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they need to do with their life. Probably because if you're a Russia expert at least you get to visit Russia which could be cool. If you're a North Korean expert you're not even going to get to visit the place you're an expert at. So why would you even go into that line of work? Honestly I think Victoria Nuland might be part of my larger framework that we create too many people who have to make i…

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successful at school. That's it. Every other observation would look like that. So everything you think about oh there must be some coordination and some Jewish thing. No. How about it's a group of people who put an emphasis on the stuff that puts you in those jobs and then they got good jobs.

And then you say hey wait a minute there are too many Jewish people in high levels of government. How would there not be? How could that not happen? There are also lots of people from Harvard and Yale in government jobs. Is it a Harvard conspiracy because there's so many Harvard people in government? No it's just an indication that there's a certain people who are trying to get those jobs and they're doing the right stuff.

So the only thing I would ask you is if you've been spending too much time online you're going to get all the pattern people. Oh look at this pattern. Oh it's funny every time there's something bad happening why do I see so many Jewish names in the leadership? Because they have a concentration of people who like to go to school, get good grades and get good jobs.

If you can't eliminate the obvious fact that people who try to succeed and do all the right things do in fact succeed, there's your whole explanation.

I have worked, and I'll give you my personal experience. So I've worked in mostly public publication, publishing, the book world, syndication. Can you imagine how many Jewish professionals I deal with as my normal work? All right it's saturated. Like most of my success, most of it is because I worked with really good Jewish executives and professionals who were trying to make me successful because that's how they do their jobs. And now they're successful.

But I've spent a lot of time saturated in that community. I've never seen anything that looked like a conspiracy and I'm pretty sure I would have. I've never seen anybody discriminate anything against me because I was not Jewish. I've never seen anybody coordinate at all. I've never heard of it. I've never even heard of anybody like oh the Jewish executives got together and did some Jewish stuff. Never once.

Do Jewish executives like Israel? Yeah what is that a new

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s flash or something? Would they say things in public that would be supportive of Israel and it would sound like they were on the same team? Yes of course. Like you're just looking for conspiracies where it's hard to find. Now let me so that I don't look like I'm just completely crazy to you. Does it look like the Jewish lobbying in the United States is effective? Yes. Why would it be effective?…

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