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on X. Let's see. All the stories seem to be about fraud. You notice that? At least on social media it's like fraud, fraud, fraud. All right, let me go look at the stories that I have. There I am. Let's see. We got the Clinton Foundation. And did you know that the Clinton Foundation was set up by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell? Did you know that? So doesn't that pretty much tell you that…

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cocks.

Well, people are mad that I think that Rob Reiner is bad for the world.

I'm trying to get something out of my craw.

You know, I think it's funny that Trump is getting everybody wound up. Did you see the funny pictures he put on the Hall of Presidents? So he's got this Hall of Presidents and it just insults Obama and Biden. That's pretty funny.

If Rob Reiner had only made movies and just had an opinion, I would certainly respect that. But he was a very bad guy. I thought I did a good post on that.

A cat on belly. You have an insulted Bush. You've coughed for a month.

Did you see the post I did where Reiner was closing his eyes to do fiction when he talked about Trump, when he was just making up Russia collusion stuff? He would go like this and then he would be the best friend of Putin, and then when he was just talking he would open his eyes.

I believe that's him accessing his fiction part of his brain. That's what I think. He knew he was lying.

So that organization that he is a director of, what was that organization? It had pretty much every one of the current and past CIA heads.

Well, let's talk about Reiner some more. Should we dump on Reiner some more?

Here's what I think. And I posted this. If you look at the net benefit that Rob Reiner provided the world, you'd have to say, well, in terms of movies, really good. In terms of having friends that people liked him, really good. And I will even say that he did not do a bad job raising his children, probably. We don't know because we weren't there.

Megyn Kelly thinks that the defense might be that his father abused him. There is no evidence of that, but if we hear it, I will revise my opinions.

Well, I'll tell you, having had a stepson who was an addict since he was probably 12 and he passed away because of fentanyl. But I can tell you that there's no professional or other intervention that makes a difference. At least in California, there's no such thing as a tough love rehab thing that fixes anybody. In fact, the rehab places are really there to get you to come back. Even if they could cure you, they probably wouldn't.

So I do not fault him for his parenting, even though it turned out as tragic as it could be.

However, when you see what he did with the intel people, I won't be able to stay long. Don't know if I'll be able to eat today. Be nice if I could.

But if you look at the net benefit and the net cost, how much division do you think somebody like Rob Reiner brought into the country? A lot, right?

If you were to look at the net of how much division he brought into the country, you know, you can still give him full credit for his movies. His movies were brilliant, but...

Upside down in your bed.

Yeah. I thought that Reiner subtracted from the country way more than he added.

Good job and a bad child. Blue X.

Well, we don't know why the son did what he did. Probably never will.

He uses dad's money to buy up the rights to hot scripts.

Yeah, you're right about that, Victor.

David Hansen video being AI. There's another one I almost fell for too. I have now fallen for several AI fakes.

I've been coughing for 12 hours straight because there's something caught in my throat.

All right, let's see what Owen is up to. Owen, I saw you there.

Oh, hypnotist to connect across politics. Try saying what you oppose. I'd

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do that. The number of people who rated their mental health as either good or excellent also dropped to a record low, 72%. So not good. 25%. The hypnosis notes that Americans' view on their mental health is at a record low. Sorry, this is so disgusting, but it's all I can do. Next one, please. All right, let's see what else. Washington and Moscow teams meeting this weekend. That will be anothe…

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