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Dilbert is back, and he's got a new book and a new joke. Also, Apple announces a major upgrade to the iPhone, and Elon Musk says it might be a hit on your privacy. And God s Debris is destroying its competition in all of its categories on Amazon.
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They've corrected that glitch, so it should be available next week.
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Meaning if you order it today, you'll get it next week.
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Well, if you're subscribing to Dilbert, either on X or on Locals,
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you would see that you'd see both the digital calendar that exists only in digital form this year.
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But you would see two of my finest jokes at the same day.
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I rarely laugh out loud when I look at my own comic.
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both the one I wrote 10 years ago and the one that's brand new today.
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Well, Apple was zooming up on the stock market yesterday,
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I think on the backs of their announcements about things.
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Because when I first heard what, you know, what Apple was doing,
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I said to myself, ah, you know, it looks like a swing and a miss.
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But then I started looking at the things that the AI added to the Apple phone would do for me.
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And I wouldn't be able to live without the upgrade.
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Because the things it's adding are things I really, really, really wanted to do.
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So I think other people probably have the same gut feeling.
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So if you look at it analytically, it's hard to understand Apple.
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And I've always had the feeling that I couldn't escape and I'm definitely going to upgrade.
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That same irrational thing that says I must have this product.
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Apple is so, so good at the persuasion part of the business.
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We're all concerned about Elon Musk's comment that it might be a hit on your privacy.
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But I surrendered probably 25 years ago to a lack of privacy.
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And in a way, I'm like the canary in the coal mine for the rest of you.
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You can see what it's like to live with the presumption of no privacy ever.
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Meaning that I live my life like all my messages are public and have for decades.
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And it's the only way I can keep peace of mind.
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Because I know as a public figure, everything I do is public.
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Here's what happens when you're a public figure.
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If you're not a public figure and you send a spicy message to your friend,
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your friend will go, ah, that's a spicy message.
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If you're famous and you send a spicy message to somebody, they're going to show all their friends.
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Hey, I got a spicy message from a famous person.
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So there's no such thing as a private message once you're a public figure.
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So once I came to grips with the fact that as a public figure, you don't really have any privacy.
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And you also assume that anybody who's on the inside of any entity that you apply to, you know, in other words,
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if I've got an account for any kind of service or app, I assume they're all over my business just because they can be.
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So I live my life like, well, here it is, you know, if you don't like it, there's nothing that I don't think there's anything that could ever come out that I would do anything except shrug if it became a public matter.
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Well, people are talking about the new Star Wars movie.
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And somebody said it was so bad, it ruins the originals.
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It's so bad, it ruins things that have already happened in history, the first three.
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Because the new ones changed some of the mythology and narrative of the old ones, but not in a way that people liked.
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So I haven't seen it, but somebody said, you know, something about the force is no longer magical and Anakin's no longer special and, you know, just everything.
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The things you assumed about the originals just stopped being true.
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But the best part, I don't know if this is true, but I'll call this a recreational belief on my part.
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I made no effort to find out if this is true because it's funny.
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So I'm going to treat it as a recreational belief, meaning, I don't know if it's true.
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But somebody said in the movie, somebody said that in the movie, lesbians can use the force to have babies without men.
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Now, that's probably not exactly what the movie is.
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But as a recreational belief, yeah, I'm going to accept that.
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That in the new movie, they use the force so that lesbians can have babies without men.
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Probably the plot has nothing to do with that, but it's sort of, it's funny.
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How many of you saw Kevin Spacey appearing on Piers Morgan and talking about his, what he would say was accidental and minimal contact with Jeffrey Epstein?
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So his story is that indeed he was on flights with Epstein, but he said it was in the context of Clinton charitable stuff.
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So he was just a person using a plane, as others were, in the service of charity.
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He says that he didn't know who Epstein was back in those days, and that he's pretty sure that Epstein was on the plane some of those times.
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But he didn't really know anything about Epstein or even have any contact with him.
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Now, how many of you have ever been on a private jet?
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And how many of you have been on a private jet with the owner of the private jet?
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If you've never experienced it, I don't really think it's a thing that you fly on a private jet with the person who owns the jet, and he doesn't introduce himself.
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Now, I don't know how many people are on the jet, but I feel like if I'm Epstein and my whole job is connecting, imagine, just put yourself in this position.
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Imagine you own the jet, you're on the jet, and one of the other people on the jet is Kevin Spacey at the top of his fame.
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And as the owner of the jet, it never occurred to you to get up and introduce yourself to one of the most famous actors in the world who's on your jet 20 feet away from you and absolutely would want to say hi to you because you own the jet.
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I will tell you that it looked to me like he was lying the whole way through, and I base that on body language and the way he acted.
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Now, that doesn't mean he did any crimes, so I want to be very clear.
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I'm not accusing him of anything, but it looked like he was selling a narrative because maybe the truth didn't defend him as well as it could have or should have.
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But he sure didn't look honest, and it could be an actor thing.
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You know, I feel like if you're a professional actor at that level,
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that difference between acting and telling the truth gets a little murky.
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So when I saw him trying to tell the truth, he looked like he was acting to me.
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But the problem is actors might look like they're acting when they're telling the truth sometimes if they're really trying to sell the truth because it matters to them.
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Well, the lefties, the Democrats, are trying to warn the world that if Trump gets him back, he's going to get his retribution.
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John Bolton is saying you're not worried enough about his revenge.
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And all the left-leaning publications are saying, yes, Trump is going to come and get revenge.
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And I guess AOC and Racial Madnow believe that he might try to round him up and put him in prison camps because that's what he does.
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Number one, revenge is what holds civilization together.
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Revenge is the only thing that holds civilization together.
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If you hurt my family, I'm going to get revenge.
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That's the entire glue of civilization is revenge.
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Oh, we're going to have it processed through the justice system.
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It's so that anybody who fucks with us knows that we're coming for them.
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Your entire social structure depends on revenge specifically and more than just about anything else.
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If you lawfare Trump and you hunt Republicans, someone is coming for you.
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If you lawfare Trump and you hunt Republicans, both of which are obviously in evidence, someone's coming for you, guaranteed.
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I can call it justice if I want to feel good about it.
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But the thing is that whatever you call it, it's still going to happen.
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Somebody else can say, oh, Israel is defending itself.
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And there's nothing you can fucking do about it.
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Short of that, we'd all be dead from natural causes and, I guess, getting robbed by bad people.
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So, importantly, but here's the thing that they miss and Republicans need to say every time.
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Republicans' revenge, or you could call it justice, has to be 100% legal.
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And it has to be within the constitutional requirements.
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The Republican identity is adherence to the Constitution because it's the only thing that keeps us from being savages.
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So, even with its flaws, Republicans are absolutely wed to the Constitution.
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You know, I see that Trump gets a lot of character hits.
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The people who don't want to support him say, well, his character.
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Let me explain to people who are not understanding why Trump has so much support.
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Despite what you think is his bad character in some domains.
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The only character that Republicans really care about is, what do you think about the Constitution?
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I think that Republicans could elect an atheist.
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But it's within their ability if said atheist said, hey, you know what?
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The best possible thing under our constitutional system is to have a president who doesn't play favorites with religion.
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And by the way, I do understand it's a Christian, let's say, influenced process.
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And we don't want to change that unless we have a really good reason.
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If you said that, Christians would say, oh, well, I would really prefer you are a Christian.
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You're going to adhere to the Constitution, which was created by people who had at least Christian influence.
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Because there's no Christian that says you have to change.
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There's no Christian in the United States that says you must change to be a Christian.
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So as long as your president has one character, let's say, quality, which is an absolute devotion to the Constitution and the country, you're good.
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So you don't have to be surprised when a Republican or anybody else supports Trump.
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It's simply that we think the character that matters in this case is Constitution.
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And I don't really care what column you mark something down.
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As long as you paid your taxes, I don't care what column you mark it down in.
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But here's the other thing that Democrats need to know.
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That's if Trump ever becomes an evil tyrant, Republicans will kill him for you.
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And the F-15s aren't going to protect him, no matter what dumbass Biden says.
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To imagine the Republicans would be okay with somebody they like becoming a dictator is
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completely missing the whole point of being a Republican or a conservative, which is if
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How about if you try to violate the Constitution by becoming a tyrant, we'll kill you.
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How about if you were our best friend yesterday, but today you become a tyrant, we're still going
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It's not just for killing somebody that's on the other team.
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It's for killing our own team, if necessary, right?
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Anyway, the reason the Republicans don't see a dictator risk is that they have not been
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So if you've been brainwashed into thinking Trump might become a dictator, despite four
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years of experience in which nothing like that happened, and the biggest complaint about
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him is he didn't have enough power to do anything he wanted to do, like even build a
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fucking wall, if you could live through that and still think he's going to be a dictator,
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despite 80 million people with guns who are willing to shoot him the minute he becomes
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a dictator, like literally, not hyperbolically, if he ever became an actual Hitler, the Republicans
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I say us because I'm on pro-Trump, even though I'm a Democrat.
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So Axios reports that the fake local news sites now exceed the real stuff.
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So there are all these dark money sites pretending to be local news, but they've exceeded the
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The FBI has just announced that crime has plummeted for the first quarter of 2024.
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I'm going to take an extra sip while you laugh at the ridiculousness of all the data that
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you're going to see this between now and election day.
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Between now and election day, there won't be a single fucking piece of data that you should
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And this one really stands out because apparently there were changes in the reporting requirements.
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So what we're seeing is a change in how the data was collected and reported.
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There might be a change in crime, but it would be hidden by the fact that the reporting structure
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And one of the biggest lies in America is that voters determine the outcomes of elections.
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Would you all agree that we could dispense that fantasy?
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It's really, really obvious that that's not what's happening.
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What's happening is basically we live in a hoaxocracy.
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So we live in a world in which lying doesn't have consequences, if you're in the political
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It used to be that the candidates could just tell a bunch of lies and the other one would
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But now it's extended all the way into the CIA can legally, I think, completely interfere
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And while the intelligence people in general, and they can just run ops, they can actually
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run an op to create a fake narrative, not just lie.
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But pay somebody to develop fake information, pay somebody to act a certain way.
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The Russia collusion hoax, the laptop hoax, the fine people hoax, the insurrection hoax.
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This is your intelligence agencies running games on the United States just the way they
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do in other countries when we try to influence them.
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So the real competition is not between candidates and their messages.
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You can see for yourself that policy is not having a big role in this election, and probably
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What we have is a competition between government liars, which include the intelligence community,
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and something that caught them by surprise, which is the most persuasive populist in the
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So Trump simply broke the mold by being so persuasive that their various machinations and
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They didn't know how to control that specific persuasive threat.
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But moreover, Trump has a sort of a secret army of hypnotists who have been working with him
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And if you combine Trump's power with a secret cabal of hypnotists, they can actually match
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That's how good Trump is with persuasion, especially when he has help.
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The only reason this is a fair fight is because Elon Musk bought X.
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It wouldn't be, I'll bet Trump wouldn't even be in the close, in the polls, except that there's
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now something closer to free speech happening, and it's on X, so it's a pretty big footprint.
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It's just a bunch of hoaxes run by the intelligence units to make you think you should vote one way
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versus another, and countering that is the most persuasive populist who is supported by a cabal
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of super persuasive people that I call hypnotists.
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Now, the beauty of hypnotists, and also with the intelligence people, is they have one quality
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They can operate right in front of you, and you can't see them.
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Now, we can see them because the various hypnotists who are pro-Trump, and again, I'm using hypnotists
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as more of a provocative title for just people who understand persuasion and how the persuasion world works.
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Yeah, I'm talking about your Sertovich's, you know, your Jack Posobiec, you know, your Glenn Greenwald's,
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your Schellenberger's, you know, I could go on and on.
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But it's the people who are not hypnotized, and the people who have enough experience that they can see the plays.
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So for the first time, there's now visibility on what the real system is, which is an intelligence operation,
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you know, backed by rich people, basically, and the State Department.
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And Mike, and of course, Mike Benz is the other big part of that.
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And I say that because Mike Benz called himself autistic.
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But what he does mean is he has a certain kind of mind that can play chess and can play classical music.
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And as luck would have it, that specific mind allows him to look deeply into all the connections in the government and tell you how they're all connected, which you and I can't do, because we can't beat him in chess.
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We can't play, you know, concert, piano, and our brains aren't wired that way.
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But his is, and so he just tells you what's true, and you go, oh, my God, now I see it.
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But once he says, this person worked for this person, you know, this person met with this person, it all makes sense.
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It's all possible because of Elon Musk buying X and saving free speech, literally saving free speech.
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Well, The Hill is reporting that Democrats want to remind people of all the bad things that Trump has said and to cure what they call the Trump amnesia.
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They're worried that voters forgot all the bad things that Trump said.
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All right, I'll be your hypnotist, and I'll translate that brainwashing.
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What that means is all the bullshit that the Democrats made up about Trump, like saying drink bleach to cure your, you know, things that didn't happen, saying that the soldiers were losers because they died or something like that didn't happen, fine people hoaxed didn't happen.
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So what they're calling Trump amnesia is their clever persuasion play to make you think those things were ever true in the first place.
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I think that's a counter to Trump derangement syndrome because you notice that there's always a counter.
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You know, whenever there's something that they're doing wrong, they will definitely blame you for doing it.
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I had the bad luck to turn on CNN when they had a guest, Adam Kinzinger, on.
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And he talked for, I don't know, five minutes or so, and all I could see was severe mental illness.
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Like his face seems all puffed up like he's on some kind of medication and everything he said sounded like a hallucination.
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You know, if all the bad things Trump was going to do and the bad things that happened that didn't really happen.
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I mean, none of it seemed like it was based in any kind of reality whatsoever.
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Now, I don't think he's in the category of a clever operator.
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Well, here's a question I was using my chat GPT for to help me out while I was preparing my notes.
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I saw somebody who said on a post, Chris Marks said on X, that in 1988, experts predicted sea level rise would wipe out the Maldives within 30 years.
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But the Maldives have actually grown instead of shrunk 36 years later.
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And then he says, Chris says, the catastrophists are battling zero with their predictions of doom.
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Either it will be drier than usual or wetter than usual.
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Either it will be more hurricanes or less hurricanes, you know, fewer hurricanes.
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Have the doom predictors really actually literally been wrong 100% of the time?
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It's totally biased for whatever the narrative is to the left.
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And so it supported the idea that the catastrophists, as Chris calls them, have made correct predictions.
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Would you like to hear some of the correct predictions?
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If you heard that people correctly predicted the future based on climate change theory, and then they hit their mark,
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Maybe if you were doubting climate change was a problem.
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But you heard that they made predictions, like years ago, and then nailed it.
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Here's some predictions that they totally nailed, according to chat GPT.
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That the Pacific Northwest would have a heat wave in 2021, and it caused a bunch of fires and stuff.
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Did they predict that it would happen in the Pacific Northwest?
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No, they predicted that there would be extremes, so that there would be some places, you know, having extreme dryness.
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But in other places, they said there would be extreme wetness.
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So they predicted extremes in heat waves, but also extremes in flooding.
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And sure enough, there were some places that had one in a thousand year floods.
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And then the Pacific Northwest had an unprecedented heat wave.
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Does that sound like a good prediction and they really hit it to you?
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This is designed for people who are not good at analysis.
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Watch me make a prediction, and then I guarantee I'm going to hit it.
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Sometime in the next year, there will be at least one region of the Earth that has a weather-related event that's unprecedented.
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And it will be caused by me snapping my fingers.
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And the next year, there's going to be an extreme weather event.
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I mean, you know, the climate change couldn't tell you it was going to be in the Pacific Northwest in 2021.
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I'm just telling you, in the next year, somewhere on Earth is going to break a record for weather, and it's because I snap my fingers.
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No, you don't, because the weather sets records all the time.
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I don't remember a single time in my childhood where I turned on a weather report and some weather man, usually man back then, or weather woman, or weather non-binary or trans, was telling me that there's a new record in Idaho.
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So the catastrophists went from predicting things you could measure.
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You could measure the sea level at the Maldives.
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But every time they predicted something you could measure, it didn't happen.
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Did they say, well, I guess our theories are debunked because every time we predict it doesn't happen?
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They changed their predictions to something unlikely will happen.
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Something unlikely is guaranteed to happen no matter what, with or without climate change.
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The world is a big, you know, changeable ball floating through space.
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It's changing all the time for all different reasons, you know, at least in terms of specific geographies.
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They're hiding the ball by saying, well, we predicted this 2021 Pacific Northwest.
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You say, did you predict it would happen there and only there and then 2021?
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Well, no, but we correctly predicted things like that.
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I just correctly predicted that things like that will happen next year.
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So then I asked chat GPT, are there any of the years in that period where they think they're so happy they nailed that Pacific Northwest thing?
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I said, can you tell me, did the temperature go up every year?
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They said between 2017 and 2018, the temperature was stable.
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So 2017 and 2018, the temperature didn't increase.
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But then they're doing a victory dance because in 2021, there was a heat wave.
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I was watching MSNBC again because I watch it for the comedy.
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And what you notice is that MSNBC's content is no longer about the news.
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They're creating content by their reaction to the news, even though the news is nothing.
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It's like those reaction videos of people listening to a great song for the first time.
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So I was watching, I guess it was on Morning Joe.
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If you really think that Joe Biden is the one losing it,
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I think everyone in the world thinks Joe Biden's losing it.
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He said, watch the performance in Las Vegas over the weekend.
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And then they didn't show the speech or anything that would make Trump look bad.
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They just sort of took something out of context.
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The news is the reaction to the thing they made up.
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But if you watched it thinking it was news, my God, you'd be lost.
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So then I saw somebody on social media say something about Morning Joe and, you know,
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And somebody made an allegation that he was involved with her.
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And I thought, I think I would have heard that news.
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So I asked ChatGPT to give me a history of Morning Joe before he was Morning Joe.
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But then a few months later, he announced he was quitting for personal reasons.
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But there was no reporting that he was involved with anybody or having an affair.
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But at least ChatGPT says there was nothing like that going on.
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Who runs for office, wins, and then quits halfway through?
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If he resigned six months or so after he won the election, it kind of suggests to me that
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maybe he was planning to quit as he was running or that something happened we don't know about.
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Somebody young who had an undisclosed heart problem, who had the bad luck of collapsing and
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hitting her head on exactly the thing that would kill her.
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You know, we always suspect that the intelligence people try to own public figures through the
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And I don't see anything in the news that looks, like, reliable that would say anything
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Because the things he says are so laughably stupid.
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He doesn't look like he's doing anything close to an opinion or the news.
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It looks like somebody paid him to say bad things about Trump.
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He looks like he'll die if he doesn't insult Trump.
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I also have a theory about Lawrence O'Donnell, because he has the smug idiot look.
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And I always wonder, like, what's behind the smug idiot?
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Where he says stupid things, usually about Trump, but then he's got a smile of satisfaction
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And the two things are just so jarring and uncanny valley to me.
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I think Lawrence O'Donnell is someone who never got enough attention for his good works
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during his life, because he's actually quite accomplished.
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And I think that once he found that all he had to do is cleverly insult Trump, and he would
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get more public acclaim and more accolades than he did for any of his good work.
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I think he was a writer on The West Wing, for example.
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I don't know what he contributed specifically, but if you're a writer on The West Wing, the
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best written show, of course, I also believe that it was written entirely by the producer
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of the show and that the writers had almost nothing to do with it.
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But I'm saying that he looks like a guy who found a way to get a pat in the back and a
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rub of the belly and a treat, and all he has to do is insult Trump.
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So he's got this smile on his face like he's discovered infinite candy, and he can just
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stick his beak in and suck out the sugar, and it's just a good time.
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He just has to say, and what do you think about Donald Trump?
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And Donald Trump, he's probably a rapist and maybe a racist.
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The insights that you're bringing to this, Lawrence, are so impressive.
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Like this smug idiot look is that they can literally say any damn thing about Trump, and
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they know it, and they just give some big reward.
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While crime might become illegal in California again, the initiative to end it, Proposition
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47, Proposition 47 was the thing that said you could steal up to $950, and it wouldn't
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And the Californian public has realized that we don't have a real government, because if
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we had a real government, we wouldn't have to do this.
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So the citizens of California are rebelling, and basically, it's an insurrection.
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I mean, the ballot initiative to get rid of Prop 47 is very specifically an insurrection,
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because we're cutting the government out of the decision, because they can't get it right.
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And we believe that the government is acting against our interests as citizens.
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It wouldn't be on the ballot unless a lot of people thought this is wrong, and I'm pretty
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So this might be a little bright spot in the future.
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Anyway, so we know a lot about the whole Hunter Biden Burisma CIA thing, but if you don't
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know the whole thing, and I'll talk about Hunter's conviction next.
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So you remember there were 51 signers of the thing that said the laptop was fake.
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What we know now is that the CIA was entirely behind the Ukraine revolution, entirely behind
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the Ukraine war, and that the CIA is licensed to lie and do illegal acts, and that a lot of
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the things we've seen are they're licensed to do illegal acts.
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Remember you said to yourself, my God, we just found out that 51 intelligence people lied to
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And you say to yourself, well, that's got to be illegal.
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It's specifically legal to lie to the United States citizens for an op.
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They can break the law, any law they want, apparently, and they can lie to the American
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So they were just doing their jobs of covering up a thing.
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Now you say to yourself, but is it their job to cover up for a Hunter Biden?
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Hunter was on the board of Burisma because of the CIA, because we wanted them there.
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So the Hunter Biden crime family, if they were completely, let's say we understood everything
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we did, it would unravel the whole CIA interest, which they can legally lie to you to keep private.
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Would that be illegal under every normal context?
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I think they're actually authorized to do exactly anything they want.
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I'd love to be wrong about that, but I think that maybe no laws were broken, at least by
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the people who organized it, if they were doing it under the CIA banner.
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So thanks to Mike Benz and a number of other people, but mostly Benz, I think, for unraveling that
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So we know that Burisma was just this, was the vehicle that the CIA was going to use to control
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And that was the reason we were there in the first place.
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We wanted to bankrupt Russia and make them non-competitive if we wanted to control other
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So for example, if we wanted to dominate Syria, we would rather that Russia was too weak to
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If we wanted to dominate any other country in which they have a relationship, we wanted them
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And under that context, how do we look at Hunter's gun conviction?
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So he now would be a convicted felon if all this is finalized.
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Have you noticed that the news keeps talking about the fact he might go to jail?
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And yet the news also says he's totally not going to jail.
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He's totally not going to jail, of course, because it's the first offense and wouldn't
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But maybe it's also to cover up that the conviction is a diversion.
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Now, as all the smart people said, and James Comer said something like this, basically,
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if James Comer said that if he were going to make a list of the top 10 crimes that Hunter
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committed, his gun crime wouldn't be on the top 10, because they get all kinds of fairer
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violations and not paying his taxes and all kinds of stuff.
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So anyway, do all of you believe that the gun conviction was just so they could say nobody's
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above the law, but since Hunter wasn't possibly going to go to jail and he could get pardoned
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by his father any time, Hunter seemed pretty relaxed after being convicted for something
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Because his only problem was the court case itself.
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That was he had to be there and go through the business and pay for it.
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He didn't really have a problem of going to jail.
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So once the felony conviction was, you know, in the bag, all his problems were solved because
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So it does look exactly like they're sacrificing him, but not really because he's not going to
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go to jail and his reputation isn't going to get any worse.
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And do you think Joe Biden feels bad that Hunter can't get a gun now?
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Imagine you're the father, put yourself in Joe Biden's position.
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If you pardon him, correct me if I'm wrong, but he can go get another gun.
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No, I guess he couldn't because he used to be a, well, I don't know.
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I think he couldn't get another gun, but it certainly makes sense.
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And by the way, I think that Trump should pardon him.
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I'd like to see Trump pardon Hunter for this, to make a point that we don't do bullshit.
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Just to make a point that pardons are real and we don't do bullshit.
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And I think the Supreme Court should throw it out because I don't, because at the moment,
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you know, I think 30 million people are illegal.
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How many people smoke pot, let's say in a, well, it's federally illegal everywhere.
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So if you smoke pot and you own a gun, you could go to jail.
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You should be pardoned because the law is too unclear.
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I say, and the number of Republicans have agreed, by the way, Thomas Massey said, um, he's not
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Second amendment has to, second amendment has to be above this.
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And I get the reason you don't want, you know, people who are currently drug addicts to have
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If it's including marijuana, you got to throw it out.
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He was commenting on a wall street journal article, uh, that apparently says that the
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head of Hamas, Sinwar has a plan, uh, as Cenk characterizes it, a plan to get Israel to lose
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by getting them to believe they're winning by how many Palestinians they slaughter, which
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Uh, so then he says, well, if it's true that Hamas is trying to win by losing, by having
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the maximum amount of Palestinian deaths, if that's true per the wall street journal, then
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And Cenk asked, why is the moron Netanyahu helping Hamas execute their exact plan, which
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Israel's enemies gave it a free pass to do anything it wants.
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So here's, here's what I mean, no matter what Israel does in this situation, it's not really
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going to change the level of hatred by its enemies who are the dangerous ones and the
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So the people who wanted to destroy Israel are not going to more want to kill them.
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Like if they're, if they're enemies want to kill all Jews and expel them from Israel or whatever,
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That Hamas was willing to like run toward them, you know, firing and slaughtering people and
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So they had nothing to lose in terms of the enemy's opinion of them and nothing to lose
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And that was their mistake because, because they gave Israel a free pass.
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Well, if you're following the news, you might say, well, you know, they're going to lose some
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American support and in the long run, that's really going to hurt them.
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Probably they're not going to lose American support in the long run.
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They have a really good relationship and, you know, APEC does a good job, et cetera.
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So they're not going to lose support from the allies that matter.
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Most people don't care about it one way or another, honestly.
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And they're not going to make any difference with how their enemies feel about them.
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Under those conditions, you can do anything you want because you have a free pass.
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And what they want to do is apparently reduce the number of people who can shoot at them
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So why wouldn't you take free money if somebody hands it to you?
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That's all that's happening, is that the bad guys said, we give you no way to win except
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So if I go ahead and try to kill you all, meaning the fighters, not the civilians,
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then I'm just doing the only thing that I have a choice to do.
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But I can also maybe pick up some land and, you know, get some benefits while I'm doing
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Then we'll just do the only thing we can do that will make no difference to anybody except
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If they'd ever presented Israel with a, if you do less of this, we'll do less of that
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proposition, well, then they might have something to work with.
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That might be something to talk about, but nothing like that's happening.
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Their position is we keep our guns and we attack you again later as soon as we're strong
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Those people need to go away and Israel's making them go away.
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So no, don't expect Israel to negotiate when the people that they would negotiate with have
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said, if you negotiate with us, you're just going to be a sucker because later we'll come
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back and kill you because that's the only thing we care about.
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If you design a system in which your enemy must kill you and take your shit because it's
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the only logical thing to do, they're going to kill you and they're going to take your
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If you design a system that guarantees that outcome and then you watch it happen exactly
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Well, what are you going to do if we give you no options?
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Well, if we have no options, I guess we'll do the one thing we can do, which is kill you
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If you're dealing with somebody that says, the more you kill us, the more we're going to
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be worth killing because we'll be even angrier and try to kill you harder.
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Stop giving people one choice and then being puzzled about why they take the one choice.
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There was something I was going to tell you about that I did not.
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That, ladies and gentlemen, is all I wanted to say today.
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I think the most boring thing about today will be all of the Republicans saying exactly
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The prosecutor was clearly crooked because he first tried to get him infinite, permanent
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immunity against all things, which nobody gets.
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And it was stupid and it was rejected by the judge.
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And then when he came back, suddenly he's all about law and order.
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And it definitely was the only thing that could keep Hunter out of jail.
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Well, the Democrats could say, see, nobody is above the law.
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The Dems are saying that Trump has 34 convictions and Hunter has one.
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But it's the same trick that they use with Trump.
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You know, Trump has one issue that they figured out.
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He filled out more than one form, so they give him a count on each form.
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It also creates a precedent for going after Republicans with guns.
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So imagine, if you will, that you joined the NRA.
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So the government, if they needed to, could find out if you have a gun.
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And then suppose you also use social media, and maybe you've purchased marijuana at a dispensary.
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The dispensary would have a record of you, possibly, unless you paid cash.
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And then they would say, huh, here's somebody who's buying weed on a regular basis.
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Here's somebody who has a gun, according to the NRA.
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Let's check the records to make sure they have a gun.
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Huh, I found a Republican who has a gun and has a record of buying weed.
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I suppose if the gun is in the house, and you simply use your wife's gun in its self-defense,
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Give somebody else to buy you a gun and store it at your house.
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Just make sure you know what the gun lock combination is.
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Don't take legal advice from me, because if you do, you'll end up in jail.
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I'm just speculating that G. Gordon Liddy may have found a clever workaround.
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Don't do it, though, because you'll probably end up in jail.
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Everybody on the YouTube and Rumble and X platforms, I'm going to say goodbye now.
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And I'm going to keep the locals subscribers here for some extra.