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nt of the time I normally put into this. So I don't know what you're going to get this morning. You know, it could be anything. All right. So Representative Jasmine Crockett has decided to raise her sights, and she's going to run for Senate in Texas. What do you think? Is Jasmine Crockett the next senator from Texas? Maybe. I mean, I'd have to see the polls, but I don't know why not. I mean, if y…

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. We would all like maximum affordability, so there'll never be enough, but at least it's real. And I wonder if that's the weakness. Maybe that's where Trump has an opening because he could say, you know what, affordability is really hard and it's never as fast as you want, but I'm doing 12 things to get you more affordability. Jasmine is offering you nothing but some stupid ideas that would never work because that looks like what's happening. I mean, that actually looks like what's happening.

Anyway, how many of you are watching the drama between Candace Owens and Tim Pool? Is anybody paying attention to that? It's kind of heating up. I wasn't really following it because I tend not to follow the individual drama stuff, but it finally got big enough that it's hard to ignore. If you don't mind, I'll just give it a quick look.

So here's the basic idea. Candace has a number of what would I call them? I don't want to say conspiracy theories because that would be an insult to her ideas before actually looking at the ideas. So I don't like that phrase. I will say that she has some nonstandard provocative ideas about what may have happened or may be happening around the Charlie Kirk assassination. So they were good friends, Charlie Kirk and Candace, and there's some kind of drama with the executives of Turning Point USA, and who knows what's true. So I haven't really been paying attention to that because you can't tell what's true. There will be competing versions of what's happening and what's going to happen. But how are we going to know?

But you may have heard that Tim Pool, who has one of the biggest podcasts in the country, especially for the conservative side of the world, apparently somebody took some shots at his physical facility. One of his, I don't know how much real estate he has, but one of them. Nobody was injured, but imagine how you would feel if somebody drove up to your house and put bullets in it or up to your workplace. I don't know if it was one or both of those things, but how would you feel about that?

So I was watching Tim go off on Candace, not in person, but he was talking about the situation, and oh boy, he's not happy about this situation that she and maybe some other people have put him in because he's physically in danger and more to the point the people he cares about around him. I don't know what the family situation is or the friend situation, but he's got to be very aware that he may be putting his friends and family at risk. And I can't even imagine how mad I would be if that happened to me. So however mad Tim seems, he got there the honest way. You are allowed to be very mad at a situation that maybe somebody else jinned up that could put you and your friends literally in a deadly situation. So that's what he's having to deal with. He's actually talked about maybe discontinuing podcasting. Now that would be pretty extreme given how successful he is and how much impact he has on the debate in this country. So we don't want to see him do that. But I don't think he's joking when he says that that might be something he has to consider, just retiring. We don't want to see that. And that would be a really bad outcome. But I also think he deserves to be safe. And if he's not feeling safe, he's got to do whatever he has to do. And I'm not going to judge him for what he thinks makes him safe. That's completely his decision, obviously. He's marr

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ied and has a young child, and imagine how you'd feel if that were you. So he had some choice words for Candace. He used the C-word about her several times in one rant. And it's kind of shocking to see that language being used, especially on the conservative side of things. I don't know if he calls himself conservative, by the way. I think of him as independent. But you may have a different opini…

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