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ump content than Biden. I don't know how that matches with the 10 times more, but okay. And according to an internal TikTok analysis, Trump content beat Biden content by 10 to 1 in likes and 12 to 1 in views. Does that sound real? Do you believe that TikTok is pushing hard for Trump? Here's one way to explain it, and I don't know if this is enough. Biden is not memeable, but Trump is super memeab…

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ink I could have told him exactly where that would end up. So he's a smart idiot. And I think what causes that is obviously not the smart part because the smart part seems on track. You know, it seems fine. There's something about the gaslighting and the brainwashing that the Democrats get that will make even the smartest person turn into an idiot.

But then they have real idiots too, like Maxine Waters. So she's saying that Trump's supporters are quote domestic terrorists and she wonders if they're preparing a civil war against us. So she said that again recently. Now you could say to yourself, well, she doesn't believe those things. She's just saying them for political purposes. But if she is, she's the worst leader ever because it's just a terrible thing for a leader to be saying. So I'd say she's a leader and she's an idiot. But unlike Larry Fink, who might have a high IQ, there's no indication she's anything but dumb.

I watched a conversation online between Megyn Kelly and David Pakman. Now David Pakman is a prominent pundit, podcaster on the left. And what I learned was that when somebody on the left talks to a well-informed person on the right, it always goes the same way. The person on the left realizes that they haven't been getting correct news the entire time. So Megyn Kelly fact-checked him so hard I think he left his jockstrap a block back. I mean, he got banged down hard. And when I was done with it, I said to myself, huh, David Pakman does not look nearly as smart as Megyn Kelly. Like they don't look like they're even on the same level really. But David Pakman's a prominent voice on the left and compared to Megyn Kelly came off as an idiot. But he would be a normal person. He has normal IQ. But I think he too, based on what I saw, he didn't know enough about what was true. So his opinions were all ridiculous because he didn't know what the facts were. And when Megyn Kelly sort of informed him what was true, it caused like some kind of weird cognitive dissonance in him. So you have to watch that.

Then so that's more idiots. David Sachs on the X profile points out that the Hillary campaign operative who cooked the books to hide payments for the Steele dossier became the SEC chairman. Then the Biden campaign operative who orchestrated the 51 spies who lied about Hunter's crimes on the laptop became Secretary of State. And then David Sachs says Dems know how to reward election interference. Now I'm going to add this to my theme of Democrats ha

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ving idiots for leaders. In this case they have criminals as leaders because they were actually promoted for doing things that maybe weren't technically illegal but look like they should have been. How smart is it to promote the people who get caught? The reason that we're talking about these two people who got rewarded is because we know what they did. I'm going to go with Trump. I prefer people…

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