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o be controlled, where normal life is messy, right? But if it's designed to be controlled, maybe they can do it better than your normal messy life. Right? That's what I think. So I don't have a feeling of whether we can tell that closing businesses helps or hurts. So we don't have science, because it's hard to measure and it's kind of too early to even know if you did. So what do you do? You don'…

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crucify him. Let me say that again so you won't think I chose that word accidentally. If the Democrats thought that Trump was a problem before they decided to crucify him, and then he went silent for a while, how many days? And the only problem is if you thought that the so-called insurrection was a problem, wait till you see the resurrection, because the resurrection's going to be a bigger problem if you're a Democrat.

Now I'm not going to predict that Trump, after having been legally and politically crucified, would go away effectively as if dead for a while while the movement that he led grows in his absence, grows. If he were to return, it's a big problem. Now I predicted he won't. I predicted that he would not be politically viable because he wouldn't be able to get the same people who supported him the same way before. And I'm going to stick with that. I'm going to stick with my prediction that he will not run for office again. So I'm going to stick with that.

But if you wanted to guarantee that he did run for office and win, just keep doing what you're doing. Because every time you hear somebody who is associated with Trump get taken down, at first you say, oh okay, that's a special case. That's somebody who did something illegal and of course the law is the law so I understand that one. Oh there's another one. Oh it's somebody, okay well okay they did something else. Yeah I guess that was pretty bad so I guess that's a special case. You know they were a Trump supporter but that's a special, well there's another one. There's another one and then there's three more.

Every time you hear another Trump supporter being taken down it starts with yeah those I guess they had to do that they broke some laws. And then it starts to be people taken down for things they may or may not have thought. People being taken down for signing up for to have a Parler and Gab account. That just happened. That was just in the news. Somebody got fired for simply having an account on Parler and Gab. That's it. That was the entire accusation. They had an account in an alternative social media platform.

Every time you hear about that stuff it feels as if the people who associated with it and all that populist energy might be picking up power. It's exactly what the Democrats don't want to happen. But I think they're doing it as aggressively as they possibly could. And it's building up this sort of resentment, revenge energy. You don't want to build up too much resentment revenge energy. And that's what the Democrats are doing. Because it's the more revenge they put into the system, the more it's going to come back. Wouldn't you agree?

We have a system in which the more revenge you put into it, the more is coming back. There's no way around it. The Republicans are not going to sit there for four years of revenge being taken out upon them without an equal and opposite reaction. It just, there isn't any way that can happen. And so the Democrats are creating a situation for Trump's resurrection that is the one you don't want. That's the one you don't want.

And I don't even think I want that one because that's going to be too much energy and not exactly the right place, right? That's too much energy. And they have a real problem here. This is a real problem.

I'm still going to stick with my, like I said, my prediction that he won't run for office again. But man are they making it dangerous. They are really making it dangerous. Because if they don't take the boot off our neck pretty soon, let me put it this way. I don't know if this is a Republican quality. I don't identify Republican as, you know, I don't identify even conservative as, you know. But I have this quality and I think it might be common to the right. So I might have this in common, which is I am really, really flexible. Really flexible until I'm not. And I can't even tell you where the not kicks in because I'm always surprised in my normal life. You know I'm exactly the same, not just my political opinions but the way I live my in-person life. Very flexible, very, very flexible until I'm not. And when I'm not it just falls off a cliff. When I'm not, it's absolute. There's no negotiation once I hit a certain point. And I scare people because I don't have any warning before that happens.

I worry that that's what's happening with the political right, which is they're flexible. They're taking it all. All right, all right, we gave it to you pretty hard when Trump was in charge. You know, okay, all right, a little slap, a little slap. We had that coming. We said some bad things too. Okay, another little slap. You turn the other cheek. Yeah, not looking for trouble. Okay that's three. That's three. I'm going to shake that off. That's four. That's four. Still okay. Holding it down. Don't want any trouble. That's five.

You know where this is going, right? There is a psychological atomic bomb that's being created by the actions, the revenge actions of the left, that they can push a little bit. You know they could get away with that. And even people on the right I think at some level you're saying yeah elections have consequences. I wish our side won. Yeah we gave it to them pretty hard. It's a political game. They're giving it back a little bit. But there is a limit. There is a limit. And if they reach that limit they're going to get a leader of the populist movement that they didn't want. Could be Trump again. That would be a big problem. Could be Trump again, a big problem for the left anyway. But it'll be somebody else. And you don't want it to be me, that's for sure. You don't want it to be me.

All right. The funniest story in the news is the talk about the Trump Library. Somebody wrote an article, an opinion piece in the Washington Post saying that Trump should not have a presidential library. He should not have a library. Come on. Well Joel Pollak called that out and wrote about it. And here's just something that Joel wrote in Breitbart. He said the paper, who's talking about the Washington Post, he said the paper whose motto is democracy dies in darkness presented an argument Thursday by an art and architecture critic Philip Kennicott about why the history of the Trump administration should in fact be shrouded in darkness. Kennicott wrote Trump must never have an official presidential library and Congress should move quickly to make sure he never will.

Well game on. Not only, as Joel points out, not only should Trump have a presidential library but it needs to be the best one, at least in terms of popularity. It needs to be the best one. And the best way to do this would be to make it commercial. Would you not pay a small entry fee to see a properly designed Trump presidential museum? Oh yeah you would. Yeah you would. You'd pay for that if he did it right, right? If it's just a boring museum where you walk through and see some photos and stuff you're not going to, you don't care about that too much. But if he made it funny.

Imagine if you will, as Joel points out, one wing being the Russia collusion mental hospital wing. Imagine going into a Trump museum and you go into one room and it's nothing but a bunch of videos playing in a loop of Adam Schiff and other Republicans making accusations of the Russia collusion hoax. You could have one room for every hoax. You could have the fine people hoax room. You could have the drinking bleach hoax room. But you could also have the CNN fake news room where it's an entire exhibit of only the fake news that just was on CNN. It'd be clips and examples and then the debunk of all, you know you'd have the fake news and then the debunk of it, why it's wrong. And then kids could go learn there and as a school outing you could go and you could learn how the news is all made up. You tell me you wouldn't buy a ticket to that. You would buy a ticket to that.

Now add in an animatronics, not animatronics, let's say a deep fake Trump who can, who actually has some AI built in so it can interact with you. It's like a 3D hologram of Trump but it's actually programmed with, I guess Google and some other companies now have some AI that's whole next level. So by the time it gets built maybe some of that will be available where it can really, really understand the context of conversation. Then you build a hologram Trump who can speak back to you basically using tweets or things he said before so he matches them to your content. But it's Trump's actual words. He'd be saying what he tweeted or what he said in public at some point. You could totally build that. You wouldn't want to see that? You wouldn't want to go up and talk and have a conversation with deep fake holographic Trump? You would do that. You would do that.

All right so yeah Trump needs a presidential library and it needs to be commercial. It needs to be huge, hugely popular. I mean and it

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just needs to be awesome. I would mostly look forward to how they named the restrooms, because I think Adam Schiff needs to be part of that. Or at least you know the new green new toilets have two buttons depending on what your business was. You got the little button for number one and big button for number two. Well I think the big button should be named Adam Schiff and the little button should b…

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