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ng for it will be a pain. And then the attractive women have already left the industry. I think that's what it looks like. So I think the porn industry is dead actually. There's something you never thought. Did you ever think the porn industry would just die? I think it's already dead. I think that literally it's just overweight ugly people in porn now. It's dead. All right, so you've been heari…

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accusing the media of election interference because the way they're covering Biden in the debate. Wow. So they're worried. Just hold this in your head. There's a Biden campaign official who is willing to say publicly that correct news, which is that Biden is infirm, correct news is election interference. Accurate news is election interference. Now I could see how it would be, but you would have to have been in a coma for a very long time to think this is the point you want to make in public. So I guess the fake news isn't working for them the way it used to.

All right, here's another shocking fact allegedly according to the Daily Mail. Venezuela had an epic drop in murder. So the murder rate in Venezuela just went through the floor. Not really. It's a 22-year low, down 25% or something. And of course the suggestion there is that the Venezuelan murderers and the repeat criminals have been released from jail and sent to America, or if they weren't in jail they just came to America. And that the reason that the crime is low in Venezuela compared to what it was is because the criminals came to America.

Does that sound true? Does that sound true or does it sound a little bit too on the nose? It's kind of clean, isn't it? It's a very clean story. Well, we're anti-immigration and now Venezuela, their crime rate has gone down. So I guess that means all the criminals came to the United States. Am I right?

Let me be as clear as I can. That might be exactly what's happening. I cannot disprove that claim, nor is it ridiculous on its surface because we know lots of people are coming. If you were a criminal, maybe it's a pretty good way to get a clean start. So it's perfectly possible that that's exactly what's happening.

But have you ever seen any government data from the United States, such as California's job reports that we found out today have been completely fake, such as the major revisions of everything, such as the crime statistics that we report in the United States which are clearly fudged? Why would you trust Venezuela to have accurate crime data of all the things that Venezuela is likely to do right? You think the crime data is in that list? You don't think that maybe the government just wants you to think, the government of Venezuela, you don't think that maybe they just want you to think that they did a good job and crime went down? Do you think that they even have good reporting in Venezuela or do you think it's more likely that somebody stopped reporting? Remember, it's like a failed state. But you think their data is good? It's a failed state with accurate data? Is that what you think? They get a dictator but they get accurate data? And if it's a failed state, there isn't really a big chance that their data is correct. You get that, right? The odds of Venezuela's data being correct is close to zero.

Now, but I have to be specific. That doesn't mean it's not true. It might be true that there's a whole bunch of criminals that used to be there that moved to America. I would assume some have. I mean, you could say with some certainty some number of criminals from Venezuela

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have made it to America. I just don't know if that's behind the drop in the crime statistics. So here's a little test for you. If you're going to mock the idiots, just be careful what you're believing because this was a little bit too on the nose for me. I'm not going to buy this one. Could be. I can't debunk it, but no, far more likely the numbers are wrong. All right, or far more likely that it…

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