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good for reasons. And the ADL's job is to know who's good and who's bad. Have I made my case? Nothing else to say about that. All right. Candace Owens continues to be entertaining. Let me just say about Candace. I know she's super controversial at the moment. I don't think that anybody in the world agrees with everything she says. Would that be fair? Like, even her closest supporters probably don…

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re not. Those things are important and I'll talk about them. But it's not up to me to say he was a good guy. I don't think there are any good guys in the Middle East. There's just power, self-interest. That's it.

Anyway, apparently the Department of Homeland Security, this is also in Breitbart, Neil Munro is writing about this. They've exposed massive fraud by migrants in Minneapolis. So they did a survey of migrants in Minneapolis and found out that 50% of them were involved in some major fraud. Sometimes it was fake marriages. Sometimes it was people here illegally. Sometimes they were working some fraud like the healthcare frauds we've heard of recently that are massive. But 50% forged documents, abuse of the H1B, 50% were involved with a major fraud.

So this gets back to how much immigration should we have and from where? Can we finally say out loud without getting cancelled that not every source of immigration is the same? Can I say out loud now that if we imported some Europeans, especially let's say Christians, if we imported some Christian Europeans of any color, doesn't matter the color, they could be black or white, but they're Christians and they're Europeans, would there be any problem with assimilation? Probably not, right? It would probably be instant.

What about Mexicans? Well, here the only issue I think is quantity because they assimilate really well. Really well. The second generation is just full American. But you have to put a limit on it. I mean, you can't just say everybody come in because you're really good at assimilating. If you got too many, then they wouldn't have to bother. They would be stuck in their own communities, might not even learn English. Who knows? So, that would be a question of quantity.

But clearly there are cultures that have a different approach to all the things that we hold dear as in if you can steal should you do it. There are some cultures in which within the culture stealing something that you can steal isn't so bad. And there are some cultures in which doing something bad to somebody who's not in your group is not such a big deal. For example, some Muslim cultures that might say in the Middle East, not so much here, but in the Middle East, they might say, "Well, we can rape those women because they're not Muslim." Do you want more of that? Do you want a lot of that in the United States? Now, I don't know how much of that has already been imported, but not zero. Not zero.

We have, in fact, imported people who probably would say out loud if they felt they could get away with it, "Oh, yeah, you can definitely rape people who are not Muslims. They're not even human, basically." Yeah. How many of those do you want? So, likewise in Minneapolis. If it's true that the type of immigrants in Minneapolis have a cultural, let's say, eccentricity or something different about them that doesn't fit with our culture. And maybe this fraud stuff might be part of it. I don't know. I just know that if you took a bunch of Christians and a bunch of Buddhists and put them in a room and said, "All right, you have the opportunity to do a fraud and steal things and you probably get away with it." They wouldn't all do it. You know what I mean? They wouldn't all do it. Some would. Some would, but they wouldn't all do it.

I do believe that there are cultures, and I don't know which ones, so I won't be more specific, in which most of them would do it. Maybe because they're not like you, they go, "Well, we don't owe these American devils anything. If we can get their stuff, take it." I don't know if anybody has that view. But if they do, and you know, some people do. If they do, you don't want a lot of them, right? You don't want a lot of those. So, we're never really honest about immigration. That's part of the reason it's so hard to deal with it. But I feel like honesty is breaking down everywhere, even if you're not on steroids like I am.

All right. The EU is going to send 4 billion euros to Ukraine today, but they say that they will have to be repaid if Russia ends up paying reparations to Ukraine. What a

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re the odds that Russia is going to pay reparations to Ukraine? Is this just the EU being stupid because they don't want to say we're just giving away our money. So they're going to act like well there's one possibility some of it might come back. Who believes that? Nobody. All right. Also in Ukraine, according to Visegrad 24, there's a major UK not Ukraine, but in Russia, there's a major oil ref…

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