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fixed. In other words we'll never have a reason to build the startup that could be the alternative. You know wouldn't it be great if they did the strike but then immediately some startup pops up and says you know what we've got this fleet of electric ships or whatever and we can do this at half the cost. We just need a chance. Oh here's your chance. So I don't have a completely negative feeling…

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l dysfunction and that we need to start over."

Okay so John Kerry is questioning the First Amendment. The New Yorker, left-leaning publication, thinks it might be time to torch the Constitution or at least we should talk about it. And RFK Jr. that recent podcast said that 37 hours after Harris and Biden were installed in the White House they opened an illegal portal between the social media giants and the FBI, CIA, CDC to begin rampant censorship.

So it appears that Democrats need, or they say they need, rampant censorship in order to run the country. Otherwise it's going to be chaos. Now you've heard me say and I'm going to triple down on it: No country can survive free speech. We've never had it. We've never had it. The way they controlled our free speech in the past is by brainwashing us so that when we thought we were speaking freely we were just mimicking what we'd been brainwashed to say. So you can have something that feels like free speech so long as you've been brainwashed to only say the things that are appropriate and so long as the entities that reported the news were controlled by the government. So if you said something that wasn't part of the brainwashing well you didn't get on the news or if you did they mocked you as some kind of communist criminal and you should be ignored.

Now once the government no longer controls the news and social media is sort of brainwashing people more randomly as opposed to the government doing it, now you got a problem. Because actual free speech where people are not brainwashed into their opinion but rather it comes to them through some sense of some set of variables, that's dangerous stuff. That's dangerous. And no I don't think any country has ever survived that. I think that people — there's always some other either commercial or embarrassment or shame. There's always some force to keep you from saying what you maybe think you should say. So we've never really had free speech and I don't think we could survive it. But we do need to get back to the illusion of it. The illusion of free speech is important. The actual free speech is less important.

Now how much this matters depends on how bad your government is. If your government is terrible then not having free speech is the disaster. If your government is chugging along okay, let's say a George Bush Senior kind of a world or Reagan second term kind of a world, you don't really care too much. People can say what they want. We can argue about it. Things are going fine. It's just when you've got a really bad government that's when the free speech going away is an existential risk.

And I would say that the Democrats collectively — I don't know what's wrong. Like some say it's a Marxist thing. I don't know. But there's something terribly, terribly broken in that the things that they're doing appear to be designed to destroy the country. Meaning

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that if I gave you a set of Democrat policies and didn't tell you they're Democrat policies and I said instead there's a terrible entity that's trying to destroy the United States, look at the things they're doing. And if you looked at the things on their list you'd say oh wow they're pushing DEI. Yeah that's gravel in the machine. That's obviously that can't be for the benefit of the country. The…

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