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been trying to ignore the Candace story because it felt a little gossipy and didn't really seem like big news. But the part that caught my attention just sort of in a gossipy way is apparently Candace has a hypothesis that the Egyptian government has two of its official state planes that have somehow intersected with the travels of Erica Kirk like 70 times, and that it would be statistically impos…

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t, you can't unsee it.

So here's a question I have. Why did Rob Reiner treat the anti-Trump stuff like it was his job? I don't think he was doing it for money, but he didn't do it like he was just a concerned citizen. Would you agree? The amount of organization and effort, and he was part of a club and they were all after him. It very much looked like something bigger than just his political opinion. And it's hard for me to believe that he believed the stuff he was saying. You think it was his job? Well, he didn't need the money. He was probably worth hundreds of millions.

Well, anyway, I saw the video where his wife Michelle was literally calling MAGA supporters essentially the same as Hitler's supporters. So if somebody has that much political power as the Reiners did, because it wasn't just what they said in public, it was their work behind the scenes and organizing the anti-Trump stuff, if you have that much political power and you demonize a group of people of which I am a part, at what point can I say bad things about my mortal enemy? Because the Reiners would have been very, let's say, not happy with me.

Do you think that they had a completely innocent opinion of Trump supporters? No. No. They had a very negative opinion of people like me. Not me personally. He never mentioned me personally. But if somebody goes on TV and they're a prominent person and they accuse you of being essentially no better than a Hitler supporter, how polite are you supposed to be when something bad happens to them?

I feel like this whole

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theatrical thing where you have to say, "Oh my God, even though they disagree with you, it's the worst thing in the world because of the family and all that." To which I say, you wouldn't say that if Ben Laden got shot. He would also be my mortal enemy. I did see James Woods say that he was pro-Reiner because he helped him with his career and he was a nice guy. And that's fine. If Reiner had help…

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