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We got to talk about the summer, the seasonal summer rioting. It looks like it's going to come back.

To get into this topic, I got to, I got to start here.

I was going to talk about it last hour, but with the market news and the markets are still just bad.

Everything is bad.

I think it's a fact that people on the right tend to understand the views of people on the left.

Better than people on the left understand the views of people on the right.

And it actually gives people

the right somewhat of an advantage in being able to talk to voters in general. And we're seeing that

in a lot of the polling that's out there. The reason this is the case is because so much of the media

is also on the left, that the media, when it presents stories, tends to present them from

the views of the left. And the left increasingly caricatures anyone who disagrees with them.

So, for example, if you're on the left and you want to understand the rights view on abortion,

you immediately descend to, well, you just want to control women's bodies. You want the government to tell

women what to do with their bodies. Actually, an overwhelming issue is that the Roe v. Wade decision

was constitutional overreach, that you can't

read the Constitution in any way, shape, or form, and find a right to an abortion in it, so it

should have been dealt with at the state legislative level under the 10th Amendment, where

things not expressly consented to Congress or granted to Congress under the Constitution or

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