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or years waiting for your asylum hearing. And then once the asylum hearing happens, you probably in at least in the old days, you could have snuck away and stayed in the country anyway. So that's what he's arguing for. So the best the Democrats have, and he's one of their smarter people, the best they have is arguing against process again, except that the process was completely corrupted. So they…

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don't think that we should have billionaires. And then he talked about fairness. If some people are billionaires, that's obviously a sign of an unfair system. Now, do you remember what I always say about fairness? I've been saying this for years. Fairness is a concept that was invented so that idiots and children have something to talk about. Smart people don't really start with fairness as their standard. And the reason is nobody agrees what fair is. If you could get two people to agree what fair looks like, well, maybe you could use that as your standard, but not really. In the real world, we don't agree. Do you think it's fair that somebody could work hard and make more money and then it could be taken away and given to somebody who didn't work hard and didn't make much money? Is that fair? Well, depends who you ask. So there's no universal standard of fairness. If there were, well, then maybe I would say, "Yeah, go ahead and use that under some circumstance." But if nobody can even agree what fairness looks like, you can't use that as a standard. That just allows you to do anything you want and just say, "Well, I've decided this is what fair looks like."

So he wants to tax wealthier people more. Specifically, he said tax the wealthier neighborhoods more. And now he wants to get rid of billionaires. So billionaire Bill Ackman was not too happy about that.

And now the other thing that I noticed today is I saw more anti-Muslim commentary on X than I have ever seen before. I think today was the high limit of it. Now, I'm not going to say that the commentary was unfair because it talked about, for example, the practices of the Iraqi Muslim population. And I won't repeat some of the things that were claimed as being standard operating procedure for that group of people because it's too horrible. And I don't know how much is real and how much is certain people but not everybody. I don't know any of that. But I will tell you that probably because of Mamdani and maybe because of the Israel-Iran conflict, I'm seeing people who would never have said these things out loud just going right at the Muslim culture problem.

Now my take on it is not that I'm judging anybody as being good or bad because who am I to judge anything but it's easy to say that the systems are not compatible. You can't just take a bunch of hardened Sharia law Muslims and drop them in the community with your non-Muslims. It wouldn't matter what else they were if they were just anything else. It's never going to work. So while obviously there are tons of Muslim citizens in this country who don't have any radical thoughts, they're not breaking any laws or not offending you in any way and they're completely part of the American experience. But we can all agree that the hardcore Muslim version just will never be compatible with the American cultural experience. So unless the Muslims are the ones who are conforming so that they can fit into the current system, the system would have to change if you got enough people who demanded that change. So it does seem like there is more anti-Muslim content than I've ever seen before, but I'm not going to judge that. It could be because this is the time to talk about it.

Well, there's a story that the Mexican cartel hired a hacker, I guess one of their own hackers, to hack into the phone of an FBI assistant legal attaché who was at a US embassy and he broke into the phone remotely. So I think the only way you can do that is by sending somebody a file that they click on and it can take over their phone. So that's probably what happened. But they got into the phone and then they found the names of informants. But of course the informants are who the cartel wants to kill. So they found the name of the informants. But then, and this is the impressive part, the same hacker hacked into the public camera system in Mexico so they could track where the guy who owned the phone, they could track him in public. So it was just like a TV sho

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w. So they got into his phone and they knew who he was looking for, you know, who his informants were. And then they could see him actually on the street and who he met with. And that allowed them the confirmation to go out and kill the informant. I don't know if they successfully killed any, but that was a risk. That's one of those stories I read about a serial killer who got away with it for dec…

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