could ever be martial law imposed by effectively another country that you're working with. But I don't know that we could say no to that. I feel like if we're going to give security to them there it seems likely there would be cases where the military would have to put a boot on ordinary freedoms just temporaril…

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a Harris's house. That's what I call a bad year. Can you imagine losing the presidential race to Hitler and within a few months your house burns down? So she's out of a job. Her career is destroyed. Her husband was outed as a girlfriend beater and then her house gets burned down if it happens. I mean let me say as clearly as possible I don't want that to happen. I don't want that to happen. I don't want anybody's house to burn down. I don't care what they did to me or the bad things they did. I don't really want anybody's house to burn down except for the Black Lives Matter woman who has three mansions that look to be entirely based on you know. So she would be an exception. But no I don't want Kamala Harris's house to burn down. Just to be clear.

Wall Street Journal says the fire is 15% contained and you think oh good they went from 3% to 15%. We're in good shape. They'll just keep going. Nope. The wind is coming back and they should lose that whole 15 in the next day or two. That's the current forecast. The next week's going to be hairy. So we don't know how far this fire is going to go.

But let me teach you something about numbers. Yesterday I saw a report that one of the fires was 3% contained. Do you know what's not a thing? 3% contained. That's not a thing. Do you think that they can measure 3% containment? No. 3% is zero. But they want you to think that they're doing something so they go from zero to 3%. There's no difference. There's no difference between 3% contained and 0% contained. That's just something you say so the news will report it and people go oh well look they've gone from zero to three in just a week so it's picking up. No it's not picking up. 3% zero. Same number. Same number.

All right. Elon Musk. I saw a post but I didn't see the exact words and didn't write it down but it sounded like he said that in 2021 he Elon Musk has set out to destroy the woke mind virus and now he's declaring success. Do you think the woke mind virus is destroyed? I'm going to give him the win on that. I think he destroyed the woke mind virus. I don't think Trump did. I think he must. He said he would do it. He did all the things that you would do if you're trying to get rid of it and it does look like people can now talk about it being ridiculous. So you've got both Democrats, prominent Democrats at least in the pundit class as well as Republicans say yeah all that stuff the woke mind virus was overblown, overdone, ridiculous. It was it lacked common sense. Yes Elon Musk set out to destroy the woke mind virus and got it done. And boy did he take heat for that and still is. I mean the amount. I mean he had to have beefed up his personal security. I mean he took a chance on your behalf as well. And good for him. Good for him.

But just to make his day better there was a former in the UK a Labour MP so part of the government. So he's recently out of it but he was one of the people who publicly criticized Elon Musk on British TV last week for when Elon was criticizing Keir Starmer. And it was all about the all about the I don't want to say it because I'll get demonetized. You know you're all following the story. So this guy complained about the complaints about the serious crimes against young people and he the guy who complained about it or complained about the complaints about it just was arrested for attempting to have a meet up with a 15-year-old boy.

So you know that thing where you wonder are the governments of the developed worlds all terrible sex criminals and transvestites and in the closet and every other kind of thing you can think of? Is it really that and that they're all in place as puppets? It might be. You know what I heard from of course this is not confirmed that Justin Trudeau was never really the head of the country and that he literally thought of himself as a relationship manager and all of the real decisions were made by other people. So the other people are the ones who say yeah he doesn't really do anything. He's just a relationship manager. And they've also alleged and I don't know if this is true but they alleged that he also didn't really pay attention to the news and didn't know what was going on. So when you saw him talk you would say to yourself I did anyway you probably did too it's like does he even watch the news? Trudeau looked like somebody who wasn't even informed about anything. And then the politician says yeah he wasn't informed about anything because he didn't need to make any decisions. He was just supposed to go out there and say happy stuff. That's what it looked like.

Now that seems too much hyperbole to me. I think he must have had some real power. But what if he didn't? What if the entire system is just people behind the scenes makin

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g sure they have the most blackmailable person in the top job? Because it sure as hell looks like it. And that would make you understand why there was so much resistance to Trump because he's quite clearly not that. Whatever Trump is doesn't look like a puppet. But maybe that's what it is. It's all puppets. I had somebody come after me today who had pronouns in his profile. Instant block. I'm nev…

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