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male version of politics. I can't judge for women, but for men it's kind of testosterone. The Republicans are high testosterone, the Democrats are low testosterone, and everything else is just rationalization. That's what I think. Did you know that the weight loss drugs liraglutide and semaglutide make a huge difference in reducing your alcohol consumption without any extra effort? The patients s…

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d then after they've made the decision, they layer over it with a rationalization. "Oh yeah, the reason I did that was this." But it's really just a chemical reaction.

So once you learn that willpower is fake and that some people just like things more than others, how hard is it for me to avoid alcohol? It's easy because I didn't like it that much. How hard was it when I was more active to exercise every day? Not hard at all because I liked it. If I didn't like it, it probably would have been nearly impossible. So no, willpower doesn't exist. There's just stuff you like and stuff you don't like. And that's usually just chemical and cause and effect and the structure of your brain and has nothing to do with anything else.

Here's some good news. And wow, I was worried about this for a while, but it turns out that the new pope, Pope Leo, is calling for peace in Gaza and Ukraine. Yes, I was so worried that the Pope would be pro-war, but no. Turns out we got lucky again. I don't know how many popes in a row, but our luck is really holding. They all seem to be anti-war. And every time they announce it, I say to myself, "Boy, that could have gone either way." But it turns out that the Pope has a brother. Have you all checked out the news about the Pope's brother? This is the problem with having an American pope. He's got an American brother. And the American brother is super mega.

The Gateway Pundit is reporting that not too long ago he shared on X a video calling Nancy Pelosi a drunk c-word. So a drunken c-word. And he mocks the crying libs with Trump derangement syndrome. So he's not just a little bit mega, but he's way mega. Now if you don't think this is going to be fun, I immediately looked for his X account, but I couldn't find it. So is he posting somewhere else? Maybe not on X. But I want to follow him so badly. I was also interested to see if he followed me because it'd be fun if the Pope's brother followed you on X, but I did not see his account. So if anybody knows what his actual account is — I saw three that looked fake, you know, they were too small — if somebody knows which one is his, can you alert me to it? I'd love to follow him.

Well, let's talk about the great cocaine hoax. Some of you saw a vi

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deo of French President Macron and British Prime Minister Starmer and German Chancellor Merz. They were all together at a table. It looked like it was on a train maybe or maybe some kind of a jet. But they were sitting at a table and the photographers came in, the videographers I guess, and you saw Macron grab this little rolled-up tissue and sort of take it surreptitiously away. And then you saw…

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