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another tell. He said "I am still okay, my love." Don't teenagers say "I'm"? How many people would write "I am still okay my love"? That feels like an artificially constructed, not normal wording. And then the partner says, "You weren't the one who did it, right?" "I am. I'm sorry." The partner says, "I thought they caught the person." "No." And then he explains that that was just some crazy old…

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e some big deal. Now that would make sense. So we'll see if that's what's happening.

It makes me wonder if Trump could get arrested while he's there because my understanding is that they have sort of somewhat restrictive free speech rules. And I think it can include things you said before you were even in the country, right? I don't know about that last part, but it would have been funny if Trump had asked them in writing to guarantee that he wouldn't be arrested for free speech. What would they do? Would they say, "Oh no, there's no risk. You don't need that." And he could say, "Well I'm not coming because it looks to me like I do need that based on the number of people you've arrested and the way I talk about stuff." Yeah. I don't even think I can set foot in your country. So you're gonna have to give me a written pardon before I even go. It's a bad idea, but it's funny to think about.

Pam Bondi, Department of Justice. So she's sort of stepped in it talking about hate speech. So hate speech is just a subset of free speech and it's not illegal. The time it could border on illegal is if you use your hate speech to incite immediate violence. So that you know it's always going to be a little gray area in that case. But theoretically that would be bad.

So I don't know what's going on. I don't know if Bondi is looking to change the law so there's some kind of hate speech that's more immediately punishable or did she misspeak? I don't know what's going on. A little bit confusing, but I'll tell you that neither the conservatives nor the Democrats are going to stand for an erosion of free speech. So conservatives are pushing back. A lot of people pushing back and that's okay.

According to Rasmussen Polling Company, 85% of the people they polled, Americans, expect more political violence after the Charlie Kirk assassination. 85% expect more violence. Now it doesn't seem to specify a time zone for that violence. To which I say, isn't there always more violence in the future? You know, maybe not as a rate comparing it to the past, but is there ever a future without violence? So I'm not sure how people what they were thinking when they answered that question.

And then there were a bunch of Brits who were protesting

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against Trump while he visits. And one of those person-on-the-street interviewers was asking the anti-Trumpers what is it that he said that would make him racist? Now the funniest one was there was a guy carrying a sign that said Trump is racist. That's all it said, just Trump is racist or some version of that, but it was just racism. And the interviewer says, "All right, can you give me an examp…

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