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ten mentioned as the strongest or one of the strongest candidates for maybe future president. So why in the world would ABC News dredge up a story from 2011 to try to destroy Josh Shapiro? Because it looks like that's the only purpose. Why would the left destroy one of their leading names from the left? Well, here's my belief. All right, this is speculation, but I believe that the real criminal e…

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n. There's no other way it happens. Pictures can augment the words, but even the pictures wouldn't do the trick without the words. So the words are the key part there.

So I'm going to say it again. The Democrat leaders are not slightly, maybe a little bit guilty. They are 100% guilty. There is no other thing at work. It is only that. 100% guilty for causing the violence. And you could guarantee that there'd be more if they continue talking the way they're talking. We haven't seen the end of it. It's guaranteed to be more.

So I would ask, as JD Vance has noted, that Republicans start watching their own camp. You've got a responsibility to make sure your side is saying dumb as a rock and not Nazi. Now we all use it. I've done it myself. But I've always been conscious that nobody would act on it. I'm sometimes just using it rhetorically or whatever. But I'm never trying to sell it like it's actually Hitler. Never. But the Democrats are selling it like it's actually Hitler. That gives them 100% guilt, not legally. Because remember, our system only punishes the person who does the act. So they can always say, well, a person has free will. I was just making a point. It's not me. No, it is you. You, Gavin Newsom. You are a piece of shit.

Now, does that make you want to climb on a building and do something bad? No. No. He's a piece of shit doesn't inspire violence. So it's a well-chosen phrase. But boy, he is garbage. I mean that man is an absolute piece of shit because he knows he's doing it. He's by far smart enough to know that he is the primary driver of things right now. And to imagine that he's okay with it. Oh my god. He is a truly broken man.

Now if I said he's truly evil and he wants you to die, then you would think, hm, maybe violence is the right answer. But if I say he's broken, it gives you a different feel, right? You're like, oh, okay, I need to fix this. I need to make sure he doesn't get elected, but I don't need to do any crazy violent stuff. He's just broken. So that man is broken.

And so here's what I think. Generally speaking in this political realm, whenever the Democrats do something to Republicans, say lawfare, the Republicans say, yeah, we don't like lawfare, but they did it to us, and the only way to stop it in the future is we do it to them. That does not apply to violence. You all know that, right? If the Republicans decided or any individual Republicans decided on violence, that's not helping. That doesn't move us forward. So don't do it. You will not be treated as a hero by Republicans. If you do violence, you will not be treated as a hero. You will be treated as scum. And you have to live with that.

But more importantly, I believe the Democrat party is in full collapse mode. And you don't have to do anything violent, even if you were tempted. You just don't have to because things are moving very much in the right direction if you're on the right. So I think you could wait this one out.

Apparently James Comey, the rumor is he'll be indicted for lying to Congress. So he lied about five years ago. Allegedly. Allegedly he lied to Congress. We're pretty sure that he did. And I guess they have until the end of September, which is any moment now, to get in before that statute of limitations runs out.

So are you in favor of going after Trump's enemies? Does it feel like Trump has an enemy list or that Kash Patel has an enemies list? Allegedly he had a list of people in his book or something. Well, I don't know if Comey is the biggest criminal in this bunch, but this is one of those cases where they did jail Republicans for behavior that's in this category. You got to do it. You have to do it. Now of course I only want this to happen if it's a real crime, really made a difference, and the court system operates the way it should and they come to that conclusion. I don't want him railroaded. I don't want to purely lawfare him. But there does need to be some lawfare balance, and he's going to have some trouble coming.

JD Vance, when he's talking about the potential for legal action against all these various Democrats, he said, quote, a lot of people broke the law in the last administration. They've got to face real justice, not just words, not just getting hauled before a committee on Capitol Hill. If people broke the law, they have to actually be prosecuted. He says, I think the only thing the far left really responds to is power. If they get off scot-free, they're never investigated. They're going to be prosecuted when they violate the law. Blah blah blah.

Now here's what I think. I think the left has demonstrated that they'll use every tool at their disposal no matter what the right does. So I don't think it makes any difference. I think if the right punish them back the same way and put a bunch of them in jail, it wouldn't make any difference. They're still going to use every tool that they could use, especially if it once worked or almost worked, such as lawfaring Trump almost worked. In some ways it worked but not the way they wanted it to. So I would disagree with JD that what the right does to the left makes a difference to what the left will do. The left will use every tool that they have. They're not going to say, oh, you know what? It worked the last time we tried it, but we've noticed that the Republicans did not give it back to us as much as we gave it, so I guess we won't do it again. No. They're going to use every tool every time.

So I'm in favor of the Republicans giving as good as they get, but not because it changes the behavior of the other team. It's because you got to use the toolbox. If they give you a tool by justifying it as something that can happen in politics, once they've justified it as something that can happen in politics, then I think the Republicans are just taking players off the table, and they have every right to do that. It would not be immoral or unethical to use their tool against them just to remove players. So Comey is a player. Not much of a player now, but a little bit. And I think he's just a warm-up act. I think Comey might be the easy one because they can just say, all right, here's a video of him lying. Here's the proof that he lied. Here's the law that applies. Boom. So it could be that the Trump administration wants to make sure that they get an easy win and then they can ramp up to get to Brennan and Clapper and maybe even Obama. We'll see.

Well, apparently there's the first ever Antifa domestic terrorist

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arrest. It's never happened before. The Post Millennial is writing about this. Several Antifa members were arrested in Eugene, Oregon. I guess they were terrorizing employees at some ICE facility. So they got arrested as domestic terrorists. Well, we'll see if that works out. I'm sure there'll be all kinds of legal challenges to that, but we'll see. I thought somebody said that there's no such thi…

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