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moving my Instagram followers to Threads did not give me the Algonquin Round Table effect I was hoping to achieve. Now I'd like to look to the five percent of you who understood that joke for a reaction. Anybody understand that joke? Algonquin Round Table. All right some of you got it. Good. The rest of you will just have to Google it. The Algonquin Round Table. Add that to your snooty vocabulary.…
← Previous segment →mer Lee. I would like to first compliment Summer Lee, Congresswoman Summer Lee, for having one of the best names of people who've ever been named. You know Summer is a pretty good name but Lee is an excellent last name to go with Summer. Summer Lee. Am I wrong? That's like one of the best names I've ever heard. Like I always wonder if that actually affects your life to have a name that people really really like to say. Like I'll probably say that name like to myself later when I'm thinking about Summer Lee. It's like a perfect name anyway. So that's not what the story is about. Summer Lee pointed out in a tweet and I guess she was talking in Congress grilling somebody and said how much does the military spend on Viagra each year? And the director of Defense contract said I don't have that figured out. But Summer Lee did have it figured out and answered her own question. $41.6 million dollars spent by the military every year for Viagra. And then she pointed out, Summer Lee, do you know how many bridges in my district of Pittsburgh could be repaired with that amount? It turns out it's I think it's two bridges. You could fix two bridges for the amount that the military spends on Viagra. And so I introduced the hashtag #BridgesNotBoners. We'll see if that trends. Bridges not boners.
And the thing that you should be worried about is military, our military vulnerability. Yeah our military boner ability. I said it. I'm not embarrassed. No I said it. I said it twice. I stole that one from somebody on Twitter. That wasn't my own work. And I would just like to add a counterpoint. The counterpoint to this that it seems to me that's $42 million dollars well spent because you know what I don't want, maybe this is just me. I'd like to get a feel from the audience. I don't really want a military that can't get hard. Was that just me? Is anybody with me? I'm in a military that's rock hard all the time and ready to rock. They'll fight you a little you know. And if you interrupt them after they've taken the Viagra but before they do the thing they want to do well they'll fight. I like them angry and urgent. Harder the better. I think that's the best money we're spending. I want these guys to be saluting at all times if you know what I mean and I think you know what I mean right? So Summer Lee you're awesome however I do like a hard military is what I'm saying. It takes hard men. Hard men to fix things sometimes.
Well CNN is directly going after Biden in ways that you would not imagine they would do unless they really don't want him to run for office. All right so you don't expect CNN to just directly go after the Democrat but they did and it's the kind of story that seems designed to take him out of the office. See if you think this is just unbiased news because they're criticizing their own side in a sense. Is it just unbiased news and welcome or is it clearly designed to remove him from office? Right so the article is about how the big donors are worried that he is not worth the money. If you want to kill somebody's campaign run a story on CNN the one that everybody on your team is aware of and tell them that big donors, other big donors, yeah although I'm not going to name them. Odd the names of the big donors. No I'm not going to give you the names of them but trust me trust me I've talked to people. Those big donors who I won't name are very hesitant. They're looking for somebody else to give money to. Now if you were a big donor also and you were on the verge of giving Biden a lot of money and you read in CNN that other big donors have decided they might not or are not, wouldn't your money feel wasted? That's the play. The play is to make the other donors think they're wasting their money by saying that there's so much doubt and he might not run he might be replaced. And the big donors when they say big donors do you know what the synonym for that is? They don't say it out loud. Big donor equals smart. Smart. Because people assume that
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the billionaire class and the big donors are going to do their homework. That's the group that's making damn sure they know who to give their money to because it's a lot of money and they're smart high functioning people who are not just guessing. They're doing good risk analysis and they know where their money's going. So if you say all the, if you say oh I don't know if you knew this but the sma…
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