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ere but damn it we're going to figure it out. We're going to figure it out. And if we can't figure it out well at least we tried. That's the leader I want. I don't want somebody who says you know I'm not even going to try to get there unless I know all the steps. When Kennedy said we're going to the moon did he say we already know how to get to the moon? No. The reason Kennedy is called such a gr…

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ar. That's because they listen to the news and social media and they believed 44 percent of liberals, almost half, believe that the number is close to a thousand or more.

Now let me ask you something. If police were killing a thousand unarmed black men a year in this country you couldn't keep me off the street, right? Like I would be in Black Lives Matter. Like I would be a charter member. Due Spain remember if this number were anywhere near that you would have to leave your house. You would have to protest. You would have to defund the police. You would have to if this were even close to true. But of course it's not. The real number is under 30.

So liberals think it's a thousand or more a year. You would act very differently if it were a thousand or more a year. You would act very differently, right? So you can almost understand why there's this big difference. There's a news black hole, no pun intended, in which liberals just don't know what's happening and conservatives do.

So actually 25 percent of conservatives even thought that. What kind of news are the conservatives watching? Because I don't know any conservative news sites that have reported this incorrectly or suggested that it was anywhere in that range. But even the conservative news talks about what CNN talks about. In other words they, the news covers the news. So maybe wherever you watch you could be misled.

But just think how big a deal that is. I mean and then this question was not asked but how many liberals believe that President Trump once said that neo-Nazis were fine people? I'll bet it's over 80 percent. Could be 90 percent. I'll bet 90 percent of liberals believe that that fake news actually happened. Most conservatives know it's a hoax. If you look at the full transcript he said the opposite.

But man it is so clear that the real problem in this country is a disinformation campaign from the media. And it's hard to discount it as unintentional, isn't it? It's really hard to look at this set of facts and say well nobody's doing that intentionally. Although I'm not, I'm not sold that the case has been made that they're shadowy puppet masters. Who are they? What are the names? When do they have a meeting? Did they have a meeting or did they just know what to do? So that part I'm not quite buying that it was a plot. But you can buy that it happened. You can simply observe that the movement against Occupy Wall Street disappeared at about the same time that the word racism took off in mentions in the media.

Now there were also events. You know there was a George Floyd event, other tragic events. So there were reasons. But were all of those reasons present in 2011? Did the country become more bad racist since 2011? I don't think so. I feel like we probably got less racist just like every single year of the United States probably every year of the republic people on average have gotten a little less racist. It feels like it to me. You know maybe any given year might be different but over time. So wouldn't you say that racism is probably somewhat less than it was in 2011 when apparently that wasn't even a big issue relative to the Occupy Wall Street issue being bigger.

In other news there's a flight, American Airlines flight, that reported a UFO sighting. Doesn't mean it's an alien ship. Just unidentified. That looked like a cruise missile that went over there that just went over their plane. Now do you believe that there was an unidentified long tubular object that went right over an airplane that was not known to flight control? And the way they asked the question was they said the pilot said do you have any targets up here because he thought a missile just went past them at a target. And he was wondering is there anything in the air near me then I need to worry about because somebody shot a missile at it. I'd be worried about that.

Now of course we don't know the answer to this. We don't know that anything got shot into the air or that any big missiles landed anywhere that we don't know about. So it's just a mystery. That's all it is. If I had to guess I would say they didn't see anything. Maybe they saw a shadow of some kind. I don't know. So my guess is they didn't see anything but we'll find out.

There's a story about a woman who's a trophy hunter getting a lot of heat for killing a giraffe, cutting out its heart which is pretty big, and holding it up for social media. Now if that wasn't bad enough apparently this one woman has killed over 500 big animals: lions, leopards, elephants, etc. 500. And she was really, really excited and couldn't handle herself when she learned that she could kill an adult giraffe.

Now I'm not anti-hunting per se. You know there are some times when it makes sense. And if she had gone big game hunting once or twice I wouldn't like it but I'd have a different opinion than if she did it 500 times. If you kill 500 big animals you're just a serial killer who doesn't want to get in trouble with the law. It

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feels like that's just a serial killer vibe, doesn't it? I don't know. But she's pretty happy with herself. All right. I also wonder if she owns a pet. Imagine if you had killed 500 mammals for fun. Does she have a dog? Does she have a dog? Because that dog would be really nervous. I mean would she ever look at her dog and think to herself I love my dog but oh man it would be fun to kill it. I'd…

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