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he determinant. Biden's not going to drop out unless he gets a lot worse fast. And he might be so worse that he can't make the decision to drop out because he's not thinking right. So we may be past the point where he is coherent enough to even know he should drop out. So we might be stuck. But here's the thing. Was there really some chance that anybody but Kamala Harris was going to be considere…

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thinks is CNN trying to take Biden out of the race. So they think that they biased the debate. They didn't. They think that the CNN people are somehow pro-Trump or at least not anti-Trump enough. I don't see it, but I guess if they're not getting what they want, the MSNBC people, they don't like it so they don't like CNN.

All right, let's see what else. So there's a video that's viral of, just so you can visualize it, there's a young black man who's on some kind of a Zoom call with a young black woman. And he's asking her who said the following quotes. And he gives a bunch of quotes that are all Joe Biden quotes. Every one of the quotes is Joe Biden. And the young black woman says, oh that's Trump. Oh that was definitely Trump. And she says Trump for everyone. Now these are the historical comments that Biden has made that sound, some people say, racist. If the shoe were reversed I would probably say he wasn't, but that's what they're saying.

So apparently the actual words of Biden when heard out of context makes a young black woman say, oh that's got to be Trump because that's racist as hell. And when she was told that every one of those comments came from Biden and none of them came from Trump, she was instantly flipped to what the hell is going on here. Now I don't know if she would, that doesn't mean she's pro-Trump, but everything she thought about Biden versus Trump she suddenly realized was wrong. It was fascinating. And I love to see how many times you could reproduce that because I've seen that same thing on street interviews before where you just give the quotes of Biden and everybody thinks it's Trump. And the young people especially, they all think it sounds super racist because they're all woke. And it blows their mind when they find out they're wrong. Blows their mind. It's fun to watch. I'd like to see more of it.

All right. As you know, Biden's new attack on Trump is that Trump is a liar. Now we've all watched Trump and we know that the fact checkers get exhausted when he gives a rally. We know that it's all baked in. But most of us have come to the understanding that he lies like a salesperson. In other words, he's a productive liar. In other words, he's lying for your benefit because we all want to get a deal. You know, if he says my economy was way better last year than you remember, well you could call it a lie or you could say he's trying to get elected because he would be the best one to

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help you with the economy. That would be a productive lie. You know, bending the truth, hyperbole, little exaggeration of what he accomplished, maybe even some made-up stuff. And if he got elected he would be very transparent because presidents are, and we would see if he's doing things for us. And if it was like the first four years you'd probably like a lot of the stuff he did. So here's my que…

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