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tire Republican concept of common sense or you have to stay against common sense. There's only two paths. How in the world do they come back from that? Well I guess they have the media to keep them in business. Well let's look at the designated liars on the Democrat side. You know the designated liars are Adam Schiff, Jamie Raskin, Swalwell, and Elizabeth Warren, and some more. Now what's differe…

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if that's a legitimate fear that people are afraid about the rise of Islam I guess in the United States. I would say that I'm afraid of that because the Islamic system is such that it's built to dominate and usually there's a very clear plan to get more people, have more babies, carve out your own little area where you say, "Oh you know we'll be a little Muslim area." Next thing you know they're going to be pressing for Sharia law and then after that trying to take over the country. So yes, I don't know if I'm Islamophobic. I can say the usual things like obviously it doesn't apply to most Islamic people. There are good people and bad people in every group, blah blah blah. But yes, I'm completely concerned that it's an incompatible system with our current system, but it's also a hungry system that looks to eat the other systems.

But here's what Ilhan Omar said. Our country should be, here's the should, our country should be more fearful of white men. If fear is the driving force, we should be monitoring, profiling, and creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men. Okay. Now is that a Democrat lying or is that spinning and leaving out context? It's more of a spinning, leaving out context. But I can tell you that most of us would be cancelled forever if we had ever said anything like that. But somehow she gets to say that in public and it goes on like nothing happened. Amazingly.

Well as you know every time Trump tries to do something there's some kind of federal court that tries to block it and then it gets raised to a higher court and sometimes Trump wins. Well one of those things was Trump trying to fire the staff of the Voice of America people and then there was a judge that says you can't do that and now there's a DC court who struck down the first judge and says yes you can. So the Gateway Pundit is writing about this. So apparently it's a big win. So Trump does get to say who works in the Voice of America and he would like that to be nobody. So we'll see if this extends to other topics. I'm not sure it does.

Bret Baier was talking to JD Vance and he was asking about the Trump 2028 and whether or not Trump really wants to run for a third term. And here's JD Vance's answer to that. He said yeah with a big smile, he goes, "I'll let the president speak to his political future. One thing I'll say about the president of the United States, he loves to have a good time with the American media." Now I think that's your answer, right? Your answer is he doesn't want to speak for the president but he wants you to know that the president likes to have some fun with the media. So the Trump 2028 thing, I think maybe he's testing the waters to see if there was some legal way to do it but I don't really think he plans to run again in 2028.

At the same time you probably saw the meme that Trump put out of himself looking like the Pope and Bill Kristol is trying to turn this into some kind of news. He said that the Pope meme is disrespectful to Catholics. And he asked JD Vance on X if he thought the Pope meme was disrespectful to Catholics. And JD Vance responded on X. Well here's exactly what Bill Kristol said. He said, "JD Vance, are you fine with this disrespect and mocking of the Holy Father?" Vance replies on X, "As a general rule I'm fine with people telling jokes and not fine with people starting stupid wars that kill thousands of my countrymen." Because that's a direct attack on Bill Kristol who likes his wars. So that's a perfect answer. As you're trying to decide if JD Vance will be the 2028 Trump follow-up, these are just perfect answers that he likes jokes and he doesn't like war. Perfect.

Well here's another lie from the Democrats. I saw this in a post by John McCloy. So over on MSNBC the former Senator Doug Jones was claiming that when Trump did his commencement address at Alabama that he wasn't invited. He said he wasn't invited to Alabama to give a commencement address. And they had to open the event to the general public because they couldn't get anyone else to come in. In other words the college didn't have enough people interested to go so they had to open it to the public just to sort of fill the space. None of that was true. They did invite him and the place was packed to the gills and it was a closed ticketed event so it was not available to the general public. So every part of that was just completely made up. And does Carville even notice that? Probably not. Probably not.

Well here's another least surprising story of all times. Have you noticed that the New York Times likes to do these deep dives on stories to discover something that you and I have known for years and then they make it look like they've done some great investigative work and you and I sit here and go, we all knew that for years. Here's another one. So a big investigation by the New York Times and they've revealed that Washington and Kiev have operated what amounts to a shadow military alliance. So the New York Times is just finding out that the US built 12 covert CIA bases inside Ukraine, trained elite units for years, elite Ukrainian units, and had a constant stream of battlefield intelligence to help Ukraine strike Russian targets. Now how many of you didn't know that? Is there even one person here who didn't know that the US was sort of low-key using the CIA to help Ukraine as much as possible? And obviously we were on the ground. And obviously there had to be facilities for all those CIA people. And obviously we were going to train them. If only for using our weapons we'd have to train them. So isn't it weird that the New York Times does these big deep dives and they say, "Oh this might surprise you but guess what? The United States has been deeply involved in this war on a very practical level since the beginning." And we all say, "I think we all knew that just because it's obvious, worst kept secret."

Well you might know that Putin had asked for a three-day ceasefire because Putin's got this big Victory Day celebration that they're doing in Russia, victory day over Hitler, and they're going to have foreign dignitaries will be there etc. So he wanted to make sure that Ukraine didn't use that opportunity to attack the event because people would be exposed and it would be terrible if they attacked it. And Zelensky has basically said it's fair game. Zelensky just said directly it's fair game. You know we're at war. We can attack anything we want. Now on one hand I kind of agree with that. If you're at war you can attack whatever you need to attack, but it seems like it would be the worst idea in the world to attack this Victory Day thing because it would just make Putin more angry. And nothing good could come from that. But it doesn't sound like Zelensky wants peace. If you wanted peace you would at least say, "All right we'll give you the three days but we'd rather have a permanent ceasefire." You don't say, "We might attack your Victory Day parade." This is very clearly not working toward peace.

Speaking of not working toward peace, the Times of Israel is reporting that the Houthis sent some ballistic missile toward Israel and it blew up near Ben Gurion airport. Didn't kill anybody or hurt anybody but Israel is wondering why they didn't shoot it down. So they've got their missile defense systems and it was only one missile and it apparently got through the defenses. So they're going to have to figure out what's up with that. But does it seem to you like the entire point of the Houthis is to either create a bigger war? Well just that, to create a bigger war. I feel like that's all they're doing is trying to create a bigger war.

Meanwhile over in the UK, I saw the Amuse account writing about this. The UK has found what they think are eight terror suspects that are Iranian that were in their country accused of planning massive terror attacks against British citizens. Now do you think that would have been a good play from Iran to do a massive terror attack in the UK? I don't know. It seems like tha

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t would be a weird play while they're talking about a peace deal. Or unless it's just in case things went bad or something. But doesn't it make you wonder how many Iranian terrorists are already in the United States. If there were eight of them in the UK and they were looking to do some big terror thing, there might be dozens of them, if not hundreds, in the United States because we haven't had bo…

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