Episode 2447 CWSA 04⧸17⧸24
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1 hour and 10 minutes
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141.67242
Summary
20 years ago, I predicted what life would be like 20 years from now, and I did pretty well. Tesla is developing self-driving cars, and Bob Menendez is facing bribery charges in the U.S. Senate. I also predicted that there would be a terrorist cell in every major city in the country, just waiting for an attack, and that drones would be the main instrument of terror. And then I predicted that the only thing that can save us in this world is persuasion.
Transcript
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Did anybody even hear me talk about Tesla robo taxis?
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I don't think you heard anything the first time I tried this stream.
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Well, if you didn't hear it, Tesla is going to have robo taxis, self-driving Teslas,
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And, of course, Elon said that self-driving cars are obviously where you should put all your emphasis.
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20 years ago, almost right now, 20 years ago, I read a book called The Religion War that was a sequel to God's Debris.
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And in The Religion War, I predicted what life would be like roughly now.
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And here are the things that are predicted in The Religion War.
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The number one thing that I said was, not number one, but one of the main features was robo taxis.
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So, in The Religion War, you could use your app and walk out in the street and get in a robo taxi.
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I predicted 20 years from now we'd have robo taxis.
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I also predicted there would be a terrorist cell in every major city in the country, just waiting for an attack.
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I think that our open borders allowed Iran and China and anybody else who wants to take a whack at us to install as many terrorist cells as they want in as many major cities as they want.
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So, presumably, they're just waiting for war with Iran and then the lights go out or something.
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So, I predicted that, that there would be individual terrorist cells all through the country just waiting to be activated.
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But if they didn't send terrorist cells when the border was open, they weren't doing their job as terrorists.
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I also predicted that the drones would be the main instrument of terror.
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But if you had people in every city and drones, I think drones and terrorism are going to be best friends.
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And then I also predicted that big data would be used to find the prime influencers.
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So, there would be a way to find who was influencing other people the most.
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And therefore, if you only controlled the influencers, you could control everybody else.
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And indeed, our intelligence people have built exactly that.
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They can figure out who are the influential people specifically so they can either boost them or shut them down.
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And then lastly, that the only thing that can save us in this world is a persuader.
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The only thing that can save the world is persuasion.
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Now, you can't buy that book because I got canceled.
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Well, Libs of TikTok tells us that a court in Canada has ordered that the Canadian government has to pay for it.
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And it's a, well, Libs of TikTok calls it a mentally ill person.
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It's somebody who wants to get both a penis and a vagina because this person feels not fully female or fully male.
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So, wants to have a penis and a vagina, the same person.
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If you don't make the penis and the vagina so that they can, you know, reach each other, that's a design flaw.
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Because imagine how frustrating you would be if you were really, really horny and you had a penis and a vagina and you couldn't fit them together.
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If I just put one on my thigh and the other one on the other thigh, I could just see her and fuck myself silly.
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Now, if you're going to go through all the trouble of having a vagina and a penis, just make sure they fit together.
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So, that's just, it's just an engineering sort of a design recommendation.
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Well, meanwhile, over in the U.S. Senate, where everybody's honest, Bob Menendez, senator, is reportedly going to blame his wife for, at his bribery trial.
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Now, this is the trial where he was allegedly taking gold bars and payment from Egyptians.
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And it's important that you hear that they took bribes allegedly from Egyptians.
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And I think the defense will be that she was on her pyramid.
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I didn't make that joke up, but it's still pretty funny.
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Well, meanwhile, the CEO of NPR continues to entertain us by being a stereotype and a parody of herself.
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Have you noticed that the NPR CEO is like, it's like if you were going to do a joke parody of somebody who is overly woke.
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And now, watching Christopher Rufo surface her past tweets and statements is pretty hilarious.
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Anyway, so, Christopher Rufo using the CEO of NPR as a speed bag is just about one of the best shows you could watch.
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So, if you're not watching his ongoing assault on NPR, you really need to.
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Do you think that the CEO of NPR needs to be fired for being an overtly, obviously biased person who couldn't possibly be the right person to be in charge of a news organization?
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But, you know, that one white guy who complained about all the bias there?
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One white guy managed to speak up and everybody's like, well, you're out of here.
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We got women and people of color who need to be talking.
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So, NPR, the longer this goes on where that CEO keeps her job, the funnier it gets because they're really digging in on this.
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And the thing is, the NPR becomes a standard by which you're going to judge all of the corporate, mainstream, traditional media.
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So, as long as this one's just sticking out there like a thorn, it's going to make everybody look bad.
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Well, Governor Newsom continues his destruction of everything we care about.
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They passed a law called the California Journalism Preservation Act.
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Now, what do you all know about the names of laws?
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That the name of the law will always be the opposite of what it does.
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That if you do a law about peace in Ukraine, it's to buy weapons.
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If you make a peacekeeper missile, it's to kill people.
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So, here they have the California Journalism Preservation Act.
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Well, what it was is something that would make the big platforms pay a journalism usage fee for surfacing the local journalism on, let's say, Google.
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Do you know what Google did when they were asked to pay a fee for the local journalism?
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They said some version of, we don't need any local journalism, so we'll just not carry any news from California.
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That's sort of like with those insects who are encased in the amber.
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Yeah, they're very well protected, but they're dead and you can't see them.
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But very well protected by the Journalism Preservation Act, just like amber.
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Well, there's a new study that says that artificial intelligence can predict political beliefs by looking at your face, an expressionless face.
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So, you're not even smiling or doing anything goofy.
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And AI can determine your political preferences.
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Yeah, if anybody's having problems with the feed, just close it and reopen it.
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So, are you surprised that AI and even people can figure out what your political leaning is by looking at you?
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Is there anybody here who can't identify a Republican haircut?
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There is such a thing as a Republican haircut, I'm pretty sure.
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But yeah, I'm pretty sure I can tell a Republican from a Democrat.
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It's not surprising because there have been prior experiments in which we know people can identify mental illness in other people.
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Do you think you could identify somebody with mental illness by looking at their picture?
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Yes, you do, because you've seen mugshots, haven't you?
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If you look at enough mugshots, you could pretty much pick out the people with mental illness.
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Now, apparently it's been, as Zuby recently pointed out on X,
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Zuby pointed out that it's been nine years that some people have had a Trump derangement syndrome.
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Can you imagine the level of mental illness that nine years you would be just like all wound up about Trump?
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And I feel like I can spot mental illness because the earlier study said that people can.
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And when I look at the Democrats, I see mental illness.
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Well, one part of the country has confused political philosophy with mental illness.
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you're going to think you're talking about a political difference.
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And in some cases, inability to analyze things.
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So you tell me how many of you are surprised by these stats.
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So you don't have to do the thing where you're guessing 25%.
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But what percentage of the country do you think of America,
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believe abortion should not be legal past the first three months of pregnancy?
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So in other words, how many people think, you know,
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it's all right if it's in the first three months, but not after?
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So two-thirds of the public seems to be flexible if it's in the first three months
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and way less flexible after the first three months.
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This is one of those topics where I feel like you have a responsibility
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Because I've tried to stay out of it, you know, the abortion thing,
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except that I think it should be in the States to decide and women should decide.
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But I'm not giving you my opinion because I don't think you want it.
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How many people do you think want to ban all abortions and make them all illegal?
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But what percentage of U.S. voters do you think want to ban all abortions?
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So even if the health of the mother is involved, et cetera, what percentage?
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Now, I would have guessed a little bit higher than that.
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And 12% say abortion should be legal up to the first six months of pregnancy.
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So there really aren't that many people, 12%, who would be okay with it beyond six months
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Well, 15% believe it should be legal at any time before the moment of birth.
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So basically, the same number of people who say it should be completely illegal under all conditions
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is roughly the same percentage who think that it should be completely legal under every circumstance.
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It's about 15%-ish on both sides of never and always.
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What do you think is the right answer when you have 15% roughly on each side, never and then always,
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and two-thirds are somewhat in that middle ground where, well, maybe if it's early in the pregnancy,
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Let me give you a decision-making technique that I learned from the police.
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So correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe this is the way you set speed limits on roads,
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So I might have this wrong, so give me a fact check on this,
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but I was told once by a police officer that the way they determine the speed limit for local stuff,
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I think the freeways are just the standard speed.
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But for the more local roads, they put little sensors there.
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You know, they put that wire across the street that records your speed as you go by.
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And they figure out what speed people will drive if there's no sign.
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That's how they figure out what is a reasonable speed limit.
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First, they see how people actually act in the real world.
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They go, oh, it looks like people are going to go 45 miles an hour here.
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If there's no sign, they're just going to drive 45.
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They're not going to spend, they don't set the speed limit at what people actually go at.
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You know, they pull it down a little bit because they know people will exceed it.
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So the idea here is that they simply see what the public thinks is reasonable,
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and then they set the speed limit right in the middle of that reasonable zone.
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So if later people complain, you say, well, I mean, you're a human being.
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We checked with human beings, and this was a reasonable speed limit for this area.
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Now, it looks to me like there might be something like that going on with abortion.
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Now, if you don't like this, just understand that whatever the abortion laws are,
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a lot of people aren't going to like it, no matter what it is.
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But if you have two-thirds of the country roughly in the same area,
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your most stable law, the one that holds society together,
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would be something close to what two-thirds of the people want.
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Now, that's not my opinion of what should be right.
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I'm not an abortion-opinion guy because I have a penis,
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and I think my opinion should be, you know, de-boosted on this topic.
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I'll be happy to tell you which topics I think my opinion should dominate,
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So, anyway, that's probably where it'll end up,
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somewhere where, you know, the states will eventually wind up
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with something closer to what the majority wants.
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All right, NBC is doing another hit job on the X platform,
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saying that they found a bunch of Nazi accounts in a secret way
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that they're not telling anybody how they found them.
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As soon as you see it's NBC and you see it's X,
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NBC may or may not be influenced by our intelligence people,
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I don't know, but I wouldn't believe anything the NBC says
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Don't listen to a competitor to tell you what the other company is doing.
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You don't listen to the competitor to describe their competition.
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They might be right, but you can't depend on it,
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and if they don't show their work, as X is blaming them,
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they're not showing how they found these Nazis.
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X says, oh, yeah, we'll get rid of them, no problem,
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I mean, they're not trying to make the world a better place.
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And X said, if you find Nazis, why don't you tell us first?
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All you have to do is tell us, and we'll take them off.
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So you should see that as just a hit piece from a competitor.
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Years ago, Trump allegedly issued Stormy a gag order
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But he probably thought it wasn't going to go well
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I don't think there's any end in sight for this.
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it should cut down on the number of home invasions
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Well, Google employees tried to do a little sit-in
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in which he is using the computer to design it,
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And it looks like he's building a pretty serious sex toy,
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So you could have something like a relationship
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Because don't you just want to fight with them?
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because he's doing something that's so provocative,
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that create these 155-millimeter artillery shells,
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the exterior body part for these artillery pieces.