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f war I almost wasn't going to talk about it because I don't think anything's happening. You know, I believe Trump announced that they had something like a verbal agreement or something for TikTok, meaning that some US billionaire would buy it and take it away from China. But the things I'm hearing, and I would say you should believe none of these things yet. So one of the things we're hearing i…

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believe anything about TikTok yet.

Speaking of Elon Musk, he also noted on X that he was boosting somebody else's post who said that the left, the political left has no debate person like Charlie Kirk. So there's nobody on the left doing what Charlie did, which is go to lots of places and say, "All right, ask me anything. You know, debate me. I'll do it right in public."

But I'm not sure that's a criticism of the left. That's more of a compliment to Charlie because it's not like there were no other Republicans doing it, were there?

So I would say he was kind of a one-off. I wouldn't go team play on this one, you know. We'll watch. Do you think that the political right will find a way to replace that function? Maybe, but I don't think it'll be as good. So we'll see. Maybe a few people will try it just to see how it goes.

Would you like a little more Schadenfreude? That feeling you get when bad things happen to people you want them to happen to.

All right. All right. I got one.

According to Newsmax, a drag queen teacher. Now, I assume that that means that the person is both a teacher and sometimes a drag queen. I don't believe that it's a drag queen teacher, even though that's what it says. A school district teacher in Idaho ended up resigning because of some Charlie Kirk comments.

So what did that teacher say? Posted about Charlie Kirk who said quote "another Nazi dead rotten piss Charlie Kirk." Yeah, that should probably cost you your job. You know, the hate speech stuff.

I think people are all wound up and confused and pretzel logic and all that stuff, but there's no such thing as free speech that embarrasses your employer and the employer can't do anything about it. You know, the employer can fire you. That's not a violation of free speech. That's a consequence.

So how many of you saw my appearance on Tucker's live show yesterday, last night? So Megyn Kelly and a religious person I'm not familiar with.

Let me tell you the first thing that shocked me. Tucker did not remember that he had interviewed me once. Now it was a digital interview, so it was over a video and he's done 10 million interviews, so there's no reason he would have remembered it.

But would you like to hear what I said on that show that people responded to? Say yes.

Anyway, here are some of the points I made. So you all know what TDS is, Trump derangement syndrome. But typically the best way to use that word is referring to one person. Oh, that person has TDS.

Now obviously more than one person could have TDS at the same time. But if you get enough of them, I call that a mass hysteria. So individually it looks like they have TDS and that's probably a fair characterization but collectively it becomes much more powerful than the individuals because the individuals in a mass hysteria are reinforcing each other and coming up with new BS that the others believe and it just gets worse and worse.

So I was pointing out that when I first started talking about politics in the early, well 2016ish 2015, that it was always true that Republicans had been accused of being Hitler. So both of the Bushes, President Bush, Reagan was called Hitler.

However, it was very different back then, I believe, because I don't think that anybody meant that seriously or literally. I believe that everybody on both sides understood it as political exaggeration. Would you agree with that? That it was never a good idea to call somebody Hitler, but nobody really took it to mean you should murder this person because they're like Hitler. We took it as, you know, we want to vote for the other guy. That's all.

So the thing that changed is that the media went from reporting the news to full-time propaganda 24 hours a day. So that every time you turned on CNN or MSNBC, you saw one of their people well-dressed, a professional, somebody that normally you'd be able to trust, telling you that Trump was literally Hitler and literally a Nazi, and all this other stuff.

Now, the difference between some protesters calling somebody Hitler, which nobody takes seriously, versus the well-dressed people in the media saying it not just a few times but over and over again. All you need for brainwashing is credible people, you know, the well-dressed people on TV, and repetition. There's nothing else you need. That is 100% of brainwashing. Repetition and coming from people that you would mistake for credible because they look like they should be.

So we now have a mass hysteria which I think we all observe.

And I also pointed out that although I believe the violence comes from both directions, arguing about that doesn't make any sense. But there is something that's unique about the Democrat side that they've created what I call a machine, the 24-hour news that's connected to the Democrats. They act as one machine with one set of messaging. The machine largely guarantees violence. That's different on the Republican side. I don't think anybody's doing anything that you could say guarantees violence. I mean, I haven't seen an example of it, but if you just keep hitting that Hitler button over and over and over again, and you treat it like it's literal, there's a 100% chance that there will be violence. You know, maybe not right away, but if you keep doing it, in this case eight years or so, 10 years.

What did The Rock say? Scott is... Oh, again. Scott Presler. Oh my god. I saw The Rock insulting Scott. I thought, "Oh, damn." I had recently tagged him in a post, but he was just saying something about Scott Presler. So I don't know what that's about.

Anyway, so what else I said? So the Democrats have a machine that gua

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rantees violence over time. I don't think conservatives have that. In other news, Dick Durbin, he said this notion we're going to characterize MAGA as Nazis, for example, on the other side, that the Republicans would characterize the Democrats as a party of murder or evil. I think the only one who said that was Elon Musk, right? The party of murder evil. Now, do you believe those are equivalents…

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