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d sort of mostly. Well, Kamala Harris trying to sell her stupid book was on The View and I forgot how much fun it was to play is she stupid or drunk. And once again I couldn't tell. She was either being extra stupid or she was drunk. You know I know you're going to say but Scott it could be both. Yeah I know. It could be both. But here are some of the things she said. And oh my god did we dodge…

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error group. So I guess they're already designated a domestic terror group or something but that doesn't have any teeth. If they are branded a foreign terrorist group, which looks like that's imminent, then I think that opens up a number of tools that can be used against them that otherwise wouldn't. So that's coming and it would allow sanctions overseas against networks and individuals etc.

And I saw a post by somebody called Clandestine who says do you see it? Trump is neutralizing the deep state's playbook. First he cut off their money supply via USAID and foreign aid and going after the funding of Soros. So those would be like the Democrats' piggy banks. And now Clandestine says now he's shutting down their brown shirts. Antifa.

Now the reference there is to color revolutions. The idea that Soros and the NGOs and the other dark funding mechanisms fund people to protest so that it can look like whatever it is they want looks like the public might want it too. So they basically organize protesters with money. But if you take away the Soros money or you defang it and you make Antifa the fake, I'm going to call them fake protesters because I don't think they're organic in the least. So if you take away the fake protesters in the street and you take away the money that goes a long way toward getting rid of the people trying to overthrow the government on a regular basis.

Well, Trump has spoken out against the UK for the UK decided to recognize Palestine as its own state I guess. And Trump says that Britain's recognition of Palestine is nothing more than a reward for Hamas. It does nothing to free hostages or anything like that.

So now the countries or allies that have accepted Palestine as a state include Britain, France, Belgium, Canada, Australia, and Portugal. So it's starting to make the USA look like we're a little bit on our own there. There are still lots of other countries that haven't done it but five is a lot.

Anyway, so Trump's going to talk to the UN General Assembly today. And some say that he's sort of boxed in by that stuff. Maybe. We'll see. Anything could happen.

Hamas has cleverly made an offer directly to Trump, not through Israel, that if he can get a 60-day pause in fighting, then Hamas will release half of the hostages. We believe there are something like 20 hostages still alive and then a bunch that would just be the bodies. But 20 living hostages and they would offer to release 10 I guess if he gets a 60-day pause.

What do you think? Do you think Trump's going to take that deal? No. I don't think Israel will let him take tha

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t deal even if he wanted to. But it's very clever from Hamas because it puts a wedge between Israel and the United States because Trump really likes releasing hostages, not just these hostages but he's got this great track record of being able to get hostages out and he brags about it. So Hamas cleverly thinks there's no way Trump is going to say no to a sure thing. It'd be a sure thing. 60 days…

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