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cidence. Probably not a coincidence. So good job trolling-wise. Rasmussen polls has a poll result today that says 55 percent of people who are asked, the voters I guess, say Bannon prosecution is politically motivated. 55 percent. Just think about this. 55 percent of the country thinks that they just watched a man be arrested without a crime and that the government is doing it to punish him for p…

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e kneeling for anything. But I don't think I can stand for a government. And I realize the national anthem is not the government per se, but you get the point. You know that our national symbols, they have two purposes. One is to unite the country, but the other is it gives us a protest focus. So they're kind of handy in two direct directions that way.

And personally, I don't want to show respect for a country that would use somebody as an example. If you say right out loud we're going to make an example of somebody, I'm done with you. That's not a government I support. Nope. You can put somebody in jail because they committed a crime. Cool. But if you put somebody in jail extra long to make an example of them, not cool. Not cool. No respect for that. So going forward, I won't be standing for the national anthem. And again, I don't care what you think about it, and I'm not trying to convince you. I'm just saying that my personal standard for respecting my government has been surpassed. I can't respect this government anymore.

Now, I've got lots of complaints about lots of things, as we all do. The government gives you lots of stuff to complain about. But this is different. Yeah, I know, dude. I understand the government is not the country. Do you listen for a second? Like some people are already flipping out. Can you understand that I said that directly before you did? All right, so to disagree with me, say something that's different than what I just said, right? This guy's gonna turn it off. Oh, I'm done with you because you don't understand the government is different than the country. I just said that. I just said that. Jesus Christ.

All right, go off and be against weed legalization. I think you're on that team.

Do I seem to have an attitude today? I know. I think it's going to get worse. Stay with me.

All right. As long as the government is making examples of conservatives, I'm done with the government.

Speaking of the government, there's a national Quinnipiac poll that gives the GOP a plus eight on a generic ballot. What that means is if a generic Republican ran against a generic Democrat, which of course doesn't happen in the real world, the Republican would win solidly. Now, of course, you know, gerrymandering and all that doesn't make that a real thing, but it does show you where the public is at. And according to Quinnipiac, Biden approval is only at 36 percent. His approval on the economy is 34. And do I need to remind you, it's the economy, stupid. If you're 34 on the economy, you can't get reelected. And nobody could.

But it doesn't matter. He's not going to run anyway. However, I should remind you I told you that Rasmussen was plus 13 on a similar question, right? There's a pretty big difference, plus 13 versus plus eight. But they're both so solidly in the same direction that means something. I should mention that the Rasmussen poll, which has the higher number, 13-point difference, they have classically done a better job of taking a representative sample of voters. Other polls tend to be Democrat heavy for whatever reason. And so I would lean towards Rasmussen's number of 13 as more credible than the eight. But they're both in the same direction, so they both say the same thing.

So the government will fall, it appears. And it has to. It has to. The government has to fall. It has disappointed us greatly.

You want to hear some more disappointment? I saw this in a tweet by Aaron, and I can't say his last name. Do y

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ou know why it's a last name that I can't say in public? Because the last name is spelled S-I-R-I, and if I say his last name, it will activate all your iPhones. So I can't say it. But somebody named Aaron with the last name that's an iPhone digital assistant, he tweets this. That the FDA, now this is the FDA is asking this. This is a key part of the story. The FDA is asking a federal judge to gra…

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