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she said. But it's very easy for the news to turn this into she has a good feeling about the Holocaust. She didn't say that. She said the opposite of that. She called it a tragedy etc. She just said that it was a time when the Palestinians and the Jews had a productive relationship and that gives her a calming feeling about the potential for a future working together because there was a time when…

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will happen? Are we to believe that that message has not yet ever been delivered? What now? I don't know that it has been delivered. I wasn't in the room. I haven't listened to any private conversations between Russians and the United States. But nothing would surprise me more than to find out that against all common sense, against all logic, against everything you know to be smart, that somehow that never came up. Nobody mentioned that. There's nobody in the United States who ever said to Russia if you do this again this is gonna be really bad for you. Nobody said that to them. Maybe. I mean anything's possible. But it seems to me that that's pretty much what we would have told them. And even if we didn't tell them that, second question, do we really need to tell them that? Is it not obvious? Has Putin not been paying attention to the United States for two years? He hasn't noticed that this would be sort of a sticky point with us?

I'm sure Schumer says this to make us think that the administration never had that idea. It's like, "Oh thank you Chuck. Wow we were just gonna go over there and drink vodka but now that you mention it maybe we should talk about some political stuff while we're there. Oh yeah the election stuff. Let's talk about that." Anyway I found that funny.

I'm watching the Trump apparently quoted Tom Fitton and the quote was that the director of the FBI is protecting the same gang that tried to overthrow the president via an illegal coup. So I kind of like the fact that the president and his supporters are referring to the whole Russia hoax thing as a coup because it feels fair. You know I'm the one who's been having a great history of saying that you know words matter and you have to understand what is hyperbole and what it's not. But this looks like a coup. We just don't know who was thinking of it that way and who was thinking of it as I just better do my job and check on this because there's some question about Russian connection. I think some members of the FBI were just doing their job, didn't think there was anything there but they figured well we'd better check. So I think some of it was that but clearly there was something else going on. So there were some people who had different intentions. We know that for sure.

Look at all the news that we've had lately that turned on the meaning of words. Now I've told you before that one of the ways you can know you're entering the golden age, an age where a lot of our big problems are solved or on the way to being solved, is that we run out of problems but the news still has to fill the news with stuff. And if you don't have problems what are they gonna do? Well they're gonna manufacture. So listen to the things that would have been news and it's all about words. Was the Russia collusion thing a coup or an event or not? Was it spying or was it an investigation? Was it a hoax? Is climate change a hoax, a Chinese hoax, or is

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it science? Was there collusion or was there conspiracy? Was there obstruction or was there just somebody doing his job? I mean almost all of our news is about somebody interpreting words. Did the president say fine people? Did AOC say that? So pretty much the news is people acting as if they don't understand how words work. Something like 80% of all the news is that somebody has to pretend they d…

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