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this one he gets closer and closer to being a national candidate. He's closer and closer. And the thing I appreciate about it is the technique. So the technique is that when there's a little thing he can agree with he says it publicly and without any pullback. He just says it clearly and cleanly. Yeah that's common sense. I'm in favor. That is really strong technique because when he disagrees with…

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one's a little different but the first two are just common sense. Common sense tells you the Pentagon has some bloat of course you want to cut it. The bloat. And preventing generals from having a conflict of interest that's not political that's just common sense. That's just basic common sense. So how weird is it that Republicans who are the common sense party for the most part offer common sense opinions on common sense things and the Democrats are like oh no I don't believe that. I don't believe that at all. They're pretty gone. Pretty gone anyway.

My opinion is this. I think there's only two ways for somebody to become president and stay president without being assassinated. And I think that you either have to agree in advance or they know in advance that you're going to start major optional wars so that feeds the military-industrial complex extra wars. Or if you're not going to do extra wars like would be Trump for example or Reagan for example you have to agree to rebuild the military. So you have to say our military is falling apart we're going to need to spend a ton of money rebuilding that military. I think if you do one of those two things you can stay alive and stay in office. Otherwise you get impeached or assassinated because I think the military-industrial complex is basically full of professional killers right. The whole industry is full of people who have literally killed people professionally in the military. And yeah I think any president should be afraid of that group. So I don't think they would put up with anything less than major money going toward their direction.

Canada as you know has euthanasia legal. So if you've got a terminal illness you can

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get that option but also they recently said if you have a chronic illness that just makes your life terrible you can check out from life on your own. And let's say 15,000 people did it last year. So almost 5% of the deaths in the country are people choosing to do it themselves. But here's the interesting political part. 96% of the people who are choosing the option to end their own lives are white…

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