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my hypothesis with no proof for any of that. So the official story is that we don't know. We don't know why it seems that, I'll say seems officially, nobody there really knows why this stuff's happened. All right. So I saw a complaint that I think it was CNN. They were saying that the emergency relief bill had a gift in it for rich people. And I thought to myself, well that probably didn't happen…

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know the rest of us are. And here's why. Whoever was the first person in the world, be they American, be they Chinese, be they whatever, but let's say American. Let's just limit to America. Whoever was the first American who said we should stockpile our supplies in case, whoever was the first American who said we should close, you know, travel from China before even I did, I said it on January 24th. Jack Posobiec said it a few days before that. Maybe somebody said it before us. I would guess that was probably somebody in the world who said it first. So I want to be very clear we don't know who that was. But of all the seven billion people in the world and of all the 370 million Americans, however many there are, there was one of us who was right and also first. The rest of us are stupid, aren't we? Because we were too late. We were all too late.

I mean I was so proud. It's like, hey, January 24th I was already yelling at the top of my lungs, close that airport. Look at me. Haha. I beat some other people. I got there before other people did. No, I'm an idiot. Why am I an idiot? Because I didn't get it first. Why wasn't I saying it when the first person was saying it? What's wrong with me? Yeah. So let me make this standard. If you don't know who the first person was who got to the right answer before you did, because you know now it's retrospect. We're all, we all have great hindsight right now. We know it didn't make sense. Now we know we should have gone in sooner. But there was somebody, don't know who it was, who was wa

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y before me, way before anybody. And it was probably already saying, hey we better get some supplies in. Hey we better close our borders. So if you're not that person, well then you're an idiot. Because you weren't smart enough, wise enough to know we should have done it sooner. It doesn't help that you know it now. What good is that? What good is it that you know it now that we should have done t…

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