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of do you think you're good at judging character? You know we all think we are. I judge that his character is good and so therefore his intentions are good but I could be wrong. I could be wrong about anybody. But here's what he said and how I disagreed. He was talking about the Gaza situation in the West Bank and he says the occupation as he calls it is morally wrong and completely indefensible.…

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ou can see the comments so I guess other people could see them but I can't. All right all right well I'll continue anyway.

Jordan Peterson points out that on YouTube he accrued only 50,000 views in 14 hours which would be enough views to make the rest of us jealous because it's so many but for him it's nothing. You know normal would be maybe three quarters of a million or something. So according to Dr. Peterson it seems obvious that YouTube is suppressing this content specifically. Why would YouTube be suppressing German farmer protests of an American, not American but Canadian psychologist? Why would they be doing that? Yeah it doesn't matter. They're doing it. There's no doubt they're doing it. So any pretense you thought about free speech in America it's kind of an illusion. Would you agree? We don't really have free speech in a practical sense. We have it in the, not well not even in the technical sense because the government does lean on the platforms to suppress speech. So no we actually don't have free speech do we? And in fact a lot of the people who tried to exercise their free speech are in jail right now. That's another topic.

Let's see how many, here's a little test for you. General knowledge test without looking it up. What is the population of Sweden in rough numbers? Just take a guess. Population of Sweden rough numbers. Go. Three million? Ten million? Fifteen? Thirteen? Oh those pretty good guesses. Yeah I think it's around 10 million. It's about 10 million but your guesses are quite well informed. They were all in the range. I'm impressed.

So how many bomb attacks would you expect? So 10 million would be say the size of New York City right? How big is New York City? 10.7, 8 million depends which part you're measuring I guess. So 8 to 10 million. So roughly Sweden is about the size of New York City. How many bomb attacks in New York City would you consider a crisis in a year? Bomb attacks. One. One right? One would be a lot right? Suppose you had 10 a year. Imagine 10 bomb attacks in one year just in New York City. You wouldn't be able to live there. Yeah how many bomb attacks do you think that there were in Sweden that would include things like hand grenades and you know things that blow up in the past year? 134. 134 things blew up in Sweden. Only 10 million people. Sweden apparently has just fallen to the migrants. Yeah the migrants have basically just ruined Sweden. I don't know if it'll ever be the same. So I think Sweden's just gone. Like what? I don't think I would even travel there at this point. So that's a little warning for you in case you're wondering if our uncontrolled migration has any potential risk. Yeah it does.

Representative Clay Higgins from Louisiana says Biden is staging a civil war by pulling down those barriers in Texas. The ones that Texas put up to try to protect itself from the migrants. And what do you think? Do you think Texas and the federal government will end up coming to blows? I think not because I think Americans just wouldn't do it. Like who would execute that order? Who like seriously who would execute the order? If you're in the National Guard and you're standing there looking at your basically your other American in another uniform who's just doing their job and you're just doing your job are you going to shoot him? I don't think we're anywhere near that. I think the soldiers would just lay down their guns and say look are you crazy? We're not going to shoot these guys. That's crazy. So I don't think it's going to turn into a civil war. I just don't think our minds are anywhere near that and we're hundreds of miles away from that mentally.

So here's a question which I need a fact check on this. I saw a question by Benny Johnson on the X platform. Can you tell me if this is true? So he makes an assumption. I think it might be true so I'm not doubting it. I'm just doubting my own memory. So check my memory right. This is what Benny Johnson says in the post. He says I'm asking honestly without bias or preconditions. When in American election history have all five swing states simultaneously stop counting ballots on election night? Is there any explanation for this other than centrally organized fraud? Now here's my question. I was somewhat unaware that it was only

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the five swing states and that was all of the five swing states. Is that true? There was no other state and it was 100% of the swing states. How did I get to this point without knowing that? Because he perfectly formulates the question. When you put it that way it's obviously fraud. I guess I'd been resisting. I've been resisting the idea that you could tell it was fraud because they decided to co…

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