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President Biden spoke today about the pro-Palestinian protests on college

campuses for roughly three minutes and then he got the hell out of there.

Mr President, do you think the National Guard should intervene?

No.

President Biden said no, but yes, if anyone brings their guitar to the quad.

Ah ha ha ha ha. Maybe we'll have a guitar genocide this time. It'll be fun for everyone. They love those

guitar things and they can rhyme, do all kinds of things. They don't have to shower. They love it when they don't have to shower.

It's a smelly bunch, smelly bunch of people, people that smell.

You know, Democrats, you see the thing going around the internet, there's a thing going

around the internet.

Asking women. going around the internet.

Asking women, if you're lost in the woods, you're wandering in the woods, you're out in a forest somewhere.

Would you rather run into a bear, a bear, or a man.

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