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out of office who everybody, including Brian Stelter, can clearly see has no problems whatsoever with his—he's functioning like the best Democrat of all of them anyway. MSNBC desperately trying to revive Biden because they think maybe it's their only choice. But Nicole Wallace had to finally admit that Biden's approval levels are at a low where nobody has ever been elected. Apparently—well, no, I…

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having a neurological condition or mental health condition is unhelpful and often harmful. Such speculations often stem from the belief that older politicians may be less fit for office due to their age. In the case of President Biden, there has been no diagnosis of dementia, Parkinson's, or Alzheimer's, nor has he shown any clear symptoms of these conditions.

What? Really? This is real. I swear to God I'm not making that up. That's what Meta's AI is presenting to people asking questions as the truth. That Biden doesn't have any symptoms of any of those things. My God. Moreover, it called me a bigot for asking the question. Literally called me a bigot because it says this is the sort of thing that you'd ask because of age. So basically I'm an ageist bigot for even asking the question. Wow. Wow. Shake it off a little bit about that. Wow.

Anyway, so they say the negotiations are underway behind the scenes to get rid of Biden, and that Nancy Pelosi and Barack Obama have had multiple private conversations to find a way out, etc. What do you think is happening? What do you think is the real story? Honestly, I think the story is money. And I think we're going to find out that Hunter was brought in to negotiate a severance package and that Joe is going to stay in there until he gets the severance package he wants. And what that would look like is some kind of massive investment, probably in some Hunter Biden entity. And suddenly some billionaire will say, you know what, that Hunter has some good business acumen. I think I'll put $500 million into his company. He could take out $100 million and share it with the family. And maybe the business won't do so well, but I had a few billion extra anyway. I think that's what they're going to do.

There's so many ways to bribe a politician that isn't technically a bribe. They must be putting together a bribery package. They have to be. If they're not, they're not really trying. If the only thing that Obama and Pelosi are doing is trying to talk him out of it for the good of the country, that's not going to work. Obviously that's not going to work. So it must be monetary. Or they might be saying stuff like, you know, we're not going to protect you from prosecution because you did some stuff. We know some things.

So I think the other thing that's happening behind the curtain almost certainly is there's a blackmail standoff. Because remember, Biden knows—even though he's losing his mind—he knows where all the bodies are buried. Biden knows the corruption of the government over 50 years. He knows every bad thing that Barack Obama did. So imagine that conversation. Barack Obama says, Joe, you know, we've been kind of protecting you, the media and I, from all that Ukraine stuff. So if you don't bow out, we might stop protecting you. You might go to jail. And that's when Biden says to him, you know, I was part of your administration. I know where you buried everybody. I blackmail you. You can't blackmail me. I blackmail you. And then Nancy gets in. She goes, well, all right, well, I blackmail you then. I know things you did. And then Joe looks at her and goes, I know ten things you did. You think you could win that? And then Nancy says, oh, good point. I think it's a blackmail standoff. And yeah, and the only way a blackmail standoff will get settled is a large transfer of money, which of course they would have to do after he's out of office. But they presumably would have it all lined up.

Well, we know more information about the Biden White House censorship regime. There's a new 800-page report about all the ways that the Biden and the Democrats suppressed free speech. And it features internal emails from Zuckerberg, Amazon, and YouTube in which it's all laid out very clearly that the government said it wanted them to censor things that were messages it didn't like. Many of those things were true facts, such as the likely origin of COVID. Yeah, basic stuff. Just basic stuff like was the Wuhan lab involved? Did it come from China? Real basic stuff that we consider truth today. And sure enough, the Democrats had this whole entity to suppress it.

But what happens if they were not successful going directly to the platforms? Let's say Elon Musk buys Twitter, turns it into X, and then stops listening to Democrats. So now they can't control the narrative. What are they going to do? Well, turns out what they do is they work with European countries and non-government entities. And then the European countries say, X, you can't operate in Europe unless you tell the truth, which is basically our lies. So you have to say things that we say are true or you can't operate in Europe. Now, do you think Elon Musk can ever agree to that? No. And so they'll find a way to basically put X out of business because they can't censor it and control its speech directly. But they can put it out of business by working with their international countries, the other countries that are allies, and have the allies do it. Because if X loses everything except the United States, that's going to be hard to make cash flow. You know, you have a little bit of trouble meeting the payroll.

By the way, Twitter or X has put up their entire building in San Francisco for sublet, meaning that Musk does not plan to have his X staff remain in San Francisco in that building. So that decision is apparently made. That doesn't mean they're moving out of California or out of San Francisco, but I'd be amazed if he doesn't. It looks like it's part of the plan to move to states that feel safer.

Well, Mike Benz is reporting on this, Democrats controlling free speech and censoring. Now, I would ask you this: Where are the examples of Republicans trying to suppress free speech? Has anybody ever seen that? I don't recall ever seeing it. There were some, I think there were some just random examples of the Trump administration trying to suppress some insults to Trump that weren't even really about factual stuff. It was just some kind of general insults. So I don't even take that seriously because the platforms didn't take it seriously either.

So why is it that it's only happening on the Democrat side and not happening on the Republican side in any similar extent? Is it because Democrats are big liars? Is it because they don't like the First Amendment? I think that my hypothesis is simpler than that. The entire Democrat machine is built on hoaxes. They have a hoax mesh network. The only way that thing stays together is if all the social media and all the media that their people look at say the same damn things. So they can't have some social media people telling people the truth. None of their policies make sense on paper. So they can't have people discussing them honestly. And I mean that now. And that's separate from saying you prefer other policies. In some cases I might just prefer other policies, but that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about things that on paper don't make any sen

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se. Let's take DEI for example. How do you defend DEI? It's literally unconstitutional because it's racist, and it guarantees that you end up like the Biden campaign with a forced fit of diversity, picking from a limited pool of people with less experience than David Axelrod and James Carville, and destroying yourself. Because on paper, DEI was going to cause exactly that. Now give me an example…

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