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ow is it cognitive dissonance if I allow that both possibilities are entirely possible? Cognitive dissonance is almost always when you've made up your mind. I'm telling you explicitly both possibilities are alive. Can you hear that or not? Edith Eve is yelling cognitive dissonance. Edith you're in cognitive dissonance. You're experiencing it. You're totally you're totally having a hallucination be…

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All right what did Crenshaw say? Crenshaw is supporting military against the cartels. Well there we go. Is there anybody who doesn't now?

I'm going to ask you a question that I know I'm going to get mocked for. All right I sometimes think that one of my special let's say services that I can do for the republic are to take something that you can't talk about and normalize it so that it becomes part of the option set because there's some things that people just won't say first because whoever goes first will just get shot down. And I'm pretty sure I've been the loudest public voice about a military intervention in Mexico and I said it loudly and clearly. I supported it and I will argue it in public. I'll argue with anybody who wants and I'll make my case because it has to be part of the option set. Now I believe that I did enough of it that it demonstrated that people were more open to it than maybe you would have assumed. Wouldn't you agree? There was plenty of pushback on the practical part of it and there should be. Like I don't want to recommend a war and have nobody in the United States disagree. Do you want to live in that country? No no I always want a healthy disagreement about war. Like yes no that should be the biggest fight we ever have but it should be a fair fight right? We should be serious about it about whether we ever use military force but I put that out there and I think after people ask questions about you know how it could work and are you serious and what would it look like largely people I think accepted it as an option. Would you agree?

Now I'm not you know I suppose maybe somebody else talked about it and I'm not aware of it but as Lance says you never did that. Can somebody tell Lance that for a long time I've been saying we should attack the cartels militarily. A long time. And I've been saying it publicly on livestream. I've said it on Twitter and I think that helps normalize it because remember what happened when who was it who talked about Trump brought it up once privately and one of his staffers basically just shot him down like it's not even something you can talk about. And that's what I wanted to change. I wanted to make sure that Trump could say that in public which he did. He put in a video saying it directly because I think he saw that the room had been softened enough that you could say it and you could defend it. So anyway I normalized more war. Well war is normalized isn't it? Do you think I did that? Pretty sure that was normalized a long time ago. We haven't been out of a war since I can remember. Yeah I would love whoever said that was crazy to say that to me. Do you think they would say so? I mean I would I would just eviscerate anybody who said that. It just would be it would be just destruction on camera.

All right oh he also implied too many rallies earlier too. Yeah but I think the direct the direct statement that special forces will go in and obliterate the cartels operation that was the part that he says directly Trump does and it's the reason that I'm going to back him because I'm a single issue voter. I'm a single issue voter on fentanyl. So whatever Trump does that you don't like not my problem. Yeah he can defend that as himself.

All right would politician families be targeted by the cartels if we bomb them? Probably.

The Virginia Merit scholar story. Oh yeah yeah is the story that in Virginia some students were not informed that they'd won the National Merit Scholarship. They were not informed in time to put it on the resume which would have helped them get into a better college. They were told after but only the white ones. So somebody held back the white people. Now if that's true that's a horrible crime. Like this isn't one that was was it all Asians? Yeah maybe it was just basically anti-Asian and anti-white mostly Asians. All right well so what whatever group was held back there that is huge. That when I heard that story like I almost couldn't believe it. Li

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ke we did get to the point where that would be done intentionally. Yeah that's somebody should go to jail for that don't you think? I would think that's I don't know if it's a crime but it ought to be. 13 schools. God that's just amazing. Yes for over a year. Oh my God yeah. Life after death would just be the end of the simulation for you but it might mean that you're you know I also think we mig…

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