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th anything. I don't know. It makes us look weak that our government can't be transparent and Putin can. That makes you look pretty weak. Now apparently the Russia-China association is strong enough that China's backing Russia essentially. And I don't know maybe it's too late. Maybe it's too late to put Russia in our camp and Biden is just saying all right Russia is basically just China now so do…
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Well according to some reporting by Axios the commander-in-chief of the United States is Tucker Carlson. And by that I mean that his Axios reports that behind the scenes the Republicans are being very influenced by his opinion on let's not get into a war with Russia. And I believe that in effect because we have this you know a country that's kind of balanced left and right Democrats and Republicans that you can't really go to a slow-motion war one that's not a surprise you know. And Ukraine's a slow-motion war. If anything happens it won't be any surprise. You can't get into a slow-motion war without the public on your side am I right? Like that would be a big mistake yeah. It would be one thing if it's sudden and you want your government to take control because you don't want it to be in a committee situation. But if you have lots of time to think and the public is informed and we're all watching the same stuff the public needs to be on board. And I think Tucker has made sure that the Republicans won't be because he is influential enough to do that. And I think he has. I think that his argument is strong enough and his platform is big enough and he is credible enough that when he says this is crazy don't let them talk you into war again that Republicans are going to say no. They're going to agree with him.
So in effect Tucker Carlson is going to decide if we go to war. That's not even an exaggeration is it? You tell me. Is that hyperbole or is that just a statement of fact that Tucker Carlson literally will decide if we're going to war? I think that's happening and I'm not exaggerating. Likewise our domestic agenda is basically determined by Manchin and Sinema am I wrong? We have two people in charge of the domestic stuff. Manchin and Sinema. We have one person in charge of the military decisions because you know he's got the veto. It's the Tucker Carlson veto basically.
And we have Joe Rogan who's now the surgeon general. And here's what's weird. Let me say it again and then let me summarize it. I'm not making this up. This is actually our reality right now. That at this moment Tucker Carlson is the commander-in-chief for all practical purposes. Manchin and Sinema are running the domestic agenda. And Joe Rogan is the surgeon general. I mean Joe Rogan has as much control about what happens to the outcome of the pandemic as anybody else.
Now here's the funny part. It kind of works. That's the funny part. If you think I'm complaining no no. You know we've all been wondering who's really running the country you know because we feel like Biden isn't the strong leader you know in control of all of his faculties. So we've been wondering who's running the country and we actually, it's right in front of us. It's right in front of us. That's who's running the country. And you know the weird part is it's working. And that's the great thing about the republic and I think this is severely undervalued. The republic is super flexible. Have you noticed that? That during the pandemic the republic said how about we give our president these weird unusual powers to do executive orders right? Like the public just invented a new power, gave it to the president. I mean the president was going to take it but only with our permission. We sort of by a consensus gave permission to make executive orders outside of what we would normally accept. And then we said oh that worked out pretty well right? I mean the republic is super super
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flexible. Like we respond to stuff like almost a creature. It's kind of awesome. Anyway I've got a new hashtag to represent the fact that the people leading the country are the people we trust. It's hashtag NoJoe because we've got leadership without Joe. Rogan I'm sorry without, we do we do have Joe Rogan. We have leadership without Joe Biden. So it's sort of a no-Joe situation. You've heard of s…
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