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victory lap. You might know the actor and activist Michael Rapaport. He's been making some news. He was on the Tim Pool show. I was talking about him and others. He was on, oh I can't, why can't I remember his initials? PBD. PBD. I'll never be able to remember his initials. I don't know why. Oh, it's because the P and the B and the D. Oh I got it. I'm dyslexic. Look at the letters. The lowercase l…

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y is so low and RFK Junior's is so high, not in terms of being technically correct about everything he's ever said but just not lying, that if he says there was no crime and he says they're coming after him for political reasons, I believe that. And I don't even need to hear anything else because that's the difference in credibility. One is very high credibility and the other is a known serial liar for 50 years. So those are not really similar.

Senator Rand Paul is responding to Joe Biden who said that it's quote "close to criminal neglect" if Congress doesn't send money to Ukraine. Close to criminal neglect if we don't fund Ukraine's border war. And Rand Paul, Senator Rand Paul, reminds us it would be criminal neglect for Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer and Joe Biden to get together to send 100 billion overseas to fix someone else's border before addressing our border. Yeah, that does seem criminal. And actually Trump said something like that in his speech in Harrisburg, I guess, that he thinks that the people who are not closing the border, that maybe there should be some criminal liability. Now I don't think so. I doubt there's any criminal liability and I'm not really big on looking for crimes where they're not obvious. But it does seem that important. It does seem like it's on that level of a gigantic crime even if it's not technically a crime. If it's just people not doing their job or something, it's that important. I doubt it's an actual crime.

All right. Are you having fun watching Biden's supporters trying to explain away all of his mental problems? Does anybody else think it's hilarious at this point? You know I always used to make fun of the old thing in politics. There's always somebody saying, "Oh, the emperor has no clothes. The emperor has no clothes." And I always go, "God, it's like Soylent Green." It's like the obvious thing everybody says in every situation. The emperor has no clothes. But I've never seen it fit so well. Yeah, you've got obviously a bumbling fool who's clearly mentally disintegrated and they're trying to sell us on the fact that he's all there. This is the first time I've seen an exact perfect example of The Emperor's New Clothes. Because I always thought, well if you had an emperor who literally wore no clothes there's no way that you wouldn't mention it. Like it's not realistic. But we actually have a situation where everybody can see he's mentally degraded and his supporters are looking you right in the eyes and saying no he's not. No, no, he's wearing all of his clothes and he's not mentally degraded.

Now do you see me doing the Democrat lying strategy there? There are three things to look for. You look for the eyes get wide. You look for the chin goes up a little bit. And you look for the smile that doesn't match the face. Do you want to see it again? I give you Kamala Harris defending Joe Biden. I'm going to play it with the sound off. I want you to see if you can spot the point

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where she tells the lie. And the lie is that Joe Biden is fine. There's nothing wrong. Right? So watch her face until the moment she gets to the lie. Look for the eyes widen, chin goes up, and the smile that doesn't match the face. Watch for it. I want you to indicate when you see the lie. There's no sound. Let's see. See if I can get it so you can both see it at the same time. Watch for the eyes…

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