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r regular CEO who just got hired, didn't invent anything, didn't innovate, just sort of worked up through the ranks, I don't know if that CEO makes that much difference. So that's the Dilbert view of it. I've set the slaughter meter at 100%, meaning that as of today, if nothing changed, President Trump has 100% chance of reelection. But of course we've got over a week. A lot could change. So it d…

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if this is one of those election year things. It's like you turn on the news. It's like, well, somebody's blaming Russia for something and something something about an old white man's penis. Must be election time.

But you know I've told you before that elections are won or lost based on fear. So whoever has a fear of things the way they're going is more likely to vote because they want to get rid of that fear. But it's starting to make me think that Democrats have a deep-seated fear of older white men's penises, because it seems like a lot of these stories come from them. So just putting that out there.

So here's the big story of the day. Joe Biden's ex-business partner has come forward and admitted that the emails are real, that the reference to the quote big guy is definitely Hunter Biden, and that the Biden family was all part of the decisions because they were all part of the scheme. Pretty believable, isn't it?

Now, we live in a world where you can't really trust any news. So who is this business partner? Is he sketchy? Can we believe him? You have to ask all those questions. But it feels true, doesn't it? And that's all that's gonna probably matter between now and election day, unless his credibility takes a bigger hit than I'm expecting. It's gonna feel true.

Now, who broke the news? Let me check. Who broke that news about Hunter Biden's business partner? Which American news outlet was all over that? New York Times? No. See, Huffington Post? Nothing. Nothing. Nope.

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A British publication owned by an Australian, Rupert Murdoch. Yeah, Rupert Murdoch has to break the news because it's basically just locked down from most of the American outlets. Now, of course the right-leaning outlets are covering it. And so once you know that Joe Biden was the big guy, once you know that the emails are real and that there's a real witness, and here's the funniest part of the…

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