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s captured by wokeness. There is indication from earlier video of him before wokeness became crazy that he's just a reasonable person who can see both sides of stuff. I would love to be on his show. It's the number one show I would like to be invited on. So if anybody knows him, let him know I'd love to talk to him. There's a New York Times writer who says he was fired for saying he liked Chick-f…

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mally see and is able to see all sides of an argument. My God, Dr. Phil just entered the chat. Yes, you got ahead of me. This is dad energy.

What does Dr. Phil have more than any human you've ever seen in your entire life? More dad energy than I've ever seen. Name one person who has more pure dad energy than he does. Nobody, right? So big welcome to the, I would like to say that people like me who got canceled and then didn't die have made it easier for people who are maybe a little more established, maybe they have more to lose or something. But I feel like the people who took the arrows in the back make it easier for anybody else to join the fight. So I hope that's the case.

Byron York is posting, telling us about Letitia James. You know, she's the AG who ran for office to bring down Trump, and then she found some BS reason to do it. And she's posting every day the extra gazillion dollars of interest he has to pay on what he's already on the line to pay. Now how disgusting is that, that she's bragging about it? Now some people ask, is that even legal? And I assume it is legal. Free speech. I'm good for free speech. I think it's legal. But it's the most distasteful thing, and unethical. I think it's unethical for sure, but it's so distasteful that it's just mind-boggling.

Now I have a hypothesis, which, speaking of Jordan Peterson, I tagged him on my post, because it seems to me that a lot of what we think is a difference of opinion is mental health. And this to me looks like toxic narcissism. You know what I mean? So the fact that she ran to bring him down because that was such a popular thing and she'd be such a celebrity and such a star if she did, and she also ran on bringing down the NRA because if she did she'd be such a celebrity and such a star, and now she's doing a dance on Trump's economic grave by posting that to make herself more noticed, more of a celebrity, more of a star.

Now is there anybody here who actually has experience in mental health, as in a psychologist or psychiatrist? Okay, we got at least one, two. Oh, okay, I got a lot of people listening who have that skill set. Can you agree or disagree, or if you don't want to have an opinion, does it seem to you really obvious that narcissism is her problem? I just want to see in the comments, do you agree? It seems, you know, you can't, to be fair, if we're being fair, you cannot diagnose a mental health problem in another person from a distance and do it ethically. It wouldn't be ethical to do it. But I'm not a psychiatrist. I don't think those ethical standards apply to my observation. My observation is that she and Fannie, and there might be some others, maybe Alvin Bragg, are suffering with some kind of narcissism, and that if they were diagnosed they would actually get that diagnosis. That's what I think.

So we keep confusing political opinion and mental health, and it's really bad. This is very much mental health. And you know, you see it with the trans movement. Whatever part of that is based on real people with real problems, I don't know. I'm not an expert. But it's really obvious that a large percentage of it, and again I don't know what percentage, is just purely mental health. Purely, obviously. Now, but I'm no expert, right? It's just obvious to anybody.

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So we make this mistake over and over again. We treat people who literally have mental health problems as if it's just a difference of opinion. Probably ought to stop doing that. Joy Reid, somebody just posted a picture of Joy Reid with her new Trump haircut. Joy Reid comes off as a mental health problem. What's her name, what's her co-host there who only works on Monday? What's her name? Rachel.…

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