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million things to talk about, so I'm just gonna hit them fast and some of them are really fun. So today is a really good one. You know there are days when you have lots of news that's worth talking about, days when you don't. Today's a very newsy day. I had never mentioned President Trump's comment about Biden's brain. So I guess the president last time he was talking about Biden mentioned he poi…

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heads, let them make it themselves. In other words, don't give them too much detail. Give them enough detail that their imagination fills in the gaps.

So when you say to me, "Biden's not the same, you know, up here. There's something that's changed." That's a very broad statement. It allows you to imagine that Biden is drunk. It allows you to imagine that he's tired, too tired to run for president. It allows you to imagine somebody else, that he's declining with age, he's got dementia, he's not healthy, whatever else. So it's good technique to say generally that there's something wrong but you leave it as a question mark.

If you're specific you can be falsified and people say yeah I don't think that's what's wrong. But if you're general and saying you better fill in the blank here, there's something wrong, I'm not saying what’s wrong but there's something wrong, that is a plus gold persuasion. So keep that in mind because you get to see it again later in my Periscope.

We can't go too far without talking about that horror photo that's on the news about the two potential, I guess, attempted immigrants into this country from El Salvador who did not make it. It's one of the saddest pictures you ever see in your life. So I don't want to dwell on it too much. The news is doing that fine.

I'll just point out that because it's visual and because it hits father and daughter it hits literally every emotional button that we have. It's the sort of thing that can move the dial. But everybody is going to see in this picture what they want to see.

So the people who say the president's a monster are gonna see more evidence that the president's a monster. Why didn't you fix this? The people who say we should have sealed off the border so people were not tempted to come are going to say look at this. It's obvious that if you had sealed off the border, if you'd built a wall, if you were tougher on immigration, people wouldn't be trying to come and then they would not be dying.

So everybody's going to see what they want. It is beyond disgusting that people will use it for their own political benefit. It is beyond disgusting. It's the worst. Well, you know the only thing that could make the deaths of those two people worse is to use them for political purposes. It's probably the lowest humanity can go. Well that's not true because you always have the Holocaust. Yeah you can't top that. Or slavery I guess. You can't top those two things. But in our normal world of things it's as low as you can come to use the deaths of these two people who are just trying to get away from probably a worse situation.

Now here's how I would prefer to see it. When I see that horrible picture, I think most of you have seen it by now, when I see that horrible picture

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of how their lives ended, I think Congress. I see Congress, bunch of people well-dressed sitting in a room thinking about the small picture, thinking about how do we get a victory over the other side, how do I get a good news bite. Complete and total incompetence. So when I see those two deaths I do not see one side did well, the other side caused the problem. Either way I see a Congress that doe…

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