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vents it? Do you know what has prevented us so far from descending into totalitarianism in the United States? Do you know what? Partial credit for whoever is saying the Second Amendment, which is a lot of people on the Locals platform. I was going to say the Constitution. Second Amendment being, you could say that's the foundation of the Constitution in a way. You could make that argument. So I'll…

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ric river events, which sounds very important, atmospheric river events, the average snowpack in California has gone from 18 to 98 in two weeks. We just went from no snowpack. We're going to have another drought because that's a big source of our water comes from that snowpack. And we're having yet again a drought this summer. And looks like we just took a big step toward making that big problem go away.

Now if you don't live in California this meant nothing to you but this is a big problem, not having water, because we're not doing enough to desalinate or anything else. So we have to rely on nature to save us from bad government. But it looks like nature stepped in at least for now. I mean it'll still take a lot more water to be secure in California but this is a big deal. A big deal. Like on the list of all the good news that I could receive in my life this would be right at the top. Because you have to leave California if you don't have water. That's pretty much game over. It's bad enough we barely have electricity.

All right, in the Twitter highlights, you know where they'll highlight a story that everybody's talking about, yesterday they said they had this heading to the story on Twitter. Said science and public health experts say that vaccines are safe for most people. What most? Did they downgrade vaccines from hey everybody, you know almost everybody needs to get one? Did they downgrade it all the way to most? 51-49? I mean they're not saying it's 51 but the word most is a pretty wide space isn't it? I don't think we can ignore this change in messaging. I don't think you can ignore that. I think this is a pretty clear statement that whoever wrote the headline anyway. Yeah Twitter is hedging and that is a big deal in our understanding of what's going on.

Apparently Fauci was talking about we're going to make lots and lots of tests for the COVID available. He said there are going to be 10,000 centers for free testing. 10,000 centers. And it's going to happen in just a few weeks. So this is heading in the right direction. Of course we must ask the question why don't we have that already? Like what took so long? And I think the answer is corruption. All right I'm going to stick with that statement of what I consider obvious. I don't think it's incompetence. I don't think it's money. It just looks like somebody in this mix was corrupt and stopped something from happening for somebody's benefit. But we don't know details.

All right, China amazingly somehow got their Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai, who disappeared because she claimed a Communist Party leader raped her, and now she's saying in an interview that she that never happened. She'd never accused anyone of sexually assaulting her. Nope. Nope. It had been misunderstood. Sorry. Nope. That never happened.

Now would you see China disappear a story, take something you know is true and just make it disappear? Can they do that? Yeah. Yeah they could do that. It works. Yeah because they can do it in the United States so certainly you can do it in China. So certainly the people of China will just now hear that that never happened. Just like stories disappear in the United States. Our media disappears stories all the time. So yeah they can actually do this and it will work. It's so bold and so obvious that you say to yourself well that's never going to work. It's so bold and obvious that it's a lie.

Who wants me at this time of day? Anyway so anyway the testing might be good.

I tweeted the other day a reference I think it came from Wikipedia or something. It talked about how Ghislaine Maxwell's dad who was a famous media mogul had at his funeral a lot of important people including six former or current heads of Mossad, Israeli intelligence. For that I was accused of being adjacent to or too close to being anti-Semitic by a David Hazony. And he called me out for apparently an old anti-Semitic trope that Israel or the Jews are running some kind of a pedo ring which I'd never even heard of. So my weird life is that I'm getting pilloried by people who are literally hallucinating opinions for me I've never heard of.

Now I had heard that intelligence agencies would be very interested in what Epstein knew and what kinds of salacious stories about important people he might know. I mean that's just obvious, right? The CIA would want to know. Russian intelligence would want to know. MI6 would want to know. And Israel would want to know. Why wouldn't they? Who would not want to know that? If you knew that Epstein had the sexual goods on a bunch of famous people, every intel agency should want to know about that. I never even heard this. I've never even heard that. Is there some kind, have anybody heard this? Have you heard some kind of anti-Semitic thing that Israel or Jews were somehow behind some kind of a pedo ring? Is that even a thing? Is that anybody even, I've never heard of that. And now I'm anti-Semitic for something I've never heard of. Anyway I blocked him for being an.

Clay Travis had a good thread today. I'm going to read you most of it. He said Joe Biden based his entire 2020, or actually I'm sorry let me read it again. Joe Biden based his election basically on trusting the science and beating COVID and of course that didn't happen. And Clay asked us to do this one fundamental exercise. Imagine that it was Trump in charge and that the pandemic went just the way it went. You know same outcome. Now let's say Trump did everything that Biden did but Trump was in charge. Clay says I believe the media would have vigorously covered the COVID vaccine failure. True. It would have been the Trump vaccine that failed. That's all it would have been about. But instead it's take the vaccine. It's not as good as we thought but it's still good. And Trump would likely have already been impeached over his failures to take COVID seriously. Could be. Blue states would shut down. Blah blah blah. All kinds of stuff. Bad stuff would happen.

And then Clay says the reality is almost nothing we have done has had any impact on COVID at all. Do you believe that? Do you believe that nothing we've done has had any impact on COVID at all? That's not even close to true. That's not even the same universe as true. It's true that we can't stop it but do you believe that the vaccines don't reduce the risk of serious outcomes? Is there anybody here who believes that the vaccines don't even do that? That they don't reduce the risk of serious outcomes? I'm saying yes now. Conclusive yes. Let's see. Leslie yes is on the Locals platform. How about on YouTube? How many of you believe the vaccines don't at least reduce your risk? Now we're not talking about that they may have bring their own risk as well because that's real. Interesting anyway.

I don't think that is a statement that should be accepted on face value. I think that face masks we don't know because there's no way to do a controlled trial so we don't know if they work or not. I think that vaccines, the science or the experts say it and all the data, I think 100% of the data says it reduces risk. Right? There's no data that says otherwise that I'm aware of. So I think Clay goes too far. But he makes a good point that if it had been Trump it would have been treated completely differently. Do you agree?

All right, here's my updated list to know when I'm dealing with an NPC, somebody who can't do independent thinking. If I see any of these phrases on

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the internet, now some of these are specific to me but these phrases are my cue not to have a debate with this person on Twitter. If they mention jumping the shark, I'm really the pointy haired boss, hahaha, the matrix, Soylent Green, anybody being an apologist about anything, I saw it with my own eyes or I heard it with my own ears, sheep references, 1984 movie or book, Hitler references, fascism…

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