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d Ben Shapiro are solidly on the same side of a constitutional question, give up. Just give up. Just adopt their point of view because they're not going to be wrong if it's both of them and they're sure and it's not that complicated. They are right. They are right. Don't listen to me. I happen to agree with them. But don't take my side. I'm no constitutional scholar. I have no track record of bein…

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ow if they're even trying to be legitimate? They're sort of the MSNBC of print magazines and online too. So the fact that Letterman would even appear on stage with that entity does suggest he doesn't pay attention too much to politics or how the world works. So I would discount anything that Letterman says about anything. He's brilliant at what he did for a living, but I don't think he has any special appreciation of the Constitution or politics or the bigger picture. He seems poorly informed just by the fact that he was on that stage. That was a poor decision.

Apparently it's a go for the 2026 Republican convention. Now, as you know, they don't normally have one, a convention, unless a president is running. But Trump quite wisely, and I think this is just brilliant, decided that if the Republicans always get a bump when they do a convention, why wouldn't you do another convention? If every time you do it, you're going to bump in popularity because it's what I call the documentary effect. If the TV is sort of nailed on and for hours the people who care about politics watch because it's on and it's about politics and they like stuff like that, they're going to see a whole lot of one point of view. We are great. Democrats are bad. Why wouldn't you do that? This midterm convention by the Republicans is such a good idea that it just makes me wonder why nobody thought of it. And if it took Trump to think about this again, he would be impressing the hell out of me with his innovative ways at his current age. I mean, that's really impressive. And if somebody suggested it to him, he still gets the credit because the boss is the one who decides what's a yes, what's a no, and who am I and who are my advisers. So this is a good sign for Trump. It's just brilliant.

Jasmine Crockett was at some public event and she said, and I quote, most black people are not Republicans simply because we just dislike y'all. Racist. I can't hang out with the KKK and them. Let me read that again. Most black people are not Republicans simply because we just dislike y'all. Racist. I can't hang out with the KKK and them.

Now, may I translate that for you? I'll summarize it. What she said is you should not hang out with a body of people that might have some percentage, not a majority, but it would have some people in it that have a bad feeling about you. She didn't say get the away from them, but that's what she meant. Now, I agree with her totally. This might be the most I've ever agreed with Jasmine Crockett. If you believe that there's a group that has too many people in it who don't like you, it's not really your job to sort out the good ones.

Now, Jasmine might agree with the statement that people should be judged individually. She might agree with that. I certainly agree with it. I think everybody has to be judged individually and you should not judge individuals by immutable characteristics or religions or stuff like that. I don't believe that. I do believe that if you're trying to protect yourself, that you maybe don't want to spend time with people who very clearly don't like you and don't like you around. I would only adjust her opinion one way, which is the KKK are more geographic than party related. If you can stay out of the town where there's a KKK presence, you should do that. If you're a black American, don't go anywhere near a town that has even one KKK chapter that's active. Don't go near it. Stay away. Get the away from that town. But you probably don't have to get away from Republicans because there are just tons and tons and tons and tons of Republican towns. They have exactly zero KKK pe

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ople in them. So you're safe there. And there's nobody in the Republican party who's loving the KKK, by the way. Well, there may be some wild cards in there, but generally speaking, it's not like that. It's not like the Republicans accept the KKK. That's not a thing. Now, if you're an NPC, what do you say now? NPCs, I'll give you a moment to say the thing that you always say now when the KKK is m…

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