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merican history by far. In my opinion, by far. Yeah, follow the money. Wall Street Journal has a story about how bad it is that we have smartphones and porn and that a lot of kids in particular are using their smartphones to look at porn. And the article was written by a woman, Mary Harrington. And I just want to call out how an article gets written by a woman. And I want you to just imagine if i…

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and. In fact no woman should ever write an article about porn because they don't get it. Only men understand what the whole thing is about because it's a male thing. You know I get that women like porn too sometimes but it's 95% a man thing.

All right. Meanwhile so with all this ugliness happening and the architecture of deceit, and by the way do you like that framing, the architecture of deceit? So that because that includes all the components that support the whole system. And like any system if you lose the keystone, if you lost Biden, the entire Biden crime family thing would fall apart. There wouldn't be anybody to protect the people. So you'd find the whole thing, the architecture of deceit, the cutouts, the press, the intelligence groups, the architecture of deceit. If you think of it as a physical thing it helps the persuasion. But also then you understand it as a system where all the parts are connected. And that's the important part of the point.

So meanwhile Trump is giving a rally and all these ugly things are happening. Rockets are being sent up and there's J6 videos and we've got stuff with the economy. We've got two wars going on. And here's something Trump said about Adam Schiff. So he's got a pencil neck and everybody wonders how he holds up his fat ugly face. Now I just love the fact that on one hand there's all these enormous problems, you know the architecture of deceit and the wars and the ugliness. Everything's like terrible and ugly. And Trump's out there with his supporters saying yeah he's got a pencil neck. We don't even know how he holds up his fat ugly face. And the crowd goes wild. How does he lose? How does he lose? Like at this point his victory is almost carved in rock and it's a year out. Now to be fair you know before I'm wrong and you say hey that time you said it was carved in rock. Nothing's carved in rock because there could be another pandemic. There could be another war. There could be aliens could land. Anything could happen. But the fact that Trump is just out there having fun tells you a lot. This is a man who's not worried about the outcome. This is a man who's serving, not treading water. Biden is treading water. He's trying to keep his head above the water and literally stay alive. Trump turned it into a game. Trump is actually gamified campaigning. He turned it into a sport that's also funny. How do you beat that? How do you beat the guy who's talking about building cities of the future and flying cars and calling his opponent a pencil neck who can't hold up his fat ugly face? You can't beat that. I'm sorry. Try as hard as you can. You can't beat that. That's an unbeatable package. He's got the cheery optimism, the FU to his critics. He's got in his case in Trump's case a body of benefits that look better every day. And he's running against a corpse. So that's where we are.

I saw a meme that I think maybe should be more of a meme. And the meme said when you can be indicted for saying there is election fraud, there's election fraud. It's pretty good isn't it? If you can be indicted for saying there's election fraud, there's election fraud. Now how do you argue with that? That's a tough one to argue, isn't it? And what I love about it is it's so tight and succinct. Now it's not 100% true is it? Because it's not just that he said the election was fraudulent. Like that goes all the way to incitement and insurrection, right? So just his opinion is more than an opinion in his case because being the president had an incitement factor to it they will claim. But at its core it is directionally true that you can't imagine a situation where somebody would be indicted for saying an election is fraud unless it was that election fraud. I don't, you could actually stop looking for it at this point. You should assume it's true because of this. I don't have evidence that the elections were fraudulent but I have evidence that the person who said it the loudest is being indicted. So that's good enough for me. Yeah it's not proof but it's good enough. I accept this as a working definition of the truth.

Here's another thing that I saw recently. Four people committed suicide who were part of the J6 crowd who presumably thought they were obeying the law and trying to rescue the Republic. But they were later indicted and tried and they were going to go to jail for a long time. Four of them committed suicide. Does that seem like a lot? I don't know because it might have been a lot. There were a lot of people there. So I don't know how many people commit suicide in any group of 100,000. I don't know what the ratio is. But four sounds like a lot.

Now how hard is it to understand? Do you understand it? I do. Just put yourself in their heads for a moment. Put yourself in the head of a peaceful January 6 protester who genuinely believed the Republic had a hiccup and if they could just take a couple of days they'd find the hiccup and correct it and then your country would be whole again. These are people who are not just patriots. They're super patriots. Like I consider myself a patriot but I don

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't go march anywhere. That seems like a lot of trouble. But they did. They traveled. They marched. They took the risk. They were real patriots. They really really loved their country. They really really loved their country so much so it was probably an identity. I'll bet you they own flags. I'll bet you they act patriotically and it becomes part of their character. Now suppose that you had made y…

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