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here's what I think. I think that Biden's entire attack is going to be this Trump guy is crazy and chaotic. All Trump has to do is not be crazy and chaotic. That's it. It looks stupid when Biden's accusing him of chaos when Trump is just calmly explaining how he's the one who brought you border security and a good economy and that the real chaos is the inflation and the open border and two wars. N…

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ats, their media puppets repeat the hoaxes and that becomes our reality and then the politicians sort of have to follow the hoax and the voters end up following the hoax when they vote. So we don't have a republic we have a hoax-ocracy and that's not an exaggeration. This is the important point. I mean literally the fundamental operating system of the United States is hoaxes. We just have to deal with that. I think we need to just wake up. Our system is one hoax after another that informs all of our actions. So the things we teach our kids, the way we vote, the way the schools are organized, the way we write our history, it's all fake. I don't know how long that's been the case. Probably all of my life. But once you realize that you're living within a hoax it's not a republic, it's not a democracy, it's not even close. We're not even in the same planetary orbit as any of those things. We are purely a hoax-based system and maybe always have been. I don't know how long it's been but clearly at this point we're just a hoax.

Speaking of which George Soros has already spent $400 million trying to buy the second biggest radio network. So he's working the FCC which has a lot of Democrats in it and trying to get approval for it. Now why in the world would we be okay with George Soros owning the second biggest radio network? Clearly he's buying protection for the hoax-ocracy. What else could it be? He wants to make sure that there's nobody who can tell you the truth. That's the whole point. Do you think that George Soros decided that radio was a good investment? Of course not. Are you kidding me? No radio is not an investment. No you do it for control so people don't find out what you're really up to. There's no other reason. Why do you think Bezos owns the Washington Post? Because he really likes the dying newspaper industry? No. Now in his case he might have some pressure from some intelligence sources but clearly none of this is about news. It is about maintaining hoaxes.

All right the network that Soros is trying to buy reaches 165 million monthly listeners. 165 million. Yeah you know if it weren't for Rupert Murdoch who as you know is not from this country there wouldn't be any competing news. Imagine if Fox News didn't exist and by the way it's not my job to say they get everything right because they don't they don't get everything right. But if you didn't have the competing version you would really really be confused about the world you live in. Imagine if all the news was just the hoax-y stuff. That's the way it was before Fox News. It was only the hoaxes.

All right let me give you another example of that. Now we have 16 Nobel economists that have gone public with some kind of letter saying that Trump is a real risk to inflation and that a Trump presidency would be an inflation bomb. Let's see they're economists that sounds good. They're Nobel prizewinning economists. Oh my God that sounds credible. And oh there's 16 of them. Oh my God there's 16 of them. I mean they can't be wrong could they? Could they be wrong? I mean there's 16 of them and they're the very best. These are the Nobel economists for God's sakes. Unfortunately you should see this more like the 51 intel people who signed the laptop. No it's not their real opinion and if it is it's from cognitive dissonance. No you shouldn't listen to them as experts. No they don't have a good argument. Yes if you have even a little bit of understanding economics you know this is complete as everyone does who took one economics course. And if you need some more explaining of why the Nobel economists do not have let's say a lock on what's true let me just ask you this question. Why do we have inflation if all these economists know how to avoid it and they seem to be willing to advise us and they're all on the same page? Where were they before? Were these same economists telling us that hey the things you're doing right now are going to cause massive inflation? Did they? Because if they did well I might actually listen to them. Wow they got it right that time. Maybe they get it right again. But we live in a world where I guarantee you, remember I have a degree in economics and I can tell you for sure there are no economists who understand inflation. Now that sounds like a big claim because it seems obvious print more money you got inflation. If it were that easy everybody would have the same prediction. If you just sort of look at it go huh well I've sort of skimmed th

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is topic and looks to me like Trump's going to drive that inflation through the roof. Now what would be the argument for why Trump would cause more inflation? What do you think the argument sounds like? Well here we go. One of the reasons that the Trump presidency could take inflation to new heights because a January 6 style attack on Democratic institutions could undermine global economic stabil…

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