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ght? Because if they ever reported anything negative about China they'd be kicked out anyway. So what is the point of having a US journalist? Any of them? Even one? Why would we even need one? They're not getting stories. They're not breaking any news. That's not going to happen. What's the point? So they're kicking out our journalists. Big deal. And then it's reported almost nonchalantly that we…

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hey followed him. It's not really something you'd forget, you know, because it's a conscious decision. Now so let me ask you this. Do you think that there was, is it more likely that there was somebody who works for Twitter who was, you know, like some rogue employee, just some American who didn't like Trump, who decided to reduce the voice of Richard Grenell? Well maybe. But doesn't it seem more likely that he would be targeted by another country? Because most of what Grenell talks about is our relationship with other countries. He doesn't really say grossly just, you know, President Trump is the best president. I mean it does some of that because he's part of the administration. But he's mostly talking about other countries and our relationship to them. That's sort of his deal.

And his voice probably, I would guess that his natural Twitter following would be over a million by now. I'm guessing just, you know, given his visibility and, you know, his importance in the world. I think he'd have a million Twitter followers by now being an active tweeter. So who is more likely to have reduced his voice? Now if you were saying to me, hey, somebody reduced, you know, Jack Posobiec's, I would immediately say, oh that might be internal politics, you know, because there are some people who are talking more about domestic politics all the time. And if you saw their voice being reduced somehow by some unseen entity, your first thought would be, hey, is there somebody who works at Twitter who's doing this? Is this management or a rogue employee? And that would be a reasonable thing. But when you see Richard Grenell being, I think, obviously targeted in some way for a reduced voice, and he's mostly talking about our relationship with other countries, who do you think did it? Isn't it more likely another country did it?

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my hypothesis with no proof for any of that. So the official story is that we don't know. We don't know why it seems that, I'll say seems officially, nobody there really knows why this stuff's happened. All right. So I saw a complaint that I think it was CNN. They were saying that the emergency relief bill had a gift in it for rich people. And I thought to myself, well that probably didn't happen…

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