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had to do is point out that he's not doing his job, but she'll do his job. You just have to walk in my office. Door's open. Just walk in and I'll do Schumer's job for him. Now, could she? Well, she doesn't have the authority. But suppose she worked out an agreement with the Republicans and then made it public. Could she embarrass Schumer into taking it? Maybe. It doesn't have to be a hard yes. It…

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a different meme. And they just had him talking like a clown basically.

But so that became one of the big stories. And when he complained, he complained and said it was deeply racist because they put a Mexican hat on him. What does Trump do? He sends around another meme with yet another Mexican hat on Hakeem Jeffries except it's even funnier. And then people complained and what does Trump do? He sends around a third meme with Hakeem Jeffries with the same hat and mustache, but now there's a mariachi band playing behind him, but all of the players of the mariachi band are Trump.

Oh, so we've gotten to the point where calling a Republican racist is going to get you the hat. You know, maybe not always the hat, but treating you as a clown for even going down this stupid path of racism is going to get you the clown treatment. And if you complain about getting the clown treatment, guess what happens? More clown treatment. And if you complain again, guess what happens? More clown treatment. And it gets funnier every single time. Absolutely hilarious.

But to be fair, to be fair, these are comic exaggerations about Hakeem Jeffries, right? They're comic exaggerations. So, you can't take it seriously. I mean, it's not like he's an actual incompetent clown or anything, right?

Well, Abby Phillip on CNN asked him this question of Hakeem Jeffries. Once the government is shut down, which it will be in two hours, she said yesterday, "How do you get out of this? How do you get out of this?" So, thank goodness he's not some crazy clown because, you know, he's got a serious question of great importance. So, he'll give a serious answer. He said the GOP is in charge of the Congress, so it's up to them.

Hakeem, are you really leaving out the part where the GOP can't do a thing without 60 votes and they've only got 50 whatever and they need, I think, nine maybe nine votes from the Democrats, which they're not getting? So to prove he's not a clown, he went on TV and lied. He just left out the most important thing. The most important thing is they need 60 votes. They can't get it without the Democrats. And he says that, "Oh, the GOP is in charge of the Congress, so you know, why don't you talk to them?" That is the most incompetent clownlike answer you will ever see. Absolutely incompetent.

No, no, no, no, no. The other thing that I'm positive that Hakeem is blind to is something I've been telling you for a long time. You know, if you live in California, you're always immersed in Hispanic culture. And I'm here to tell you I like it. Like if you actually, you know, if you become, let's say, saturated in or immersed in the culture, you're going to like it. They're the most American people you'll ever see. I know you hate it when I say this, but whether they have legal or illegal status, they're the most American people you're ever going to see. They love their God, they love their family, they do hard work and willingly and enthusiastically. They are excellent people. But you know, we do have to have border controls. That's just a separate topic. But the people by and large are really excellent people.

One of the things I like most about them is they are not woke at all. If you were to show that meme to, I don't know, 10 randomly chosen Mexicans, do you think they'd be insulted? Not a chance. No chance. They would either think it was funny or they would think it wasn't funny. But do you think that they would spend even one second complaining about the racism of it all? No. No. It just wouldn't even occur to them. It just isn't important. It's not my family. It's not my god. It's not my job. I don't care. You want to put a Mexican hat on somebody, laugh at him, no problem.

I see some wildly racist things in the comments. I guess I can't cure you all. But just take my word for it. If you were immersed in the community, you would have a higher opinion.

All right. The other thing, one of the memes referred to Hakeem Jeffries as a dollar store Obama. Now, I would say that's not racist, but it is racial. It is possible to make a joke that involves race that is not racist. I think this is a perfect example. I don't think that's racist. I think it's obvious that people's color has some impact on whether they get elected. Everybody agrees in that. Or they also call him Teemo Obama. To me, that's just funny.

Then apparently Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer were in the Oval Office to try to see if they could do last minute negotiations yesterday about the budget and nothing important happened,

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of course. And Trump apparently had some Trump 2028 hats prominently displayed on the Oval Office desk. So all the cameras would make it look like Hakeem Jeffries and Schumer had to look at them. There was a story that he gave them the hats, but that didn't happen. I don't think it happened. Well, you may have seen the Pete Hegseth clips and the meeting of the generals and admirals. Now we're tol…

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