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Hell hole or a hole? I'm going to run a poll. Or maybe one of you can run a poll. What's worse, a hell hole or a hole? All right. Trump is also at some event, he said that he believes that the New York Times and the legacy media have committed treason with their fake news. And the fake news that he's mad about is that they seem to be reporting that his health is slowing him down. Do you believe t…

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these intelligence agencies are using blackmail and I guess it's possible they might have used Epstein for that but if you go from it's possible to it's the routine way we do this and always have, well that looks pretty different doesn't it? Yeah.

So I saw a factoid today that I did not fact check. Can somebody give me a fact check on this? Is it true that famous gangster Whitey Bulger from Boston who was an informant for the FBI but also a top criminal in the area, is it true that the day he got to prison he was murdered? So that I wasn't aware of, but it might not be true. Can somebody give me a fact check on that? Did Whitey Bulger get murdered like the day he walked in?

Because there's a big difference between going to jail for a number of years and then something happens to you one day versus being killed the same day you go into jail. That feels like it's sending a message, doesn't it? Well, one of them is just the way things work and the other one is sending a message.

Okay. Well, yeah, maybe you were a weasel. Maybe you were a rat. But and then ten minutes after you reach jail, you get murdered. Yeah, that's a message.

So it makes me wonder if Epstein was just more of that, that there's no point in having this blackmail situation unless all the people involved can be murdered the first day that they resist it. So all right.

According to Rasmussen poll, 43% of voters believe that Pete Hegseth should be impeached over the narco boat attacks. 43%. Now you know these are the kinds of polls that I say to myself, I don't know what it's measuring exactly because it's not exactly measuring people's opinion. It's kind of what they want to happen.

So it'd be one thing if the people were looking at some other planet and they were just analyzing, oh and this other planet 43% think this should happen. But if it's political as this is, it's purely political. All it really tells you is how many people are Democrats and how many are Republican with a little bit of adjustment for an independent who will fall one way or the other. Is it really telling you anything? Yeah. I don't think people's opinion, well politically it matters. So if you're following the politics of it, of course it matters.

All right. How many of you are following the Candace Owens Turning Point USA drama? I've been trying not to. I've been trying not to for all the usual reasons that the stories about individuals I find just less compelling as it doesn't really affect the world. But it seems to me that Candace continues to make this so interesting that it's very hard to ignore. So I'm not really caught up on it all. But I'll give you a little bit of an update. So see if I have this right.

Is the story that Candace believes that some people who worked with Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA were somehow complicit in his murder? Is that the accusation? So in the comments, tell me if I have that right because that's sort of the starting point for this. And again, I don't have any sense. My instinct is that they did not because it just seems too wild, but you know, we live in a wild world. I suppose it would be hard to rule out anything these days. Like it seems like there's just always something going on.

Bogger was transferred. All right, let's see. I got an answer to my question. He was transferred and murdered. And murdered. Yeah, I just can't stop the comments from going by. It looks like he was transferred and then quickly murdered. I think that's what you told me. That would make sense.

All right. So the Turning Point USA and I don't know if the story still assumes that some other country is involved or is Israel involved. I don't have any evidence to suggest that. But according to Natalie Jean Bisner, who I don't know who that is, but somebody at X noted that Candace she's got a claim that she has in her possession or people at Turning Point USA are in possession of text messages sent the day before Charlie died in which he allegedly wrote out to somebody and also to security guards that he thought that they were going to kill him tomorrow and then that was the day that he was murdered.

Now Natalie asked the following completely reasonable question. If it's true that Turning Point USA has in their possession actual screenshots or something that would show that he knew he was going to be killed that day,

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don't you think we would have seen them by now? Don't you think somebody would have produced that screenshot if that were true? So I think that's what Natalie is pointing out that if that were true, we would have seen it by now. Now there's always possibility that there's some reason we wouldn't, but I don't know what that would be. And then Trump apparently got involved with this drama, and he d…

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