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around the world at the same time. So, you know, I guess you can pick your fate. Allegedly in science, according to wonderful engineering scientists, they have created light from empty space by manipulating time and space. Or the other possibility is that it's total bullshit and nobody created any light whatsoever. I look at a story like that and I just think, really? Really? Did they make light…

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n that came out that the CIA was behind starting the stories that Area 51 had some UFOs because it turns out they were just trying to have a cover story for the fact that there were some advanced aircraft that they were working on and they didn't want people to think it was our stuff. Now, how many of you assumed that was true? Because I remember I was reading the story and I said to myself, doesn't everybody know that? But then I realized that I didn't know that. I just assumed it because I start with the assumption there are no UFOs, and then I had progressed to why would we think there are UFOs and who would ever have any kind of benefit by saying they're UFOs. And then I think, oh well, there are other documents we've seen from the '80s maybe where the CIA did consciously say, "Let's start a UFO story to hide some things we're doing." Now, that was unrelated to this, but if it's a known strategy, it makes you wonder about all those drones we were worrying about six months ago. How long ago were we worrying about all the activity? And then people started saying it's UFOs. It's UFOs.

You show me a claim of a UFO and I will automatically think that the CIA might be behind it, even if they're not. I mean, it's just automatically where I go. But here's a question I ask. First of all, is it really possible to know for sure that this is true because it's the CIA? So what if the UFOs are real, but the CIA is covering up for the real UFOs by claiming that there were American aircraft? So you can't be so sure. You don't know what's true. But I do wonder, is there anybody who has dedicated their adult life to learning about and pursuing the Area 51 UFOs who, when they read something like this and they see it was just all a big CIA plot, do they say to themselves, "Oh wow, I wasted my adult life worrying about this thing that was totally made up"? And the answer is probably no one. Because if you believed it was true before, you're going to do what I did just a minute ago and you're going to find a reason why it's still true despite all evidence to the contrary. You'll say, "Nope, that's exactly how they cover these things up." That's what you'll say.

Apparently there's this ABC News person called Terry Moran, and he got put on suspension because he got caught with some hate-filled rant about Stephen Miller. So here's what he said about Stephen Miller. This is in an article in the Post Millennial by Victor Davis Hanson. And Moran wrote on a post on X on Sunday, quote, "The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement, which is a real good sentence by the way, and translates them into policy." That's a really good sentence. But that's not what's interesting about Miller. So here comes the bad part. He says it's not brains, it's bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. H

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e's a world-class hater. You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate. Now imagine being ABC News executives and one of your news people can just imagine that he looked within the soul of one of the key people in the administration and they can look deep into his soul, which is a capability we don't have by the way, a…

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