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souled penguin. And then they said hey that's no fair you can't identify as a penguin. And then Piers said why not? If everything's in the conversation why can't I identify as a penguin? And the answer is that's not logical. No you don't see a difference there. You don't see a difference. You're talking about people who actually believe that they you know their identification versus someone who d…

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ed to influence me. But don't you think they would? If they're not trying to influence me what the hell are they doing? Because anybody who works for the CIA can see I can move the needle and it wouldn't take long to figure that out.

So if they're not trying to influence me directly or indirectly they're not trying hard enough. Now how would they do it? Do you know if they were trying to influence me and let's say it was happening right now and I was not aware of it how would it happen? They would send a fake friend. Fake friend. That's how they do it. Yeah you suddenly you would be befriended by somebody who's a little too anxious to be your friend. That's how they do it.

So has that happened to me? Has anybody been a little too anxious to be my friend and I couldn't figure out why? Yes. Yes they have. Yes they have. But do I know that that's part of an op? I don't. No way to know. Yeah but I assume that the CIA would be trying to influence everybody who is themselves influential. Wouldn't you say? Don't you think anybody who's who could move the needle they're looking at and trying to maybe get a friend inserted there you know what I mean? Friend of the agency. Get a little close to you. Find out what's going on. Maybe put a little something in your ear.

What's the CIA's aim? To control the narrative of course. Now not to a specific end necessarily but always to control it because sort of their job.

Trolls are used and the trolls would be doing what? Trying to discourage me from saying some things. Did you also see the story about the Twitter files that the FBI kept looking for all the foreign interference in the elections and Twitter kept saying you know we're not seeing much and the FBI was like no we're all confused we know there's got to be a lot of foreign influence there and Twitter kept saying yeah you know we looked it doesn't look like there's much and they just were not happy with that.

Does the CIA have good or bad goals? It's probably a mix becaus

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e there are individuals in the CIA as well as what the CIA itself wants and then they're probably departments within the CIA who want different things than other departments. It's probably never clear. I mean it's entirely possible that some people have the CIA helping them at the same time the CIA a different person is trying to destroy them. Like that wouldn't surprise me. It's probably common.…

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