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e business world, and I love the fact that he says directly that ESG could be one of the things that's destroying the world. You know, it's on his list with some other stuff. And he calls it a mass demoralization campaign against progress that has lasted 60 years. But he calls out everything: trust and safety and tech ethics and social responsibility and basically all these well-intended things ar…
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So I started watching Oliver Stone's update to his original movie JFK about the assassination. There were more documents declassified, etc. So he's got an updated version of it. And what I always say about documentaries is that they're 100% persuasive, usually. They're 100% persuasive as long as you don't see the counterargument. So I'm aware while I'm watching it. I've only watched the first episode, but I was completely aware of two things. Number one, it was completely persuasive of its point of view that Kennedy was basically assassinated by the CIA and the mafia. Now, does that mean it's true? I don't know, because I'd have to hear some kind of counterpoint to really have an opinion. But it's completely convincing.
And let me tell you the most convincing part, and this part does not require any speculation. This is a real thing that I found out yesterday. I did not know this till yesterday. Do you know who? So there was this thing called the Warren Commission the government put together in order to find out for sure who killed Kennedy. You know, was it a lone gunman? Was it a conspiracy, etc.? Well, they came up with the answer: there was a lone gunman, no conspiracy.
Now, the thing I didn't know is that the chairperson of the Warren Commission was the only person who didn't have a regular job, so he was the most active because he didn't have a day job to go to. He was the recently fired head of the CIA, Allen Dulles. Right now you say to yourself, well, that's probably a pretty good person, right? Because it's somebody who's really connected, a high-level executive type who would know all the players. Yeah. Allen Dulles. Here's the thing that I did not know about until today. The chairman of the group who were trying to find out for sure who killed Kennedy, and just listen to this carefully. It's all you need to know. The chairperson of the group that by far had the most power on the Warren Commission was also the major suspect in the actual assassination. So the main suspect was the person who was put in charge of the commission to find out who the murderer was. That's a real thing. I didn't know that till yesterday. That's a real thing.
There's no question about what happened. Of course the CIA killed him. There's no way that you put the main suspect in charge of the investigation unless it's exactly what it looks like. It's exactly what it looked like. Do you need to hear anything else? Is there anything else you need to hear about this? The main suspect who had been fired by Kennedy. Do you know why he'd been fired as the head of the CIA? So first of all, he was a disgruntled employee, so that's a reason to kill somebody. Second of all, he was head of the CIA, so he had all the ability to set up some kind of a fake assassination if he wanted to. And then, but more importantly, I learned that Kennedy found out that the CIA was running its own foreign policy and even the president wasn't aware of it. And they didn't care about the president. They thought they were in charge. Did you know that? Did you know that even Kennedy, and it's on record, said that he didn't think he had any control of the CIA and didn't know what they were doing? And there were well-documented cases where they were overthrowing governments and murdering people without the president having ordered it. They were running their own government.
You think that's bad enough? No, we're not done yet. J. Edgar Hoover, who ran the FBI, same problem. The FBI was not doing what the president wanted. The FBI was its own domain and it was just doing its own thing. So Kennedy had an FBI that reported to him on paper but didn't, and a CIA that reported to him on paper but didn't. So it's exactly what it looked like. The people who were really in power didn't like that there was this guy who was called president, and so they killed him and covered it up. Yeah, amazing.
So Earl Warren. Yeah, it was Earl Warren. So you know I don't have any question about what happened. I don't have any question about what went down. To me that's confirmed.
All right. Well, so that begs an interesting question. What happens if RFK Jr. had it his way and he could dig into all the CIA's business and suppose he were in charge of the CIA? That would be interesting.
But there's a new Harvard Harris poll. So I guess it's a respected poll. And they did a poll of presidential preferences as we stand now. And if it were just Trump and Biden, Trump would win. He's up four points now. Remember, these are national, so that doesn't mean he would win in all the right districts to win the electoral vote, but it does give you kind of a general feeling of the attitude of the country. But if you throw into the mix Kennedy, Trump's lead increases by 50%. He goes from up four to up six. Now, can we conclude that Kennedy takes votes away from Biden more than he takes votes from Trump? I think so. So this is the first confirmation, and this is what I thought would happen. I thought he would take more from Biden.
But if you throw in West, so there are two third-party people running, Kennedy and West, Trump's lead goes up to seven. Every time you throw in a third party, Trump's base tends to be sticky and other candidates are a little less sticky, so they lose support whenever there's another person there. Cornel West, yes. If Trump ran against Harris instead, he would be up by seven. And if Biden ran against Nikki Haley, Biden would win by four. I don't know how Trump can survive. I mean, I feel like they're going to have to. I hate to say it, but I don't, short of him being the victim of something horrible, how did they keep him out of office? And can they allow him to get back in office knowing that he's going to rip the lid off of everything, or at least he try? I don't know. I'm real worried about his health. I gotta be honest.
Well, here's some fake news based on real news. China has moved multiple warships into the Middle East. So China's big boats are over there with America's strike force. I guess we've got two carrier strike groups over there. But it sounded on first report, it sounded like this was to counter the American power. On second look, it looks like it was just a planned maritime naval practice. What do you call it? What do you call it when the military practices? What's that called? Exercise. Yes. So they had some exercise. It might be just that. But the United States, does it seem to you like Biden is stealthily preparing for war that would involve America without now saying, hey, we're getting ready for war? I feel like there's something missing in the process, as in some honesty, as in if this happens American boots will be on the ground. I don't like just sort of being over there and being ready and then America not being told at the same time that we don't have a speaker of the house. I don't like anything about this. I think it probably makes sense from a commander-in-chief perspective. You've got to put your military where it might make a difference. It definitely might make a difference. At least mentally, the psychology of the situation is certainly different because our military's there. But I do worry that we're preparing for war without th
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e permission of Congress and without the full knowledge of the citizens. That's what it feels like. Well, let's talk about why Israel has not attacked yet in terms of their ground attack. One theory is that Biden is restraining them. In other words, Biden said don't go in and kill a bunch of innocent people while trying to get the bad guys. So that's possible. So that's certainly a force that's w…
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