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re deleting emails ahead of time before they got FOIA'd. And the nature of the conversations that we have seen suggests that they knew they were guilty and that they were trying to hide it. At least that's how it's being interpreted. I'll just say that's how it's being interpreted. Can't know their inner thoughts. So it looks like everything you thought was true about the pandemic was true. It ca…

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I that didn't look exactly like her but was a highly attractive blonde of the same age and then you gave it a voice that was based on not her but somebody who sounds a lot like her according to other people? Is that going to be legal? There's going to be massive lawsuits about all this stuff so we'll see.

I would just like to note because the important part is my connection to all stories that Scarlett Johansson's husband once mocked me on SNL. She's married to Colin Jost. So he mocked me about a year ago on SNL. So good luck with that guys.

There is a study of brains. They found there's a part of the brain that might be evolved with causing somebody to be a narcissist. Let me tell you something that I realized maybe 40 years ago. I remember the first time I heard that they found that the brains of addicts and alcoholics in particular were different and they were saying hey we think that alcoholism might have a genetic propensity. To which I said what? I thought that was free will. I thought you either decided to drink or you didn't. Are you telling me that your brain might be different and that some people cannot just decide not to drink? And that was the case.

Then later people said we found in the brain a part of the brain that makes you more likely to be gay. And I said what? I thought that was just a choice. You tell me that your brain could be the decider or your genes could be the decider of whether you're born gay? And then I said to myself what's going to happen to free will once we find and map all the parts of the brain? Once you know that there's a physical part of the brain that causes all of our behaviors and you can identify it and you go oh there it is, we just scanned you, you got that big narcissist thing in your brain. Oh that's why you're acting that way. Or oh found out you've got that tendency to be an alcoholic. There it is. It's right in your brain.

What are you going to think of free will when we identify all the parts of the brain that cause all of our actions? Well I realized that day that the idea of free will would get smaller and smaller as we got smarter and smarter about what the brain does as a machine. And so here's the newest one. Now if narcissism can be identified and everything from intelligence to you can even apparently even your propensity to be conservative or liberal can be identified in your brain. So if your brain has an influence on these things are you still clinging to the idea that you have free will? Because that idea is going to get harder and harder to hold on to. Harder and harder.

All right. The debate over whether the government was trying to kill Trump and have him assassinated by including in their Mar-a-Lago raid authorization they are authorized to use deadly force if necessary. And so t

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here's some people who were saying well it was just standard procedure. They just say that all the time. And there are other people, Mike Cernovich, Dan Bongino for example, who say no you idiots that is not standard procedure. Now how could it be standard procedure but also not a standard procedure? Well it turns out it can be. And Bongino gets to the heart of it by asking this question. If you…

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