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because we've all been saying that it seems like all the conspiracy theories are coming true. Now that's of course not actually true. Not all the conspiracy theories, but a lot of the fun ones. So let's look at a few.

Apparently the US passports have been redesigned, and the Biden administration has removed the eagle and the flag. In other words, the American imagery has been removed from the passport, and now it's just a document. Why would you do that? What conversation went into that? And what it looks like is something that I kind of resisted. Probably, I don't know how many years ago, did the crazy people on the right start saying, I think the Democrats and the Marxists, especially the Marxists, are trying to destroy the imagery and sort of the culture of America so that they can slot in their belief systems better. And I remember thinking to myself, well, that's really giving them a lot of credit for long-term planning. That feels like too much credit. So I was kind of on the side of, well, I see what you're saying, but I feel like it's just a bunch of things that are coincidentally heading in that direction.

But then you see the passport, and I honestly can't think of any reason you would remove American imagery from a passport. Maybe there's some reason. Is it an international standard and we're just trying to be more international? Is that why? Do other countries not put national imagery on their passport? Were we just trying to be standardized? Whatever the reason, it probably wasn't good enough.

Yeah. So everything from the family to what is a man, what is a woman, all the CRT and diversity and all that, it all seems like it does feel like it's designed to destroy the core of American values that made America what it is. Or was. Maybe "was" is a better word. So yeah, it looks

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coordinated. It actually looks — maybe not in the sense that they held a meeting and talked about it, but there does seem to be some general sense on the Democrat side to destroy all that binds us together as Americans. It's starting to be hard to ignore. You know, I'm not so big on just images and stuff, but it does seem comprehensive. It would be hard to imagine that it's all coincidence at this…

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