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nemy of the people. But look, let me jump in and say this. Calling CNN the enemy of the people, I want to be really clear. Nobody should act on that in any physical violent way. I don't think anybody should be accosting them, no pun intended. Nobody should be accosting them in public. Nobody should be showing up at their doorstep. Nobody should be doing anything physical or threatening to anybody…

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of reality? And the answer is yes. So from a scientific perspective there's still a thing called cause and effect. And it certainly seems reasonable to assume that anybody who's raising the temperature is responsible for things that happen when you raise the temperature. And it's quite clear that both the president and CNN do that. They get people pretty worked up.

No stories of voter suppression. I guess that's true. There were lots of stories where people were attempting, there were stories that people were going to attempt voter suppression but I haven't seen a story about actual voter suppression. That's a good point. I'm not saying there isn't any. I just haven't seen the stories. Somebody loved my broadcast from last night. That's interesting.

So heated rhetoric has never hurt anybody. That's not true. Heated rhetoric has hurt lots of people. In what world has heated rhetoric never hurt anybody? Heated rhetoric probably hurts more people than anything else because it always escalates. Not always but it can escalate. Bernie and Michael Moore are claiming suppression. So maybe I've just not seen those stories. They're not on the front page of CNN.

Were all of the protests on Thursday peaceful? Is it my imagination or were the protests against Jeff Sessions firing, were those protests the lowest-energy protests you've ever heard of? It barely made the news. There were a few pictures of it and then it was like, because Trump messes with the minds of his critics so thoroughly that he had them protesting to keep somebody they didn't want. And they desperately didn't. It was the strangest thing you've ever seen.

PayPal has shut down Tommy Robinson's account. That can't be true. Or you mean Tommy Robinson? Yeah it was a very low-energy protest.

And so I'll reiterate my prediction because it's so counter to what you're observing that you should, yeah okay. My prediction is so counter to what you think you're watching that it should shock you and you should think I'm wrong. But remember how many times I predicted the things that you thought were wrong. Quite a few times, right?

So here's another one. I think that the temperature with the regular voting public, the people who don't really follow the politics, is probably down because they're observing the country is running okay. Economy is okay. You know wages are going up. The international stuff it seems to be totally under control. You don't even hear about ISIS anymore. They're not even a story. ISIS is not even in the story anymore. That's about as successful as you can get militarily. North Korea you know it's a little bit of a up and down there but clearly moving in the right direction.

So I think the public is ignoring the news for the most part and that their temperature actually is down because reality is violating what they imagined was going to happen under a Trump administration. People are not being rounded up. The economy is fine. No nuclear wars. In fact all the opposite of wha

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t they predicted. But the television news media, their business model requires them to crank things up to DEFCON 20 so that you're in a continuous fight or flight. So the people who watch the television the most, the people who follow the news the most, are probably at their highest rate of insanity. But I don't think that describes the general population who is clearly by now noticing that their…

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