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Yeah, let's have a simultaneous sip to the best morning all day long.

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All right, we've got lots to talk about. Number one, in no particular order, there's a report that NBC is reporting that several sources in the intelligence community, several of them, have reported that North Korea is cheating by enriching uranium or something. Now the interesting part of that story is I've never seen a story that had so little credibility, which doesn't mean it's not true. All right, I have no idea if it's true or not true. It could easily be true. But when you hear that several intelligence sources told NBC something, what have you learned? Nothing. That's like saying nothing.

Now what are the odds that NBC or some intelligence people plus NBC, what are the odds that so many people would be leaking from intelligence sources, first of all, and second of all, what are the chances that NBC would try to risk a nuclear war in order to improve the chances of Democrats in the midterms? All right, would NBC risk nuclear annihilation just to get a little advantage in the midterms? I think so. Yeah, I think they would. You know, all the evidence suggests that they absolutely would do that.

Now of course they would rationalize it by saying, well, we're maybe preventing a bigger problem by letting this President Trump have his way. So yeah, they would. So we live in a world where when NBC says multiple anonymous intelligence agencies have told us X, you could just ignore it. It might be true, it might be, but there's no credibility there whatsoever. You could just ignore it.

Now if it turns out that it's true, meaning that other sources reported, or let's say the administration acknowledges it, or John Bolton goes on some show and says yeah, we're seeing some stuff we don't like, well then I'd say chances are pretty good that there's something going on we need to know more about. But if all it is is NBC and anonymous sources, all right.

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Let's talk about the trouble I got in yesterday. So Cernovich noted first that Ocasio-Cortez seems to have the skills of a master persuader, persuasion-wise. Not talking about her politics. I'm not endorsing her. I'm not supporting her. But I agree with the observation that her persuasion game is very high. Now it might be luck that she won this first one, but when was the last time you heard a p…

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