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od for some people and bad for others. Well, the Ukraine negotiations, the meeting looks like it's going to be on Friday in Alaska and Trump is wisely making sure that his administration is talking to the Europeans because they were fearing being sidelined and left out of the deal and also talking to Zelenskyy and trying to make sure that they're somewhat on the same page. Now, I do agree that Tr…

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d at least one pumping station were attacked by Ukrainian drones. Now, do you think that Trump has already sort of approved or authorized or said it's okay with me if Ukraine takes out Russia's energy production capacity? Because I feel like that's going to happen. I feel like Trump is going to say to Putin, here's the deal. The only reason Ukraine hasn't taken out your entire energy infrastructure is because some of our allies need the energy. But we're kind of done with that. And if you don't give me a deal, I'm going to say, look, Ukraine, we'll sell you weapons. And if you want to take out all of Russia's energy production, that's up to you. That's between you guys. And that would scare Putin. I think it would. So could be it's not a coincidence that those energy production things got hit right before the Friday conversation. Damn it. Don't use that word.

Well, the National Guard is now deployed in the Washington DC area. 100 guard members and 500 federal agents. And we'll see how that goes. MSNBC, of course, is still reporting the hoax crime numbers. MSNBC doesn't seem to want to admit or tell its viewers that the crime numbers are just complete because all they have to do is recategorize things and reclassify things and suddenly it looks like crime is going down when it's not. But even Joe Scarborough is not buying into the Democrat messaging this time. So good for him. And he read aloud a text he got from a quote very liberal person which is I guess if you're on MSNBC and you're disagreeing with the network's narrative that you don't say that you disagree you read a text from somebody who is very liberal. Well this is not my opinion but I'm going to read this text from some person you don't know. And the text apparently said from this very liberal person, quote, "This may sound controversial, but I'm not totally opposed to Trump's National Guard move in DC. I know he's doing it for politics, but crime remains rampant." And the stranger said, the highly liberal stranger said to Joe Scarborough by text, "I've had too many friends carjacked, shot at. None of us will walk more than three blocks after 8:00 p.m. 13 year olds are committing many of these crimes. It's quite a change from a decade ago when things were much calmer."

And so Scarborough was talking to Symone Sanders who used to be Bernie's head of his campaign and then worked for Biden. And Scarborough says to Symone, "You don't think more police make streets safer?" Now that's not a real question, right? Because 100% of the world knows that more police makes your streets safer. It's not really something you debate, right? So Scarborough puts that out there. You don't think more police make streets safer? Symone Sanders says, "No, I'm a black woman in America." So is that an answer to the question? You don't think more police make streets safer? No. I'm a black woman in America. Okay. I have nothing to say about that.

But then one of their other regular guests, the guy who looks like he has the flaming hair. Do you know the guy who's got the gray hair that he's teased so it looks like a gray flame on top of his head? Anyway, Anand Giridharadas. And he said on MSNBC, quote, "When I go to DC, I'm not afraid of losing my wallet so much as I'm afraid of losing my vote." He goes on, "I'm not afraid of losing my wallet so much as I'm afraid that my children's freedom to breathe will be stolen in a world where climate change policy is non-existent." Is everybody on MSNBC dumb? Because they're making Joe Scarborough look like the smartest guy in America just because he's not buying into the crazy part of this narrative.

And then Jamie Raskin was asked about it, about the new emphasis on DC crime, and he says that Raskin says Trump wants to put the National Guard in the streets of DC because of quote graffiti and homeless people. So Jamie Raskin, one of the designated liars, I always tell you that there's a small group of people like Swalwell and Raskin whose only job is to say the things that other Democrats would be embarrassed to say because it's just so obviously ridiculous. No, I don't think Trump brought in the National Guard to work on the graffiti or the homeless people. And then Raskin says that Trump knows DC crime well because he quote incited a violent mass insurrection in DC. So he goes back to January 6.

Now Raskin will be one of the 10 poll protectors. Now as you know, everybody watching this knows January 6 was a hoax and a coup attempt by the Democrats. And what it was is they probably stole the election. Now my belief that 2020 was a stolen election is based on the way they treat the January 6 because they have such a pattern of projection, which is blaming the Republicans for the thing that they're actively doing right then that you can use it to predict. So I don't have any direct evidence that the 2020 election was stolen. I don't have direct evidence, but I do see that they're blaming the Republicans for trying to do an insurrection when clearly that wasn't happening. So why would they be projecting that? Because they're doing it. So their projection about January 6 is for me as a let's say as a jaded observer of politics to me that's confirmation that they it wouldn't even occur to them to blame the Republicans of an insurrection unless they had just pulled one off and it looks like they had. So my opinion is that the longer they go with this January 6 hoax, the more certain I am that they have something to cover up and that they're using projection as the

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y always do as part of the cover up. Well, how do you know that it's summer? Well, one way is that one of the most interesting stories is about the new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. I'm hoping that when the summer is over and the news becomes more meaty that I will no longer be talking about the new person at the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But apparently this new guy E.J. A…

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