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Or why would they think that that was a good day to delete it? Unless they thought the trans thing would come out and they already knew more than the FBI knew. So I would say that's pretty suspicious. So we'll find out. Like most of you, I think it's nearly impossible to imagine that at least the romantic partner trans of the shooter, at least the romantic partner knew the plan. Don't you think?…

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in Utah, a man named Adib Nasir has been arrested and charged with weapons of mass destruction. So apparently he was in possession of weapons of mass destruction. Now, since I assume he did not build a nuclear bomb, what would be the weapon of mass destruction? Poison, right? Some kind of chemical. So there's some bastard in Utah that had probably the chemicals to take out a city. Well, they got him. And my question is when I see a story like this, how many things does the FBI stop? You know, the only thing I can understand why there haven't been gigantic waves of terrorist attacks like once a week in the United States. The only thing I can figure, the only way that makes sense given that we know how many people have the capability and the desire to blow things up in the US, the fact that it doesn't happen almost every day suggests that the FBI or some intelligence agency has so much control over communication in this country that they catch every one of them. Is that possible? Are we catching every one of them? Because if they talk about these things, we've got some kind of program that sniffs every single communication and says, "Well, that's a little sketchy. Let me tell the FBI about that." I can't think of any other reason that we would have relatively so little terrorism on the homeland because we're stopping it before it happens. How are we doing that? Like, how do you get them all? There's no other crime in which we catch everybody, you know. So it's got to be some kind of massive surveillance that catches every mention of explosives or weapons of mass destruction.

So the other possibility, the only other way I can explain it is that it's fake to imagine that there's a terrorist risk and that they're so rare that if you did absolutely nothing to try to stop them, you'd have about the same number. Is that possible? You know, you'd only have a big one every 24 years or something. Maybe that's just the rate that would be the most and the least. It could be that there's nothing that really changes that. I don't know.

Well, here's some math to blow your mind. Owen Gregorian did a little math and did you know that Turning Point USA, so that was Charlie Kirk's organization, had around 2,100 chapters and that represented about a quarter million students that were associated with Turning Point USA. That's a lot. Quarter million, 2,100 chapters. Does that seem like a lot? 2,100 chapters. Well, it's not a lot because apparently since the assassination there have been 32,000 requests for new chapters. From 2,100 to 32,000 requests for information about becoming a chapter. 2,100 to 32,000. Now, that's the kirking that we're all feeling. There is an amount of energy being released that we don't fully appreciate yet. And so Owen does some math and he says based on the previous numbers, if 2,100 gets you a quarter million students, then if you went to 32,000, you'd end up with something like 4 million members. Well, what if that happens? What if Turning Point USA ends up with 4 million young people? That changes just about everything.

So again, if you think you understand the impact of Charlie Kirk, you have to give him some amount of credit for Make America Healthy Again, right? And you'd have to give him credit for the Turning Point organization both before and after his death. These are enormous, just enormous contributions to the body politic.

Trump is according to Newsmax adjusting his stance on what kind of workers to let in the country. And you remember the story about the South Korean battery factory in Georgia that it was discovered that most of the employees were from South Korea. So the whole reason that we ask other countries to build things in our country is so that the jobs go to Americans. But they beat the system by building in the US to get all the benefits of doing that. And then they shipped in employees from South Korea because there really weren't that many people who would know how to work in a battery factory in the US. So they probably didn't have the option of hiring locally anyway. So they just had to do what they had to do. But so I believe that they decided to pack up their factory and go back to South Korea. I heard that. I'm not positive. But Trump is now saying that well maybe we should let skilled people come in for a situation like this. But they would have to do it temporarily until they had trained up enough Americans to do the jobs that you know maybe the trained people from another country started out in. To which I don't know how practical that is. If you were a trained person from another country and they said, "Hey, we want you to relocate to the United States but only for three years because your job is to train Americans to take your job." I don't know. Is anybody going to take that job? Maybe if you pay him enough.

There's a post by Joel Pollak that Netanyahu did a joint presser with Rubio and this is an interesting quote from Netanyahu. He said weak governments are putting pressure on us, Israel, because they are collapsing under the pressure of Islamist minorities. That European countries are collapsing under the pressure of Islamist minorities. Well, it sounds like we're naming the problem now. But on the plus side, if you want to look on the positive side. On the positive side, there's no real risk that Russia will want to conquer Europe if Europe becomes Islamic because there's no way that Putin wants more of that business. So at some point there's going to have to be some reckoning with the fact that we can't combine. Oh, we'll see if I get cancelled forever for saying this. I like Islamic people. I like Muslims as long as they're peaceful and they're part of the program. But there's no way that the system that comes necessarily with large Islamic populations, there's no way that the system and the beliefs and the preferences can be assimilated into the United States kind of a constitutional free everything. You can't really combine them. And we're not taking that seriously because we're locked into the model that hey people are people. Yeah, people are people but systems are not systems. So if the only thing that was happening is hey just some different

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people. You know why would you discriminate against Muslims when everybody else is coming in? You got your Hispanics, you got your Africans, you got your Asians coming in. You know, why would you discriminate against one group? The answer is you're not discriminating against the people. That would be not really the American way. But we could absolutely discriminate against the system if the system…

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