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er being drunk were lower, you know, just in general. But when you hear her obviously not drunk, she's still bad at talking. She's bad at talking, but there's no indication of drunk. Her speaking tone is perfect and normal and all that. So if you want to wonder is she drunk in those other videos, just watch The View. When you see her not drunk, you go, "Oh, okay. That's what not drunk looks like."…

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UN ever, by total accident, it just happened. It just happened. So believe it, people. Believe it. That's just a coincidence. Sorry, but we're not really in the mood to accept that coincidence. And you know, the funny thing is it might be a coincidence. It's not like it's impossible. I mean, you know how sometimes if you think too much about a thing happening, it happens. Maybe a lot of people are thinking about it happening. You know, that's how I think the simulation works, you know, with affirmations, etc. If a lot of people are thinking a thing could happen, I just feel like it's more likely it's going to happen. However, that would be a lot of a coincidence to accept. A really, really big one. So I don't think we're in the mood to accept that.

And then the teleprompter doesn't work when Trump goes to give his speech. So another coincidence. Probably just a coincidence. I guess now that the UN got their funding cut, well, I guess the guy who does all the technical stuff must be on vacation. Yeah. Or got fired or something. Anyway, so all that looks really sketchy, but Trump did a Trumpian great job with his speech.

He criticized globalism. He said climate change was a big old hoax. He said open borders were a giant mistake and the other countries were committing national suicide. And he says that the entire globalist concept, this is what Trump said, the entire globalist concept of asking successful industrialized nations to inflict pain on themselves and radically disrupt their entire societies must be rejected completely and totally. Yeah. How about you stop telling countries like us to do all the worst things that we could do? Yeah. How about that?

And then he really put the hammer down. Trump daddy said any system that results in the mass trafficking of children is inherently evil. Yet that is exactly what the globalist migration agenda has done. Okay. Well, yeah. I mean, I don't think they intentionally did that, but maybe some of them did. You never know.

And then he accused China, India and some NATO countries of funding Russia's war by buying all their oil when they don't have to. And he said that the US is having a golden age and that everything's going great over here.

I was trying to imagine what would it be like if you were one of the leaders who had been or maybe still are really pro-climate change is real, we got to do something. What would it feel like to have the most important leader in the world who's been right about a lot? And we're not talking about an ordinary president. We're talking about the president who is famous for being right when things don't look like he might be. He's famous for that. This is probably his greatest challenge to get people to believe that climate change was sort of exaggerated and overdone. But imagine sitting there in the UN and the most important leader in my opinion the most important country is saying that their biggest thing they've been working on for years is a complete hoax and a waste of time. What would that feel like?

In theory, it should trigger cognitive dissonance massively because remember, cognitive dissonance gets triggered when you believe you're a certain kind of person, smart, educated, well-informed about science. And then none of the predictions that you were buying into seem to be coming true. And then Trump, who has been right about a lot, comes in and says the whole thing was a hoax. It was all BS.

Now, is it possible for any of the other brains in that room to say, "Huh, well, you know what? He does make a good case. There were many predictions. They seem to be off. It does sort of look like maybe people were just chasing money and it was a big old grift. Hm. Yes, I changed my mind." So after years of saying it was the most important thing in the world, I'm going to change my mind to I was an idiot and I got bamboozled into wasting my country's resources. It's not possible that those particular people have the option of changing their mind. It

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would be too much of a cognitive load. It just can't be done. Can't be done. So the only way that things will change is if there's an entire new wave of younger probably conservative leaders who didn't believe it from the start. If that happens then you can get governments not believing climate change. But you're not going to change the minds of the ones who put their entire reputation and self-i…

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