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normal for locals. How many of you watched the State of the Union? I saw somebody describe it this morning as "old man yells at the teleprompter." Old man yells at the teleprompter. I wish I'd thought of that. That was pretty good.

All right, well here are some things we know. Look at this fake news. Ask yourself if this sounds like fake news: that Haley voters, 63% of them, say they're going to back Biden. So that's the story. Haley voters, 63% say they're going to back Biden. What's left out of the story? What's left out of the story is that some percentage of them are Democrats. If you leave out the fact that they're Democrats and they were just gaming the system for the most part, there's no story here at all. Am I wrong? There's no story.

Anyway, here's some fake news from The Hill. They say that Biden quoted Trump with alarm for boasting that he would encourage Russia and Vladimir Putin to quote "do whatever the hell they want" to NATO allies if those countries do not spend enough on defense. Is that true? Did that actually happen? How many of you watched it and can confirm? No, it didn't happen. No, that's false. This is fake.

Here's what did happen. What Biden did is he said that Trump said he wouldn't defend NATO. Biden left out that it was in the context of negotiating for NATO to pay its fees. If you leave that out, you can't add it in the story after the fact. You can't add it in the story. No, it's not part of the story. He didn't say it, and there's a reason he didn't say it. So that's the fake news from The Hill.

Well, let's talk about the State of the Union. Of course it was two movies on one screen. It's no surprise that the Democrats thought it was a masterful performance, and it's no surprise that people like me saw it as angry dementia yelling and disunity. Which one of those is true? Neither. I mean these are just impressions. But let's go through what's going on.

He starts with freedom and democracy. You're under attack both at home and abroad. When you say democracy is under attack, you make it possible to assassinate anybody who's opposed to it. So it sounds like they're calling for assassination, or Biden is for Trump, but doing it indirectly in that mafia boss way. The secret assassination whistle. That's fair, right? If there could be a secret racist dog whistle, can't there be a secret assassination whistle? It's what it looks like to me anyway.

He didn't say Trump's name once. He referred to him as quote "my predecessor," but he said it 13 times, which apparently is a lot. So some say therefore it was more of a political speech than a State of the Union speech. I think that's half true. It was definitely more political than usual. Could have been a lot more political than it was, so it was somewhere in between.

And of course Biden was pushing hard on the January 6 hoax, so it looks like they're going to focus on the January 6 hoax. He did not mention the fine people hoax once. Think about that. Now that's more political than State of the Union, so maybe that's the only reason it wasn't in there. He did mention shrinkflation. I can't believe he put shrinkflation in the State of the Union speech.

We don't have enough chips. So RFK Jr. quite rightly and cleverly does his response in which he says the entire country is suffering from chronic disease because our food supply is bad, and Biden wants to give more chips to the kids. Our biggest problem is the food. He wants to give more junk food to kids. Am I wrong? Or do Democrats prefer every policy that's bad for children? Let's say we're going to increase the amount of your unhealthy snacks. We're going to abort you in nine months. I don't know how true that is, but let's throw that in the mix. We're going to not let you have school choice. We're going to transition you with surgery while you're a child. We're going to keep you home from school during the pandemic. It's consistent, isn't it?

I feel as if that's a theme that needs to be explored, because in every single situation they do what's bad for children, including the lack of family as an emphasis. Yeah, they're pro everything that's bad for children basically. The exception would be IVF. How many of you are opposed to IVF, in vitro fertilization? How many of you are opposed to that? Honestly, I didn't even know that was a thing. You're opposed to it under what logic? Are you saying the baby d

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oesn't have a soul? Now give me a reason. As some of you gave, your daughter doesn't work very well. Well it works well enough, but nobody has a reason, right? So I think the anti-IVF thing is probably the dumbest thing that the Republicans have ever done. It might be the number one dumbest thing they've ever done, because the entire Republican thing is more babies, right? Help you bring a child…

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