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I mean it's a tax collection process too. But the Constitution doesn't say anything about collecting taxes, but we do it. So yeah, I'm just concerned that it's the wrong branch of government handling the most important thing. It's just the wrong branch of government. Anyway, three Chinese nationals from the University of Michigan have been arrested, it looks like, and charged for smuggling what t…

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lly mess with, you know, half of the country at least. But then what else does he say? And he had something else he was trying to do. But anyway, his job is just to mess with us. And apparently he's doing a good job. So I wonder if every country has one of him. Don't you think every country has one of these guys whose job it is just to sort of mess with the other country? So it makes me wonder what training he has. You know, Adamski, does he have the training I have? Do you know how scary that would be if I found out that Russia had a me? Think about it. If Russia had a Scott Adams, just imagine that because they would have the platform. That would be really dangerous for us. But luckily, they don't have me. Only America has me. America first. First, and last. That's what I say. First, middle, and last. America.

All right. Well, they got a wizard. And let's see what else is going on. Oh, Megyn Kelly was unleashing on Republicans. Oh, part of it was I think there was some thought that the Russians might be boosting Tucker Carlson because that would mess things up in our country. I don't know if that's true, but Megyn Kelly, I saw that Colin Rugg did this on a post. He said, "Megyn Kelly unleashes on Republicans. Congratulates them for spending the last few weeks policing a group chat and Tucker Carlson." All right. So here's what Megyn Kelly said. And, you know, it's just so well worded. It's fun. She said, quote, "The Republicans like to lose. They enjoy losing. They enjoy when they're embattled and in a losing position and complaining. They love it. They do it really well. Less good at winning, especially when Donald Trump is not there to get them over the line. The Republican party is not strong. Donald Trump is strong. Republicans don't know how to win. They don't know how to run. They don't know what to do when daddy's not there to fly them across the finish line." Okay, that's just excellent writing right there, even though she spoke it, but you know what I mean. So good at communicating. So good.

But here's my take. I've never really thought about this so much that if you took Trump out of the Republican party, is it possible that they could never win again? I'm not predicting that. I'm just saying, you know what, this sort of struck me as too true. I hadn't really been thinking in these terms, but I feel like Trump is the only reason anything went well for the Republicans. And that the minute they try to do something without him, it looks dumb. And when they do something that he's behind, it looks smart. And Megyn's all over this. So I think she's right. The Republicans have a real problem here.

Now, the part about going after Tucker, my take on that was if the only thing you have to do in politics is go after your own team, it kind of means you've already won because the other team's not worth going after. You know, if there were another team that were a threat, you would go after them first. You wouldn't go after Tucker. But once you got all that taken care of and you know the border is sealed and Trump's doing what he can do and things seem to be moving in a generally good direction, then you start thinking, "Huh, that Tucker guy is saying some provocative things that seem to get a little bit too close to the line and I got some questions. Why is he always so close to that line?" I don't know. Can't read his mind. So I don't take it the same way a lot of you. I don't take it as a real fight. I take it as running out of things to do. We ran out of things to do. Now we're going to have to go after each other. That's what it looks like.

Anyway, as I said before, and I think this take is the most useful one. You know, we all walk around with our own filter. So if your filter is you're Jewish and you're sort of locked into that view of life, then people who keep bringing up the Jews would be scary. You're like, why do you keep bringing this up? Why is this so important? So if you're Jewish, you would think that looks a little anti-Semitic. If you're not Jewish and that's not your filter on life, as I've said before, it might look like free speech plus America first. And I'm not defending either position. I'm just saying that depending on your filter, it's two movies playing on one screen. You're all looking at the same stuff. But some of you see a problem and some of you see nothing. Well, you're getting quite worked up there in the comments, aren't you? Maybe I shouldn't have brought it up.

All right, people. That's all I got for you today. We're going to end a little bit early because my hands don't work. So it was really hard to prepare today. I tried to drag it out a little bit so I could get a full hour, but I didn't make it. I'm going to talk to the Locals people privately for a moment. And the rest of you, thanks for joining. I hope you got something out of this. Did anybody get anything out of this? Did anybody hear something that was both useful? Remember Elon? Did anybody hear something I did that was useful but also affected a lot of people because you heard it all. I hope so. Hope so. Anyway, I'm going to go talk to the Locals people privately. The rest of you, hope to see you tomorrow. Boom.