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00% of Netflix employees donations are to the Democratic Party. Well, I knew that already, but when you think of this topic, it's sort of especially meaningful, isn't it? But apparently they've lost, Netflix has lost 15 billion in market value since people started canceling subscriptions. Now, I've got mixed feelings on this one. I'm not a huge fan of boycotts. Not a huge fan because, you know, in…

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administration is trying to undo. But the Biden administration had in place an entire system which guaranteed we would become an Islamic country. Because if you simply brought in all kinds of different people at let's say the same rate, let's say 10% of your people coming in were from Mexico, 10% from other South America, 10% from Europe, 10% from Islamic countries. What would you end up with? You would end up with an Islamic country. 10% probably would get you to an Islamic country. And I think that would be by design. Now, not necessarily by intentional design. It's just that if you looked at it on paper, you'd say, let's see, the locals are not reproducing and they're bringing in a lot of people. Many of them will just assimilate. But 10% might be the ones who by their own preference would not want to assimilate.

If you bring a Mexican into America and he wants to live in America and have American kids, do you think they want to assimilate? Absolutely. Absolutely they want to. I mean, they might want to hold on to some of their Hispanic traditions, of course, but they want to be mostly American. Do the Islamic immigrants have the same intention and or ambition? I feel like their system is a different system and it's more about making their host country more like them. Would you agree? I don't know of any situation in which a Mexican immigrant even once has tried to make America more like Mexico except you know unless they started a Mexican restaurant but those are fun right they're not even trying to resist assimilation they come here to assimilate but if you told me that the Islamic immigrants came here to assimilate I would call you a liar because I don't think that's true. So we have a system that guarantees we would be Islamic and only the Republicans can unwind it, if it's even possible. I think there's still time. I think we can save ourselves, but I do not think Europe acted fast enough. I think Europe's dead. Not dead. They'll be Islamic eventually.

Steve Malloy and I saw this post by Amuse. In 2007, Al Gore warned that the Arctic would be ice free by 2014. How'd he do? Well, it's now 2025 and 500,000 square kilometers more ice have been added. That's about as wrong as you could possibly be. That's about as wrong as you can be.

And the new news is that according to Israel, Greta and her little flotilla, I think there are about 50 boats heading with what they claim is food for Hamas. And some documents were found in Hamas's possession or abandoned by them, I guess. And the documents suggested that Hamas is funding the flotilla and probably organizing it too. And the reason for it is to make Israel look bad. And one of the reasons that they are not genuinely intending to deliver food and that the food delivery thing is a fake is that Israel already offered a way to offload that food in Italy where it's not a political event and then Italy had already offered to ship the rest of it to Israel and Gaza. So they have a way to get all of the food to Hamas and they've turned it down because they want to make the political statement of being turned down when they reach the border, I guess.

So Greta went from the wonder kid of climate change, which was of course a gigantic scam as far as we can tell, to being scammed by Hamas because she's not smart enough to figure out who funded her. And now she's just a dupe of a terrorist organization. So she went from being the most destructive person on earth by pushing climate change. That would mean literally that makes her the most destructive person on earth to being duped by a terrorist organization. So I don't know how Wikipedia is going to write that up, but I think Grok-ipedia might get it right if you know what I mean. Anyway, but it's possible that all data is fake, so maybe that whole story is made up. You know, anything from a war zone, you can't totally trust it. So if Israel said, "Oh, we found these documents which coincidentally are right on the nose." Do you believe it? Now, I read it to you like it's a fact. Should you believe Israel that they found this thing that's just perfect? It's right on the nose. Oh, isn't that perfect that they found that the flotilla was funded by Hamas? Now, I don't know if it was or wasn't. But would you believe it because it's reported? The answer is you should not believe it because it was reported. It's exactly the kind of fake that gets made up during a war. It's exactly what gets made up during a war. Was this made up? I don't know. I want to believe it's true because it makes a good story, but a little too good. It's a little too good. A little too on the nose. So I'm going to say that all data is fake and probably that. But we'll see if there's followup or we see the documents and somebody confirms the documents are real somehow, I'll change my mind. But right now, I'm leaning toward no. Probably not true.

Well, there's a new poll that says one in three Americans now think political violence might be necessary. Now, all data is fake and most polls have some problems too. Do you believe any poll that has this high percentage of people that say that violence might be necessary? Let's give some details. The support for violence is rising faster among Democrats, jumping from 12% thought violence might sometimes be necessary for politics to 28% in just 18 months. And they probably did this after Charlie Kirk was assassinated. Imagine the number among Democrats going up for violence after Charlie Kirk is assassinated. I mean, just try to hold that in your head for a second. Wow. I mean, now I believe that this poll was taken after he was assassinated, but I don't have a confirmation of it. So NPR is writing about this if you want to follow up. And Republicans still slightly outpace them at 31%. So 28% of Democrats, that's way up. And independents aren't too far behind. 25% of them say violence is all right.

Well, the 28% as you know is close to my magical 25% which I say 25% of people in every poll, no matter what the topic is, no matter who does the poll, no matter who answers it, 25% of the respondents will have the most bad stupid answer that is possible. And this is it. Here's what I think. I think if you call somebody and the only thing that they have to worry about is what they say on the phone, they say, "Oh yeah, it's time to get violent." That's what you say if you're answering a poll question. Because you might want that answer to be there. You might be a troll. You might be just trolling, right? But what happens if you go to your neighbor and say, go to your Democrat neighbor and say, "All right, it's go time. Grab your gun and meet me in the street because we got to start shooting the bad guys." What happens next? That guy who said, "Yeah, violence would be a good idea." He realizes that he doesn't own a gun. If he goes out in the street, he will be opposed to the people who have all the guns. So do you think that that guy is going to be in favor of violence if violence was a real option both in both directions? I've got a feeling that that 28% are just full of it. You know, a few of them are going to be Antifa types that would do violence and they're just crazy and broken and they're just broken people. But the average ordinary Democrat, they might say yes in a poll, they're not going to say yes if there are gunshots outside. You know, they're suddenly going to realize they're unarmed, except for the criminals, I guess, who will just be robbing the people who are trying to do something political. Anyway, so I don't believe that poll. I don't believe it on the Democrat side. I don't believe it on the Republican side. I don't believe the independents. I think the data is fake.

Well, the Ryder Cup ended yesterday. That's a big golfing thing where various countries compete against other countries. I guess Europe won it. But the big story is that a New York PD police detective snuck in. And the way he did it was wearing his full police uniform with guns and everything and he talked his way into the highly secured area where Trump was. He talked his way in without credentials just by saying he was working on Trump's security. Do you know how they found out he had a weapon? 'Cause he accidentally dropped a clip. Somebody noticed he dropped a clip of bullets on the ground and they're like, "Oh, hold on. Maybe we need to talk to you again." Now, as far as we can tell, he was just a cop who wanted to get into the show. So he might have been

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just a Trump fan and he didn't have a ticket. And he thought, "Oh, this would be a clever way to get up close." And magazine, not a clip. All right, we'll call it a magazine, not a clip. The news story called it a clip. So I was just clipping their clip, but we'll go with the real gun people. A magazine, not a clip. Anyway, he got kicked out. But the question is, if it was that easy to get in with…

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