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like if demons were real. I don't know. But then look at the others. Raskin. You telling me Raskin doesn't look evil or Schiff or Comey. I think Comey doesn't look as evil. Comey looks more like a weasel, you know, like you cannot like what he does but he doesn't look evil. He obviously looks like somebody who lied but that's not that unusual. I wouldn't say evil. But how about Brennan? Brennan c…

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entire nature of the crowd with 274 people. You would just have to make sure that those people were the loudest, most aggressive and then other people would sort of follow. It wouldn't take that much.

Now I don't know if that makes a difference. Knowing that there were 274, I don't know. Does that really change how you think about the whole thing? Because I don't think you even needed the agents to create the riot. I think that some people were going to be bad and they were. Most people were there to protest, not to form an insurrection. But the bad guys, the Democrats called it an insurrection because they could, but I'm not sure that the number of agents really makes a difference in the narrative. It's good to know but it might not make a difference.

Apparently some element of Antifa issued an anti-ICE threat before the shooting. And so that's scary. But since Antifa is not really a fully organized entity I don't think it means much that one Antifa person said something that is sort of what Antifa says.

Jesse Watters was reporting that Gavin Newsom had ordered just before the shooting, not long before, just hours before I think, ordered what he called a code red and ordered his base to quote push back against the what he called the Gestapo, meaning ICE. So you got Newsom calling ICE Gestapo and saying you should push back. How do you push back against the Gestapo? Is it by talking really cleverly? Hey we've got to defeat the Gestapo. Let's come up with some good arguments. No. Hey we got to beat the Gestapo. We better organize people to sign up to vote. No. No. The one and only way you stop the Gestapo is with violence. And for Newsom to imagine that he could use that kind of word and that it wouldn't trigger somebody to pull a trigger. I don't know. He's either stupid or evil. And by the way Newsom does not give me the evil vibe of the other Democrats which makes him more dangerous because I think he could actually get elected under some set of circumstances. I think he's a weasel. I don't think he's capable. I think he's not, well he's capable of getting elected but I don't think he's competent. But we'll see.

Well, meanwhile over in Denmark, you know there have been these drones that have been over the airports and they don't know what that's about. Well the prime minister in Denmark just addressed the nation and admitted that they don't know what those are. So apparently it's not Denmark's. And they apparently haven't ruled out China or non-human intelligence or anything else. And apparently yeah. So what do you think they are? What do you think all these drones are? Well I'll tell you the one thing. If you thought that the modern industrial countries all had good control over their own skies, apparently not. Apparently not. Apparently you can just fly a big old drone because these are not that small. You know these would be the biggest larger size drones. You can fly a drone over their country as long as you want. You can fly over anything you want no matter how proprietary or anything else. And then you can leave whenever you feel like it and nobody will even know where you went back to. That does not give me any feeling of safety about anything.

Anyway, so we don't know what that's about but I will tell you it's very unlikely that it's alien and it's some human being's drone and we don't know why they're doing it.

Well, in the scariest news I've ever seen in my life besides the pandemic, the first days of the pandemic when we didn't know what it was. So apparently Pete Hegseth in the Department of War is ordering all the top generals and admirals to meet at Quantico, Virginia today but sometime around now and we don't know why. Now does that scare you that all the top military people are being brought to a secure location to get new instructions? Does that sound like we're about to go to war with a major country? Maybe. But there are some other possibilities.

One possibility is it's just part of the saber rattling with Russia. So you know Putin and Trump are in this war of words but they back up the words with a little saber rattling. It's like, hey we got a big navy sitting right outside your doorstep. Hey we've got a nuclear triad. Look at us testing some new missiles. So it could be that it's entirely to send a message to Russia that if you want war we're ready. Maybe. Yeah. So maybe it's just part of the negotiations. Maybe. I mean it wouldn't be the worst move in the world to make Russia think, why are all those generals meeting? Have we gone too far? Because it looks like our plan is to push Russia into economic disaster if we can. And what would they do in return? Would they bomb our homeland to take out some of our energy production? Well that would be war. So it could be that we know that we've got Russia in a corner and the only thing they can do to respond before we destroy their energy economy. And when I say we I mean Ukraine with our weapons. It could be that we just want to make sure that Russia knows they don't have that option of going military to respond to that. Maybe.

Or maybe they're prepping to attack Venezuela. But would you need to pull in every top leader if you were going after Venezuela? I feel like you wouldn't want too many people to know what was going on if they were. Let's say you were the general assigned to some far part of the world. Would you really need to know if Venezuela was going to be targeted? Probably don't need to know. It'd be better if you didn't so the news doesn't get out. But I would say probably not about Venezuela because you wouldn't get everybody. You would get every person if it was about Russia. You would get every person if it was about China, you know, say Taiwan for example.

It could be I saw it suggested that it might be to tell people that they either have to be with the program, let's say it's the Hegseth/Trump program of what they want the military to be. You either have to be on board with that completely or we're going to fire you today. So it could be sort of a loyalty test to just say, look if you do this set of things we're going to fire your ass. We have no tolerance for it anymore. You can't be woke. You can't be leaking things. You're just go

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ne. You're more gone than gone if you do anything that we find disloyal or not on board. So it might be that which would make sense to have everybody there. But what other reasons would they not tell us? So it has to be in the category of things that they don't think the, five minutes left if Scott does what. Oh, five minutes before the top of the hour. All right. So we'll find out what that is.…

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