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the accidental connections that exist in your brain that are never activated because they're only accidental connections. It doesn't occur to you to even activate them. They're just an accident of geography. You know there's something in your brain that's like physically next to or connected to something else and you can do everything from change your preferences to change your mindset if you can…

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ng six months in prison because he defied subpoena over the January 6 thing. His claim was that he was covered under executive privilege and immunity but that claim is sketchy according to the courts. But let's add Peter Navarro to the pardon list because we see more and more examples of Republicans being hunted and we don't believe that this would have happened to a Democrat necessarily. And this is my most motivating topic.

So we got a lot of critical things that have to happen from the border to everything else so there's lots and lots of considerations when you're looking for a new president. But my number one consideration is the weaponization of the Department of Justice and the pardons. I'll take that over everything. I'll take that over everything. Just give me that one thing and that's why I could easily support Vivek or a Trump or a DeSantis because I think they'll all end up in the same place on the pardons. I think, I hope. But yeah the weaponized justice system against Republicans has to be the first thing we fix. It has to be. You got to fix that because that's like having something shoved down your throat and then somebody's inviting you to dinner and asking you why you're not eating. Well maybe it's because you shoved a broomstick down my entire throat. Like get that out first and then we could talk about the other stuff. So yeah you better get those guys out of prison right away.

All right and by the way that every second between now and the time a Republican frees those people which I hope is what's going to happen is a disgrace. It's a disgrace to the country. I was going to say embarrassment but I don't get embarrassed. The country should be embarrassed. Like I don't think you can show your head in public when you're like this. I think that we have nothing to say to other countries. I think we should just shut the fuck up about they're abusing civil rights or whatever we think they're doing. Yeah yeah. Now if we're putting our own citizens in jail for political reasons, I know there's crimes involved too but we all agree pretty sure in the real world these crimes would have been ignored as just protests.

So let's talk about something else. So you know the Congress was trying to figure out a deal that if Democrats would agree on something on the border maybe Republicans would agree on something on the budget. So they're trying to reach some kind of deal that was both border security and budget. Do you know why that can't work? There's a reason it can't work. By design it can't work.

Here's what can work. You can negotiate when the two of you don't want exactly the same things or things that are opposite. Logically if I've got a product and you want it and I don't need the product because I can make all of them I want but I want your money then we can make a deal because what you and I want are different things. You want my product I want your money boom we got a deal. W

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e just have to figure out the amount. But if you want the same things such as I think I would like the Jewish state to exist. Well what do you think? I think I would like it to completely disappear. That's not something you can negotiate. There's no middle ground between existing and not existing. Not really. Likewise there is no logical way you can make a deal on budget and border because both s…

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