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Tangent Politics as Persuasion

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ypted military app? Well it turns out that the only thing they trusted was the Telegram app. That's right. The soldiers who were actually in the thick of battle didn't have a better option than opening their phone and using the app to say, you know, you should target this or you should get some supplies over here or get some reinforcements over here. So if NATO could get a hold of a back door, hy…

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ast it was housed in the UAE, which has a good relationship with Russia. So the Russians were thinking, well we can't use WhatsApp because the Americans are going to be all over that. So that was the one they trusted.

So allow me to make a prediction. You're ready for the prediction? The prediction will be that at some point the CEO will be released and you will be under the impression that he didn't give up anything. You see where I'm going with this? In order for NATO to have a back door that's useful, they've got to act like they don't have a back door. So they've got to keep this guy in peril until the peril forces him to give them a back door. And then they've got to make sure that nobody knows anything happened so that they can use it to find out what the Russian military is going to do before they do it.

So the most likely outcome, if you accept these as facts, which you know was always a question, everything has a little bit of skepticism that should be naturally applied, but I'm going to predict that we will be told that nobody got access to the Telegram app. Yes, he was in lots of trouble but he's a brave guy and he resisted all that trouble and life will go on. And then suddenly there will be a string of defeats on the Russian military and people will say, hey, it's like the Ukrainians know what we're going to do before we do it. I think that might be coming.

Quinnipiac, the research company, they did a poll and said that 20% of likely black voters say they would vote for Trump. Does that seem low to you? That seems low. That does not match observation because I've seen just tons of black c

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itizens on TV being asked who they support. And you've seen it both from right-leaning entities and left. You know, even Don Lemon doing his interviews. It sure looks like a lot more than 20%. Or is it just that people were willing to do the interview maybe have a certain perspective and people who were not willing to do the interview maybe had another one? So that you know you have to wonder if t…

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