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you don't remember the story, I had called out that probably that word dark is such a professionally chosen word that they probably had some help from a professional persuader. And I thought it was Cialdini, the author of Influence and persuasion. Now he was asked by some people who heard me say that and he refused to... he said no comment when asked if he was helping the Hillary campaign. So no c…

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s I don't like are dying. Biden's dying. CNN's dying. DEI is dying. CRT is dying. ESG is dying. China's dying. So I'm having a good year. All the things I don't like are dying.

Speaking of Mayorkas, Alejandro Mayorkas. Let me ask you this. What's up with him? Why is it that we have a person whose job it is to guard the country who's doing literally the opposite and we don't know why? Does that bother you at all? Mayorkas. I'm pretty sure you could figure out a way to close that border even though you're not the president. You could probably work with it, probably figure that out. But he seems aggressively uninterested in fixing the border in a way that's surprising.

What would be your assumption about somebody whose job performance is the opposite of what his job would require and you don't quite know why? What, how would you explain it? I explain it by outside influence. Meaning that he's not his own man. Could be just that he's bowing to the Democrats and he has to say dumb things to make them happy. But don't you assume that there's something sinister behind him? It just feels like there's something there.

That's really the only thing I have to say about it. But I have the same feeling about Soros. How do you explain all the things that Soros does? Because they seem to be 100% designed to be bad for the country. And it's all different things. If he did one thing I didn't like then I'd say, oh he and I have a different opinion about what's good for the country. But if you do a whole range of funding and every single one seems clearly bad for the country, what are you going to conclude about that?

Well you could conclude that the Soros family is evil and that's why other people conclude. I don't believe that because it'd be too weird that the father and the son shared this evil and the whole organization shared it and it would be too weird. I don't believe that. I believe that it's more likely that the people who act opposite of what seems like a person should act are probably blackmailed or bribed or in some other way beholden to somebody or they're under duress in some way. So I think that the Soroses are not the top of their pile. I think that somebody has blackmail on the Soros family. I can't think of any other way to explain the observation. So that doesn't mean it's true. I don't have any facts. I don't have any evidence. But if somebody acts exactly like they're under duress, what are you going to assume? If it's just once you'd say, well I guess I'm just confused. But if it's all day long every day for years, I'm going to assume that there's somebody who wants to destroy the country who's pushing them in ways we don't understand.

Here's some more stupid fake news about Russia. So somebody named David Frum. And remember I keep telling you you have to know the players. It doesn't help you to know what happened. It only helps you to know who. That's the news. So David Frum is someone t

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hat if you didn't know would be one of the least credible people on the whole planet. I don't need to go into the details but in the history of politics you would be you'd have to look pretty hard to find somebody with lower credibility. All right. He's part of the propaganda part of the world and he writes in The Atlantic. Do you know The Atlantic? If you said to yourself what happened, oh there'…

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