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from CNN talking about Fox News and how they cover stuff, I tweeted that 20% of all news involves people in the news business criticizing each other. Now when I said 20%, that wasn't to be taken as an actual estimate, right? It's just that it seems like they spend a lot of time criticizing the other channel. If you turn on Fox News, they're talking about CNN. You turn on CNN, they're talking about…

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and then I'll respond back to some troll who just said something awful about me and sometimes they'll say something like, "Whoa, whoa, I didn't think you'd read it." So just remember there are real people reading this stuff.

Jack Posobiec reports that he's hearing from his multiple insider sources at the White House that Kamala Harris is getting the full PDB. What is that? The presidential daily briefing. I'm going to go with that. Kamala Harris is getting the full one, which even we think that even Biden didn't get that when he was vice president.

Now getting back to my earlier comments about how Democrats are going to have to come to terms with the fact that they elected somebody who quite clearly is not medically fully available, if you know what I mean. And every time there's this little bit of, you know, the cat's on the roof, it seems like it's going forever, isn't it? Like how long have we seen these cats on the roof? It's a little bit of a hint that they're not expecting him to last that long. Even Biden says stuff like he's not going to run for a second term, etc.

So it's just funny. Every time you see another piece of evidence that it's clearly the plan to put her in place, you just gotta wonder what they're thinking.

So I hear that comedians are having a hard time mocking Biden because they don't have anything to grab onto. You know, Trump was easy. He had just a million targets that you could shoot at. But Biden is super boring. And if you were to ask people what's the one sort of personality thing that stands out or what do you think of when you think of Joe Biden, what's the top thing that comes to mind? It's medical. It's medical, right? Is his mental capacity. And it's not really super cool to make humor about people's medical conditions. Now I would think a president's a little bit of an exception to that because sometimes you have to mock things to get them fixed. And maybe having a president who's not quite all there needs to get fixed. So here's a special case.

But isn't it interesting that he's so bland the only thing you could mock you don't, because it's real? Don't you think that they would be mocking Biden if they thought that wasn't real? Don't you think there would be more people on the even on the left who would take a run at it? Like, "Oh he's dumb, ha ha ha. He's not as fast as he used to be, ha ha ha. He does some gaffes." But they don't really do that, do they? They don't really do that.

Somebody says they mocked Reagan. Was Reagan ever this bad? You know, I'm trying to remember. Yeah, I think you could certainly detect there was something going on with Reagan. I don't think Reagan was ever like this, was he? Maybe I just don't remember it clearly.

All right. So I watched—let's talk about Biden's speech. I might surprise you by saying I thought it was pretty good. Pretty good. If I'm going to be objective, which is the only value I have to you is trying to be unbiased if I can, I thought his speech was pretty solid. Meaning that what he was trying to do was project empathy and he gave us some dates, which I wanted. I wanted to hear a date when he thinks he can get the vaccinations. May 1st everybody should have access to it. It's good.

I'm seeing your comments about whether Reagan was as bad. A little bit of a disagreement about whether he was as bad. Some say yes, some say no. So I don't have a strong memory of that at this point. But I'm going to give Biden a solid mark. It was not exciting. I literally started falling asleep toward the end. It dragged on. It was a little too long. You know, he's not like a great deliverer of anything. But for what the country needed, it was pretty solid. Good information, fairly specific.

Now of course the thing that everybody's mocking is I think everyone who watched this had some kind of similar feeling to it. When he was saying that by Fourth of July he's hoping that people can get together for their Fourth of July barbecues and whatnot, and then he slipped in "but not large groups." And I'm sitting here thinking, what did you just say? And then he sort of, I think he clarified again that you'd be able to have Fourth of July but not in a large get-together. To which I—and something like 300 plus million Americans, or I don't know, whatever, tens of millions were watching the speech simultaneously—said to themselves, see if this happened in your head, did you simultaneously all over the country say to yourself, "You know here's what's going to happen on July 4th. I and every one of you are going to make your own mind up about what you're going to do. And the government's instructions to you by July 4th, because by then it's a different situation we hope. By July 4th it's not the government's decision and even their suggestion will be taken as a suggestion." All right? By July people are going to do anything they want and I don't think there's any way around that.

Now a lot of people will want to play it safe. A lot of people will want to do what the government suggests because they want to. That's fine. But there was something about the way he presented it that carried with it a whiff of presumption that the government can tell you how to celebrate the Fourth of July in your own backyard. And that didn't go down well, did it? How'd that feel? Didn't feel good. Didn't feel good.

And I've been quite supportive of the government having some a big hand in the pandemic. I think sometimes the government needs to be the one

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with a big hand or a big footprint, I guess. But that would be too far, right? There's a point where everybody says it's too far. And I think Biden reached that. So that's not the biggest problem in the world. The other thing about his speech is that there's a lot of darkness and gloom and it was kind of long and boring and low energy. But it got the job done. Here's a question I have for you. I…

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