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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 presiden…

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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 doesn't work. And if you like your Congress to work better that's the way you should see it too. You shouldn't be telling yourself things should have gone one way or things should have gone the other way and we wouldn't have this problem. If you're doing that you're part of the problem.

Let me say that again. If your reaction to the picture is anything except our entire Congress is completely incompetent, if that's not what you're thinking and your thinking is one side caused this, you're part of the problem and you are using the deaths of these two innocent people in the most despicable way a human being could. It's the pit of wrongness.

So you should put your hate where it belongs. Congress. Both sides. I don't care which side is the obstacle this time. I don't care which one you agree with. I don't care. Congress killed those people. Congress killed those people, period. Congress killed them. There's no way around that. Congress killed them.

All right, let's talk about something that's more fun. You know when I was talking about Iran's supreme leader and their, I guess somebody in their government, I forget who, was reported that they said that the president or the White House was suffering from m

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ental retardation. Do you remember I talked about that yesterday? And I said to myself is that an Iranian word? Because that word is not allowed in this country. You're not supposed to say the r-word. And in fact the only reason I would say it is because a head of state allegedly said it. When I'm repeating it I wouldn't use that word. I agree it's not a word to use in public. I didn't used to thi…

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