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vant to the overall obvious characterization of his presidency which is basically starting wars that probably didn't need to be started, getting us involved, using up our weapons, shipping, using up all our oil and our strategic reserves, giving away all our artillery shells. It just goes on and on. The worst president in the history of the Republic. I think that's just obvious. Now you know no m…

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news. And we also know that he's drawn to things that are good news. He's especially drawn to hearing this. There might be a solution. There might be some good news. So did his staff tell him about something that would be exciting and might be good news? Probably. Probably they told him because it's exactly what he wants to hear. Tell me some good news about something that might be working so I can tell that story. And so that's why he was excited.

Now you want some more confirmation that he was only talking about light because people still say he wasn't. Here it is. When the experts said we tried the bleach and the isopropyl it did kill the virus but it would take you know a while, several minutes. But when we tried light, boom, two minutes, gone. So light was the two-minute one. The other ones take much longer.

So when Trump was talking about disinfectant he said and look and it could kill it in one minute. And he repeated one minute more than once. There was only one topic of one disinfectant that could work in the, you know the experts said two minutes and Trump did his usual Trumpian thing of making it one minute. But there was only one thing that was ever discussed that could be that quick. It was always light.

And if you look at all the references Trump made to light he never once talked about anything that wasn't light. Not once. But he did however use the word disinfectant in the middle of a discussion about light. So people put that one word out.

Now how did the hoax get created when he very clearly was talking about only light? Jim Acosta asks a question of one of the experts. He says well you wouldn't put these you know bleach and isopropyl and disinfectants into your body would you? Or I'm paraphrasing, something like that. And the expert said no no no you wouldn't do that. So Jim Acosta started the hoax by pretending he didn't understand that it was always about light. That's how the hoax was created.

So once he pretended that he thought he heard that it was about these other things then the rest of the news just picked it up and it became the hoax. Yeah so that's how it happened.

Now what you should learn from it is how hoaxes are created. You know we can't go back in time. It doesn't really matter at this point. But if you learn that they can so easily create a hoax and here are the mechanics. The first mechanic is you take something out of context. So they had to cut off his many references to light and they had to completely remove his conversation with Birx, same event on the stage in public. They had to remove the whole Birx conversation because that would be so obvious that he was talking about skin the whole time. I mean really obvious. So they had to just get rid of it.

So they get rid of it and then if you want to see the transcript they'll show you just the parts that are edited and you think you actually saw the transcript but you didn't. Or they'll show you the entire transcript which is 35 pages and it's just too much work to pick out what happened. So I did that for you. So I took the whole transcript but you don't need to read it because I've highlighted just the half dozen places that matter so you could just read those.

So for the first time in the history of America somebody explained how the drinking bleach hoax started in great detail. You can see it yourself. There's no question about it. But what you should learn is that they can do a selective edit. That's how the fine people hoax started. It's how the Covington kids thing was pushed. It's how the overfeeding the coyotes hoax was pushed. Yeah it's called a rupar because it's a selective edit.

But then the second part of it is that somebody takes it out of context and then all the rest of the media pretends that was a reasonable interpretation. So it's the repetition over and over that turns it into the hoax. It's not just the misinterpretation, it's the repetition. Yeah a wrap-up smear. I don't know if that's a wrap-up smear but it's in the same category.

All right so yeah we don't know about Yemen. It's all fog of war stuff so I don't have much to say about that. Don't you think — do you think we're being suckers because it seemed pretty obvious that Yemen was begging us to attack? If you attack somebody who very clearly wants you to attack like Hamas and Gaza, are you really winning? Makes you wonder. Makes you wonder what winning looks like if you're killing people who wanted you to attack them and kill them at least a little bit. I don't know. So I don't know if we're winning or not.

But let me ask you a question that nobody's asked. Since we know for sure that these are all Iranian proxies — so Hamas is Iranian proxy, Hezbollah is, the Houthis, and the attacks in Syria and Iraq on American forces, all are — do the Iranians not have any ships? What am I missing? Not one Iranian ship have we blown out of the water? Yeah can you tell me that this would be hard to solve if Vivek or Trump were president?

Let me solve it for you. Hey Iran, you use the Red Sea too. If I see one more missile come from your proxies in Yemen we're going to take out your biggest tanker. And if it happens again we're going to take out your second biggest tanker. Oh but we will retaliate. We will retaliate so hard. Yep did you hear the part about if you take out our Iranian tanker but we'll retaliate really hard? Yep. And then you're done. It was that hard.

No instead we've got bedridden Lloyd Austin like attack. I feel so confident. Well at least we don't have the dementia patient making the military decisions. Instead we have the guy in the hospital bed. So fear us. Fear us. Our hospitalized guy and our dementia guy are coming for you. Don't worry about our lack of artillery. At least we don't need any artillery in this case. Or do we? Maybe we will.

All right so the Biden campaign has told CNN to tell the rest of you that what they expect is that the undecided voters have not been paying attention and that as soon as they realize that the race will actually be Biden versus Trump then all those undecided people are going to go what what and they'll line up for Biden and then Biden will win.

Do you see the play? So there's a narrative forming for why everything's going to change at the last minute. That's literally happening right in front of you. What would you do if you were going to rig elections and you knew it? You would start about now to tell a story about how all the people who haven't quit

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e shown up in the polling are going to show up and there's a good reason why it'll be toward the end. Well that's convenient. But they're not wrong. I don't think they're wrong. Do you know how many people in the general public have heard of just heard of Vivek Ramaswamy? Have you tried asking your normie friends what they think about Vivek? What do they say? Every person I've asked who isn't lik…

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