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of two people who were warm, in other words they were warm parents, what are the odds that you picked up that gene? Well, pretty good. And then what are the odds that you would imitate adults who are your parents in figuring out how to navigate social situations? Well, 100 percent. So between the genetic likelihood that you would just inherit that ability to feel warmth around other people, becau…

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ense that the people who are extremists either right or left is because they feel something that's a reward. So if they get revulsion from looking at what the other team is doing but it's still sort of a competition and you like your team and you can't wait to talk to them about that thing the other side is doing that's so bad. Yeah, that's just pure emotion.

And you would expect that those people would have a suicidal empathy and TDS and what do you call it when the soccer mom wants to be a hero by supporting her trans child? There's a name for that, right? Anyway, so all of those things probably come from the same phenomenon, which is the people who don't have a physical sensation from thinking about politics, they're not doing any of the crazy stuff. So they don't have TDS so much or those other things.

Speaking of TDS, I saw a clip of CNN where Scott Jennings was roasting somebody named Jennifer Welch. I guess she's one of the anti-Trumpers that was on the panel on the Abby Phillip show. And she claimed that Trump obviously has dementia and that one of the ways you know is that he performed oral sex on a microphone. Can you believe it? And I'd have to say that she looked like, just the way she talked and acted, she looked like one of those people who really feel something p

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hysically from the news. I mean, she looked like she was having a physical response to just even thinking about Trump. And Scott Jennings said after she was done with her little rant that sounded literally crazy, he just says, "If this is the Democratic strategy, congratulations, America. You've already elected Republicans as far as the eye can see." Yeah. If your reason for not liking Trump, the…

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