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to be done but you're not going to leave it unfolded while you work through the paperwork, right? You're going to reach into your desk, you can slap a folder on it. You're going to hand it to the secretary or whoever and say you know do the paperwork to make this top secret. So here's the question. Is it normal to have empty top secret folders somewhere in the working area of a president? My intu…

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about how Trump's remarks are alarming given the unprecedented spike of threats against the FBI. Now what do you think of that? Do you think that Trump is the cause of the unprecedented threats against the FBI? Is it Trump's, is he the one that caused that? Is it his rhetoric that's causing the increase in threats against the FBI? Or I'm just going to put this out there as an alternative. Could it be the behavior of the FBI? Could it be that the behavior of the FBI itself is bringing problems to the FBI? To imagine that the problem with the FBI is its critics is a pretty nutty opinion. I'm pretty sure that you didn't create the situation by criticizing them. My God.

Now so the question is since this opinion is in my opinion it's just ridiculous. It's a ridiculous opinion. And I don't even know if it's a real opinion. It's the kind you read you go does he even think that? Is that a real opinion? But I wonder if the new head of CNN is making the crazy opinion people at least label it as opinion. I think maybe. I used to say opinion but I don't remember.

Here's another note. Another indication of CNN is moving toward the middle. So they had a story prominently on the front page of CNN that an executive of Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation is accused of siphoning off 10 million dollars from donors. And the suit is against executive Shalima Bowers, the foundation itself and her consulting firm. So that's on CNN. I don't believe Fox News covered it. At least I didn't see it on the front page. So this is CNN with, there was nothing about this story that softened it. This was just CNN saying boom, Black Lives Matter executive, big thief. You know it didn't throw in any but it saved the world. You know the larger organization is good. Nothing like that. Just straight news. Top person was a crook. That's the news. Do with it what you want. I like this. I'm liking this. Every time CNN does something that clearly is unbiased I'm going to call it out because I think they need a little bit of encouragement.

How many of you think that if we had more explanations of why people were going to Epstein's island so much we'd know something useful? Are you aware that many of the visitors to Epstein Island were adult women? Just famous, famous prominent adult women. If you knew that there were a lot of famous prominent adult women who presumably were not involved with any weird sex stuff, right? Because they were older than 15 so probably not. Doesn't that tell you that whatever was happening at Epstein Island was at least sometimes innocent? Am I wrong? The fact that a lot of the travelers were prominent adult women who are not accused of anything and didn't say they saw anything, doesn't that tell you that some of those trips, I don't know what percentage, but some of those trips were completely innocent? Or at least for some of the people who visited. That doesn't mean the other people on the plane didn't have fun. I don't know. Who knows, right? Now I'm not talking about Glenn but I'm not sure we should make anything of the fact that famous people went there. I would think that his business model was to get as many famous people involved as he could. But it's not like he blackmailed all of them. I think he just wanted as many famous people in his field of influence as he could get.

All right so it's a holiday. Is anybody laboring? I know a lot of you are. Stanley Kubrick's death. He wasn't already dead. Going to work in an hour. Okay you're at the office right now. All right you're working and watching. That's what I like. It's a holiday so you should be listening to me and working less. Adult women don't engage in kinky sex. Well there's no allegations that Epstein was involved with anything with adult women. All right yeah.

How many of you saw me wash my dog on livestream? That was the strangest content because half of the people were like yeah more of this and half of the people were like we don't want to watch you wash a dog. Oh well over on Locals people liked it. All right good. Well if I wash her again I'll televise it again. Catering to Locals.

Are any of my opinions actually leaks? That's a very insightful question. Somebody asked if any of my opinions are leaks. But I think you mean my predictions, don't you? That would be the better question. Are any of my predictions fake because I already know what's going to happen? Well I've told you that the best predictions are the ones that are already happening. But I usually stick to the ones where like I could just tell it's already happening. I don't need any inside information. And the answer is yes I have done that more than once. More than once I've made predictions that were based on inside information. And you know what? They are no more or less accurate than the ones that are not based on inside information.

Let me tell you something about inside information. It's not that accurate. It's not that accurate. I almost placed a very large bet on some inside information. Now the person who told it to me had a good source and it was solid. It didn't turn out to be true. Now nothing about the election, nothing about the Kraken. Something completely different. And for a moment I thought oh it was something you could bet on. So the betting market had a specific question on it. I thought oh man I'm gonna place a big bet. And then I thought to myself I don't know there's something about this doesn't feel right and so I didn't. And it turned out to be wrong. Now my understanding is that it was right when I was told but that a decision actually changed after the fact. So the point is that even insider information is not reliable. It really isn't. You know it might be slightly better than the public stuff but it is also unreliable.

Like Nvidia. Innocent people all knew they were compromised just by being there. Yeah I suppose that's true. Do ADHD. All right so I saw an article that I tweeted. Jeff Pilkington spotted this. And ther

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e was an expert who was describing ADHD as not somebody who is easily distracted. Rather it was a future blindness. In other words it looks to everybody, even the person with ADHD, it looks to everybody who's observing like they keep getting distracted with what's in front of them and therefore they're late. So they don't get places on time because they're just getting distracted. That's what it l…

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