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e real world say, yeah, well, unless it was impossible to get ordinary work done without bending a rule or two, which is a universal truth. Jonathan Turley was talking about Daniel Goldman, Representative Goldman, and he says that Goldman claimed that the FBI investigating attacks on Tesla and its facilities is nothing but lawfare and political weaponization. So Goldman thinks that investigating…

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would agree with that. I don't think you want to trivialize terrorism and just start calling everything terrorism. You don't want to do that. But let's see if this Tesla stuff fits the definition without stretching it. So Turley points out that the Justice Department defines domestic terrorism as quote "violent criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature." And that's perfectly captures what's happening to Tesla. So yes, you don't have to hurt people to be a terrorist if you're destroying economic assets and you're also doing it in the pursuit of political gain. That's also terrorism because money is important to people. You know, it's not just physical pain and death and injury. It's destroying economics because that's its own problem anyway.

To me it seems like probably the funniest thing that will happen this year is the Trump administration without even trying getting prominent Democrats to support domestic terrorism. How would you like to be running for president in the next election? Can you imagine JD Vance running against one of these clowns who is not disowning the terrorism? Imagine if he ran against Goldman. Well, Dan, it seems to me that you've been supporting domestic terrorism in this country, and I think the voters should know that if they vote for you they're voting for a domestic terrorist according to the definition of those terms. It feels like it'd be the easiest thing in the world to beat almost any prominent Democrat at this point. They've literally supported terrorism. I think Ramaswamy and maybe one other person have said, you know, right up front and right loudly, and I respect that, yeah, that the violence, that's just got to end. You know, the Tesla stuff, nope, don't do that. That's bad. So but only a few—like is it even more than two at this point in the entire Democrat Party? Was it just two people who were willing to say that domestic terrorism is a bad idea? And the problem is that the Democrats have unleashed domestic terrorism a number of times. You know, if you count Antifa and Black Lives Matter and now this, it's definitely a pattern anyway.

If you haven't seen Ezra Klein on Gavin Newsom's podcast, I highly recommend it because Ezra's book "Abundance" with Derek Thompson, I guess, is getting a lot of attention. And you know, my first take on it when I just had AI summarize it for me was, wait a minute, all they're doing is promoting Republican policy, you know, such as don't waste the money, build things, build things in this country, you know, be practical, get some actual wins, you know, ordinary stuff. And so I wasn't that impressed with it because it just seemed to be telling Democrats to be Republicans, which was funny in its own way. But the more I hear him, because I've listened, he's very interesting. So the more I've listened to him on various podcasts, he's going hard at the Democrats. He's not taking prisoners, and it's exactly what they needed. So if you're asking yourself what's the solution, I don't know if it's this, but it's something like this.

And so he sat with Gavin Newsom, and I'll just give you the top-level summary. It's just worth watching. And he starts describing how De

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mocrats operate, which is getting large funding for things and then building nothing. And he's just making Newsom squirm. And then Newsom has to talk. But one of the things that Newsom does, because he's clever but weaselly at the same time, Newsom will agree with whatever your criticism is, but then he's got lots of reasons why, you know, it's not as bad as you think or everything will be fine. O…

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