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hey're hiding him. I don't think he's good at it. I don't think he's good at it. And I think that when you see Hillary Clinton's best friend and confidant marry him in a marriage that looks suspicious at best, you have to say to yourself, is there something else going on here? Now I don't know, but let me just speculate. It looks like Hillary is making a play to control the Soros fortune after Ge…

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ogan was talking about Elon Musk believing we live in a simulation. And he said something that I've said a few times. He said if you're Elon Musk, of course you believe it's a simulation. People are letting you drill tunnels under LA and shoot rockets off into space and you make electric cars, solar roof panels. I mean he's literally living like some character in a movie. Now I've told you that, right? The exact same thing. If you were Elon Musk and you saw what you could personally accomplish, you would have to believe none of this is real because he lives life like a video game. He plays video games, so that model is in his head, you know, closer to the front of his head. But I say the same thing now. You don't know everything about my life, but if you just looked at the things you know about, how is that possibly real? That when I was six years old I said, you know, I think I want to be a famous cartoonist. Well, the number of famous cartoonists who happened since I was six years old is like three or four out of seven billion people. And I'm one of the three or four. How's that possible? And then you know, next thing I know I'm predicting Trump and I'm invited to the White House and here I am. How is any of this possible, right? And that's just my professional life. My personal life is even weirder. How is any of it possible? So yes, I believe we're in a simulation. And I think we're going to find out in a year. So that's my prediction. I think we're one year away from confirming that we live in a simulation.

Now when I say confirming, I don't mean that everybody will agree. I mean that the evidence will be overwhelming. And here's what it will look like in one year. We will create our own simulation in which the characters believe they have consciousness, free will, and they're living their own lives. Once we do that — and we already have the tech for that — once we do it, maybe in a year, the argument for us not being one will just disappear. Because once we c

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an do it, the argument was always that once it can be done there'll be more than one. So after somebody makes one of them in a year in the real world, in one year there will be that simulation. Somebody else is going to say, hey that's a good idea, I'll make one too. And at that moment the number of simulated realities will be confirmed to be twice as many as base reality if there is, if even one…

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