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e the names and have the right names and that he necessarily agrees with all the names. So I'm undecided on Kash Patel. No, it doesn't matter because they're not going to make the decision based on what I think. But I think all of you guys need to have the same standard. I think the standard needs to be that you need to know what the crime is first and then give me the name. But if you give me the…

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g so well. Well, so their current president declared martial law. But I guess the parliament tried to get in the building to vote it down or vote out the military, tried to stop them from getting in, but they climbed over the fence and got in and quickly voted on it. And now the president is obligated to remove it because they voted on it. And the military has decided to say, all right, we're out. We're out. You voted on it. You said it's the end. So the military apparently gets some credit for not only keeping some kind of stability, but when there was a democratic process, even though they tried to stop it, it looks like they're just obeying orders at this point and trying to do the right thing.

But here's what I didn't know, and I saw this list from a few different accounts. In Direction Barbie had it, some others. Here are some of the past presidents of South Korea. Now I won't mention all their names because you've never heard of them. So there are 13 of them, and all I'm going to tell you is what happened to them. All right, so the first one, Syngman Rhee, he was overthrown. The next one was overthrown. Then the next one was assassinated. And I'll just go down the list: removed by military coup, sentenced to death after his presidency, sentenced to 22 years in prison after his presidency, imprisoned during the term of president number three, convictions blah blah blah, imprisoned under President number three and sentenced to death under President number five, later pardoned and winning a Nobel Prize, impeached, later overturned, investigated for corruption, committed suicide, arrested for corruption, sentenced to 50 years, impeached and arrested for corruption, sentenced to 24 years. Recent president, no. Oh, not bad. So Moon Jae-in, recent president, no imprisonment. Well, good for you. And then Yoon Suk-yeol must be the new one, the current one. Impeachment likely.

Now look at the state of their government, which looks like a hot mess and always has been. And somehow they're rocking the best economy short of what Japan or something. I mean, the stability of their society and their lifestyle and everything, how in the world does any of that work with when their government is such a hot mess? Maybe it tells us the government is not part of the solution anyway.

I saw a clip on this. You know, we all know that Bernie got cheated by Hillary Clinton when he was running for 2016. But did you know that Bernie won every county in West Virginia, and then West Virginia went to Hillary? Did you know that? Let me say that again. It's a fact that nobody disputes. So there's no dispute that West Virginia, 100% of the counties voted for Bernie. B

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ut the superdelegates decided they just give it to Hillary Clinton instead. That's the actual real thing that happened while we were all watching. Now the rules allow that because they have these things called superdelegates that can just overrule the regular people. But if you have superdelegates, then the actual primary is just for show because the superdelegates will decide who the candidate is…

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