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that how do you actually do the affordability? Well, he's got a bunch of ideas that we know always fail or we think we know that. We think we're that smart. So he had an idea for government grocery stores. Well, that's been tried and didn't work anywhere. And then I guess something about free transportation and some other free stuff. And you can't get that stuff unless you're raising taxes on peo…

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dination behind that and the real number of crimes that are probably racked up is unlike anything I've ever seen. And then I hear Mike Benz say that the guy who hid by the Trump golf course and got caught before he fired, he apparently had some State Department connections. All right. Well, you know, maybe that's a coincidence, right? He just had some State Department connections. I mean, you have some State Department connections, right? Don't you? Don't all of you have? I don't. No, you don't. You don't have any State Department connections. But apparently he did.

And then the shooter at the Butler event, Crooks was his name, he had these encrypted apps, which seems a little weird for a loner. He was weirdly successful in his operational endeavors. Weirdly because it turned out that the Department of Homeland Security which was sitting in for the Secret Service. So Secret Service was spread thin that week because they had different jobs they had to handle at the same time. So the Department of Homeland Security, at least one subset of them, stood in to do extra security and then everything went wrong.

Did you know, Mike Benz reminds us that apparently Crooks would often go to a gun range that was the same one that the Department of Homeland Security typically used, or at least one department within it. Now, these are just connections, right? There's no direct smoking gun that says, "Oh, the State Department sent this guy or that the Department of Homeland Security was well aware of this guy." I don't have that. We're not at that level of any kind of proof of anything.

But my question was, if we had never seen that Kennedy had in fact been murdered by our own governme

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nt and CIA, it looks like, and if we didn't know for sure that the Russia collusion hoax was organized by the highest levels of our own government, and they're still hiding it. If we didn't know that, I wouldn't even blink if somebody said, "Oh, these people have connections. They've got connections to the State Department." I would have said, "Oh, it's a big world. People know people. Doesn't mea…

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