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g before I did? All right, enough about you. Tucker Carlson's being really outspoken on his video recently. Said nothing is ever about our safety and that all the big political stuff is clearly about the interests of the people in power. He said this country and the world only changes when we eliminate the CIA. It'll take someone willing to be assassinated. He gives examples. He said you open the…

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als, and if you assume that Democrats don't have an option, they have to be diverse, it's their brand, so they're forced to be diverse but they're demonstrating to the rest of the world through what I would consider the most incompetent administration of all time and the most incompetent campaign and the most incompetent spokesperson, and all of those things are permeated with DEI hires which, if they were qualified to do their jobs, you would see a better job. Yeah, I'm not talking about one thing that I'm criticizing. There's a pervasive incompetence in the current government like we've never really seen before. And the campaign is so obviously incompetent and they're so obviously backing the wrong guy that this is sort of the Biden campaign is basically your canary in the coal mine for every corporation, right? They just got to diversity faster because they're so public. They really had to. Companies are also trying to go as fast as they can, but you can see what happens when you get to DEI diversity goals when you have a limited pipeline of qualified people, again because of systemic racism at the school level just not producing enough diverse candidates. So yeah, the hoax campaign and the DEI incompetence should bring down the whole house in a few months. I'm expecting a complete demolition of the Biden campaign. I think we're close to the point where the whole thing's just going to come off the rails in a way we've never seen before. Maybe a whistleblower. We'll see.

I was watching a body language expert look at the two faces of Biden because that's sort of becoming a thing. And the one face is his angry troll face that looks like a cat's all puckered up. You know, his face is all squeezed like all of his face meets in his nose, one little puckered place. And then you see his wide-eyed open vessel. So he's got the demon look where he looks demon-possessed. And then in the same talk sometimes he'll have the empty vessel where his eyes are wide open and his mouth is forming that Hillary Clinton looking at balloons drop. And you say to yourself, how in the world is that the same person? And we still don't know. I love the fact that he's clearly two different people. I mean I think it's the same organic person, but there's something that causes him to be a different personality so much so he doesn't even look the same. Not even a little bit. I mean you can generally recognize it's Biden, but you would think it's a different person if they stood next to each other. So here are the possibilities. One is drugs. One is mental illness. One is some kind of a deepfake thing, but I don't think so. And one is maybe there's something about editing. For example, you've seen all the quick edits they've done on his videos. Could it be that they have to take so much time off between edits that he takes a nap and just recovers and he wakes up and his eyes are open and he's the morning version? Could it be that we're seeing Morning Joe? Hey, Morning Joe, get it? Could it be that when we see Morning Joe he's a little bit more lucid and that when we see evening Joe that he's declined into his dementia yelling puckered face? Something like that. Whatever is going on is really bad. It's not good, whatever it is.

All right. I can't wait for the first interview with the imaginary Republican who's not going to vote for Trump because the lawfare got him. Have any of you met that person yet? I mean I'm being told often and reliably by all the polls that people have decided that since Trump got convicted by an unfair trial that therefore they're not going to vote for him. So we're all waiting to see the person, right? You know where I think that person is? I don't know, but I think the imaginary Republican who's not going to vote for Trump because of lawfare could be hanging out and partying with the black American voter who didn't know how to get an ID. I think they're together because we can't find either one of them. And I think maybe they're helping each other hide. So somewhere, maybe in cabins, possibly in the mountains where the MAGA supremacists are gathering their imaginary armies. So it could be that the imaginary MAGA supremacist armies that are in the hills are creating a sanctuary for the imaginary Republicans who say they won't vote for Trump. But maybe also I'd like to say that they're diverse and that they've included the black Americans who want to vote and know enough about the world that they think voting makes sense yet can't figure out how to get an ID. Yeah, we know they exist. We were told they exist. We've never talked to one. We've never seen one. But the Democrats are quite sure the imaginary army in the hills and the imaginary Republicans who don't like Trump now and the imaginary guy who can't get an ID, they're all real.

And what about the imaginary events that they're running on? Every part of the Democrat platform is imaginary. All the hoaxes are imaginary. All the data that they give us about their current performance, completely imaginary. They say they're controlling the border, everything's fine. That's imaginary. What about the money that they're spending? Is Biden spending real money? Not anymore. When you have $35 trillion in debt, whatever it is that you're spending is imaginary because whoever lent it to you, they ain't getting it back. So we've got an imaginary economy, imaginary data. We've got real problems that they imagine or not. They've got an imaginary Trump who's in their imagination tried to take over on January 6 and they imagined that he would do it again even though he never did it. They think he'll do again the thing he never did once. So we have imaginary policies, imaginary people, imaginary Trump in the future, imaginary data. Do Republicans do that? Could you reverse the argument and say, oh Scott, I see your point, but look at all the imaginary things that the Republicans believe. Now maybe you would go after religion if you were not religious. You'd say oh they believe in imaginary stuff. But is it imaginary to think that your nine-month-old fetus is sort of alive? Is that imaginary? That doesn't seem imaginary. You could differ on what you think about it or what the law should be, but it's not imaginary, right? The debt is not imaginary. The lawfare is not imaginary. Even CNN's analysts are saying it's real.

So here's what I think has happened. I think the Democrats sort of tiptoed into the imaginary world and it worked because they can control the press for at least their base. They can tell them literally anything. And once they realize that you can tell them anything and the actual reality won't make any difference because they also control the fact-checkers, they realize that going fully imaginary is a better strategy. And I agree, by the way. It's a better

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strategy because they don't have anything of substance. Trump has substance. He can say you see all that crime, I'm going to do the normal things that people normally do to get less of it. Is that imaginary? I don't think so. Seems pretty real. He says he's going to negotiate with Putin and Zelensky to end the war. Now it might be hard, but is it imaginary? It's not imaginary. And the entire reaso…

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