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everything. That would be no use to you at all. So that's my opinion on that. Here is the strangest simulation thing. As you know, Kellyanne Conway has been tested positive as well as her daughter. So both Kellyanne and her daughter have the coronavirus. I was googling this morning to try to determine if George Conway has tested positive for coronavirus. You would think that if two family members…

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rdose. Fentanyl of course comes from China and they do it intentionally to hurt the United States. At that time I declared that China was my mortal enemy and I was going to take them down or certainly try as hard as I could. So exactly the time that I publicly announced I was going to take down China and destroy their reputation, first their reputation just fell off a cliff and all over the world people were hating China.

Now I'm not going to say, and here's the part you'll misinterpret, I'm not claiming I did that. A third of the people listening will go away and say he just claimed he did that. I'm just, I'm telling you I'm not claiming that. I'm claiming it as a coincidence. But it's a big one. And by itself it wouldn't mean anything, right? Because a lot of people probably turned negative on China around the same time. So if you just looked at it in isolation it wouldn't mean much. But I got to tell you the number of times in my life that I've picked a desirable global thing to happen and then watched it happen just when I decided it should happen is really freaking me out a little bit. Just a little bit. So the point of the story is not that I'm changing world events. It's that I don't understand why they change when I want them to. Am I just good at guessing what will happen? I'm genuinely confused by it because it happens so regularly. You know, someday I'll give you the list of things that happened just about the time I started persuading that direction.

I feel like somebody says breaking news. Is something breaking right now? Tell me in the comments if you see something. Somebody says, hey you caused it. I know you did. Well I don't make that claim. But I will tell you that I was trying to make exactly this happen. And at the time you would have said it would be unlikely, wouldn't you? If in 2018 when I said publicly, as I did a number of times, that I determined that China was my enemy and I was going to try to take them down, you probably didn't think much would change, did you? You probably thought 2020 would look a lot like 2018 in terms of China. You probably wouldn't think much would be different. Except we're decoupling and there's a lot different. There's a lot different. But I don't take credit for that.

All right, Facebook has decided to ban QAnon across all of its platforms. What do you think of that? Do you think it's reasonable for Facebook to ban QAnon based on the fact that they spread, I guess this would be their argument, that they spread untruths that presumably are potentially dangerous untruths? Do you think that's reasonable? Here's what I think. It might be reasonable. I could totally see how it would be reasonable to remove conspiracy theory BS from your platform. But don't you have to be a little consistent? That's my only issue. Why can they allow Joe Biden to base his campaign on an obvious falsehood, the fine people hoax, when you just have to look at the transcript to know that it's not true? Just look at the transcript. It's that easy.

Now why is it that the most divisive and dangerous hoax in the history of America, that's my claim for the fine people hoax, the most dangerous hoax in all of American history, why is that okay? Now you could say, well it's a political claim and there's lots of politi

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cal claims and we can't really fact-check all that and people will just put it in context. It's just a political claim. Is it? I would say no. Here's a political claim. President Trump will cut your Social Security. It's not true. It's the opposite of what he says he'll do. And he's been pretty good about doing what he says he'll do and not doing what he says he won't do. He's been pretty good at…

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