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our free markets and our flow of information, which isn't as free as it could be but it's getting better, a hundred percent of things are self-correcting. All of it. Everything is self-correcting. Now I told you about Germany was going to freeze over the winter because they didn't have Russian gas. And then the latest report was, oh, somehow they figured out enough how to store enough gas so they…
← Previous segment →mocking it. And it had some tweets there from some notable people saying funny things. And I could not be more angry at Fox News today. Fox News was saying that people were saying clever things about that Fetterman flag thing, and they did not include my tweet. That oversight cannot be forgiven. And so since they only mentioned some lesser clever tweets, which were pretty good but they were lesser clever than the one I did, and my tweet was this: Hypothetically, if God had been trying to warn us for months not to vote for a particular candidate, what would that look like?
Come on. I'm a professional joke writer, and I declare that was the best joke written on this topic. Now let me tell you why this is a joke writing lesson for you so you can take this away. I've told you this before, but every time you see an example, it helps. If you can do a punch line or a joke in which the audience has to fill in the details, that's your best joke. Like that's the one that really works. If you over-specify what you want somebody to imagine, well, that could be a good joke too. But the great jokes are where it takes you a moment to fill it in. And where do you fill it in? You're filling it in with your own stuff.
So what I said, God had been trying to warn you for months, you can fill it in with everything that happened to John Fetterman, which was a tragedy. I don't mean to make fun of a medical problem, but if you had, you're trying to fill it in. You're like, okay, yeah, that sounds very much like that old joke you've all heard. The joke: the flood waters are rising, and a neighbor knocks on the elderly person's door and says, you know, hey, the water's rising. Come with us. We're leaving right now. And the woman says, no, no, you know, God will provide. I'll be fine. And the water rises, and the woman has to go up to the second floor of her house. And then a boat comes up to the second floor window and says, get into the boat, get in the boat. And she's like, no, God will provide. I'm fine. Then she ends up on the roof of her house because the water has risen, and she's on the roof of the house. And a helicopter comes by and says, get on the helicopter. You kno
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w, put some rope down. She goes, no, God will provide. The helicopter goes away. Well, the water rises. She drowns. And she goes to heaven, and she's talking to God in heaven. And she goes, God, what's up? I've been believing in you my whole life. You know, I was sure you would provide. What happened? And God says, I sent you a car, I sent you a boat, I sent you a helicopter. And you know, that's…
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