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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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make that bigger.

And tell Joe Biden what to do and Dr. Joe Biden and apparently even Hunter telling him what to do. So let me tell you what this show is going to do. We are going to pay all of that the same amount of attention. The same amount of attention will go to that. All right. I'm not sure if I disappeared there or not because I was skipping back and forth.

But watch Joy Reid and see if you get the same vibe I do, which is a mental health crisis. Now I'm not saying that strictly for political reasons because you know I don't like her team. Honestly it comes across as severe mental illness. Even one eye looks like it's not open. Like one of her eyes is like going crazy. Like your brain is not firing right. And the things that she says are so wildly ridiculous that it just looks like mental health.

And then you know a minute later Rachel Maddow will come on and she just screams bad mental health, which she's admitted by the way. She has a long-term mental health problem which is all over her face. And I feel bad for both of them. So if it sounds like I'm just being mean, that's not my intention. I actually have empathy for them. They look like they're having a crisis and they're acting it out in their jobs. Unfortunately it's affecting us.

So when and then Jane Fonda was in some event in which she was talking about Trump and she just seemed bat crazy. I think we've got to stop ignoring the problem is mental health. You tell me that all of the hosts of MSNBC are not seeing therapists. Seriously? Do you think Joy Reid is not seeing a therapist? Do you think Rachel Maddow is not seeing a therapist? Do you think the others are not seeing therapists? I would guess every one of them is. I don't know. I mean I'll be speculating. But they don't just have a different opinion.

Here's the difference. I've watched Jake Tapper forever and often disagreeing with his takes. Have I ever thought he had a mental illness? No, not once. Not once. I don't know exactly what he's thinking. Nobody knows what anybody's thinking. But he doesn't look mentally ill. And if you were to look at Wolf Blitzer or any of the gang, none of them look mentally ill even though I've often greatly disagreed with their takes. They look like they believe them at least in a non-crazy way.

And the bifurcation of the media on the left into CNN, which I would call a normal dissenting voice, meaning that they're not always going to agree with the administration, sometimes they might, versus the ones that just are bat crazy. And I think it's still a male-female thing. I think the women have scared themselves. Well not themselves. I would say that the Democrats have gaslit themselves to the point where the people with the weakest minds among the Democrats believe the gaslighting because they don't get the real news and they're in a panic.

And I think Republicans are safer because they recognize it for what it is, which is some kind of weird brainwashing propaganda thing that seems to affect the people doing it and not the people that it's trying to do it to. Well I mean the Democrats are unified but Republicans don't look at any of this stuff and think it's real. We literally, I watch MSNBC for entertainment because I just can't believe it. It's just weird and wacky.

Now do you think that they have the same view when they watch Fox News? I don't think so. I think they think the Fox News people are lying or evil b

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ut not, they're not crazy. I don't think so. Let's see. Rachel Maddow had Stormy Daniels on yesterday. Do you think Stormy Daniels is a relevant guest to have on in our current situation? I can't think of anything that would be less useful to the country than to hear a little bit more from Stormy. Now what's that? I mean that just again, that just looks like mental illness instead of even somebod…

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