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them money to do it. Do you think Hamas wants to hear that? That Israel just has a free pass and the United States won't put any pressure on them to ease up? That would be the ultimate nightmare for Hamas. But I think that's where they're heading. They're heading to their ultimate nightmare. There was a story in Politico by Eugene Ludwig titled "Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was…

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ox in charge of counting the chickens. And then you're like, uh, do we still have 18 chickens? Uh, no, no, it's, uh, we have 14 chickens, says the fox. And then you say, what, did you eat those four chickens? And the fox says, I don't know what you're talking about. There's no data that says we ate any chickens. There's just 14 chickens.

All right, we'll check back tomorrow. There are eight chickens. What? What are you doing? Are you eating those chickens again? I don't even know what you're talking about. There's no document that shows any chickens were eaten. It's just eight chickens.

So you can take the fox and the chicken analogy to pretty much everything. Who told us that vaccinations were perfectly safe? The fox. We didn't get it from anywhere except the company that is making money from selling it. Right? Was there some independent analysis that I'm not aware of? No. No.

So in every case, the only people who are close enough to know what the real numbers are are the foxes. They're the ones in charge of the numbers, and the foxes are the ones that are stealing and lying and, you know, shaving things to make it biased in one direction or the other. So there's a systemic reason. It's not a coincidence that all data, all data that's important, is fake. It has to be, because it's coming from the fox.

As soon as you realize that all the data comes from the fox and not from the chickens, then everything makes sense. And if you find an exception where the chickens are in charge of counting themselves, let me know about that, because I've never heard of it. Never heard of it

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. It's always the fox counting the chickens. And that's where we're at. That's why you need DOGE, because DOGE lets the rooster in. Lets the rooster count the chickens. I'm torturing that analogy. All right, well, you probably know that Trump was suing the Pulitzer committee for giving Pulitzer Prizes to the Russia collusion liars in the press. But worse than that, I guess they said something el…

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