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f landmark first peer-reviewed study on Pfizer and Moderna COVID vaccines. And the headline says confirms excess risk of adverse side effects. Does that sound like a study you would want to look into? Now how long does it take before the debunkers say hey there's something wrong with that study? It happens instantly right now. But it was peer-reviewed. It was randomized and it had a placebo contro…

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about. I can't say what I'm going to say on the more public platform. But why did you think that I would talk about that? Is there something he said? Hold on a minute Locals. I want to find out what's going on here. There's something going on here and it might be the reason that I only wanted to talk to Locals. What was it about the Bill Burr interview? I saw the same one. What was it about that that made you think of me? Yeah he was on Trigonometry the podcast. And that's yeah. All right we'll talk about that in a minute.

It's all over Twitter right so you just. Oh so it was just something you saw. So it wasn't that you thought it'd be in particular. It was just a story that's on Twitter. Okay.

So yeah John Harwood quit CNN and I guess he went out by saying that the Republicans are bad and the Democrats are good and so he being biased is it's not really biased I guess that's what he's saying. All right he did but did you see the way he said it? All right well since you all saw I'm gonna do this on both platforms.

Did you see Bill Burr? He was asked about the division in the country and he said, I'll give you his exact words. He said if you go on the internet everyone seems like they are angry but if you go outside and walk around they're not. Does that sound like anything that you've heard before? Yeah it sounds like exactly what I said. And so here's the question. Is he watching me or is that just the obvious thing that you would say? Because I'm not going to conclude that he saw it here but that was so close to what I said that it would be hard to imagine. I guess it wouldn't be hard to imagine he came up with it because if you're a humorist for a living you sometimes end up in the same place because it's just the way your mind works. So it's entirely possible his mind just ended up in the same place for the same reason. You know there's a reason that I like his humor right because I just like the way he thinks. So it wouldn't be a big surprise if we got to the same place on something.

But let me expand on that. I believe we're in the weirdest situation I've ever seen and I think I can support that huge claim. We're actually having a civil war in our minds. We're actually in an imaginary civil war. There are actual battles. I mean I have memories of the civil war that hasn't happened because I imagined what it would look like. It's like okay the Republicans are loading their guns and you know whatever. But there's nothing happening in the real world as Bill Burr says and I say too. Go outside. There's nothing happening out there. This is entirely a mental phenomenon. There is no physical risk of a civil war. There's no physical risk. You know I'm not saying that there won't be some crazy person or some militia that gets adventurous or something but nothing like a civil war. Nothing like that. And yeah nothing like that. But we are fighting that war in our minds aren't we? It's like we've agreed to have this artificial world almost like a virtual world where we all go to fight mentally. It's like every morning I wake up and it's like I'm going to war but I'm going to the imaginary war where Biden's a Nazi and Trump is a fascist. That's the imaginary world. In the real world Biden's just an old man and Trump is a salesperson. And then we've decided that there's some civil war and we've taken sides and everybody's lining up and you better clean your guns. And none of that's real. And the other side is like oh my god they have all the guns and they're threatening us. No not really. I mean some crazy people say crazy stuff but there's nothing like that happening. Nothing.

Antifa was apparently not that real right? When was the last time Antifa protested outside of the Northwest? I guess they have some base up there but Antifa just disappeared and BLM just disappeared. They were never real in my opinion. They didn't they never looked real. They didn't look like they would last. It looked like some kind of artificially funded structure. It looked like Biden said they what? Oh they haven't got paid lately you're saying. All right. They killed someone a few days ago where in the Northwest. Here some of you are disappointed to find out that we're too far away from civil war. There are definitely people who want a civil war but I don't think they really want it. Like I don't think anybody wants an actual civil war. It's just it's sort of a thing people say. People on the right say stuff like that and if you see enough of it you realize it's not real. And I think the people on the left I hope are speaking hyperbolically.

And Locals somebody said that Antifa has a group that meets every week. Well it sure is not. I mean just because you see people going into a building. All right. Anonymous. All right. Anything I missed so far? I don't think so. I think we've done it all.

All right it's going to be a slow news week but the funniest part about the Biden speech failure is he failed before a holiday weekend. You know usually the politicians are smart enough that if they want something to die they do it on a Friday and then nobody pays attention especially Friday before a holiday. But here Biden did it close enough a little bit too close to the holiday and it's the only story. There's no story to compete with it. So for three to four days it's going to be nothing but Biden Hitler or satanic memes.

The best one I saw was somebody saying that the right had been accused of being crazy for saying that the country was being led by a satanic pedophile and then the meme shows Biden looking satanic in his speech and then of course something from actually his daughter's diary. I'm thinking okay you know I'm not willing to first of all it's hyperbolic and just a meme to say he's satanic but sure look that sure looked like it. So that's sort of like my prediction that Kamala Harris would be the strongest candidate for president and then she was the first one knocked out like that's the worst prediction you could ever make. And then she ended up actually being president for two hours when Biden was having some medical stuff. So it was the worst prediction I've ever made that weirdly was the best by accident. By accident.

And here this idea that the Democrats are a bunch of satanic pedophiles is incorrect as far as I know. I believe it's incorrect. But it's weirdly coincidentally close isn't it? What were the odds that it would be this close? I mean it's way closer to that than you would expect. It's not true as far as I know. To the best of my knowledge it's not true that there's some pedophile ring running the country. However if there is that's what's in those boxes at Mar-a-Lago. I should just end the live stream right here. Well now I don't think that's in the boxes so don't take that seriously but it is fun to imagine what would be in the boxes right?

Let's just do some common sense logic on what might be in the boxes. Okay so see what we can eliminate. So one of the theories was he had that material because he might want to give it away or sell it for traitorous reasons. I would say that the volume of stuff he had guarantees he did not have it exclusively for the reason of selling it or giving it away. How many would agree with that? Just the sheer volume of it suggests it's not about one topic and you wouldn't take boxes of stuff to sell. I mean that would be just so obvious. If you were gonna sell something it'd be like one document right? Like one document and you wouldn't even need it physically would you? Just take a copy of it or just describe it.

Well here's the other thing. If it's the president of the United States and he's seen all the documents can he sell the secret just by talking to somebody? Does he have to show the document? If Russia wanted to know the secret couldn't he just say oh here's the secret I just read the document so here it is. The fact that he would need a document to share a secret forgets that he's the president or was the president. If you and I want to, if you specifically you and you if you wanted to sell a secret to Russia wouldn't you need the document? You would need the document right? Because if you don't have the document you can't prove it's real. There's nothing to buy. But if you're the president and you say look if you look for our nuclear subs I'll tell you where to find the base. Just look 100 miles north of Cuba it's right there. And then they go look and it's there. Right? He doesn't need the document. Well of course they might not believe him but that's another issue.

So I don't believe that he had them exclusively for the reason of selling them. So I think that the traitorous thing is ridiculous. So then the next question is why would you have them? If he had them for a biography would he need the originals? I don't know. And because I doubt given the way that they were not organized it does not suggest that they were brought there for a specific purpose. Right? It suggests that they were not there for a specific purpose such as a biography because they were sort of in different places and they weren't organized. Right? If they were there for a specific purpose at some point somebody would have said we'll put all these together just because the biography will need them.

Now none of these are guarantees. We're just going with the odds right? So I think biography is eliminated. I think selling secrets and treason is eliminated. I feel as if we can eliminate that they didn't know there was anything left. What do you think? I think the odds that they didn't know there was stuff left that they hadn't given back are low. I think they knew. But I think there might have been a dispute about whether they were the documents that should be given back because there's all kinds of gray area right? One of the gray areas is maybe it used to be secret but now it's not. Maybe it used to be secret but you thought the president declassified it but it's a matter of opinion. Probably something like that.

I do think that the odds that he has some blackmail on the Democrats is pretty good. Pretty good. Because blackmail on the Democrats would number one be in a variety of different areas right? I wouldn't assume that he had one and only one way to blackmail Democrats. Like one set of Democrats. More likely that there was a set of things that may have touched different topics in which he could make the case oh here's all that corruption and lying or whatever it is. So it seems to me that there's more odds that it was for blackmail purposes than anything else. Because remember whatever the reason was it has to be something that Trump doesn't want you to know yet right? Because if Trump wanted you to know his explanation he would have given it to you. He would have told you. If it was for his biography he might. I don't know if he would have admitted that but he might have. He might have said oh I didn't realize this was wrong. This was just stuff from my biography. And by the way I know all this information. I could have just told my biographer. So having it on paper didn't really add or subtract anything. And by the way these are not really that secret anymore. Something like that.

But I've got a feeling that it's blackmail. I think it's blackmail. What do you think? Because it's the only one he wouldn't tell you about. He couldn't admit it. It's the one that the Democrats would be most desperate to get back if they had a sense of what was in there. It calls it leverage. Yeah and I think it would be in keeping with what you might expect from the personalities involved. You know do you think that there was anything that Trump could have had access to that would have acted as blackmail? Probably. Probably. Do you think the president of the United States never had any information? You don't think he had any information that was damning to the Democrats? You don't think he has something like a little bit extra on Pelosi or something? That doesn't mean he asked for it. It doesn't mean he ordered somebody to go read look into them. But it might just exist and he might know about it and he might have a copy. Because if he said later now here's the problem with Trump telling you later that he knows something. If he can't produce the document you're not going to believe it right? If a year from now Trump let's say he decides not to run for office but he said oh let me tell you something about some Democrat you wouldn't believe it. And then you say no I saw it on a document and you say yeah sure you did I don't believe it. But if he has the document and he can show it to you well you might believe that. You might believe that.

So that would explain blackmail information would explain why we don't know what the topic is or even the field of topics. Because I feel like they could have narrowed it down to it's something military or it's something intel related or something. All right do you think he made copies? I don't know. I don't know. I have no idea. Oh election fraud information maybe. Maybe. Could be Epstein's client list. Do you think the government has Epstein's client list? I do. I do. I think the government has Epstein's client list. Do you think Trump has it? If yes or he has it if he asked for it. Do you think he wouldn't ask for it? Of course he would. Of course he would. Do you think there's a reason that the list is not being public? Of course there is. Do you think that the only reason is because there are Americans on the list? You think that's the only reason that it's not being released because there are Americans on the list? Nope. Here's my guess. It's not being released because there are foreigners on the list and we don't want to throw our allies under the bus. So even if you thought oh I'm going to throw these Democrats under the bus or somebody else you wouldn't want to necessarily throw Great Britain under the bus right? So my guess is that whatever else is there if Trump never asked for a copy of the Epstein client list and I don't believe for a second it doesn't exist. Do you believe it doesn't exist? Do you? There's no way that they don't have that. Somebody has it right? And he could have asked for it could he not? Because there would be a national security. Whoever is on that list would be a matter of national security. So it wouldn't matter if it was a state legal action or anything else. The president of the United States should be able to see it because it would be directly and very importantly linked to national security. So of course he could ask for it.

So I'm going to say it probably exists. Trump probably asked for it because it would really matter. He probably would have legal access to it. And if there's one thing you're going to keep with you and take to Mar-a-Lago it's that. Now that would explain why there's so many of them because it's got to be more than one topic. But you could easily imagine that he could find blackmail on a variety of topics. Some of it I think also is just personal because I think his relationship with Kim Jong-un is partly political and probably personal and that he may have thought you know maybe some of this is personal. So I th

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ink it's going to be not one thing. I don't think you're going to find out that they're all about one topic. It's not going to be about a biography. It's not going to be about selling them or secrets. It's going to be some of it is for blackmail and some of it may be just some weird other reason that wasn't that important. So I think it's gonna be primarily blackmail. That's my hypothesis. All ri…

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