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e how you can do both. Do you? How in the world could you do both? And do you imagine that New Zealand got a good job out of her? I mean, maybe it was good enough. I don't know. But it doesn't matter what the external competition for the leader's time is, whether it's a baby or they've got lawsuit problems or they're having troubles at home. It matters. It all matters. So if we're being open-mind…

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it. That's a drone. I think the HIMARS and the GLSDB systems are drones.

Well, whenever I talk about this all of the Russian assets start yelling "Scott Ritter" and also "wrong" in big letters. This is so easy to pick out the Russians now. Anybody else want to say Scott Ritter so we know who all the Russians are? Go ahead. Let's see if I can quiet him down. Scott Ritter literally writes for the Russian-controlled publication RT, which is called Russia Today. So do I think this Scott Ritter would have a different take on whether Ukraine is winning? Why don't we see what the guy who works for Russia thinks? Hmm.

And Andrew says, and who do you write for? Copy. Well, you nailed me. Burned. Burned. Who do I write for? Whoa, whoa. Well, as you know, I write for UT. Oh, you didn't know that? I write for Ukraine Today, the publication that's owned by Zelensky. Yeah, no, I talk to him every day. Hold on, he's calling again. You want me to write one? Right, Ukraine has nuclear weapons. You don't have nuclear weapons? Okay, I'll say you do. I'll say you do. I will do an article on that. You know, there's talk that they have nuclear weapons. Anything else? F-15s. You don't have any? Okay, I'll say F-15s. F-150s. You got hundreds of them. Hundreds of them. Thousands. Thousands of F-15s. All right, I got my assignment. Got it. Write for Zelensky.

Now for the dumb people, that was just theater and I don't actually write for Ukraine. But I think it's funny that you asked anyway. I would just like to make the following point. I can see why you would call these missile systems not necessarily the same as drones. I get it. But I wasn't making that distinction when I talked about it. My trolls are just so pathetic today. You know, when the trolls are doing a good job and they're getting under your skin, they're annoying. But when they do an unusually bad shot, they just become part of the entertainment. And today they're totally entertaining. It's the same person anyway. That's pretty funny.

Let's talk about everybody weaponizing everything. So you know the Republicans are doing this investigation into the weaponization of the intel community. And now the Democrats are going to match that persuasion by saying that the House Republicans are setting up a committee to... that it's the Republicans that are weaponizing stuff. So everybody is weaponizing. Is that good persuasion to say everybody's weaponizing stuff? I don't know. It feels a little generic, doesn't it? A little bit generic. I don't think the weaponization thing is quite hitting. But we're going to talk about Trump's recent statements. I'm going to show you how to do it right. And I want you to contrast the weaponization word with where Trump goes so you can see the weak sauce and then you're going to see Trump just punching it right in the face. Now whether you like it or not, he definitely has a skill, a very specific skill set. We'll get to that a little bit.

All right, apparently Trump is reportedly, NBC says, going to come back to Twitter. And he's petitioned Facebook to go back there as well. Now Facebook would have to say yes. Twitter already did. But he's not back, so we'll see if that's real. I think most people assumed that running for office would require it, don't you think? Now I don't know what that does to the viability of Truth Social. So that's going to take a hit.

But I saw a comment about Trump's support of his work to bring the vaccinations out. Now how many of you think that's going to be just a huge problem? That Trump was behind Operation Warp Speed and that a lot of his base is pretty unhappy about vaccinations. So how does he solve that? Is that solvable? You tell me. Because it was solvable for his base. Yeah, it is solvable. I wasn't sure how, but he's putting together a package of persuasion in which this folds into it really well. And I almost hate to say it because this time around I'm not going to support Trump on his policies except one. He's the st

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rongest on fentanyl. He would go after the cartels, he says. So far that's the best take. So I'm going to talk about his persuasion skills. If you can be alert enough to know that doesn't mean I support everything he says and does. Right? I'm a one-policy. You voted this time just on fentanyl. But on Hoodwinked on Twitter, Twitter user OnHoodwinked, who's also a good follow, very provocative twee…

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