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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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like George Carlin. It didn't sound like his voice. The writing actually was pretty close but it sounded like a human imitating George Carlin. And I picked it out immediately.

Now the only reason I watched it, let me give a little credit here, is that Greg Gutfeld had watched it and he sent me a message and said I probably shouldn't tell you what private messages people send but he wouldn't mind I don't think. He said this doesn't look real, does it? So Greg, who writes jokes for a living and understands writing of course, you bestselling author, it took him two minutes to say this can't be real. And then I looked at it and was like this can't be real, right?

So anybody who's a professional writer and professional humorist especially, you see it right away. Yeah this did not fool anybody who is in the business.

All right. There's No Labels. It's a third-party group and they've got this big PAC and they're going to be raising money to run some third-party person in 2024 who is not yet selected.

Now what have I told you about how to understand news stories? What I always tell you is if the only thing you know is the story you don't know anything. You have to know the players in the story and how they're connected and then you understand the story.

So if the only thing I told you is there's this third-party group and they're raising money for a third party, what does that tell you? Not really anything actually. Nothing. Because you don't know who they're going to run. You don't know who they are. You don't know if it's legitimate. Don't really know anything.

But now I'm going to tell you the people involved and watch all the gears go click click click click click and form an entire picture for you, right? I don't even need to connect the dots. I will but I don't need to. Listen to this. The person in charge, the group will be led by Kathleen Shanahan who previously served as Chief of Staff to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Republican, and worked as an aide to former President George Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney.

Any questions? Are there any further questions? Yeah. This is your confirmation that we don't live in a republic. Yeah this is your uniparty confirmation. The Republicans are trying to take Trump out as much as the Democrats. There's only one way that that makes sense. That we don't have a real government. There is no other explanation for this.

Now if they tell you oh it's because we really think this third party is viable, you know that's not true, right? You know they're not trying to actually elect anybody. Nobody thinks a third party can get elected. The only reason for a third party is if you're true believers. Do you think that this ex-chief of staff for these three major Republican establishment people, do you think she's working out of a true belief about helping the Republic? I don't think so. I doubt it.

It just looks like she's working for the establishment Republicans. So why would the establishment Republicans want to run a third party? Do you think they're doing it to help Trump? Do you think that the chief of staff previously of Jeb and George and Dick Cheney, do you think that person has decided to help Trump? No, no, no.

So remember Vivek's warning that the real play is to bump Trump out one way or another whatever it takes, put Haley in because she's the uniparty candidate that will spend our money on wars. Now that sounds pretty conspiratorial, crazy doesn't it? Honestly it sounds a li

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ttle crazy except every piece of evidence that we can confirm seems to be very compatible with that point of view. Now I'm open to the argument that there's something in our reality that would tell me that's unlikely. But Vivek's prediction that the election will be rigged by not just the vote necessarily but rigged by who's allowed to run in the end, the final two, it does look like that. It loo…

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