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w, these rich people don't even want to make money. They don't even care about money. Let me tell you, the rich people in this room, these are the ones who want to solve climate change for you no matter how much it costs them. Even if they have to give up their Maseratis, they're going to work for your benefit by joining a meeting and talking. And you might say, but what have they changed? To whic…

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God, you see this too, right? The look on their face was to the audience, you see this too, don't you? Oh, it was perfect. It was just perfect. Now I don't think they planned that. I think it was just spontaneous. I think they were actually amused. Like they didn't look like they were acting. I think they were about to break out laughing because the Democrat was looking so stupid at that moment. So that was kind of perfect.

I loved watching Anderson Cooper interview Adam Schiff. So he had the three faces on screen and the three boxes. So Adam Schiff was on the left and Anderson Cooper in the middle interviewing, and Adam Kinzinger was there. And Adam Schiff was trying to, see I can't even talk about Adam Schiff without laughing because it's now just so not serious anymore. Like Adam Schiff is just like the worst. And Watergate guy, you know, once you've ascended to pure comedy. So he gets on there and he says that Tucker Carlson is trying to gaslight the country by showing actual footage of what happened. And now I get it that that video footage could be misleading as was the January 6 video footage. But it's a little disingenuous to be complaining that the very thing you just did is being done by the other side. Like we don't notice. Like nobody noticed that the entire context is that Tucker Carlson only has that video because you did this thing in front of the world in the biggest possible way, which is distorting the story by selective edits. And the balls of this guy to accuse the other side of what he's literally the most famous practitioner of is it's just like a comedy act.

Now some of you say he's projecting. You know, the Tucker Carlson thing, they always blame you of the thing they're doing. But it's a perfect example. Now what I loved about the story is not what Schiff said. It's Anderson Cooper's face as he listens to Schiff essentially defending CNN at the same time, not intentionally. But keep in mind that CNN had reported the January 6 event like it was real. Think about that. CNN covered the January 6 committee like it was all real. And now it's very clear that the thing was closer to a hoax, which I've said from the beginning. So CNN really can't hide from the fact that they covered the story as real and it's now pretty obvious some portion of it was just pure hoax. Would you agree with that? Do you agree with that statement that it's now obvious that the January 6 committee was just an operation and they reported it as real the entire time? Now isn't that embarrassing to hear them? All right, is that, yeah I would think that's embarrassing.

So Anderson Cooper's in the middle and what I tweeted was, I can't read minds but Anderson Cooper's face suggests he's not pleased with the liars that turned CNN into the dumbest fly on turd mountain. And the only reason I'm telling you this story is that I'm so proud of that phrase, the dumbest fly on turd mountain. I welcome you to borrow it and I'm going to give you full copyright to that phrase. And here's the best part. Don't give me credit if you use it, right? Like if you're talking to your relatives or something, you know they don't follow, just act like you made that one up. You have my approval to attribute it to your own good thinking. Right, it's yours. I release it to you. Just say there. But you have to sell it. You gotta sell it like you just came up with it. I said, I tell you, and Adam Schiff, he's making CNN look like the dumbest fly on turd mountain. And try to sell it like it's always been a saying. Yeah, try to make it look like, oh you haven't heard that one? Oh yeah, it's, yeah you don't want to be the dumbest fly on turd mountain. My grandfather used to say that. Not really, but you can tell people. Yeah, you don't want to die on turd hill. Well there's an upgrade. You know how people always say don't die on that hill? I think it's more effective you say, well if I were you I wouldn't die on turd hill.

Then I saw Adam Schiff appearing on MSNBC with Lawrence, Lawrence whatever his name is. He's got his own show. I remember he doesn't like hammering Lauren somebody. And the Schiff was saying that Fox News is only acting because they care about the money and the ratings. So he was on MSNBC whose ratings are in the toilet reminding them that they shouldn't care so much about ratings. Has any Democrat ever given good advice? Do not get your economic advice from a Democrat. So Adam Schiff telling a struggling network with falling ratings that they shouldn't worry so much about the ratings and the money. Oh no, you know what MSNBC should be struggling for? Equity. Equity. Yeah, yeah, I think CNN and MSNBC, they should be trying to achieve equity in the news business while Fox News is trying to be the best in the business and will lap them and destroy them. But hey, equity.

And the only reason I bring that up is to make fun of the fact that I don't know who Lawrence, Lawrence O'Donnell, okay I didn't know his name. That was really my main point. Oh yeah, and Schiff is trying to get advertisers to stop advertising on Fox News. The only people who advertise on Fox News are pharmaceutical companies and that got canceled and some charity stuff. Yeah, usually something about veterans. Like could Fox News have any fewer advertisement options than they have? Yeah, they've got canceled. MyPillow guy, bunch of pharmaceuticals that maybe they shouldn't have. Although I haven't seen as many lately. I haven't seen as many pharmaceutical ads and maybe there's a reason for that. Yeah, St. Jude's. So it's either charity or somebody canceled. It's not like Fox News has a lot of options.

This might feel like a repeat but it looks like Trump's about to be indicted. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Should I even read this story? All right, this is the best one yet. So this is in the genre of the walls are closing in. We got it this time. We got him this time. Yeah, finally. And let me describe how the news tries to deal with this as

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a real story, right? They want to sell this as something that's real. So all right, so what's happening is that New York, I guess Manhattan prosecutor Attorney Alvin Bragg, he's notifying attorneys. I heard this in the New York Post that the commander, the ex-commander-in-chief Trump is going to be asked to defend himself in front of a grand jury hearing. Now people in the know say that if you're…

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