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aid, "Well, you got to expect there's going to be some blowback for that." And so that's what the liberals think. Now, to me, this is a perfect example of the power of brainwashing because you'd have to brainwash people to think that Charlie Kirk was speaking hate about anybody even once. Even once. Never happened even once about anybody but it is widely believed. So how powerful is brainwashing?…

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ed. Now, if you ask me, that's a pretty bad argument. And he lost. So that case is over. So Peter Strzok loses. That's sort of like Trump winning because he would like to know that Peter Strzok lost. Remember, Trump says he hates his enemies, so he hates Strzok.

Well, Keith Olbermann, as you know, he's my mascot. He apologized for threatening the other Scott, Scott Jennings. There are only two of us, by the way. Just me and Scott Jennings. No other Scots. And apparently there was an FBI referral. I think Scott Jennings made or somebody made an FBI referral because what he said on social media said of Scott Jennings quote "you're next mother effer" and then "but keep mugging for the camera." Well, in the context of the Charlie Kirk tragedy, saying that somebody's next when we're still in that sort of environment of still talking about and thinking about Charlie Kirk was taken as a physical threat.

But Keith Olbermann, who's not as dumb as he acts, he couldn't be, wouldn't be possible, decided he better apologize and clarify that and he was like, "No, no, it was not about hurting Scott Jennings. It was about his career. His career would be next." Do you believe that? Do you believe that in the shadow of the Charlie Kirk situation that when somebody says you're next, that obviously just means their job? I don't know. I can't read his mind. So that happened. So that's awkward for another anti-Trumper.

How about Hollywood? How much does Hollywood like Trump? Not so much. But Hollywood has, well they're really in trouble now because the AI examples that we're seeing today, there were two different apps using AI that could substitute any celebrity's face and body for anything else. So you could make your own movie with yourself as the actor or let's say yourself as the main actor and then just replace it when you're done and it will look exactly like Brad Pitt was in your actual movie. So that's coming. I don't see how Hollywood as an industry can survive because it looks like that'll all turn into people who know how to use AI. So Hollywood's got a tough time. Trump might enjoy watching Hollywood go down.

Well, Brigitte Macron, who as you know is in a lawsuit with Candace Owens over the issue of whether or not she was born a man. Now I will say again, I do not believe Brigitte Macron was born a man. However, if you've heard the long argument from Candace with all the evidence that she believes proves that she is, it's very persuasive. Now, I'm not persuaded, but not because it's not persuasive. I just it's just hard for me to believe it.

So Brigitte Macron has the easiest job in the world. She simply has to prove that she was born a woman. Could anything be easier than that? So she submitted some what she called photographic evidence, but we have no details on what was photographed and how that proved the case, but apparently that's been challenged in court. So whatever that photographic evidence was, didn't convince everybody.

And I'm wondering, how could you convince anybody with a photograph? It's 2025. I mean, I just got done telling you that you can make anybody look like Brad Pitt or Taylor Swift and you can't tell the difference. So in the age of AI, you don't think that a state actor, you know, the government of France, they couldn't put together a fake photograph that you thought was real. I mean, I don't know how you'd ever believe a photograph. And what would the photograph be of? If they had a photograph of Brigitte Macron, very young looking female, that wouldn't really tell you, would it? If they had a picture of her looking pregnant, would that convince you she was a woman? Or would you say to yourself, "Wait a minute, that's when they were trying to sell the idea that she was a female, so she probably just put some rags under her dress to pretend to be pregnant or something like that."

So my point is I don't know how photographic evidence could ever work. You would need the other team's doctor to stand in the room and examine her, wouldn't you? Seems to me. So I don't know. We'll see where that goes.

Apparently the interest in Turning Point USA after Charlie Kirk's death has skyrocketed. Now the current number is there have been 120,000 requests for information on starting a chapter. 120,000 requests. Wow. That's a lot. Breitbart News is reporting on that. Elizabeth WFB.

Well, the one of the attempted Trump assassins, Ryan Routh, who was defending himself, he did not do a good job defending himself. He was found guilty and it looks like he'll go away for life. As soon as the verdict was read, he grabbed a pen and tried to murder himself by stabbing himself in the neck with a pen, but they stopped him before he could succeed.

I have one thing to say about Ryan Routh. He is not good at killing anything. Not good at killing anything. He tried to kill people in Ukraine. I don't think he got that together. Tried to kill Trump. Didn't work. Tried to kill himself. Didn't work. I think he should just take a hint. Ryan, you're not good at killing anything. Stop it. Stop it.

Well, Department of Homeland Security is all happy they've reached the 2 million illegals leaving the country since January. 2 million. Now, the vast majority of them were self-deporting because they didn't want to get

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deported the hard way. But wow, 2 million in 6 months. I find that an impressive number and I'm most impressed that they figured out a way to do it without having to ship every one of them. The ones leaving voluntarily turn out to be the big number. So that's pretty impressive. Well, as you might imagine now that the Trump administration has said that Tylenol might be a bad idea if you're pregnan…

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