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Now, you know before he was on the trump team, he compared trump to hitler, said trump was like hitler hitler turns out in his private text messages as late as 2020, he was saying trump is a failure as president, but he says he has a simple explanation for why the private messages are different than the public pronouncements. He's a huge liar this is his conversion theory. Here's what he says is that he was won over by trump's performance in office. Really he's you say he's hitler, but then tariffs okay but trump's you know trump i say this every week but it's true every week. He's just losing it more i mean whether it's the dogs eating the or the you know last week it was i could have been bigger than elvis if i had a guitar. I mean, this week he says china ruined the furniture industry, the furniture industry china. He said, i'm not making that. He said. Chairs used to last, but now they only last a couple of months. Yes that's why when donald trump sits on a chair, it breaks china man the chinese they also make pants that split make up that runs and ramps that make you fall down. Those goddamn chinese but you know he knows he's losing and he's losing to a woman so he's now going after the woman he said this week, women, if he gets reelected women will be this a quote will be happy, healthy, confident and free you're promising women will be confident are you a dictator or a deodorant will be the greatest protector of women. In fact, he he cares about women so much that when he had his beauty pageants, he used to walk into the dressing room to check up on them i also obsessed with the idea that kamala harris worked at mcdonald's or rather that she didn't. She says that she did when she was young like a zillions of people do. And he says, no there's no evidence of it. You cannot prove you worked at mcdonald's pads their resume by saying they worked at mcdonald's? what no i i think kamala harris is playing this one just right now. One of her big issues that she's vulnerable on is the border. So she went to the border this week. She went to the border. That was honest used to be the border czar. She visited there. So interesting along with working at mcdonald's. Now that's two places she worked that have a convenient drive through also working to shore up her vulnerabilities. There have been a lot of pressure on her. She doesn't do interviews, she doesn't answer questions. So she sat for an interview. She said, okay i will answer your hardball questions so she went on msnbc okay. All right. I wasn't, you know there were not hardball questions but i still expected not them to be rubbing her feet. I is the week we see it every year. The big event goes on in new york the un meets in this week every year in september and, you know, i mean, you could say a lot of bad things about the un. And i probably will tonight, but there is something stirring about 133 different nations, all coming together, different governments different economies, different goals and they all have one thing in common. They've all bribed eric adams uh eric, he's been on the show. The mayor of new york. I don't understand politicians. I really don't. I mean, he let turkey, the country of turkey bribe him. For what? for, like $10,000 with a bullshit upgrades and flights and hotel rooms. Oh, and what did they get for it oh, the fire department inspection. He called that off on their consulate. I mean, this is so petty and also it was going to get caught. There were other signs turkey was in the fix here. I mean, he renamed the lincoln come on. 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Ooh! yes! plus free shipping on everything and surprise flash deals all day long. Way day starts october 5th. So, mark your calendar and start filling your cart every home carver. Winning is everything stupid. Next saturday at seven on cnn on. She is one of the greatest wits america has ever produced. Currently touring an evening with fran lebowitz. You can catch her next on november 13th in nashville, tennessee and november 14th in richardson, texas fran lebowitz you? how are you? nice to see you as always fran. Yes great to see you. Thank you for coming by for your annual check in here at real time. We need you so badly. The people love you. They want you they need your wisdom. You have wisdom, and you're hoarding your wisdom. So give us your wisdom tonight. What is on your mind? mostly the election, i would guess katharine hayhoe kamala harris yeah. The election is on my mind the state of the world is on my mind eric adams is on my mind. I was well, as in. Yeah as a new yorker, what do you think about that? i mean, i'm so amazed. Not that politicians can be bribed, but that they can be bribed so cheaply he's not, you know, he's not a genius. Eric adams. I mean when i saw, i mean, i didn't even vote for him. Okay? so like, it didn't take much to see that he was, at best, a crook. Okay so i didn't vote for him even in the general. I voted for the socialist candidate. Even though i'm not a socialist, i don't remember her wouldn't recognize her in a crowd of one, but i did not want to be one millionth responsible for eric adams so this should not come as a revelation. I mean the specifics. I agree with you. I mean, when i saw all the specific stuff, like especially the plane tickets where he asked for like three more business class tickets and two more business class tickets, and i thought, eric, you're stealing first class. Like, why business class okay it's like but for the pettiness of the crimes. Don't you think they're coming down on him a little hard? no. He's the mayor of new york no. Yeah, i know, no, i'm not saying i'm not excusing it, but, i mean, i've seen politicians do slightly worse things, right? like, like, try to overthrow the government of the united states. I mean it's just it's i don't know if it rises to this level of umbrage by everybody. So shocked and horrified. And this is the worst thing that ever happened. It's a little over the top. Well, i don't think anyone thinks it's the worst thing has ever happened. It's just that i don't understand why they didn't find this stuff out before, which it was very clear. It's not like, you know before this, he was like abraham lincoln. And then he turned out to be this. I mean, this was a very apparent thing. He didn't even apparently live in new york. There's as far as i can tell, there's one rule for being the mayor. You have to live in new york city okay? he he said he lived in an apartment in brooklyn, but he also had a condominium in fort lee, new jersey, which he said first. He said he had nothing to do with his girlfriend lived in it. Then he said, well yes, but his primary residence was in brooklyn. And i'm thinking, you're a public servant. Yeah. What do you mean? your primary residence? you know. Who are you? barry diller how can you have two residences? you know, i mean so he didn't even live in new york okay. He also ran partially on the fact that he was a vegan, which i cannot think of anything less important than what they eat okay then finally finally, a bunch of reporters went into his apartment in brooklyn and one of them opened the refrigerator. Which is why you don't want a bunch of reporters in your apartment and there was bacon in the refrigerator. Now, i'm no expert on veganism but i'm thinking bacon. Probably not. Yeah. Then he said it was his son's bacon and i think it's because it was his son's apartment i see. All right. So no think they're coming down to earth. You are much more tolerant than i am, bill. Yes. Okay so we know that. And you also don't live in new york, so you don't care who the mayor is. But i do, right? yeah no, i don't all right, well, let's move on now. I don't know if you've seen this program often. Probably not, because it involves electricity. Right you have electric but i've been obsessed all year with this idea that they had four years to get trump five different trials. And somehow they let it go away. Like he's not really going to get the trials. Are not going to be apparently involved in this election at all and the democrats had time to do this time four years. And they had the power. No, they were in office. And the attorney general was merrick garland. And yet it all went away. And now the supreme court has ruled that he's not liable for any of this. Right. Because what he had was supreme court okay. So, you know the democrats had like elected people, the supreme court is completely his, you know, i mean it's so disgraceful this court that it shouldn't even be allowed to be called the supreme court. You know, i mean it is a it's an insult to motown to call it the supreme court. So it's not even it's only a court in the sense that the court of louis xvi was a court. You know, i mean, basically it's a harem. Okay it's a harem. It's trump's harem. So i always feel sorry for the three real judges on the court. You know, i know a lot of people have jobs. Not me, not you. And you have to go to work every day. And there are people you don't like at work but can you imagine having to go to work every day alito, you have to go to work with alito. With kavanaugh, you know, i mean, it must be horrible. So what biden should do? not that you asked, but when they passed that law, the supreme court passed that ruling said, you're not the president, you're the king, which is what that ruling is whatever you want. You can never be, you know held responsible. I thought, you know biden is still the president. No one seems to notice. But should dissolve the supreme court, dissolve the supreme court. Come on i'm the king now, like you said, and go home. Okay, good centrist. Um so you but you had jury duty recently, did you not i'm sorry. Jury duty not recently. I have been called for jury duty numbers of times, but i have not been called recently, and i always managed to get off like the one there were two times i was about to go on like you know, i don't know. I don't know how they do here, but they call 3 million people, you know, you sit there like for days, then they call like 100 people. Then you go into the court and then they pick at literally out of a hat, like you're in like third grade and you're picking like, who's going to be the head of the school picnic, okay? and they pick 20 people. Yeah. Yes and so i was one of those 20 people and it was a buy and bust. It was before marijuana was legal. And they the defendant was in the courtroom. They're ready to go the second they pick the jury and they asked me a question, you know can you be fair or whatever? and i said no and they got off. Why not? i said, because i think drugs should be legal. So this enraged the judge i said, look, i am this kind of thing, this buying bus thing. This is entrapment. I said, this cop who's sitting in the courtroom in his cop suit i said, he goes into the park dressed as a drug dealer or drug buyer, buys the drugs and then arrests the guy. Then he comes in here dressed as a cop. You know if you were going to make this illegal, then he should dress as a cop and run after him eventually got off. Yes after being yelled at by the prosecutor. Speaking of getting off, what did you think of the puff daddy situation mean, i only i'm only asking because sex parties, i mean, it's sort of like a trend now. And i'm wondering. I know you were in new york in the 70s when it was a very bohemian kind of place, and you were a part of the the beautiful people crowd downtown and so forth. Remember plato's retreat that was a straight place, bill. Plato's retreat. Yeah, but it was a sex party. Yes. For