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the president is a wannabe dictator. Now does that ring true? Is that what they needed? They got two books telling them exactly what they need. What they need is good leaders, not mentally incapable ones, and good policies. What does Tim Walz say? We need to be meaner. That's the worst advice I've ever heard. We need to be meaner because he's going to be a dictator. Oh my God, they're so lost. In…

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d I was looking at the beard and I thought, well, it's not the best beard, but it's sort of manly. It's sort of JD Vance-like. Maybe that's all it was. Maybe he just needed a beard, ironically.

Joy Reid announced that she's launching her own TV show on YouTube. And why is she putting her own show on YouTube? Well, in her words, people want trusted voices. Is she a trusted voice? Joy Reid. I wonder if she actually thinks that about herself or is that just something she says because it sounds good. I don't know.

The ex-White House spokesperson Jen Psaki, her show on MSNBC is tanking in the ratings. So I guess that just went right to hell. Ratings have plunged according to *Headline USA* to humiliating new lows. And she's bleeding viewers just one week after moving to the coveted p.m. slot formerly held by Rachel Maddow. So MSNBC is falling apart.

How many of you saw the video today of Cory Booker doing exactly the same salute that Elon Musk was accused of doing as a Nazi? So I won't do the whole salute, but it's where he touches his heart and then he extends his hand. And we went through weeks and weeks of well obviously that's a Nazi salute. And then Cory Booker does it and Matt Walsh gave us a list on X of all the entities that did not cover it as news.

Now, don't you think that'd be news if Cory Booker did a Nazi salute identical to the one that they're sure was a Nazi salute from Elon Musk? Because they're sure it's a Nazi salute. They're not doubting that at all. So here are the entities that did not talk about it: *New York Times*, CNN, *Washington Post*, MSNBC, NPR, *USA Today*, Reuters, Axios, ABC News. And every one of those made a pretty big deal about it when it was Elon Musk.

I'll tell you, if you ever believed that Elon Musk gave a Nazi salute, you're an idiot. You're just an idiot. There's no way that any smart person could believe that that happened in the real world.

Summer vacation time, and apparently the US is getting fewer tourists from Canada, UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands. To which I say, I wonder if that means that the hotels will be empty or will people just be coming from other places. I also wonder how long that's going to last because that feels like sort of a one-year situation, doesn't it? It doesn't feel like Canada will now permanently not travel to the United States. I think it's just the headlines, and as soon as we get some kind of tariff thing worked out, it'll be back to where it was.

The CEO of AI company Anthropic warns that AI could wipe out half of white-collar jobs, entry-level white-collar jobs, in five years. *The Post Millennial* is talking about this, and he says that most of them are unaware this is about to happen. But isn't the real question how many jobs AI will create? Is there really nobody who's creating jobs with AI? Nowhere.

I get that programmers are more efficient and blah blah blah, but it seems to me that if you took an ordinary person who has a certain set of skills and then you gave them AI, couldn't they just immediately jump into jobs that they were otherwise not capable of doing? There must be something that creates jobs whe

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re there were no jobs. So I don't know the answer to that, but I think that's our only hope, is that it creates more jobs than it takes. Tulsi Gabbard was on Fox, head of the DNI, and she said that China has made it very clear that they don't want war. And you know, we've made it clear we don't want war. Now, I definitely believe that about China because the only thing that could just totally des…

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