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o they would have had a base that said, what are you doing? Their base would have stopped that president because they were in on it. So Trump, whether or not any Republicans are in on it, and certainly some must be, that didn't stop him. So he's not stopped by the DEI attacks, let's call it the racism attacks. He's not stopped because somebody on his team is in on it. And lastly, you need basicall…

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detail. I have a favor to ask. You'll see a post that I pinned to my X feed. It's the one at the top in which I'm asking you if I helped you in any way or let's say my work, if my work helped you in any way, to leave a message in that post because my good friend and now biographer Joel Pollak, I've asked him to write my biography and a big part of the biography will be some notion of what I added to the universe. So if you have a story to tell or you know somebody that does, do me a favor and leave a comment just so we know what the general thrust is. And then follow Joel. You'll see his X handle in my post. Give him a follow because if he sees something in the comments that would look good or he wants to follow up with in the book, he will have a way to contact you so he could follow you back and DM you. Okay. And that would be a big favor to me. I would appreciate that.

Well, Iran apparently is having some big protests in the street. So I saw some reporting that we'll see if I've trained you well enough to spot this. The claim is that now there are 32 cities where there will be protests. 32 cities. Now give me the filter on that. Do you think that 32 cities are really going to have protests? All right, here's the filter. We'll see how many of you got it. How big would the protest be in those 32 cities? Because I heard yesterday that the 32-city thing might be true, but some of them would be small crowds. So there's a big difference between a small crowd of protesters and an overwhelming number. But we don't see how many of the 32 are going to be big or have been big and how many of them are just a few hundred people took to the streets so they added it to the count.

But what is new and interesting is that Trump weighed in on this. I thought he would stay out of it because you don't want the Iranian people to organize against the US. You want them to keep their focus on their own government. And like I said, I don't know. Is it a color revolution? Is it completely organic? Or is it really something that the US and Israel are behin

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d? I would be surprised if it's 100% organic. You know what I mean? So I don't think we can tell from here how effective those things are going to be. But here's what Trump said on Truth Social. He said, if Iran kills peaceful protesters, we will come to the rescue, locked and loaded and ready to go. So Trump is basically saying that the US would get involved militarily if the regime murders any…

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