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be the same under all scenarios. There's nothing that would change the fact that they'll still get treated at emergency rooms. So what exactly is the Republican argument to that? I believe the Republican argument is the correct one that there is money that's being used for those purposes. But why can't they explain it in a way that sounds like a counterpoint to it's illegal so we don't do it? It'…

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tty good. But would you want to see Pritzker perp-walked with handcuffs because he tried to stop ICE deportations? Would you be okay with that? I would not be okay with that. That would be a case of I get that it would be a real crime and I get that it could happen. I wouldn't be happy with it.

I am happy when I see Trump going after the people who lawfared him. If they lawfared him, yeah, do what you need to do. If the only thing they did is continually say bad things about him, which I think is Pritzker's situation. He's more like a perpetual critic. I don't think you perp-walk the perpetual critics even though there's a real crime potentially. The hypothetical is that there's a real crime involved. I don't know how you ignore a real crime. You know, again, it's hypothetical, but if he did commit a real crime and it really got to safety of the population, which it would, I could see why they do it, but I wouldn't love it. I wouldn't love it.

Anyway, Candace Owens has some new claims. She's claiming that Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Peter Thiel, they have sort of a nonhuman vibe and she wonders if they're alien hybrids. So that's happening. I remind you again that I'm a big fan of Candace and somebody reminded me today on X that she had come out very favorably with some comments about me in May of last year maybe. I can't remember if it was after I got cancelled or after I came out with my health problems, but Candace without any prompting just one day decided to say very kind things about me and the value of my work. And so I'm completely biased in her favor. And I've told you I've met her and she's a very warm person and very talented, one of the most talented people in the game. So I'm just pro-Candace front to back, top to bottom. I'm just pro-Candace. So and you all know that doesn't mean I have to agree with all the takes, right? That's the way it works. But love her to death.

All right. There's at least one scientist, Harvard scientist, who's teasing us about this giant comet that's heading through our solar system. And apparently it changed, it grew a tail. It didn't have a comet tail, but now it does. And so one scientist is teasing that it might be an alien craft and that that's a sign of its maneuvering. That's basically firing thrusters in a different direction to maneuver. I don't think that there are any other scientists who are agreeing with that take. But I love that plucky scientist who says it might be. It might be full of aliens.

What we don't know is if that's the alien Uber that's coming to pick up Elon and Sam and Thiel. So if Candace is right, that big comet is going to land somewhere in Silicon Valley and a big door will open and then our billionaires will all get back on board and go back to their home planet. No, they're not aliens, I don't think. Probably good chance they're not. At least 50 percent chance they're not aliens.

All right. Speaking of aliens, Daily Mail has a story, Chris Maule, about allegedly evidence of nonhuman intelligence near US nuclear sites. So apparently since the 40s, we've been observing that there are some things that get extra bright in the sky if it's over a nuclear test before the nuclear test. And the thinking is that we've been observed for all these many years by aliens who seem to know when we're going to do a nuclear test. And so they put assets around and you can see the assets in the air above the site. They'd be sort of extra glowing something-somethings. Well, that's the claim. Do you believe any of that? I'm going to go with no. I'm going to go with no. There are no aliens watching our nuclear tests. Might be. I mean, I can't rule it out, but I'm going to go with no.

I saw a Democrat Rahm Emanuel with a really good turn of a phrase that I liked so much I wanted to share it. He was talking about what the Democrats did wrong in 2024. And he used this phrase. He said, "Democrats allowed themselves to be framed in a cultural cul-de-sac." To which I said, "Damn, that's good. That's really good. It's good writing. It's not really great persuasion, but it's really good writing." A cultural cul-de-sac. It's sort of perfect. He's very smart, Rahm Emanuel is. Somebody said in the comments that he's got the right message, but he's the wrong messenger. I think that's true. He's another older white guy. I just don't know that the Democrat party has patience for another older white guy. And he's more famous for being tough than for charisma. So being tough, I think, works a little bit better as a mayor. He's been a mayor. He's been a diplomat. I don't know that he's got the presidential vibe though. He doesn't have the Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, you know,

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or the Bush vibe. There's like an extra thing that all those guys had. Even Hillary had the thing. But he doesn't have the thing. He just doesn't have the thing. Whatever that is that makes you look like a president. Kamala did. Kamala had the thing. She didn't act like a president, but she had sort of the charisma or the vibe or the just the feel of it. But he has lots of good points about what t…

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