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are a couple things that I have going on right now that might change the world. Don't know. One of them is my book *Reframe Your Brain*. It's not written just to have a good time on an airplane. It's written because once you understand this material, you'll be able to literally change how you think on demand in a wide variety of domains. Now if you could change how you think, you would change how…

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right. Well, on X the phrase ADL is trending. And I said to myself, what's all that about? So there are a lot of people who are calling the ADL — what does the A stand for? What's the A in ADL stand for? Anti-Defamation League. The Anti-Defamation League, which Republicans have caught on — I think they caught on a while ago — that it's basically a Democrat group and a way to attack Republicans and call them racists.

So the ADL, I'm sure they had noble intentions when they started, and I'm sure there are plenty of members of it who still have noble intentions. But in terms of the leadership, my observation and my opinion is it's just a racist Democrat organization now. So it looks like they get all the money from Democrats and then they use it to label Democrats' enemies as a bunch of racists. And then they say, "Hey, don't listen to me. Listen to the people I funded to call you a racist." Because if it was just me, it's just an opinion. But it's not just an opinion. It's coming from the people I paid to say my opinion. That's completely different. You get it? It's not my opinion. I'm just referring to the people I paid to tell you my opinion. Can you not get the difference?

All right, so that's what's going on with the ADL. When I got canceled, the ADL came after me and called me a Holocaust denier. Does that sound like me? Does that sound like they did their homework and they came up with a good take to help the world be a better place by calling me a Holocaust denier? Was that useful? That came from the head of the organization. It didn't come from some rank-and-file. The actual leader of the organization in public called me a Holocaust denier. Now, do you think that has anything to do with anything factual? Of course not. Of course not. No, they're just a racist Democrat organization whose job it is to defame people they don't like.

Now, do they also do some good stuff? Probably. Probably. That's why they get to stay in their little cover position, because they also do some good stuff. I assume. I mean, I haven't seen any, but I just assume they do some good stuff.

All right. Do you remember, oh it was 2020 or so, that I got absolutely destroyed on a platform that we call X but it used to be called something else. I'm not even going to dead-name it, and now you know that. But I tweeted that if Joe Biden got elected, the Republicans would be hunted. Oh man, did I get attacked for that. People still tweet around — no, they posted around. People still posted around to try to mock me for how wrong I was in 2020.

Are you feeling I was wrong? Do you feel that the Republicans were not at all hunted? Well, let's talk about Dominic Pezzola, a Proud Boys member who smashed a window during the January 6th stuff and got 10 years in prison for breaking a window. Joe Biggs got 15 years in prison for nothing violent. Somebody saying 17 for nothing violent.

Well, if you say to yourself, "Hey, you do the crime, you do the time, right? You do the crime, you do the time. That's just how our system works." Does it really? Has it worked with Black Lives Matter and Antifa when they were burning down the place? Is it how it worked when Trump got elected in 2016 and all of these same people — well, the groups anyway, not the people, but the same groups — attacked the capital and 50 Secret Service people were injured? Was that 50 people were injured? Lots of property damage, fires.

Yeah, so we do have a country in which we can say, I think without any argument at this point, that Republicans are hunted and that the system is trying to exterminate at least the Republican Party if not the people. So you hear some people saying, "Oh, you know, it's going to get so bad that you could be jailed for your opinion for being a Republican." Well, that's happening now. That's actually happening. People are being jailed for their opinion now. The fake reason is that they broke a window or that they were part of — those are fake reasons.

Now, do you th

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ink that the Democrats know that this is happening? If you're a Democrat, don't you think that people broke the law and then the law caught up with them and hey, that's how it's supposed to work? Do you believe they have any idea what's going on? I don't. I don't think they have any idea. How could they? The only place they would tell them are the media sources that their own side says if you even…

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