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they decided to help save the world by underreporting this thing that doesn't make much difference? You know, the side effects, it doesn't make much difference. But if they reported it honestly fewer people would get the shot. That's just the fact, right? It feels like we're being managed, doesn't it? It feels very much like both the left and the right news have decided that they just don't want…

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people getting twice as much income, people falling in love, all kinds of stuff.

So check out the other comments if you're wondering if it's worth it. Of course everybody has a different reaction but it looks like overwhelmingly the people who are staying on that service are happy.

All right. That's all I got for today and I will talk to you tomorrow.

Right, YouTubers you've got me for — so you're asking what the bleep happened to Gutfeld? What do you mean? I don't think anything happened to him.

Yes, the local subscription is seven dollars a month. I think the platform will be looking to group subscriptions so you can subscribe to more than one person affordably.

Somebody's saying you said a few weeks ago that Trump could never be re-elected. Did you change your mind? Yes, yes, changed my mind. It's amazing how easily you forget that whatever the size of the drama for that week is that you'll forget it in three weeks. So the Capitol assault I've already kind of forgotten. And if you're talking about three, four years from now it's just not going to matter at all. What will matter totally is how Biden-Harris did, you know, Biden's mental capacity, that sort of thing.

So if Trump stays healthy and he doesn't have any competition except the ones we know now, yeah he could win. But I would say the country would be far better off if some more capable politician emerged who could get elected who was younger. But I don't see it happening. Who do you see emerging who could beat Trump in 2024? If you see somebody emerging then I'll revise my opinion. But as long as he's not really competing against anybody at the moment, there's nobody in his class. He is absolutely alone in his class. Wouldn't you say?

Everybody else you can think of who is strong as a politician, they're still not even in the same layer as Trump. Not even close. And I've never seen that before, have you? And you don't realize how big that gap is until you see Trump talking in public again. Every time you see him talking in public, even though he's violating the fact-checking like crazy, there's something extra going on that is undeniable. There's just something extra that he brings that nobody else has.

Yeah, DeSantis. DeSantis is doing a great job as a manager and I hate to say that because I don't have anything negative to say about him whatsoever. But when you see somebody doing a good job as a manager it doesn't feel the same as a leader, does it? Right? Because the things that DeSantis did that worked were just really good sort of CEO decisions. You know, he did extra good on protecting old people. He was right about how much clo

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sing the businesses made a difference. So he was right on a bunch of stuff but he was right kind of like a manager. He's sort of in that gray area there. I just don't know if he has that X factor. He seems like the best manager you've ever hired but I don't know if he can define himself as a little higher level than that. That would be the challenge. But I have nothing negative to say about

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