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you something or already agree with you. Not too hard. So yes in my lifetime this really happened. That the CIA apparently killed the president in conjunction with somebody else probably and then assigned themselves to look into who killed him. Very much like OJ looking for the real killer. So before OJ said he'd find the real killer in the real world that actually happened. That the CIA was help…

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at the Republicans will sweep and it would be because of immigration. So immigration is this really aggressive play for the Democrats to take over everything except that in the short run it's such an overreach and it's so alarming to the public it might cause the Republicans to win everything. So we've got this weird all or nothing that's been set up by both teams. And the Democrat Party will either own everything forever after this election or after they get enough immigrants to control everything whereas the Republicans will own everything if they get in before that happens. So it's literally just like a timing thing of who's going to own the government completely. So that's fun to watch.

Do you think that Elon's filter on this is correct? That the real play is to get Democratic power forever. Do you think that's the major incentive? Well here's what's complicated. These things never have one reason and as soon as you tell yourself well there's this one reason everything gets confusing. With a lot of people involved there are different people have different reasons. So I would say the following reasons certainly apply. The people at the top probably are trying to figure out a way to stay there. So yes the people at the top are probably doing exactly what Elon Musk is saying. They're trying to beef up their congressional population so they can control everything. However why, how does that explain how ordinary people are supporting it? Like why would ordinary people support so much migration? Do you think the ordinary Democrat is saying ah I'm part of the plan. I'm helping the migrants come in because I agree with my leadership we can get all power. Do you think that's what's happening? Well maybe some. Maybe some.

I would suggest that there's a bigger effect which is the impulse toward self-harm. I think that the Democrats are driven at least at the voter level, maybe a third to a half of their entire political party is obsessed with self-harm. Now the self-harm grows out of the white guilt I suppose. The guilt that they got too much and it's because of the legacy of slavery and the systemic racism and they got to do something to fix it. So I think that's why. Yeah so I think self-harm is actually driving most of immigration at the voter level and at the senior level it's a plan to have more control. Will you buy that? That the individual voters are not nearly as complicated. They're just trying to ease their guilt and they're doing it by self-harm which is the way people do it. They harm themselves to get rid of their guilt.

Yeah so if you look at, and by the way this idea of self-harm being the primary motivating factor of at least a third of the Democrat party is starting to catch on. I don't know if you've seen it anywhere else. Has anybody seen anybody else mention the self-harm theme? Have you seen it yet? You might see a little more of it because it's so obvious once you hear it you're like oh yeah it's obvious. Everything they do has that same quality that it's bad for the people doing it. I've never seen that before. It's a very specific white guilt thing. I don't know if it's a Christian thing or what it is. I don't know where it comes from actually.

Anyway there's new climate alarm. Now as you know the climate topic has two completely different worlds. In one world every new piece of information proves that the temperature is not going up and that the climate alarm is fake. The ice is not melting and the oceans are not rising. And the people who make those claims will point to data and you'll look at it you'll say huh they make a good point. And then you'll see something like today's report that the Earth has endured its hottest years since blah blah blah and it's all heating up and everything's hot and we're all going to die. So that's coming from the UN now. How do they support that? Well they point to studies and things that are completely opposite from what the people who say nothing's happening are looking at. Two different worlds. Which one's right?

Well let me tell you this. The people who were telling you that the climate is going to kill you are the same scientists who didn't know if masks would work and they don't know if your child is male or female. They don't know anything about nutrition and think most of what they say about physics is completely made up. I'm not so sure string theory is quite what they think it is. Just saying. So scientists have gone from the most credible members of society to in my opinion the least credible. They didn't just go from oh you're not nearly as awesome as before. I think science is just a way to launder lies. Science the way it's currently organized and reported in the press is just a laundering operation for lies. You just find the science that agrees with you and see if you can push it into the public's consciousness.

Now that doesn't mean that real science doesn't happen. It's just we're not watching it. You know the real science is probably somebody in a laboratory inventing a thing that makes communication faster or chips faster and we never hear about that. All we hear is oh if you walk outside you're going to be melted from all the climate. And maybe it's true. How would I know? All I know is that the people telling me this have no credibility whatsoever. Scientists, they have no credibility on climate change.

And the funniest response to that I like to use is the same people who think the news is real. You know I laugh when I'm talking to somebody who still thinks the news is real. It's just impossible. There's just no common ground. They'll just tell you that they saw something in the ne

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ws and so you're wrong. And then you say but you know the news is all made up and then they'll tell you another thing they heard in the news to prove why it's not all made up. And I think okay you're not hearing me. It's all made up. The important stuff right. If they say a hurricane is coming it's probably true but if they say so and so did something because of something that's never true. That's…

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