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ause the smartest people are going to work on it. The two smartest people, Trump and Musk. They must be getting jealous as hell. And then he starts teasing them like maybe they should be a 51st state. Now I don't think he means that and it probably wouldn't be a good idea to take on that many crazy people and add them to the vote. That'd be a little jarring for the United States. But the fact that…

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lly they had Biden was in a cocoon and she said if she would have tried to reach him she'd have to go through handler, handler, handler and it was not even a clear path to do it. So it was much worse than you thought during Biden's presidency.

Apparently the aides said that they would have to repeat things to him constantly, continuously. He was given simplistic instruction cards and detailed point by point pointers and he couldn't even handle that. They said that Jill was too energetic by comparison. It was sort of a problem because she had a full schedule but he did not. So it was kind of showing that a capable person could be doing a lot more.

And apparently this is the funny part. The staff was supposed to put together news clips for him which is typical. President always gets news clips. But they had to leave out any negative stories about the president. They had to leave out any negative stories. How in the world do you run the country without seeing negative stories? They removed the only guardrail they had. They had one guardrail, we're watching. And they made sure that the president didn't know we were watching so he kept thinking he was nailing it. They were probably saying like, oh Mr. President you're nailing it. Here's another pile of great press from MSNBC and CNN. The Atlantic is really big on you today. Good news Mr. President.

Yeah so again it makes me wonder if he is aware of the Wall Street Journal story. It'd be hard to miss it. And maybe that's what they're talking about at the White House today.

So you know I'm going to say this because you've been following me long enough. You know that in 2019, can you back me up on this in the comments in case there are new people here? Can you back me up that as a public figure who was talking about the news and politics all the time that in 2019 during the election for 2020 I was telling you often that Biden was not capable of doing the first term? True or not? I said he was already gone. How many of you remember me saying that?

So while you're thinking about that, I found a post I made in 2020. So this is what I said in August of 2020. So this is prior to the vote. So the 2020 election hadn't happened for several more months. And I posted this. I said the Biden mental competence story has now fully morphed into a Monty Python sketch about a dead parrot the owner insists is perfectly healthy. I can't even listen to people claiming Biden is perfectly fine without hearing a British accent. Now I said as clearly as I possibly could he's as gone as the dead parrot. Not in the future. I wasn't talking about what might happen at the end of his second term. I was saying right now they're treating him like he's a dead parrot right in front of us.

Now the Wall Street Journal reporting four years later confirms that they were in fact treating him like a dead parrot. They were literally treating him like a dead parrot, meaning that they were pretending he was capable but they knew he wasn't.

Now here's my question. I'm a public figure and I talk about the news so I nailed that one as hard as you can nail anything. I mean that's 100% right years in advance. You can't beat that. I don't remember other people saying it. Do you? I'm sure they did. I'm sure they did so I wasn't alone. And I know a lot of you, just as voters and people paying attention, you all knew it. You were seeing the same thing I saw. But I think public figures just weren't saying it when it was so obvious.

And the question I have is if you couldn't tell in August of 2020 that his brain was dead, you should never vote again. You should never vote again because this was super glaringly obvious years ago. Super glaringly obvious. If you miss that signal you really have to distrust your opinion because this was a big one. I mean this was really, really big and really, really obvious. If you miss this, maybe don't vote next time. That would be my advice.

Now I follow my own advice. I've told you in the past that the first time I voted as an adult was for Jimmy Carter and then when I saw how that turned out I said to myself I'm not qualified to vote. I don't know how much more I need to know about the world but clearly I'm not qualified to vote. And so I didn't. So for decades I didn't vote and the reason was I wasn't qualified. Now I don't know if I'm qualified yet but I can tell you that I knew for sure that Trump would be a superstar and Biden's brain was dead. So in that very specific case where the reality was screamingly obvious then I felt qualified to vote. And now I voted and do I feel that I voted correctly? Hell yes. You know, got Kamala Harris out of the race of course. I mean not my vote but it was part of the package.

All right, here's a drone update. We still don't know anything but a couple of interesting factoids. I saw one person whose name I don't remember on a podcast I don't remember claiming that drone activity has increased dramatically for each of the last three years right around Christmas. Do you believe that's true? That is at the highest level it's been. So for the past three years there were surges right around now and then it's just sort of an end of year Christmas surge.

So here's my question. If you were doing pattern recognition why would there be so much

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activity around Christmas? It's before people get toys so they haven't received it for Christmas and they're trying it out. It's not that. And these seem to be bigger commercial drones or not little ones. Why would you see that? Well I don't know but I'm going to give you the Dilbert filter on why you might see more drone activity in the past three years toward the end of the calendar year. All r…

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