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not the only thing to rely on because I don't know how much we could possibly step in in either of these situations without making them far worse. Because if the United States gets involved directly in some obvious way, then the regimes in both cases can get tougher because then it's like they're fighting the United States. So it's a tough place to be. But I think the world is being affected by th…
← Previous segment →entence: "That's not my thing. I don't want us to look like beggars." That sentence completely persuaded me. Because until then, until I read this exact sentence, I thought to myself, yeah, well, you know, maybe nobody said quid pro quo, but you know, he had to at least feel that way. Like he had to at least feel like there was something going on. It certainly must have felt that way.
But look at this. It's just this perfect wording. Because "that's not my thing" — when somebody says "that's not my thing," that's really persuasive. I use that a lot, by the way. People who accuse me of horrible things, and if you've ever tried this, it works really well. You say, you know, that's not my thing. Do you feel how persuasive that is? Because if somebody is really guilty and they're just trying to defend themselves, they use lawyerly arguments like, well, that's not exactly what I said, and maybe you misheard me, and you know, well, I don't think you're looking at the full context. But when somebody is truly and clearly nowhere even in the same zip code as the accusation, depending on the accusation, sometimes this is just really persuasive. You just say, you know, that's not my thing. It's just nothing I would do. Now, I don't have to defend it in this situation because I don't have to defend it in any situation. That's in the category of things I don't do. It's just not my thing. It's very effective. Think about it.
And then he goes on to say, I don't want us to look like beggars. And I thought, oh, once again, good command of language. Because when he says "I don't want us to look like beggars," do you feel how persuasive that is? The way you feel is you believe it. It is so persuasive. I don't want us to look like beggars. The reason you believe that is that you would believe that no matter who said it. It wouldn't matter who said it. That's sort of this statement: I don't want us to look like beggars. Everybody believes that. Nobody wants to look like a beggar, right?
So that's not my thing. I don't want us to look like beggars. This is the first time I've been convinced that it literally never crossed his mind that there was any kind of a quid pro quo hanging over it. He says, but you have to understand we're at war. If you're our strategic partner — talking about the United States — then you can't go blocking anything for us. So he's saying it's not a quid pro quo. It's a simple question. We're at war. You're our allies. There's stuff you said you'd give us. I'm not negotiating. That's the wrong context. It's not even a question of negotiating. It's like you should just be giving us this because it's already agreed. Very good framing.
Then he says, I think that's just about fairness. It's not about a quid pro quo. And it just goes without saying, although he said it. Now, fairness, of course, is a persuasion term. There's nothing fair in the real world. But in this context, it works really well.
So interesting. No, I don't think that matters because impeachment will go on no matter if there's a victim or not a victim or whether the victim knows he is a victim. Nothing's going to matter.
All right, pretty sure I had at least one other thing to talk about here. Let's see if I do. Yeah, that's about it.
So I think you're going to see a lot of race grifters coming after you in the coming months. Between now and the election they'll all disappear right after the election. But the Biden video of his finger — Biden, Joe Biden. There's a photo of him biting his wife's finger. Now, if you see it out of context while talking about the hair and leg thing — if you see that out of context, that looks really bad. If you see it in context, it only looks a little bit bad, but it's weird.
So his wife was speaking and gesturing, and she didn't know that he was standing to her side. And when she was gesturing with her hand, her hand was sort of going in front of his face. And he was reacting in a funny way to the crowd by going, you know, he tried to avoid her hand in a humorous way. And then to sell the gag, you know, where her hand was still out there, he just went and bit her hand. So he was just being funny. But if you see it out of context, you just see him biting a hand, and the first thing you think is — so it works.
Somebody says, what's a race grifter? A race grifter is all the people who are coming after Trump supporters to say that if you support kids in cages and Stephen Miller that you're a bad person. So they're using race to get a result. So they're race grifters. They don't really care about the kids in cages. They really don't. They care about usually that's an issue. So they're just grifters because they don't care about the issue. They care about the power.
The other video of Joe Biden has to be seen to be believed. It's the one about he talks about being in a swimming pool. And the funniest part is you see him surrounded by African American children. And he wanted to say — you could tell he wanted to say this, and if you didn't catch this, replay the video and watch it because you'll find out why he went off the rails. He started to say that he had hairs on his legs because he said he had very hairy legs. And that the hairs were — and then he paused. Did you see that? And then because the hairs are — it looks around and it's all African American kids around. And he wanted to say white. He wanted to say the hairs on my legs were white. But he looks around and he realizes that that's somehow the wrong word if you're standing in a group of African American children. And he goes, the hairs on my legs which are blond. Do people have blond hair on their legs? I guess they do. But he goes blond. And from that point he was just lost. He talks about people in the pool reaching and smoothing his blond leg hairs just so they could watch them come up again. And I'm watching this video and just like, wow, what am I seeing?
So that video alone is certainly enough to take him out of the rac
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e. All right, so if you think there's any chance of Joe Biden winning the election, just watch that video. A lot of the other videos like that, the compilation videos of his gaffes, are really an exaggerated way to look at something that's not as bad as it probably looks. But this video, this is the real deal. This is a guy who's not quite up to the task. All right, I think that's all I had for n…
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