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refers to looking into the origins of the Russia collusion hoax. And we know now that Barack Obama apparently at least knew that the wiretap on Flynn had happened. But we don't know what else he knew. What else did he know? I was looking at the trending hashtag, and there was a tweet just a few minutes ago. There was a tweet where it showed the hashtag at 2.6 million, which if you don't follow th…

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use and step back. And that when we go back, we will effectively have rebooted civilization along with our understanding of our place in it.

It's exactly what I said like half an hour before, except I'd left out the Christianity part. Now the beauty of the simulation is that it works as an overlay on any religion. You can put it on reincarnation, works for that. You can put it on Islam. Any religion you want still works. So what were the odds that I would give a whole 45 minutes of presentation about the universe being a simulation made of software and turn on TV and find one of the most famous Christian preachers saying exactly the same thing?

Now yeah, I'm not promoting his view or him or anything like that. I know a lot of people like him. He does a good job of keeping people motivated and feeling good about themselves. And if he makes money from that, I'm okay with that. I don't think anything about that is too sketchy, at least anything I've heard. So if you know something, I haven't heard it. But that was just weird.

Here's an update on what could be my best prediction ever. Now I do think that my prediction about evolution made 22 years ago, pretty darn good. But I'm never going to get attention for that one because people are still, yeah, I don't think people are really going to change their mind about where things are. So I'll never get credit for that prediction for a variety of reasons.

But this one, Harris being the vice presidential pick and then being considered at the top of the ticket, it's getting closer and closer. So Joel Pollak noted in his tweet that Politico is speaking about Harris as the likely one. So Politico is already talking about her as pretty much the one. They don't go right out and say it, but they talk about the activity in the Democratic Party and who likes what and who's talking about what. And it's starting to sound like the consensus is pretty solid around Harris right now. And they talk about Elizabeth Warren being a strong second. And I think to myself, I don't see it.

If the second most likely choice is literally impossible in my view, let me tell you this. If Elizabeth Warren is picked for the vice presidential spot, I don't know anything about anything. That would just blow my whole world apart because I would just say I don't understand anything I've watched for the past year if that happens. Because what I watched was Warren being basically a death sentence for the Democratic Party if they add her to the ticket. What the heck would they be thinking? Unless they're playing for a draft pick next year. But I don't think it works that way.

So when your second choice is just ridiculous, doesn't that kind of tell you they've settled on the first choice alre

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ady? Because you would have a little better looking second choice, right? I mean, obviously Warren is super capable. I'm not talking about that. But in terms of her fit and whether she could win and all that, it's just an obvious losing proposition. If that comes in, that will be my finest prediction. But we'll see. The dumbest pundit. Does anybody have a nomination for the dumbest political pun…

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