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e true to every human in the world. No doubt. So there is no doubt that Donald Trump is a threat to our liberties and even to our democracy. Now what was the part about his policies? I say that's it. Where's the part about when he was president last time which wasn't too long ago he did all of these terrible things and took away your liberties? I don't remember that happening. I feel like that was…

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iticians easy to blackmail? I'm going there's an obvious reason. Do you know why? I mean other than the fact they do bad things but other people do bad things too. I have a feeling that one of the reasons people go into politics is that they're too ugly to get laid otherwise. Am I wrong? Look look at your politicians and then you subtract down some outliers. It's like okay JFK he was good-looking right and apparently had a pretty active sex life but you know he's an outlier. If Mitch McConnell is getting a little on the side do you think it's because he's quite a lover he really knows how to get it done if you know what I mean he's a finisher? Probably not. Now I'm not suggesting he's having any kind of situation like that. I'm just saying that if you were to take a picture of the certainly the men in Congress it's mostly the men I think if you took a picture of the men they're not exactly killing it on Tinder. So I think they're unusually easy to blackmail because you just got to pay somebody to you know close their eyes and do whatever drugs they need to to get the job done. But yeah I think Congress is especially susceptible to this.

So my suggestion is this. You should either only vote for people who can get laid without your help in other words they don't need the job. Well I can still get laid and then maybe maybe less blackmail. Or people who have been so thoroughly vetted that you wouldn't be surprised a bit and the blackmail wouldn't even work if you caught them with their pants down in the middle of a you know the public square. Can you think of anybody like that who would be a politician who has been caught so many times that it wouldn't even mean anything if you caught him again? Yeah and Trump is perfect. I think he's as close to unblackmailable as we've ever had for a leader. He might be he might be the pinnacle of an unblackmailable person and I remind you of this all the time but when he was running for office the first time he said publicly I'm no angel. When he did that I said to myself okay you just told us what the game is. I'm no angel but I'm on your side. That was a pretty good package. I wanted somebody to say I'm no angel so if something comes out later that shows them they're no angel go oh well you didn't lie to me. I guess I should have seen it coming but at the same time he says I'm not going to be an angel but I'm going to be the I'm going to be the one on your side and then he acts exactly like he's on your side closing the border etc. So I can live with that. I can totally live with I'm no angel but I'm going to be the demon on your team. Sounds good to me.

All right there are all these Trump Nikki Haley rumors. CBS is reporting that Trump was asking his allies about the possibility of Nikki Haley for vice president and then Trump supporters got all excited and upset and yada yada yada. Here's my take on that. If there's one thing we've learned about Trump he will ask all the questions that are the right questions to ask and then when he's done asking all the right questions to ask he'll go a little further which I actually love about him. Remember the story about he asked if he could use a nuclear weapon to stop a hurricane? Do you remember that? Now I don't know if he ever asked that question I think he denied it but I love the fact if he did. I love it. Now the answer was no that's crazy and then it didn't come up again but don't you like that he as

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ked the question just brainstorm right? I absolutely like that he asked the question. I had no problem with that at all. So when he asked the question what about Nikki Haley as vice president that is not an indication that he likes her on the ticket. To me that's the normal Trump way of doing business that he doesn't see it because if he saw it he wouldn't be asking am I right? If he felt she was…

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