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some categories of course. Yeah. And then Charles Payne after dunking on Ian Bremmer finishes with, I'm just going to leave it here. So let me say this. If you don't follow Ian Bremmer you should because on geopolitical stuff, very good. Very good on geopolitical stuff. A good follow. However, and this is not an insult, this is not an insult. Charles Payne is a business guy, right? So his backgro…

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he CIA asset part but it's something he read.

Now we also know that the same essentially the same group of terrorists had tried to bomb the World Trade Center. So now you've got the name of a terrorist because he was better informed than the rest of us and he was known to be a dangerous one. We've got a target that they went after before. This seems likely they might try again. So here's the pattern. So now you've got a person who does this kind of thing. You can name a target because it's the same target they tried before. And I think they, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they threaten to do it again? Wasn't there some suggestion they threatened to do it again, right? And then separately there had been a story around that time about a plot to have the CIA or something do a false flag with an American airliner. Now those three things were roiling around in his head at the same time. Now if you're good at pattern recognition you say to yourself, okay something about Bin Laden, his name I keep seeing. Something about World Trade Center because they said they would go after it. And they're also talking about an airliner. Put them together. Airliner, World Trade Center, Bin Laden. Boom. Is that how he did it? Maybe. Maybe so.

It could actually be that he's good at pattern recognition and that he simply read more source materials than you did. By the way that's what he says. He says that's how he did it. Maybe that might be exactly how he did it. Now before you go off and say my God he's right every time it's amazing, I would caution you this. If you don't have a list of all the things he's ever predicted to know whether this was like an amazing hit or was it one of a hundred wild things he said, 10 of them happened, 90 of them didn't. Does that give you a different impression of what's going on? I don't know.

Now he also has one other characteristic which probably serves him well. He assumes the worst about the government. Now I hate to say it but if you just want to look psychic just predict that the government is lying about everything they say and you will look like a genius in five years. Am I right? So part of his trick is he just always assumes the government's up to no good and that turns out to be a pretty good assumption. Yeah not always but pretty good. So I don't know how to judge his accuracy but he's got some genuine hits there that can't be ignored.

He also said that Joe Biden, that he knows that Joe Biden walks around the White House naked at night and is all drugged up. And then he and Tucker agreed because Tucker apparently has confirmed information that Biden's on amphetamines and that they pump him up with amphetamines just before public appearances but then he's basically a blithering idiot all the rest of the time. Does that sound right? I would say it not only sounds right I feel like it's obvious. Don't you think it's kind of obvious that he's drugged up when they trot him out in public? Yeah. To me I'd say if this isn't true I'd be really surprised. Really really surprised. Yeah. So at what point do you get your president drug tested? Would it be reasonable to ask? Because I don't believe when the White House doctor does an exam aren't they supposed to tell us if the president's on drugs? Is that not part of what the public should know? Because what would be the point of saying oh this person is healthy if we don't know they're on cocaine or something? Do you think amphetamines have no impact on your decision-making? Yeah.

Do you know what ISIS is given to go into battle and Hamas fighters are given to go into battle? Amphetamines. Do you know why they give them amphetamines? Because it makes them do brave and reckless things. It makes them do brave and reckless things. In other words they shouldn't have been brave about it. They should have not done it at all. How do you like knowing that your head of your military who's involved in one hot war and I guess he's involved in two hot wars although no

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t with soldiers yet, how do you like the fact that that's the guy who might be taking a drug, almost certainly is taking a drug that guaranteed could make you more confident and therefore more prone to risk? What do you think? I feel like we need to know that. And if we don't know it that should be grounds for impeachment. That's what I think. There's a story that this is how Tucker Carlson is fr…

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