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It just seems stupid. Are you having the same impression I have with Joe Biden's spokesperson Jen? Here's my take on her. Day one, oh she seems pretty capable. You know she seems bright and looked like a perfect choice for the job really. I thought it was a good choice although I feel like they should have chosen a woman of color. But you know she looked very capable and qualified and she had a g…

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conferences and she only answered cleverly, oh are you eager to see him is that what you're saying? And the reporter said sure. And then she didn't answer the question. Don't you think it's going to be more and more of a story the longer Biden goes without opening himself up to unfriendly questions? Because the whole point of these presidential press conference things is that it opens you up to unfriendly questions. Is Biden going to avoid unfriendly questions for four years? Can he get away with that? Probably can.

Here's something I recommend to you on CNN. I've said this before but while I criticize CNN's news coverage quite a bit, CNN as a network does some non-news programming that often is really good. Some, a lot of the CNN specials they're just about say a certain topic, they're quite well done. And I recommend them quite often. They've got one coming up that's being teased. I think Anderson Cooper is running this. And they're talking to some Q supporters to sort of dig down and figure out what's up with the Q believers. And there's a teaser where Anderson Cooper is talking to a completely rational looking guy. A guy who you'd say to yourself, and first of all he looked like he might have a, I'm guessing, no I don't want to guess somebody's ethnicity but I'll say he's the person he was talking to is not a typical white bread looking guy let's just say that. But I won't guess what his ethnic background is. But that makes it interesting too because you're imagining the Q believers as a bunch of super white people but here was one that Anderson was talking to who was not in that category. And said that he believed that at one point that Anderson Cooper ate babies. He said that to Anderson Cooper. And then he apologized for thinking that Anderson Cooper ate babies. And then he went on to say other things he believed about Q being working with interdimensional blue birdlike creatures. What? And here's the amazing thing. The guy he interviewed looked like a completely normal smart person who could operate in the world and do just about anything. A very capable reasonable looking person. And that person looked right in the camera and said to Anderson Cooper yeah I believed you ate babies. Sorry, blue avians is what I guess the Q people call it now.

What do you make of this? Do you say to yourself well that's a crazy person? Or do you say to yourself there are lots of crazy people? Do you imagine that the Q people are mentally weak? Do you think that the Q people are extra gullible? Do you think that the Q people have some kind of strange mental defect that makes them believe these things whereas you do not?

Here's the bad news people. They're completely normal. That's the bad news. The bad news is the people who believe that Q, the stories that Anderson Cooper was eating babies, the people who believe that, completely normal or at least average or typical or routine human beings.

How do I know that? You're not going to like this. I probably lose a few followers in the next few minutes. Because people believe every religion. No matter what religion you have, which I think we can agree, can we stipulate something that whatever religion you have is the true one? Let's just agree with that. Now I don't know what your religion is. They're probably different. But just say that the one you have, that's the right one, okay? But now that you know that you have the right religion, lucky you. You could have gotten it wrong but you didn't. You got the right one. That means that there are billions of regular people who got the wrong religion.

Do you know what you would believe if you got the wrong religion? It might involve magical sounding stuff a little bit for the wrong religion. Now your religion is the right one so lucky for you you're smart and wise and you don't fall for gullible stuff but yours is the good one. Bu

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t you can observe that there are people who look otherwise normal who got all the wrong religion. People thinking you're reincarnating, well unless you believe that in which case it would be right. But if other people believed it you don't, that's crazy. So you have religions in which there are people walking on water and resurrecting. Maybe that's the real one. But you got other ones in which so…

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