needed three months to do what? Can you tell me there's any good reason for a three-month delay? What we needed was a one-week delay to get a new judge because that judge does not have what it takes.

Now as Mike Cernovich, I'm sure accurately, pointed out on Twitter, I'm watching the news and all the lawyers and everything and they act like they're surprised about why it is that Flynn may have pleaded guilty to something he doesn't necessarily think he did even though he says he did that in court. And otherwise at the same time there was this more serious charge, the foreign agent registration thing.

And it assumes to me the obvious answer, and the one that Mike surmises as well, is that Flynn worked a deal with prosecutors with the government to plead guilty to the lesser charge. Now that doesn't necessarily mean he thinks he's guilty or that he wasn't entrapped.

So you have this weird situation where he may have, wait for it, Flynn may have been forced to lie in court by the government as the only way to avoid jail time. Do you see that? The government may have created a situation where the only way he can avoid jail is to lie the way they want him to. Because if he doesn't lie they've made it pretty clear that they're gonna untap this foreign agent registration thing and get him on a far more serious crime.

So the judge was saying, are you sure you want to plead guilty? Because even the judge, who was apparently... even that thinks that maybe Flynn should not have been pleading guilty because they were sort of hinting that he had been entrapped, etc.

So Flynn is in this weird situation where he's trying to get it both ways. He wants to plead guilty to the lesser charge, which is the only way he can get no jail time, but he also wants that lesser charge not to be necessarily binding. Wouldn't it be great if they just threw it out? But if they throw it out, isn't the government going to come after him for the greater charge? So they can't really throw it out. He can't really say he didn't lie because apparently there were some lying going on even if it was just... it just depends. But we don't know why he would lie. We're all still confused about that.

So none of this story makes any sense. So everybody in the story is sketchy. The judge is sketchy. We don't have a real understanding of why Flynn was doing what he was doing. But the Turkey consulting is problematic. And the government, the government looks pretty sketchy in this deal. It's like I'm not sure who to root for anymore. Everybody looks a little bit dirty in this situation.

That said, if Flynn gets any jail time I believe he will be pardoned just automatically.

There's a big story today about the Trump charity that got closed down apparently, and lots of accusations of irregularities and Trump using it as his personal piggy bank, etc.

I'm not going to defend anything with anybody's charity. I'm not going to defend the Clinton charity. I'm not going to defend the Trump charity. I'm not going to defend anybody's charity, right? If rich people have charities I'm not going to defend that. If a rich person has a charity and it's anything except their own money, somebody wants something. And maybe it should just be illegal. Maybe it should just be illegal to have a charity if you have any influence in the world because it becomes just a way to... well it's just this huge opportunity for all kinds of shenanigans.

So I'm watching this Trump charity thing and I can't judge whether that's a big problem or a small problem. Is it his problem or is it somebody else's problem? Is it whoever ran it? Is it a civil problem? Is it a federal problem? Is it a state problem? I don't know what that is. I can't wrap my head around how big a problem that is. But it's out there.

Let's talk about the wall funding in a minute. Let's talk about Sargon of Akkad again. So he's the guy who got kicked off of Patreon, the funding platform, for saying some things. He used the n-word but he used it in the sense of insulting people who use the n-word. So the context was, I believe his interpretation is he was insulting all the alt-right racist type people by using the n-word in an ironic way the way they use the n-word. And so really it was the opposite of racism. But because he used the language of racism he was unfairly kicked off the platform. Something like that. I think that's close to what happened.

And here's why I was trying to figure out why I'm not quite on board with the free speech part of this. And I think it comes down to this. And you've heard me say this a lot. That you are not what you think. So your inner thoughts are not who you are. Who you are in this world is what you do. So your actions are what define you.

And if your actions are bad but your intentions are good, you're still the actions. If your actions are good but maybe you're evil on the inside, you're still the actions. You're not the evil on the inside. Because if you do the evil then you're the evil person.

And what Sargon did was he used the n-word a number of times in public in an insulting fashion. Now again, the technical reason he used it had to do with his inner thoughts. So his inner thoughts seemed to be allegedly pure, meaning that he was against racism. Everybody's happy about that, right? But those were his inner thoughts. We're not judging him on his inner thoughts. He's being judged for doing something, for actions. In other words, the things he said using the n-word. Anybody should have known would get you kicked off a platform no matter what context you use it in.

So if somebody uses the n-word several times as an insult, even if that insult is not directed at a black person, that is sort of hate speech. The defense that his internal thinking was non-racist seems to be true as far as I can tell, right? I'm not a mind reader. But let's say it is true. It kind of doesn't matter because what he did was unambiguously hate speech. In other words, the words were... his internal intentions and even the way you internally processed it, many of you, were not bad. But it probably doesn't matter.

It's hard to give an analogy of how this would be a good thing. But you know, if you steal food because you're hungry it's still a crime, right? If you steal food because you're hungry it's still a crime, right? He did a bad thing. In other words, he used words that everybody in society knows are bad wor