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ng to the Daily Mail, the Trump administration is thinking of a visa integrity fee. So the people who travel to the US and are required to have a visa would have to pay an extra 250 above what they already pay. So it'd be $442 just to be allowed to come in the United States to visit. To which I say, "Yeah, it's about time we had a cover fee." And I also would recommend a two drink minimum. If you'…

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se free speech is a mighty, mighty powerful thing in this country. We will fight for it. But in Britain, according to GB News, one of their comedians got arrested at gunpoint when he came into Heathrow, Graham Linehan. So I guess he created something called Father Ted, which they would know in England, but we wouldn't know here. And he did some posts in the past, I don't know how long ago, but he this is what they arrested him for. And he called trans women violent and he mocked a protest photo with trans people in it and he said, "I hate them." And that was enough for him to be arrested at gunpoint entering the country. Now compare California and the United States where the judge said, "Get out of here. You'd ruin the joke." Yeah, the trouble is if you try to ban anything along these lines, you get this. So Great Britain is giving us the clearest lesson on why you shouldn't be that way. I mean, this is the clearest. It removes all doubt about which is the better system. There's no ambiguity about this.

And by the way, let me make this personal. You might know that I've said some things that other people have interpreted as being over the line. Now, I didn't actually ever say anything that was over the line, but I was widely cancelled for other people's opinion of what my opinion was. Is that fair? Those of you who have been following my story, am I characterizing that well? I didn't get cancelled for my opinion. In fact, I've never found anybody who disagreed with me yet. Never. Nobody. Not even one person. But I've had lots of people who believe I was saying or thinking something I wasn't saying and thinking, and they were mad about that thing that they imagined I did. And they were so unified in their belief that this thing that didn't happen did happen that I was cancelled worldwide. Lost my entire reputation and business. Now, what would happen if I pull into Heathrow and they look at my history and then they believe what other people believed about it. Would they say, "Aha, this horrible speech monster is coming into our country. We're going to have to arrest him." And would they have grounds? You know, this is not hypothetical. This is like a genuine real world problem. So what would I do? You know what would be my smartest move if I don't know I would be arrested for someone else's opinion of what my opinion was that wasn't my opinion. I could go to jail for that. It looks like now I would love it if somebody said that's not true because of this reason or that reason. It wouldn't apply to you. But I'll tell you, I wouldn't ever go there. As long as there's a comedian who got arrested for something he said on social media, I don't care what that was. You know what I mean? It doesn't really matter what that was. That's enough for me to say, I'

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m never going near that place. There must be something that somebody could misinterpret as being over the line. I would never go into a system that was designed that way. It's just not safe. So that's the end of Great Britain or the UK or whatever they want to call themselves. That whole England, UK, Great Britain thing, it's like way too complicated. Could you make that easier? Well, meanwhile i…

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