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the guns. How can you explain those two things? Well, unfortunately there is one way to explain it. Now I'm not going to say that this is the truth. I'm going to say that it would explain our observation in a way that nothing else does. And it goes like this: the cartels effectively own the government of Mexico. The cartels make a tremendous amount of money helping small groups of mostly Mexican…

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bout the stain on Trump? Well here's the thing. If you get impeached because you did, let's say, what Richard Nixon did, well that's a stain forever. If you get impeached for what Bill Clinton did, it's kind of a mixed bag, isn't it? How many of you think back to the Clinton administration and think, well, let's say if you're a Democrat, how many look back to the Bill Clinton administration and say, you know, he did a whole bunch of good things. It was a very successful administration from my perspective as a Democrat. And by the way I would agree that Bill Clinton had a successful presidency. But I have not once, not one time, have I thought back and said to myself, you know, I think less of Bill Clinton because he got impeached. No, once. I don't believe Bill Clinton has a stain on his presidency as big as the stain he left on Monica's dress.

You know, certainly it's part of the story. Everybody's heard of it. He would prefer that didn't happen. His supporters would prefer it didn't happen. But if you're talking about the impeachment itself, which did not remove him from office, is he stained by the impeachment? Not really. I mean he might be stained by the event itself but his presidency looks completely intact to me. Am I wrong? How many people think less of Bill Clinton because of impeachment? I don't think I've ever met one person. Have you? Test on yourself.

Bill Clinton actually did something that both parties thought was worthy of impeachment or at least enough of them thought it was worthy of impeaching and there's no stain. There's a stain on what he did but not on the impeachment part. So I think Bill Clinton's story tells us what's going to happen with Trump, is that it's going to look like a badge of success by the time he's done with it. You know, Trump's better than anybody at grabbing the gun out of the mugger's hands and turning it around. You know, fake news was originally a complaint about Trump and then he turned it around. Now it's a complaint about the entire media business, which he has ruined the credibility of completely. They've done a good job of that themselves.

All right, let's talk about cell phones. In some Twitter feed the other day, I guess I was supporting Bernie's version of events with Elizabeth Warren. So it doesn't matter the details but I did a supportive tweet about Bernie saying essentially that I believe his version of the story. And the number of Bernie's supporters jumped in to say they were grudgingly agreeing with me as their Bernie supporters but they hated it because I'm such a terrible person and that I'm the worst person in the world and that agreeing with me is as hard because I'm so terrible.

And I thought to myself, I don't know too many people I would call terrible people. I know a lot of people I disagree with. I know a lot of people who have done specific things I don't like. But I don't

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really think of too many people as just terrible people. And I think, what kind of fake news are you reading? Like I don't even know where it comes from. What exactly have I done that would qualify me to be a terrible human? I mean not just somebody you disagree with, not somebody who said a stupid thing or a dumb thing. Now some of you whose opinions don't make sense, none of that. But horrible h…

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