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y to make the decisions and that we would trust whatever Trump does to be America first. That's not a bad opinion. But Tucker Carlson and Steve Bannon and some other notable people, comic Dave Smith, are very much don't get militarily involved. Now I criticize them not because I disagree but because I think their opinions are incomplete. They need to tell us what they think it would look like if…
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But I look at WhatsApp's denial. And now you know what you're looking for. So they're not denying that there's a back door. Here's what they're denying. We don't track your precise location. May be true. But do they track anybody else's precise location? I believe they don't track mine, but they're not interested. Does that mean they couldn't if they wanted to? I don't know. It's kind of specific. We don't keep logs of who everyone is messaging. Well, we're not asking about everyone. We're asking if there's a back door that allows them to look at the things that they know they want to look at. That's not a log of what everyone is messaging. We do not track the personal messages people are sending one another. We don't track them. But do they read them? What does it mean to not track them? And we do not provide bulk information to any government. Well, it's not really about bulk information. It's about knowing if these specific generals are in a specific place. So I'm going to say that their denial is a little bit too specific. So the Iranians probably have a good argument for getting rid of that app.
Well, who knows how many other apps on their phone are tracking them. So it might be one of several apps that's tracking them. What are they going to do? Use Telegram or something?
In other news, the big thing that the Iranian military stuff has done is it makes us forget about Gaza. Do you remember when Gaza was all we talked about? And then time went by and we talked less about Gaza and I don't think there's that much news in Gaza. Well, there's probably news, but I don't think the news organizations have that much access to Gaza. Probably less than they've had. But there is some Reuters report that Israeli tanks killed 59 people in a Gaza crowd trying to get food and aid. Does that sound real? Do you believe that Israeli tanks killed 59 people in Gaza who are just trying to get food and aid? Does that sound real? I don't know. I don't trust it. But my larger point is that Gaza is now in the back burner which probably works to Israel's benefit. So they can do what they want with less criticism.
According to the Hill, Democrats have a little bit of optimism for the first time lately because their no kings event was so successful. Now, is that as funny to you as it is to me? The no kings event was literally trying to stop an imaginary thing from happening, which is Trump becoming a king. It's literally imaginary. It's not like he's ignoring the courts if the courts say you can't do that. I mean, he's as aggressive as he could possibly be. But as Trump has said, it's so hard to get anything done. It's hard to imagine him as a king. But that's enough to make the Democrats feel positive. They got that no kings thing working. That's all they got.
Well, also according to Reuters, Trump has now increased the number of active duty troop
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s on the US-Mexico border from 2,500 to 80,000? And the new thing that the Trump administration is doing at the border is they've got these military zones. So they have designated that this little sliver of land when you first come over our border are actually military zones and that allows the military to arrest people and detain them, not arrest them forever but detain them for the border patrol…
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