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u have to understand it's what he said. It's a special case. There certainly are a lot of special cases, aren't there? Have you noticed how many special cases there are that all seem to go in one direction? Because I don't see a lot of special cases on the left. Just a lot of special cases on the right. So watch out for the special cases. They may not be as special as you think. Tucker Carlson go…

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state in your mind everything that you think you believed about history because we're living through history that will someday be in history books. And we can see with our own eyes and our own ears that what will be written in the history books will not be real. And yet we can be sure that children will be taught it as if it's real.

The fact that the media tried to tell us that Biden's problem was a cold and a stutter — well, let's say they were not lying as obviously as they are. If you had to revise your understanding of history you might say to yourself, you know, all right I got to take this under consideration. There was a time I was told from the historians that Stalin was a bad dude and he killed a bunch of people that is considered one of the greatest evils in history of the world. But now I'm wondering if he didn't just have a cold and a stutter. No. Well, they're telling us that a cold and a stutter can make you act in a way that no person normally acts. People don't normally want to kill 20 million of their own people. That's not normal. So how do we know he didn't just — maybe it's just a passing thing, just a cold and a stutter.

All right, I'm kidding. But how ridiculous is it that they're still trying to tell us it might be a cold and a stutter? And oh by the way he was also jet-lagged. And by the way it's just normal aging.

Here's a little trick I learned from my who I call my smartest Democrat friend. I mention him all the time. But one of the things he taught me years ago was if somebody has one reason, one explanation for something, it might be true and it might be false. You don't know. Just one explanation. But if somebody offers you three competing explanations, it's always — why were you late? "Oh, traffic was bad and I had a flat tire." Okay, if it was only traffic was bad maybe. But if traffic was bad and you had a flat tire, suddenly it doesn't sound as true. He had a problem because he had a cold and a stutter and international travel 12 days ago and it's just normal aging. As soon as you get that second or third excuse all doubt should be removed about whether it's true. Nope. You get to that third one and that's pretty confirming that it's not real.

All right. Now the latest is that Biden is telling Democratic governors that he's going to go to sleep by 8:00 p.m. because he needs more sleep. No, nothing wrong with that. Totally normal. You know, you want him to be sharp at 3:00 a.m. when he gets that call about the nuclear attack and we'll say he's in good shape, went to bed at 8. Yeah, that would sound like yet another maybe a fourth excuse. Not just jet lag but in general not enough sleep. But he also has a cold and a stutter. And Trump's old too. Trump's old too, in case I didn't mention that. Trump's old too. So that would be like five things.

All right. I would recommend that whenever you hear somebody in the news tell you that the problem is he had a cold that you translate it into your head into Monty Python talk because here's what's not funny. Jean-Claude Juncker or whoever saying, "But people, it's very clear. I've been very clear. Very, very clear. He had a cold. He had a cold. Have I told you I've been clear? I don't know if I mentioned I've been clear. Very clear. It was just a cold, people." No

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w that's not funny. Here's funny. "It's just a cold." "Well but it looked like he couldn't even talk." "It's just a cold. He's fine. He's just got a cold." Now you're probably realizing right now he can't do a Monty Python accent to save his ass. It sounded exactly like his Ukrainian accent and that wasn't good to begin with. Okay, that's true. So you have to do your own Monty Python in your head.…

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