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to fight another day because it's at least some free speech or to go hard and say no Turkey you don't get Twitter. There will be no Twitter for Turkey. Sorry you don't get any. Now how do you know what the right decision was? You don't really know the right decision do you? You know what happened but you don't know if he'd made the other decision a better thing would have happened. It's completely…

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inciple. And that's it. That's their laundry list.

And here's the title of the piece: "What Happened to Elon Musk?" What happened to him? The title is what people are going to say and they're going to say oh how did he turn bad? Well I don't have time to read that article but it looks like something sketchy with that guy. Oh my God. Now is it obvious to you that they're just trying to take down his power because his power is pretty awesome at the moment? Yeah this is not even close to news. And now I realize it was an opinion piece but even as an opinion piece it doesn't belong in the news entity because it's not news. It's just and it's not really an opinion. This is just a hit job to take somebody's power down. Is that why you need CNN to do hit pieces on people? How useful is that?

Well let's talk about Ukraine. Do you remember when we first started and one of the things that we definitely weren't going to do — oh we're definitely not going to, we might give Ukraine some help. Oh yeah give them some old weapons, maybe some ammunition. We weren't going to use yeah give them some Humvees and you know maybe some helmets and stuff whatever. But we're definitely not going to give them any F-16s. I mean let's not be crazy. We're definitely not going to give them any F-16s because if we did that we basically would be in a hot war with Russia because you know Russia is going to say we don't care who's flying them those are your F-16s. We're in a war with you now. So definitely weren't going to do that. No, no F-16s.

So today's news is that Biden has approved F-16s so the Ukrainians are now learning to fly those F-16s. And I started to think that the Democrats led by Biden are doing the same thing to Putin that they do to Republicans which is they're just gaslighting the out of them aren't they? The same technique that they use domestically which is just you know propaganda and gaslighting and lying and oh we definitely won't do that before they do it and blaming the other side for the thing they're doing. It's like every trick they do domestically against the Republicans they're doing against Putin and it's working. Which of course is why they do it. They're totally gaslighting Putin and they're doing a good job of it. I don't think the Republicans are good at that. I think the Republicans just say okay is there a reason for a war? Yes? No? No reason for a war. All right how about let's not have one. Is there a reason for a war? Oh well then let's just win the war. But the Republicans are all this mind games. It's just like a complete propaganda mind game you know the whole thing.

So anyway I don't believe anything that comes out of Ukraine. It's all lies, damn lies, damn lies.

Anything else happening on this quiet Saturday? They're missing these stories. Oh yeah Putin banned Obama from traveling to Russia. Why in the world would Obama travel to Russia? Was that a thing? Are you telling me that Obama was planning a trip to Russia now or was that just preemptive? Does anybody know? He wasn't actually going to go to Russia right during the current situation. No it must have been just some generic thing. He's just calling attention to Obama. Yeah and it's probably smart. We provoked this war. That's true.

How many people think the United States is primarily responsible for the war in Ukraine? Primarily responsible? I do. To me that seems obvious. You know the public information seems to support that narrative completely. Yeah it looks like we did it and it looks like we didn't get any gain for it. Did we gain anything or is there anything we could gain? I see no potential for winning. Do you? I think we screwed the pooch on this since 2014 and earlier. I think we've just been getting this wrong the whole way. Yeah and earlier I mean we've been doing nothing but trying to overthrow

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Putin and threatening his borders. What the hell is he supposed to do? Yeah I'd love to know the secret back story with Putin. I feel as if there's something that we don't know about Putin or maybe what we did. Maybe it's something we don't know about the United States but there's something about the whole Putin's story that got us to this place that didn't make sense. And the only way to explain…

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