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he's an adjudicated sexual abuser? Why wouldn't you say sexual abuser? Why? Because the case was a civil trial, not a criminal. And the claimant is not credible in my opinion and lots of other people's opinions. So we don't actually know if he sexually abused anybody. And honestly it sounds pretty unlikely to me, the specific claim. So he has to say it's adjudicated, which means that a New York ju…

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ou think he looked at the documents and talked to the people who took the course? I doubt it. The only thing we know for sure is that he owned something that went bad. He didn't manage it. He wasn't in charge. That was somebody he worked with. So yes he has to take the fall for getting into business with somebody who didn't do a good job. He has about 400 businesses. Some of them go bad. But you wouldn't see that context.

And the chief White House correspondent for the New York Times says that he's a self-described aspiring dictator for a day. You don't think that you have some responsibility to your readers to say that the self-described aspiring dictator for a day was not at all serious and no serious person could think it was serious? But here it is in the New York Times. I mean it's coming from a New York Times person. That's the sort of thing that people who read the New York Times think is true. Imagine, just imagine if the New York Times were your main source of news. Just imagine how confused you'd be about everything.

Anyway, so over in Great Britain I think the Labour Party had a big win in their election. That's still correct, right? I saw the early reporting last night. So the Labour Party got the big win. And I said to myself, "Oh so you mean that Great Britain actually voted to destroy itself?" Because I couldn't understand how the Labour Party that I thought was left-leaning would be an upgrade to the problems that are destroying their country. To me it looked like it would accelerate the destruction of the country. I don't know because I don't follow politics at all in Great Britain. So I don't really know what's going on. So I posted, "Did Great Britain just vote on July 4th ironically to destroy their country?" I think it had a couple of million views because people were weighing in and some people who live there were trying to explain to me how this works. I don't understand it. But apparently the Conservative Party was not doing the job so they voted in the party that has the opposite opinions of what they want because they think that will somehow destroy it and then everything will be destroyed and then they'd have some chance of building back something that works. Now that sounds batshit crazy to me or poorly explained so that maybe the problem's on my end.

But is something like that happening? Is there some kind of weird thing where Britain is trying to destroy their own system? The voters are, because it's all broken. Is that a real thing that's happening? They're literally trying to vote for the wrong team to destroy the system? I don't know. Don't believe anything I said about this because none of it makes sense to me. I guess Nigel Farage got a seat. Yeah. Now it does have something to do with who gets to team up with wh

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o. I'm lost. I mean I have no idea what they're doing over there. But if somebody can explain it to me in simple terms I'd love it. Rasmussen says that 48% of Democrat voters or at least somewhat agree that Biden should step aside. So almost half of Democrats think he should step aside. And of course 62% of Republicans — 62% of Republicans. If you ever wondered do Republicans lie to pollsters you…

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