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out Trump? The one thing we know about him for sure is he does stay up late. Like that's like saying he doesn't golf. Did you not notice he kind of golfs and he also stays up late? So that was a kind of a weird thing to say about him. But here's what I got out of that. Nikki Haley only exists because Trump exists, doesn't it feel like that? Now you could imagine if there was never a Trump that she…

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er the country that we can't vet by the multi-millions, on paper that seems like a terrific idea. But then sometimes reality gets in the way and it's not really working out in reality. But on paper doesn't that sound good? Let all the strangers in from the prisons and anywhere without checking. On paper it sounds great. So you can understand why you get caught by surprise. And weirdly Woke Kindergarten didn't make as much difference as it does on paper. I mean on paper it seems like a good idea.

How about the military action over there? Well again you tell me, is this not a great idea? So we've got this problem with the Houthis and the proxies attacking American interests overseas. I don't know if there are interests but we have people there. And the Biden administration draws up this plan. Now I think you'd agree with me that on paper this makes sense. That we don't want a war with Iran so in order to get them to surrender we will bomb things that Iran doesn't care about until Iran surrenders. So that's what we've done. So we're going to bomb Syria and Iraq and maybe Yemen until Iran just surrenders. Now you tell me, isn't that a good plan at least on paper? So why it hasn't worked already I'm a little bit puzzled because I'm thinking we've bombed all these empty buildings in other countries and Iran is acting like nothing even happened. Like how do you even understand the world anymore? It's so confusing. You have such good plans on paper and then you implement them and I don't know what's going on. I don't know what's going on that you can implement such logical good plans and still get a bad result. I don't know. I just don't get it.

Well Tucker Carlson is in Russia apparently. People assume it's probably a pretty good assumption he is there to talk to Putin. But couldn't he also be talking to Snowden or Tara Reade? I think she's there now. Yeah but I'm going to guess Putin. Now there's a backstory that Tucker Carlson talks about that once before he got cancelled he was considering interviewing Putin and he apparently the government was well aware of it even though he didn't tell anybody. And he believes that they were into his encrypted Signal app. Now I don't know if that's how they found out because they don't have to get into the Signal app. There's other ways they can do it. They could do it through your phone. They could find out through somebody else who knows something. There are other ways to do it. So I don't know if they got into Signal app. But let me tell you again, if you believe there's such a thing as encrypted communication so that you can say things that you wouldn't say normally, don't put anything in an encrypted message that's illegal. Ever. There's no such thing as a message the government can't get. In fact if you were the CIA the first thing you do is you take over these little encrypted apps because that's where all the good stuff is. It's the first thing you do. You'd get control of any company that was trying to put all the crooks in one place, right? Wouldn't you go there first? You would stop at nothing to have full control of encrypted apps because that's where all the good stuff is.

Now is that — let me explain it to you in the narrative that I'm trying to use here. On paper doesn't that sound like a good idea? You're going to take this encrypted app and you'll attract all the people who have things to say that they don't want the government to hear and you're going to organize them so that their names and user numbers and all their messages will be in one place really easy to find. But don't worry because it's encrypted. Don't worry, government can't get there because it's encrypted. Now do you see any problem with that? Does anybody see a problem that the CIA can co-opt any management it wants? Do you think there's a leader of a company somewhere in America who can say no to the CIA? Really? Yeah, do you really think anybody can say no to the CIA? No. If the CIA wants you to cooperate whether they do it through legal means or carrot and stick or because the CIA can come into a company and they can say for example, you know I know your whole business model revolves around these encrypted apps but we really need to know what the terrorists are saying so we're going to need access to that. Oh no I'll never do that. I'll never — that really? Because you know there's probably a federal organization that could shut you down. And then they list three organizations that could just wave some paperwork and they ruin a business. I'm not saying I do it but I do have a friend in this or that organization that would probably want to look into your business and maybe your tax situation and when was the last time you were audited? Now the CEO is scared to death but still doesn't want

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to. Like they're going to be brave enough to resist. And the CIA says and you know what would really help you is we've got some legislation that's cooking and wouldn't you like to see that go away because that could cost you a lot of money. And there might be some government contracts. Oh we had the 34 minute glitch. There might be some government contracts that would you know triple the size of y…

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