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nd if you were to just remove letters from Brigitte, you would have it. And then you remove some letters from Macron and you'd have man. So it would be it man. Now, is that a weird coincidence that the entire topic is about whether or not she's a man and that both of their names have man right in their name? What are the odds of that? Anyway, so I'm going to bet against her having been born a man…

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rn a woman, but there's just tons of coincidental things that sort of suggest she wasn't. So I don't know what the truth is there, but I'd go 60 40 that the evidence is not conclusive, but we'll see. Maybe we'll know at some point.

Rasmussen did a poll on whether people trust the New York Times. What percent of likely US voters said they had quote a lot of trust in news coverage from the New York Times? What percent said they had a lot of trust in the New York Times? That's right. If I could see your comments, I would know that you're saying 25%. The answer is 23. But there is another 27 that have some trust. They've got a little bit some trust. So that's not good. That's as close as you can get to having nobody trust you is if a quarter of the people say they do. That is as close as these polls get to zero, which I've described to you in the past.

Well, let's do an update on the Democrats, the dumbest Democrats. And Beto O'Rourke is doubling down on the cursing cuz that's what they think is the problem. Not enough cursing. He said at an event, "Who cares about the effing rules right now? Throw some punches. Win some effing power." And everybody cheered. Now maybe the crowd is the problem because they shouldn't cheer for that. He just described a losing strategy. The losing strategy is to once again ignore policy and ignore the rules of decorum and throw some punches and fight harder and swear more. And everybody's like, yeah, yeah, that's not good advice. That's a terrible idea. That's not going to get you anything. And the things he focuses on are the fight and the winning of power. Shouldn't he be focusing on how he's going to help the people who have been ignored the middle class? Shouldn't he be telling us how he's going to decrease the national debt or keep us out of wars? None of that. No, just some vague fight and swear a lot. So that's a Democrat update.

Well, Hamas is trying to broker some kind of a deal before Israel does what it says it's going to do, which is a complete occupation of Gaza City and some other places. And they're going to destroy every last trace of Hamas before they turn over. Their plan is to turn over Gaza to a friendly Arab occupation. So Israel says they don't want to own Gaza. They want to just get rid of Hamas and then have it run by some Arab coalition maybe that doesn't like Hamas either. So Netanyahu says, our goal is not to occupy Gaza. Our goal is to free Gaza. That's a good reframe. The goal is to free Gaza. He says the goal is to fully root out Hamas

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everywhere before stabilizing the region and eventually handing leadership off to friendly Arab forces opposed to Hamas. Well, can you think of anything that would be a different plan from that that might work? I can't. You know, you don't have to be in favor of it or against it. You can simply say, what the hell else are they going to do? Like, what else would they do? I can't think of anything.…

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