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ut Pizzagate? To which I said that didn't come first. And you know maybe you get some pod conspiracy that comes from usually is there something bubbling up from the bottom and maybe there's some politician who grabs onto it and is willing to say it in public. But it's nothing like any kind of organized RICO criminal operation. It's just a bunch of things that people claimed. Some of them were true…

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me out of it. It's just really, really obvious.

Now you know I don't know that there's like a head like a mafia head but I also don't know if that's necessary if they're all operating with sort of a common understanding. So it doesn't seem like you need a boss per se but it's very organized. It's obvious. And when you see the new Russia hoax that Vivek is a Russian asset it's just more of that. More of the same.

All right. Here is a quote from Romney on Ukraine. Here's how he's explaining his support for supporting Ukraine in the war. I'm going to read this and I want to get your impression and then also related story ask you if AI could pick up a pattern here. So just see if AI would notice any patterns in this. All right. So here's his own quote. So Romney says the single most important thing we can do to strengthen America relative to China is to see Russia defeated in Ukraine. A weakened Russia deters the CCP's territorial ambition and halts Putin's vision of reestablishing the old Soviet Union. So support in Ukraine is in our interest.

Do you think AI would look at that and say well those are some good reasons. Some solid reasons right there. I had to read this so many times because I couldn't, I honestly I didn't know if it was real at first. I was like is that real? Like he actually said those words. Now I'm saying word salad. That's one of the things I was looking for but I don't think he has cognitive dissonance. I think it looks more like he has a preferred approach for reasons I can't read his mind. But it doesn't exactly look like cognitive dissonance. So it's close to being word salad but there is a meaning to it.

Let's spend some time on this. So do you think it's necessary to keep China from getting out of control, that the way we would keep China from getting out of control is to fund somebody else to have a fight with somebody else? That tracks with you? The way to keep China honest and not get too adventurous is for America to fund a separate country to have a war with another country. That was our strategy. Now I'm not going to argue that it has no effect. It might have an effect. It's entirely possible that China is looking at the weaponry involved and saying some form of wow, they got good stuff. Yeah. But let me ask you this. Is that the way you would have approached this? Would Trump have done this? Would Trump have said you know what we need to do if we could start a war or encourage a war with two separate countries that could

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showcase the quality of our weapons? That would keep China at bay because you know it's not like it's the first time. Remember how well it worked in Afghanistan, right? When we were in Afghanistan China was like whoa, whoa, they're winning so hard in Afghanistan we'd better leave Taiwan alone. Right? You remember when that happened? Oh that didn't happen, right? Yeah that didn't happen. And you re…

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