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ike Charlie Brown's football — there's always something that's like pulling the football back just before you kick it. And I feel like the Iowa results are going to be based on the weather. Does it feel like that to you? Basically just think about this. Vivek just absolutely blanketed that state like nobody's ever done before. Not only did he cover more of the precincts, he covered every one, whi…

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understand is there some big uniparty power behind politics that we don't see directly? Like you need to know that, right?

But doesn't it feel as though both Vivek and Trump are a new American Revolution against these hidden powers that maybe we don't even know who they are? I don't know if that even exists. I don't even know if it exists. I know there are a lot of people pretty sure it does but I don't hear names and I don't see facts. But it feels exactly like that, doesn't it?

And we'll talk about that a little bit more. But it does feel by coincidence that we have something like the founders have lined up. The maps into Thomas Jefferson really easily because they're both bigger than big and smarter than smart and more patriotic than patriots. Like that's Thomas Jefferson. You know there were a lot of smart people but Jefferson was smarter than the smart ones. That's Vivek. He's not just smart, he's smarter than the smart people.

And Jefferson did the Louisiana Purchase, the American Revolution, and that's about the size of the change that Vivek is saying he'll do. 75% cut in the government, get us out of wars, basically huge changes. So that's very Jeffersonian.

And then it does seem like maybe Trump feels a lot like George Washington, doesn't it? Because Trump seems like the one who's going into battle. He's actually fighting. He's literally fighting the lawfare, the cannons of the system. So George Washington is marshalling the army, you know the MAGA army or whatever it is, against the Tories or whoever it is we're fighting.

Then it seems very much like Elon Musk is the modern version of Ben Franklin. Now does he fit the model of a revolutionary? Well let's ask the Wall Street Journal because the Wall Street Journal just wrote the most stupid article you'll ever see that decides that really whenever you think of Elon Musk you should think of Donald Trump because they're the same person. You goddamn pieces of shit in the Wall Street Journal, what are you doing with this article? What are you educating us on? What news is this?

This is pure propaganda. This is disgusting. You should really be ashamed of yourself, Wall Street Journal. This is not up to your standard. I usually have a lot of respect for the Wall Street Journal but this is not up to your standard. This to me looks like a pure hit piece that they're trying to disguise as some kind of opinion journalism important story. It's not important. It's not journalism. It's not news. It's a hit piece on one of the most useful Americans in the history of the Republic.

Why? Because Elon Musk runs a platform that doesn't always hate Donald Trump. And that's why it exists or at least that's why it got published. I can't read the mind of the writer but I can tell you it doesn't have news value. So you do the math, right? Amazing. Amazing.

And how do they say he's the same? Because they both use Twitter really well. That was one of the biggest evidences that they're populists who use T

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witter really well. How exactly do you write a hit piece about a populist? Doesn't that sound almost like that's backwards? What the hell is a populist except somebody that the people really like once they get to know him and they really agree with him once they get to know him? That's what a populist is. Somebody who's popular because they're doing the right things according to the public. So th…

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