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others couldn't. But here's one possibility: that the aliens from Mars or somewhere else who were very advanced got stranded on Earth. So they didn't have the technology to get off of Earth and get home, but they thought that someday they'd like to be found. So they used the technology they had to build the pyramids, because the pyramids are the proof that high intelligence existed on Earth a long…

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crime? Is there some kind of crime you can help somebody do and you're not in trouble? Does operating from another soil make you safe if you're doing it from another country? Is that enough to not be illegal? And if it's legal, why is our CIA not having them assassinated? Because isn't that what we pay them to do? If there was some entity that was not in the United States, or even if they were, and they were trying to do something that was terribly damaging to the United States and we couldn't do anything legally, wouldn't we be sending our worst people off to kill those people? Because that's how you protect the United States.

I mean, if you look at all the horrible things the United States has done under the umbrella of self-defense, this would be the smallest thing we've ever done to stop people from sending criminals into our country. Criminals in the sense that they're not going through the legal system. I'm not trying to say anything bad about the immigrants. The immigrants, I completely understand. And I'll say this, I guess I'll say this as plainly as I can. If I were in their position, I would try to get into the United States illegally. So in that same position, I would break the law. I wouldn't feel any guilt about it, because I'm just trying to make things better for myself and my family. So yeah, but it's still illegal. Doesn't mean we can be for it.

Scott, this just makes you sound uninformed. Well, you could use some of those letters to say what it was I was missing, or you could just be one of those dicks who just say you sound uninformed, which helps nobody. So while you're being useless and rude and disruptive, great job there. So you know that 80% of the time where you're trying, working toward meaning, you're not in the 80%. You're not being useful. So how about we stop ever saying "oh, there's something you need to be educated about. If only you were as smart as me, different words would be coming out of your mouth." No. How about you shut the up unless you have something useful to say? Is that okay?

Now I'm completely

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open to what it is that I don't know, and I think you've watched the show enough to watch me change on the fly when a comment comes in and says, oh, you forgot this or you're not looking at this. So do some of that and I'll actually be happy for it. But this, you're making yourself look ignorant. I just figure you're an idiot. That's the only impression I get when I see that comment. It doesn't ma…

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