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surprise? Not really. Because if you've had experience with both of those things, you would totally understand why the one would make the other less desirable. Well, apparently the X platform is going to have a whole new recommendation system in a few weeks, Elon Musk is telling us. So at the moment I have no idea why X shows me what it shows me. I just can't figure it out. It doesn't show me any…

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y fakes because a lot of them are just paid protesters, but Antifa is going to maybe penetrate the fake protesters with fake protesters. So the fake protesters might be penetrated with other fake protesters. And then on top of that, some of you are going to imagine that the FBI is going to send some fake protesters too. I don't think so, but maybe.

So you have a fake issue that somebody's worried about a king. Completely artificial fake issue. You got your fake protesters. And then on top of that, there might be some fakes pretending to be the fakes. If you ever wanted a stronger indication that we've entered the golden age, this is it. Can you imagine anything better than waking up and your biggest problem is that Democrats think they're fighting an imaginary king and that all their protesters are fake? It's the best. It's the best you can imagine because it means we don't have any real problems that we're not dealing with in some creative way.

I feel like Trump with the exception I'm gonna say health care, health care stands out as something that's not dealt with by either side but if you take health care off the table and maybe you shouldn't but everything else looks like it's sort of getting handled as best it can you know even the war in Ukraine it's not over but obviously we're putting the right kind of attention on it so it's like everything's being handled except healthcare. That's it. That's all they have.

So John Bolton has been indicted as you know. So now it's official. Apparently what he was doing is he was taking notes from meetings and then including them on his AOL account. Would you like me to make a joke about AOL and John Bolton using AOL? Are you ready for this? You've got jail. How was that? Instead of you've got mail, you've got jail. All right. Maybe not. We'll see.

But a lot of people are saying that the Bolton situation is just like Trump. So why did Trump get away with having those classified things when Bolton might not get away with it? And the answer is, don't be an analogy thinker. It's not a good analogy. Bolton was not the president of the United States. He had no authority ever to have classified stuff at his house or his office. Trump was the president of the United States and was the ultimate decider of what was classified and what was not. Trump, now this is his defense, I wasn't there, but his defense is that if he says it's unclassified or even acts like it is, it's unclassified because when he was president, which I agree with actually. So no, these are not equivalent. One had the authority to declassify and one never had that authority.

So I was telling you about, oh it was actually Politico not the Wall Street Journal. So Deborah Kahn writing in Politico that Trump's victory taught Democrats about climate

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change and that climate change is out as a topic and energy affordability is in. In other words, the Democrats just found out that everything Republicans have been saying forever is the right approach that you want energy affordability and ultimately that will get you better climate and everything else. So yes, affordability. So let me ask you this. If the Democrats thought that was their existen…

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