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people narcissists? Narcissists is literally built into the name. If you go online and say what is the main characteristic of a narcissist they'll blame you for being a narcissist. It's like their main go-to. It's like what they're famous for. Bet you didn't know that did you. All right so if Musk sues the ADL in a business that would be one of the best things for the country. And I do wonder if…

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't it funny that there would be neo-Nazis who would be marching like really the opposite of Charlottesville because they're pro-Biden and Biden actually ran for office on the fine people hoax because Democrats don't know that that's a hoax. They think it's real. And then now there's this other thing that looks very suspicious that looks like it's almost like mocking the Charlottesville event. It's to me it's so like mirror mirror copy except this one's pro-Biden. Interesting. I'm just going to say that I don't think there's any chance it's organic in the sense that I doubt they don't have any outside influence. I don't know the degree of the influence or exactly who it is but it would be very unusual if they did all this and didn't have some kind of outside influence.

Do you think they all bought their own shirts and flags? I doubt it. Do you think any of them are getting any kind of compensation? I don't know. I don't know. But given that they seem to be pro-Biden which in the dirty tricks world would be an anti-Biden thing right? You get that? If they say they like Biden but they're Nazis that may be the trick. I just wouldn't make any assumptions about who they really are or what they're really up to. But I will say this. If it's a Republican dirty trick it looks like one. It's really clever. It's really clever because very few of you thought of it as your first take. Now I don't know. I don't have any inside information so I don't know but I will tell you it has all the tells of a very suspicious thing. So you have to look at who would benefit from it and that's your answer.

The skiff boats yeah I heard they said they backed DeSantis. That that was fake news in the Rolling Stone right? They actually said the opposite but they the Rolling Stone did a rupar because they were sarcastic. They said yeah we support DeSantis and then they laughed and said DeSantis. So Rolling Stone reported their sarcasm as their actual opinion even though the rest of the quote was immediately in the next sentence. You know do you think the Rolling Stone didn't know the next sentence? You think they didn't know that they called out very clearly that they were being sarcastic? Of course they did. They just chose not to write it that way. Of course they knew.

Yeah of course. Qui bono. Yes who benefited right? For the non-lawyers when you hear somebody in the comments say cui bono it's sort of like follow the money right? Sort of a follow the money even if it's not money situation. All right who profits exactly.

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a rupar? A rupar is an edited video or audio or in this case a quote which reverses the meaning of what somebody said in a way that you could never imagine it could be reversed. For example if you read that the Nazi guy if you read that his real words were we support DeSantis could you ever in your mind imagine that there was anything that was edited out of that that would reverse it to the opposi…

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