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r. The hardest thing about being a professional writer when you write dialogue, and I remind you that I write dialogue for characters every single day for 35 years, there is a skill involved in writing dialogue. The main part of the skill is avoiding looking like it's scripted dialogue. Did you all know that? The main thing that you want to avoid to be a good writer, you know someone that people w…

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that didn't everybody know that Trump would go to jail if he wasn't elected? We all knew that. Did it help him get elected? I hope so. So we live in a system where if things go wrong they can just lawfare somebody into jail and damn near did it. The only thing that kept Trump out of jail is an amazing campaign team, his own abilities which are transcendent, and the fact that the public said that's a line too far. I think the public stopped that entirely. I mean by their vote of course but there was also an implied threat wasn't there? There was an implied threat that if half the country watched their leader be put in jail the entire social contract was going to be ripped up. And I think enough people said that that was believable. I don't know if it would be but I think it could have been the entire social contract if you know what I mean.

Meanwhile James O'Keefe and his OMG undercover video business they found an adviser to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. So this is somebody who has a high level adviser, a former FBI special agent and he called himself a spy hunter. And he went on one of these dates in which he talked too much. Fake dates. So the undercover person went on the fake date and recorded him, asked him what he thought about Trump and he said Trump's a sociopathic narcissist who was only interested in advancing his name, his wealth and his fame. He's had a lifetime of cheating. He's habitually addicted to lying about himself. Okay so the first thing you know is he's suffering from terminal TDS. These are not the words of a person whose brain is working correctly. Are it true that Trump tries to maximize his own gain like everybody? Like everybody. What was there some politician who didn't like to see himself succeed? Which one was that? Even Bernie Sanders was trying to win the damn election. So watching them try to get what's good for them, the only thing that matters is was it also good for the country? And what Trump is doing is also good for the country. So there's no real difference between doing a great job for the country and doing a great job for yourself. They're exactly the same. You know and the job is so transparent that you would literally have to do illegal things to get out of that model of what's good for the country ends up being good for you. You have to be illegal for that not to be true. And we're watching pretty closely especially Trump. So that's crazy.

But then it gets worse. He apparently was involved back in Russiagate times. He spent his time looking for all that foreign interference to explain how Trump got elected. Didn't find any. So his TDS is extreme. Couldn't even believe that Trump got elected unless there must have been some foreign interference. Nope there was foreign interference. It was against Trump. The minor little Russian memes didn't make any difference. Everybody smart knows that. And then the undercover reporter asked him if there's anything that he quote could do to protect the American people from stuff that Trump might try and he said quote I'm in conversation with a couple of retired generals to try to explore what we can do. So here's a spook who's actually having conversations with retired generals. We didn't get their names. It looks like he's planning an insurrection. So it looks like they're not looking to respond to some specific thing Trump did but rather just take him out of office through some kind of you know undercover mechanism that involves generals and somebody who's

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a spy hunter. Now I assume he lost his job immediately but who knows. So that's all we know about that. So beware all the undercover people who think that they're doing what's good for the world. I think this guy actually believed he was doing the right thing which is scary. It's really scary if he thought that was the right thing. All right the inauguration is coming up and it's been announced a…

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