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g that most people, literally a majority, think is not likely to be fair and you do it right in front of them, that's your worst case scenario. Worst case scenario. They're doing that right in front of us. Well, let's talk about the plot to make Bidenomics look good. Zero Hedge is talking about commercial real estate foreclosures at their highest level in a decade. I don't know how big a deal tha…

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re? The jailing of dissidents. Well a dissident would be like a protester. A protester. Where have I seen a protester being put in jail for protesting? Oh, the entire January 6 hoax in which the thoroughly corrupt members of Congress who should all be in jail, the ones on the January 6 committee should definitely be in jail. And if Trump only does one thing and he puts them all in jail for real crimes, I don't want him to make up any crimes, has to be a real crime, but that would be one of the best things that happened in the country. And if it ripped the country apart I'm okay with that. Totally down for that.

See here's the thing with somebody calling your bluff. You've got to call them on it. It's your only choice. Otherwise they own you. If people can scare you and bluff you and threaten you and make you change what you do, well they own you. If you don't want to be owned you've got to punch them in the teeth, so to speak. Not really, no violence. So obviously the January 6 people were jailed for being dissidents. This is another case. We've seen so many of the Democrats accusing Republicans of exactly what they're doing as they're talking. As she's talking her team is putting dissidents in jail.

Now what would be the example of where any Republican has put a dissident in jail? I can't think of any. Can you think of any? Even one? Oh maybe Assange but that wasn't really just a Republican thing and he wasn't a citizen so that's a little bit different. And we didn't put him in jail so that is different.

All right. So part one of trying to kill Trump is going well for the Democrats. Because the Democrats can say this out loud without being challenged, at least without being challenged by their own team. They can say that Trump is trying to dismantle democracy. Now as Mike Benz has taught you, that creates the predicate so that the intelligence people can do everything that they would do internationally to other countries. They can do it internally because hey, if you're trying to save democracy you've got to pull out all the stops.

So this is when you see the Democrats say he's trying to get rid of democracy because he's an authoritarian. Because of his authoritarianism. You should interpret that as an op. It's part of the brainwashing of America and it's to get him killed or jailed. And that's what it is. And there's no other way to see it really if you're even a little bit aware of what's happening.

So that's now. How about the plot to jail him? So Jonathan Turley is talking about that. So if they don't jail him and get him killed in prison they're going to try to kill him on the outside by making people think he's Hitler and also by taking away his Secret Service protection. So the Democrats are trying to do all three: paint him as Hitler, take away his Secret Service protection, and just as an insurance policy try to put him in jail on fake charges or trumped-up charges.

So Jonathan Turley is talking about the fact that Bragg the DA is going to start talking to David Pecker who is the head of the National Enquirer who is part of the story. Now as Turley points out, Pecker's part of the story has nothing to do with the charges. Do you understand that? So Pecker had to do with the suppressing of the story of Stormy Daniels but there are no charges and no law broken to suppress the story. So nobody's in trouble for suppressing the story. And the one and only thing that David Pecker knows is that part, that there was an effort to suppress the story about Stormy Daniels. But since there's no crime involved with that and it doesn't tell you anything about the other crimes, why is that the first witness? Why would he be the first witness if nothing he has to say is relevant to any of the crimes that are being charged?

Well because you're watching a porno and all pornos start the same. So Bragg is the fluffer and his job is to get the Pecker situation all firmed up. So he's got to get that Pecker situation all firmed up. So Bragg being the fluffer, you'll get that going. And that's really just to prepare you for the we're all going to get. So you always start by firming up the Pecker before giving the good hard that the public is waiting for. And Trump of course. So that makes sense.

Meanwhile on Meet the Press the fake news is having trouble supporting their own fake polls. Because here's just a current poll that was presented on Meet the Press. So their own people are presenting their own results it looked like. And I read this on Eric Aban's post. He's a good follow too on X. So here are some of the things. So comparing Trump to Biden on handling a crisis, Trump is up 46 to 42. Who is strong, who has a strong record as president? Trump is better 46 to 39. Who is competent and effective? Trump is better 47 to 36. That's a pretty big difference. On competent and effective. Dealing with inflation and cost of living, Trump by a mile 52 compared to 30. And then has the necessary mental and physical health, Trump by a mile 45% to 26.

Now I don't think you need to brag about 45% think that you're mentally and physically capable. But in the context of politics there's a big difference. It does suggest that even the Democrats think that Biden is degraded. Now imagine if you will that you've polled the public on each of these individual qualities of president and they do look like the important ones, right? Handling a crisis, strong record, competent, effective, mentally healthy, physical, dealing with inflation. And those are the important things. That's all the big stuff. And Trump dominates all the big tops. So wouldn't that suggest that the election isn't going to be anywhere near close? What did the polls tell you? Oh it's basically a tie. How in the world are we supposed to believe any of this? That the detailed polling shows Trump just annihilating Biden on all the important stuff. All of it. There's nothing that Biden's leading on. And yet the polls are basically close. Biden's actually leading in some polls. How in the world can we explain this polling? It looks like the polling is completely fake, at least some of it. I mean I assume that the top number is the fake. If the bottom number shows that Trump is leading on everything that matters, how in the world could he be tied in the polling? Because you'd think that if the same people who were just pro-Biden, they knew they were doing a poll that involved Trump and Biden, wouldn't they also say that Biden was winning on the individual categories? Wouldn't they? If you were in the bag for Biden and you just want to say Trump bad Biden good you would say that Biden was healthier. You'd say he's better for the economy. But they're not even willing to do that and he's still tied. Okay, there's something deeply wrong with what we're seeing. I don't know what it is. I really don't.

Well let's check in on all the conspiracy theories. I swear to God, you know sometimes it's hard to have a conservative sort of Republican audience because you know you guys, and I'm talking to all of you, you know you guys have some wild conspiracy theories. Am I right? Like one of them is that the government and especially the Democrats are packed with a bunch of sex offenders that haven't been caught yet. It's like some big pedophile conspiracy theory. Like you guys will believe anything. You're believing that the top people in the Democrat Party are a whole bunch of pedos. Crazy.

Well next story is that President Obama's former senior policy advisor Ramin Shai has been charged with child, oh okay, okay. Well maybe you're right sometimes. Okay I'm going to give you this one. All right I'll give you this. Turns out it's a whole party full of exactly what you thought. So yeah, Colin Rugg was reporting this on X. So the senior policy advisor is being charged with sex offenses. Let's just say he had some bad stuff on his computer. Some bad stuff. And he worked on the US strategy to combat terrorism and terrorists. So while he was helping us fight Al-Qaeda and the Taliban the children were fighting him off or something like that I guess. There were some kind of allegations. They're allegations. People, he's innocent till proven guilty. So take your conspiracy theories even though they look suspiciously supportable. Anyway he wasn't in charge of ordering the pizza and hot dogs for Obama but you know where that story's going.

Well thankfully the Democrats are trying to get those corrupt Republicans ou

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t of office by having a sweep and winning everything in 2024. And oh here's a story about Ted Lieu. He's accused of using donor money to give $50,000 donation to Stanford who then soon after admitted his child to Stanford. So that's probably a coincidence am I right? And I tell you when I give money to a politician what I'm really hoping the politician spends it on is bribing a college to get his…

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