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ening right now? Tell me. Is there something happening right now? All right. Well, let me know if you see something. All right. You can send me a text if you have my text. Give me a text and tell me if I missed something. All right. Could be just a troll. I don't know. But so on one hand, what Zelensky needs to know is that Russia won't take over the rest of the country. Has to be some obviously…

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ination has reinforced the severity of the situation where life is on hardcore mode. You can make one mistake and you're dead. It only takes one mistake.

So imagine being Elon Musk and you go from, "Hey, I'm just a rich guy and everybody likes me. I've got some security issues, but everybody rich does." to I can't go out. I can't go out because I might get murdered.

Now I saw Sean Davis from The Federalist had a comment about this on X and he said this is only the case meaning there's this big security problem. He said this is only the case for people on the right. No left-wing podcaster, politician, or journalist have to look around every corner or hire private security everywhere they go. Only conservatives are forced to live this way.

Is that true? Is that an exaggeration or are we just in a bubble? Because I could certainly name several conservative people who can't go outside without security, right? The Daily Wire guys and I don't know if any of the Federalists have that problem but you know obviously Elon Musk has that problem, Charlie Kirk had that problem.

So are we at a point where it's true that conservatives can't go outside but liberals can? That might be a bit of an exaggeration. Surely there have to be some liberals who need security. If you were, let's say, that Marc Benioff of Salesforce, you don't think he has security? Well, I don't know, but I would guess he does. Now, is that because he's just a rich guy and CEOs always need security? I mean, it might be that. Or are there specifically death threats that people on the left are getting? I don't know. Do you know? Yeah, I don't know.

So anyway, Pam Bondi is I think is in a tough spot. I believe that she doesn't have the option of going after the people that Trump wants her to go after because I think that it would be dangerous and that ultimately they would get released or pardoned or something. So it could be that the option of justice is just not possible. It wouldn't matter if Trey Gowdy was replacing Pam Bondi or not. But I did note that Trey Gowdy is a golf partner of Trump. And it feels to me like the very best people that Trump could have in his cabinet or any of his appointees would be somebody who can golf with them. Because if you golf with somebody, you get to know them pretty well and you'd spend a lot o

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f time with them. I kind of like the idea of Trump having golf partners who are also very capable. I mean, Trey Gowdy would be super capable. Feels like that would be a stronger team if he golfed with them. All right. Wealthy people are at the mercy of their security personnel. Yeah, that's true. All right. What else we got? So I guess it was a journalist who went to LA city council recently, Wa…

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