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is persuasion. And I feel like that's new. And I don't know if that's happening on the other side, if the Democrats are having the same experience, but do you see it too? Did like today for example if Vivek and others, Mike Benz, were posting stuff on X that really was about persuasion in the context of what some candidate is doing or not doing. Am I right that the persuasion frame has overtaken t…

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sforms it into comedy? Perfect example. The Patriot Front is nothing but comedy because you can see through their persuasion so easily. Do I care if the feds pay them or what? I don't care. It's just funny. They're not serious. It shouldn't matter.

Now will MSNBC and CNN try to treat them like they're a legitimate organization? Of course they will which would be funny. It would be funny. So let's keep mocking.

Well the good news, it's not all bad news today. There's some good news as well. Airlines are doing a great job at increasing diversity. So airlines have made that a priority and the country is a lot better with the diversity. So airlines are improving diversity. So congratulations airlines on improving diversity.

Next story. NBC News says the nose wheel of a Boeing 757 jet fell off and rolled away while the plane was waiting on the runway for takeoff with almost 200 people on board. They were on the runway waiting to take off and the passengers looked out the window and watched the front wheel rolling away down the runway. Now I don't know if they saw it but I feel like they could have. Makes it a funnier story. So yeah. Well at least that's not connected to any other story in the news so we'll just leave it there.

Next story moving along. Alaska Airlines says many of its Boeing 737 Max planes were found to have loose bolts. Lot of loose bolts, huh? Do you know what is the number one thing you check before you fly an airplane? Does anybody know? A private pilot. If you're a private pilot and you're in charge of the airplane you literally go around it and check the bolts every time you fly it. Did you know that? You don't check the bolts oh every now and then. No you check the bolts. You check the bolts every single time you fly it. How many of you knew that?

Now obviously it's a different situation with a jet. You know the pilot's not walking around the jet looking for bolts but don't you think somebody should? Don't you think that every time they fly somebody ought to check to see if a bolt is coming loose? Maybe every time. So anyway that's happening. So again I just read you the news with no commentary. Was it funny by itself right? I didn't add a thing. The news was funny without any commentary. I just read it to you in the order that I wrote it down. They were all real stories. Yeah.

All right here's another one. Let's see if this Hunter Biden apparently he sold 1.5 million dollars of paintings so far. There have been 10 buyers and some of them bought multiple paintings because you know one Hunter Biden painting is never enough. You want multiple.

Now I was thinking of getting myself a Hunter Biden painting but if I, well again for you business model nerds, for the business model nerds I'd like to explain a way to get a high quality Hunter Biden painting without spending this much money. You buy it from one of the people who bought it. You find one of those people who paid half a million dollars for a painting and you say do you have that on your wall? No. Do you mind if I buy it from you? How much? And I'd say $200. And then they'd say $200? I paid half a million dollars for this. And then I'd say do you have any other offers?

And ladies and gentlemen here's another example of where the news is just funny. It's funny because you can see through it right? I didn't add anything to it. I didn't add anything. Do you think that the secondary value of this art is, is it going up in value like art does? You know if you buy art from one of the masters it probably goes up in value. Do you think Hunter Biden's art is collectively worth 1.5 million? The stuff they bought already. Or do you think the real value might be closer to zero after you've bribed the government?

So there's another story that's just funny. It's just funny. It's funny because you can see exactly what's going on right? Am I right? It's only funny because now we're sophisticated enough to spot money laundering. How many of you, how many of you let's say seven years ago would not have even been keyed into the fact it's that an obvious money laundering bribery scheme? You might not have even noticed. You would have just said oh that's interesting. Hunter's getting out of the influence business and he's becoming an artist. But once you know that it's the most classic money laundering scheme of all time, art, then it just looks funny that he's doing it right in front of us you know shamelessly.

All right. Vivek talking about Nikki Haley's biggest supporters. He was posting this today. Vivek Ramaswamy. That he said Nikki Haley's biggest supporters include the same left-wing mega donors, example Reid Hoffman, who funded lawsuits against Trump. It's now plainly obvious says Vivek that her sole objective, Nikki Haley's, is to await Trump's unlawful elimination from the ballot and trot into power. It does look like that doesn't it? And it's kind of funny.

The best play that the Democrats have is to hope that they can jail Trump on trumped-up charges, which is the simulation talking to us, trumped-up charges, or that he gets assassinated I guess because people are saying it out loud at this point. So does it seem funny to you that the only way to stop Trump has nothing to do with elections? The Democrats know that they ran a cadaver against the most popular political figure since what, Reagan? Kennedy? I don't know. Yeah so no. I realize you know a big part of the country doesn't like him at all but still he's a force of nature and they're running a cadaver against him and maybe that won't work out. So they're going to need a plan B.

All right. So here's what ABC News said about it. They said the latest New Hampshire primary saw strong turnout of unaffiliated voters and moderates. Yeah so unaffiliated voters and moderates that's what ABC News calls the non-Republicans who are voting in the Republican primary which is legal. Legally they can do it. What would you call it? Would you call it a strong turnout of unaffiliated and moderates or would you call it Democrats trying to cheat to make it look like Trump doesn't have a commanding lead when in fact with the Republicans he has a commanding lead? But if they get enough Democrats to vote for Haley it'll look like it's a close election and maybe she should stay in the race.

Now don't you think that's funny that they call that unaffiliated and moderates when all it was was Democrats cheating? So they cheat right in front of us like right in front of us transparently. They're cheating and you know it's legal but it's still cheating because they're trying to get a disingenuous result. They're trying to fool the news who are on their side of course the Democrats into reporting it like the result meant something. It doesn't mean anything if you do an election where anybody can vote as a Republican and half of them tell you in advance it's just a play. It's an op and their vote is not even serious in any way. And then the news reports it like there was a primary or whatever. Yeah so it worked. Isn't that funny?

That because the news industry simply has to talk about whatever is happening they know that they're going to talk about it so there's going to be some chitchat about this primary. But even though every single observer and they even say it out loud knows that the result is nonsense, it's a complete nonsense result because it's a combination of people who are voting for different reasons. That the average of people who are cheating and the people who are picking a real president is not a thing. Let me say that better. If you took the average of people who wanted to pick a president and you took the average that might tell you something. Oh on average people like this candidate over another.

But if you take the average of people who were there to pick a Republican nominee plus the people who were there just to bias the thing and ruin the experiment and you take the average that's nothing. But the news is reporting on the average. They know it's nothing. That you know nothing if you add together numbers that don't have anything to do with each other which is what they did then took the average. All right so that's crazy.

Also Vivek is pointing out that the Wall Street Journal board they seem to be some say priming the country for an assassination. And here are the exact words. So one of the Wall Street Journal board wrote this: strange things can happen. So they're saying that Nikki Haley staying in makes sense because things could happen. Strange things could happen to Trump between now and election day. Yeah strange things. What would be some of the strange things? Well strange things can happen with candidates who are this old and this disliked by majority of the public. They say the 2024 election may have more twists before the Trump versus Biden die is cast.

How many of you recognize that quote the die is cast? That's a Caesar quote. Do you know what happened to Caesar? He was assassinated. Yeah and die is die is right in the sentence. Die. The die is cast. So does it look like we're being prepped? By the way all of your comments have stopped on Locals. Looks like I can see that you're typing so anyway your comments just stopped but they're still working on the other platforms. The Rumble Studio is working.

Anyway so yeah I think it's exactly what it looks like. I think the Democrats are literally would do anything to stop Trump. They would put him in jail. They would take him off the ballot and if that failed it could get worse. Absolutely.

Let's talk about vice president because we'll be talking about that until Trump picks one. It looks like Glenn Beck as you know said Vivek would be a good choice. He told President Trump that in person. He says a lot of other people say it too. And then when Trump as you know he won the New Hampshire primary. I'm sure you already know that. But he did something that people are noting was unusual. That in his victory speech he gave Vivek a minute to speak. I don't think that was that unusual because he says he loves Vivek because Vivek says good things about him and you know he's definitely on his side. And Vivek was great for a minute and it was funny.

But here here's the funny thing. If you weren't watching CNN's coverage you missed a good comedy show. So I watched live as Trump was gently mocking Tim Scott for the fact, well not really mocking Tim Scott but mocking Nikki Haley for the fact that she was governor who appointed Tim Scott to the position before he won it himself as senator. And that you would expect being from the same state South Carolina that Nikki Haley and Tim Scott would be on the same page and you'd expect Tim Scott to maybe endorse his state person. But instead he endorsed Trump.

So you know Trump was pointing out that Nikki Haley couldn't even get Tim Scott to endorse her. And here's how CNN played it. They got rid of the laugh track. Now when I say laugh track I mean the actual genuine laughter of the audience. And then they did a closeup on Trump and it completely changed it from a joking thing that his audience enjoyed because they were laughing pretty hard to something that they called awkward. And when they went back to whichever the host was she did the frozen face for a moment and just said awkward.

So everybody who was watching CNN believes that there was an awkward exchange between Tim Scott and Trump partly because they edited it and they cut off the part where Tim Scott joked back because Tim Scott actually went to the podium you know that and said into the microphone you know in sort of an aggressive but joking way no it's because I love you more. You know it's not that I dislike Haley it's that I love you more Trump. Now that was a good, well played Tim Scott actually. Spontaneously and perfectly played the moment to keep it joking so it wasn't too serious. And CNN got rid of the laughs. If you take the laughs out it looks really awkward. If you put the laughs in you could see that you know Tim Scott knew he had to respond in a way that wasn't embarrassing but then he did so he came off really well I thought. So yeah that was fun. That was funny entertaining fake news.

They also say that Trump gave an angry speech. So again I didn't watch every minute of Trump's speech but when I turned it on everybody was laughing. They were literally joking and laughing at his jokes and so that's what I saw. Oh everybody's really happy and laughing. And I turned into CNN and they're like he gave such an angry speech. Why does he have to be so angry? Because that's part of their dictator narrative. They have to sell you that he's not only a dictator but he's a unpredictable chaos dictator.

Do you know why they can't say that he's a dictator and just leave it there? Take a guess why. Do you think they can't call Trump a dictator and just say he's a dictator but they also have to say but he's unpredictable chaos you know evil dictator not just a dictator? Do

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you know why? Do you know what Putin's popularity is in the Russian country? Putin's popularity I think it's north of 80 percent. And I don't see people saying that's a fake number. Now obviously the news is very controlled but Russia has the internet do they not? Can't every Russian get to the internet and see all free information everywhere? I think they can. And they still decided that even in…

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