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Jan. 20, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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Are Political Parties Relevant Any More? — @LionelNation

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Good day, dear friend.
Good day.
Good day to you.
Let me begin by telling you right now why today is so special to me.
And I think you will understand immediately.
Today is the birthday of my beloved wife, known affectionately in the community as Mrs. L. We are going to celebrate her life, and it's my birthday too.
My birthday as well.
And I am ensconced in so many feelings right now.
I don't even know where to begin.
Let me start off by saying, That I wish everybody in their life a life partner, a spouse, you know, husband, wife, lover.
You can use all of these wonderful terms.
And the British in particular, I noticed, they love this term partner.
Now when you say somebody's a partner here in this country, It may or may not convey certain things.
But the idea that somebody is there with you, and you can counter them.
The best words in the world are the simplest.
For example, friend, partner.
We use one of the most beautiful words, sweet.
But it doesn't mean anything.
Oh, you're so sweet.
It's been used and overused to such an extent.
And we are celebrating today, and I put her link for her to, you must follow her at Lynn's Warriors.
She is completely devoted to the notion of children, and it confounds her when she tries to tell people, don't you understand what's going on?
And we don't understand this.
And she asks me questions.
She asks a lot of rhetorical questions that, of course, I cannot answer, which is why they're rhetorical.
And one of the things is that why do people in this country seem to care more about animals than children?
Now, by the way, animal...
To me, abusing an animal is...
I don't understand.
Remember, we don't eat them.
I'm not trying to lay any guilt on you, but to show you how strong we are, we don't eat them.
And with the exception of maybe...
A pair of shoes, which we don't consume anything or bother animals in the least.
I don't want to go into that Klaus Schwab banning meat.
I'm not there.
I'm not making a statement.
But it's funny.
She has a question.
Why is that the case?
And I don't know.
I do not know.
Lately, it seems, for whatever reason, I don't know why, I'm running into more people, younger for the most part, who are talking about marriage.
And marriage.
And it's a wonderful thing.
I cannot emphasize it enough.
Especially a happy marriage, a good marriage.
But what do you think, what do you think, what do you think is the primary Focus of attention when you talk about marriage.
What do you think it is?
I'll answer that question.
It's the wedding, not the marriage.
It's the strangest thing I've ever seen.
When you go to, let's say, college or any kind of a degreed program, You normally talk about the education and not the graduation.
You notice that?
You talk about driving versus getting the license.
You talk about the ceremony that finalizes the ultimate event.
Normally, for the most part, it's not...
Whom did you vote for?
You mean to go to the precinct and sign up and find which precinct and district I'm in and then going to that?
No, no, no.
I'm not talking about the procedure.
I'm talking about voting.
You know, the process.
No, I'm talking about the procedure.
Do you want to go out and eat?
Yeah.
You want to order?
Are we ordering?
No, no.
That's a...
Part of the overall.
You mean paying the bill?
No, that's...
Yes, that's...
It's the...
You see what I'm saying?
We don't do this for any other event.
I don't know.
We always talk about, for example, God forbid, not there's any parallel.
We talk about death.
We don't focus on the funeral.
We talk about the death.
What it means, the cessation of life.
But in our culture, and I can't speak for anything else, there is an industry.
There is this industry that focuses so much on merely the procedure itself, namely the ceremony marriage, and not marriage.
And it's a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful thing.
You know what?
I'm going to have to...
Well, I'm going to have to...
Well, we've got something...
Okay, thank you.
They're timing this differently.
You know what?
Can you...
Hang on a minute.
You know what I'm going to do?
I'm going to go dark for just a moment.
I can't really do this.
You know what?
I'm going to have to start this right back up again.
There's a...
Yeah, hang on.
You know what?
I've got a delivery.
I hate to do this.
Well, there's my...
If you look at my wallet there, honey, there's a...
Huh?
No, but I got a little more.
I'm sorry.
Well, yeah, a deuce.
Yeah, a bang thing.
20s.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm sorry.
This is a very special moment.
I hate to do this.
Apparently somebody has thought it wise to bring something at this particular time, and I thought maybe it would later on.
But I'm going to keep going.
And plus you get to hear it live.
You get to hear the reaction live.
Really?
Well, no, no.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, listen, you know who it is.
Pardon me, I know this is the worst thing ever.
Well, it's showbiz, but it's her birthday.
And like I was saying, it's a wonderful celebration of stuff.
And I'm a big birthday fan.
I think those are the most fun.
Because it's all about you.
It's not this collective thing.
Wait a minute.
Wait a minute.
Here we go.
See where she is.
She's got flowers.
She's got flowers.
See where she is.
It's a big...
This is very good.
The guy's saying, this is heavy.
Can you hear this?
Can you hear this?
This is good.
See, normally they come later on.
Well, what do we have there?
Let me get a look.
Let me get a look.
Wow!
Can I?
There's water in them.
Be careful.
Be careful.
Jeez!
It's heavy.
Can you see this?
Oh, man!
We're growing a third cojone there.
Is that good?
Yes.
That's a lot better.
I love you.
Thank you.
Is that our friend?
Yes, that was our friend.
I love you.
Thank you.
Love flowers.
I think they're the greatest thing in the world.
This is part of our day.
I wanted to share that with you.
That's all.
That's all.
No, we didn't have a stripper.
No stripper.
You know these funny people.
That's her we.
Don't say flubber either.
Don't say flubber.
No flubber.
I love flowers.
You know what I also, let me just say something.
You know what I hate?
I hate bad flowers.
I hate like real chintzy.
Now look at that.
Is that something or what?
This is art.
It weighs a ton.
This is a...
And I spend a lot of time on this.
And I cannot tell you how I think there's something so beautiful about the right flowers.
And the right whatever it is.
Because we just take them for granted.
And I'm not going to mention any services out there.
But sometimes it's like, why even bother?
But as I was saying, I'm telling you, you better believe it.
It's our friend.
I did a lot of time.
I spent a lot of time on this.
Making sure we do this.
What is your favorite flower, honey?
Not there, but what is your favorite flower in general?
Me?
Yeah.
I love beautiful roses.
Roses.
What is your favorite flower?
I'll tell you mine, which I think is the greatest thing in the world.
I don't know if you can do this.
It's the bird of paradise.
That is a proof that God does acid.
Huh?
Is that a card?
Is that correct?
Good, good, good, good.
I spent a lot of time on this one.
And that's the thing.
Marigolds.
Wayland flowers.
Wayland flowers?
Yes.
What is that?
Not the...
Hydrangea.
Two things I don't know.
Well, many things I don't know, but two things I don't know.
Number one is the vocabulary for colors.
I'm terrible.
Taupe, periwinkle.
I don't know what that means.
To me it's red, green, brown.
You know, that kind of stuff.
And also flowers.
I don't know what they are.
I don't know what...
I mean, rose.
But I just never really got into this.
But there's something about, and I mean this, and I say this in great respect.
I want to meet God.
And I want to say, let me tell you what I think.
Because people say, is it the majesty of birth?
Well, yeah, that is true.
Flowers?
Animals?
Just the diversity of birds.
My, but flowers are just, and why is it that we like them?
Gardenias.
Oh, you know, growing up as a kid, my mother, we had gardenias outside, and those smell.
My mother would say, here, bring some, bring some flowers to the nun.
I go, oh, don't make me bring flowers.
And we have the, she picked the gardenia.
With a paper towel and the foil and I'm walking in like, okay.
But they loved it.
Poppies, okay.
Sunflowers, gardenias, orchids.
Why do you wear your ring on your middle finger?
I noticed Archie Bunker did that.
I met Carol O 'Connor and asked him about that and he agrees with me.
Jennifer Flowers, dear God, no.
Jasmine, basil, basil.
You know what?
What's the difference between a spice and a herb or an herb?
I don't want to be corny about that, but there's a difference.
Okay?
Spices, seeds, herbs, flowers.
Just want to let you know.
In any event.
So it's her birthday.
I want to go back to what I was saying, and this is critical.
Very, very critical.
Very, very important.
I believe in authenticity.
Maybe in my later years, I want there to be the understanding of what something truly means.
Do you really understand what this means?
Do you get it?
Do you grasp it?
Do you understand what this means?
And my friends, my sole focus, my desire, In my particular ventures and endeavors, is to tell you what something means.
I've done a whole series of pieces this morning on my private channel, which I ask you, implore, and request, invite you to subscribe to.
And we talked about Davos.
And we talked about, well, things...
The way that other people are discussing.
And I went from a particular tack that you are not going to hear as to what this really means.
And today, this notion of my ostensible topic is, are political parties relevant anymore?
I ask that question because I respectfully submit.
The argument can be made.
No, they're not.
They don't really speak to anything.
Why do I say this?
Mrs. L said something today.
And it goes back into marriages and weddings and things like that.
Never find yourself in the position of role-playing.
And that's what we see too, too much of.
Especially when it comes to news and especially when it comes to some particular platforms.
They are pretending.
They are saying that.
Which they think they have to say.
In a way that they think, well, this is what should be said about this.
Please avoid this at all costs.
Run from this.
Stop with...
Role-playing.
Role-playing is either left or right when somebody says, I'm on this show, I'm on this program, I'm on this platform, I'm on this channel, and this is what I think they want to hear.
So I'm going to phrase my thinking accordingly.
I'm going to phrase my thinking to play the role of the person doing this.
I can tell you, Marriages, politicians, people who are role-playing.
It's a very interesting concept.
Saying the thing that you need to know.
Today, at about 10.40 Eastern Time, I'm going to be appearing on my friend's radio show, Mark Simone, and I'm going to explain to him how much of what's done in the Conservative world in particular is role-playing.
And for all practical purposes, specious and completely meaningless.
That'll go over real, real big.
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Now, authenticity.
Dear gosh.
I'm listening to what's happening right now.
I'm watching the news.
I'm going through this.
I'm seeing the Supreme Court is dealing with issues that are...
And by the way, I deal with them more on my individual special channel with greater detail than this.
And I'm listening, and I'm listening, and I'm listening, and I'm asking myself, how is it that you are missing the point?
And the reason why they're missing the point is because of the fact, very, very simply, very, very simply put, that they are trying to role play.
They're trying to give you the news.
Without paying particular attention to what is happening, irrespective of reality.
They're role-playing.
Let me give you an example of something.
And they feel like they have to say something in a particular way.
In a particular way.
Now, let me tell you something.
Give you an example.
In my opinion, as a...
Licensed trial lawyer is a former prosecutor, is somebody who understands about a case that I would like to take to court or which I wouldn't want to take to court because you do not want to take a case to court where you're going to lose.
That's number one.
Number two, you don't want to take a case to court unless your goal is justice.
And I have told friends of mine, That in my opinion, based upon a review of the totality of the circumstances, irrespective of the parties that are involved, I would, if I were the prosecutor, I would both predict and I would recommend that no criminal culpability,
criminal, civil is a different story, lawsuit, civil, but no criminal culpability should come the way of Alec Baldwin.
Regarding the shooting death of Helena Hutchins.
Based upon the facts of the case.
Based upon what I believe from a variety, from a multiplicity of sources.
Listening to what happened, listening to the circumstance, listening to the testimony, listening to what, and believing I think of what I'm talking about.
Now, if I were to go on certain shows, Today, some people would say, we would like to have you on, or we would not like to have you on.
This is on regular platforms.
Based upon, not your knowledge, your information, your frame of reference, your knowledge of the law, your legal reasoning.
No, we don't like what you're saying.
We don't like the result.
Because either we do or don't like Alec Baldwin.
I can't think like that anymore.
That just doesn't work.
Do you want the truth?
A lot of people would say, no.
I want framed truth.
Why?
Because people are role-playing.
People are role-playing.
And what I want you to do is I want you to take every single issue there is and I want you to remember, I want you to think that what you are doing What you are thinking and what you are involving yourself in.
Imagine that nobody has ever talked about this before.
Nobody has ever thought about this before.
Imagine that nobody has ever commented on this before.
And you are going to ask yourself, what do I know about this?
What is it that they are saying?
And what is the purpose of this?
Irrespective of groups of people who are Trying to discuss what it is.
Let me give you an example.
If you want to find out what Davos is about, the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab, climate politics, you name it.
How do you find out what that is?
How do you make an assessment of what that is about?
Let me tell you how most people do it.
First, They will look for the result they want.
And they will go to the source that gives them the result they want.
And they will pick, I like this person because this person says what I want the truth to be.
This person is role-playing.
This person is playing the role.
Of the person saying it could be left, could be right, could be whatever it is.
It could be for not just Davos, but Davos is a people are talking about that.
Some people are.
And it's the same argument.
And it's, for the most part, sometimes people who are being handed a script and people who, by the way, who by virtue of, remember this, people who by virtue of their paycheck are being encouraged to say something which furthers the particular idea of this group.
Now, I'm sorry.
I know for a fact.
For example, I have a friend of mine who loves bacon.
I don't think this person cares about anything in the world more than bacon.
She's a member of the Bacon of the Month Club.
She gets bacon flown in.
She can talk about a Virginia ham.
She also can talk about the difference between pancetta.
She goes into various guanciale, you know, jowl for so wonderful seasoning.
Hog, jowl, hog.
From the head, the guanciale is very important.
She can talk about her whole world.
I'm telling you.
She knows bacon, ham, pork, cured, like people know wines, like an enophile wouldn't know wine.
Okay.
If I were to send her every now and then an article, From a medical point of view or whatever, that may not be the most, I don't know, complimentary towards it.
She doesn't want to hear it.
Why?
Because that does not comport with the world she wants to be true.
Now, it may, you know what I'm saying.
I want to hear everything.
I want to hear the facts of the case.
When I want to hear about what is happening at, let's say, Davos or the UN or whatever, you know the last place I'm going to go?
Fox News.
I mean, I'll go there, but I understand what I'm going to get, and if you go to CNN or New York Times or Washington Post or Yahoo or whatever it is, you're going to get this.
Why do we need both sides?
Why do you have two eyes?
Why not just one?
Why not monocular vision?
Because you have binocular to tell depth.
One eye does this.
One kind of...
You have the dominant eye.
You have this eye.
You know they have amblyopia and strabismus and lazy eye and how you will cover up one eye so that the eye will...
You got that?
You need two, three, maybe four perspectives to understand something.
What I just said right now?
Would be rejected by every major platform on television.
I'm sorry to say that, but it's true.
Can't think like that.
Same thing with parties.
Same thing with everything.
I wish, I wish you could go and say, let me just hear the facts, and let me kind of guess later on, if I have to, what your particular position is.
I just want to hear the facts of the case.
You know what one of my favorite restaurants is?
If I can say this, if it's okay, I'm just saying this.
I'm not endorsing them.
They may not want me to endorse.
I'm not endorsing them, but I've got to tell you the truth.
Cheesecake Factory.
Why do I say that?
Food's good.
Service is great.
Look at the menu.
What is a cheesecake factory?
I don't even know anybody who gets cheesecake.
It's just a name.
It's not Italian.
It's not continental.
It's got...
Everything.
There is something for everybody.
I love that.
I don't know what it is.
I don't know what to call it.
That's what I want my politics to be.
That's what I want my news to be.
I want you to tell me.
Let me decide.
I'll work on the label.
Just give me the data.
Give me the data.
Give me the food.
I'll argue later whether this is really Tex-Mex versus Oaxacan.
Whatever.
I'll do that.
I'm in the minority of the case.
I don't.
Nobody wants to think like I do.
They can't think like I do.
They don't want to think like I do.
Let me give you another example.
I was talking to this about somebody which is so fascinating.
And that is a notion of EMPs.
Electromagnetic pulse.
And I've talked about this.
And I've asked, you know what this is, because you're very wise and you're very, very, very smart.
There's a company that deals with this.
It's called EMP Shield.
You see an electromagnetic pulse.
Think about a keratin event.
Think about, just look that one up.
Whether it's a solar flare, whether it's, who knows?
It would destroy, in essence, all electronics.
And it's been done before.
And this group, EMP Shield, is veteran-owned and operated out of the Midwest.
Look them up.
Just look for yourself.
I put the link right here for you.
And they've invented a device that you can hook up to your vehicle, to your home.
They'll protect against the threat of an EMP.
It's been tested at Keystone Compliance by their military certified facility.
It's listed by the Department of Homeland Security.
Designs, not just your vehicle and your home, but generators and solar systems, ham radios, RVs, etc., etc., etc.
So do yourself a favor.
I implore you.
There is the link.
It's EMP Shield.
Just look at this.
That's my favorite.
See, if I had a shop, I'd say, look around.
I don't have to sell you or anything.
Just look.
Read for yourself.
And you're smart.
Because I guarantee you, if I walk to...
Times Square, right now, at the height of traffic, and said, who knows what this is, they would have no idea what I'm talking about.
Not because they're bad people, but because it's not something that is normally discussed too, too much.
But you're aware of it.
EMP Shield, there it is.
They fund us, not fund us, support us, we support them.
Fund, or worse, they support us, and we support them.
I want to go into, again, my friends, I want authenticity.
Avoid role-playing.
Did you hear, did you see, this story today, did you watch, this very interesting piece about the Prime Minister Jacinda, or Jacinda, if you want to read.
Ardern.
By the way, there's nothing worse than seeing a...
What am I saying?
Seeing a hashtag on Twitter with the word spelled wrong, with the name spelled wrong.
You can't use that one.
She stepped down.
Do you know what people were talking about?
Almost exclusively?
I want to know why she stepped down.
A little bit of this is okay.
It's okay to be a little...
Rude at times and, you know, funny, but people were talking, you know it, by her looks, her teeth, her accent.
Accent to us, not to her.
That was it.
People cannot ever talk about Brian Stelter from CNN, apparently, without talking about how he looks.
Now, this is immediately, it sends me right away.
I'm not 12 years old.
I want to know the news.
This is where we are.
And if you're on certain stations, same thing, by the way, with all due respect, it's not just for the left or the right, but you have to make fun of the way people look.
Trump's xanthodrome, that's actually yellow, but orange, you know, orange man, Biden this, and we spend so much time, and remember, I'm not trying to necessarily dismiss that, because if you look at the notion of what a if you look at what a political cartoon is, they will sometimes take A prominent feature, LBJ's ears and things like that.
Nixon's nose, that ski nose, Bob Hope.
But that's where we are today.
Because, very frankly, we have people who are role-playing.
People who think it's a good idea who say, I can get on this.
Oh, oh, and by the way, this incredible injection and infusion of what appears to be allegedly imputatively called comedy.
Comedy.
be.
Comedy.
So, ask yourself this other question.
Why are you a member of a political party?
What is a political party?
What does this mean to you?
Can you honestly say this?
I respectfully submit and believe that if you're going to find out the truth, if you don't want the truth, let's not understand it.
Like my bacon friend.
She says, listen to me.
I don't care about this.
I said, okay, I understand.
I don't care about that.
I don't want to hear anything you have to say about bacon other than the fact that it's good.
I like honesty like that.
I really do.
I like honest people.
I really do.
So be honest.
But I want to know, what does this really mean?
Do you know what...
Oh, and there's been an absolute...
In certain platforms, This preoccupation with the gas stove talks about banning gas stoves.
And there's one place in particular where I go.
You're not going to believe what I'm telling you.
I'm not going to mention the name of it, but there is a side that I go and I realize when something is old or misunderstood, I look and see what they're covering.
What they're making a big deal.
There's nothing worse in a story that's three, four days late because of the immediacy of news.
And when they're acting as though they've discovered this for the first time.
And I know, because it's, what is it called again?
Role-playing.
I'm acting like the typical bereaved, confused Republican or Democrat, depending upon what the particular thing is.
I am not here to play a role.
I am going to promise you something.
If ever we were in a conversation, and this is, again, what I do, and I say this again unabashedly, But it's true on my channel.
My particular thing, this story.
You're going to get one of two things.
Number one, let me give you that link again.
Number one, you're going to get something.
You're going to get the following.
You're going to get an analysis that may confuse you, may surprise you.
Based upon something that...
There's a story right now, but a number of cases going to, not necessarily the Supreme Court, federal courts, but the federal agencies.
One is, what books may be limited in public schools by librarians?
Now, again, I know where to go to the role-playing.
I know what they're going to say.
But I want somebody to answer my question.
Answer my question.
What is this about?
What is this about?
Let me ask you this question.
Very, very simple.
Is there freedom of speech in the United States of America?
Is there freedom of speech?
Let me ask that question.
Is there freedom of speech?
Yes or no?
In the United States?
Well, the answer to that is it depends for the most part.
Yes, you can go outside and you're not going to have what we consider to be the most draconian and horrible examples of governmentally suppressed speech.
But one could obviously say, no, we don't have it.
So that discussion is fascinating.
From what perspective?
From whose perspective?
What are you talking about?
One of my favorite tricks, and I love to do this, is let me read to you a story.
And I'm going to take out all of the names and all of the direction codes.
A public school in the United States banned a book based on comments made as to religion.
What do you think?
And they'll say, well, who was?
I'm not going to tell you who it was.
The issue is, can, is it possible, is it constitutionally permissible, for a public school system to ban a book in the library system based upon religion?
See how they answer that question.
They can't answer it.
Why?
Because they have no analytical skills.
Okay.
Well, first of all, we have to understand, what is the basis?
What is their prior history?
There's no critical thinking.
I can answer that question easy.
I've got to ask you more information, but I don't just...
Some people cannot answer that question unless you say, well, what's it for?
What if I were to say to you, hypothetically, is it this school that I spoke of, and again, I'm just giving you this, and it didn't happen, but let's assume it did.
If a school banned a book, Extolling the virtues of what is a word that is misunderstood.
Let's say...
It usually be called jihad, but that word is incorrectly used.
That versus or bans civil war history from the perspective of the Confederacy.
Or bans...
Endorsements of certain lifestyles.
What questions do you ask?
Again, hypothetically.
Hypothetically.
What question do you ask?
That's what nobody knows.
Because there's no critical thinking.
There's no critical thinking.
Also, there's something where you don't know the rules.
In the state of New York, did you know that there is not a public topless law?
In the state of New York, there is no criminal law against men or women or anyone walking around without a shirt showing not only, well, showing breast area and all of the accoutrement there is.
Did you know that?
There is a case that came out, I think it was upstate.
And the state court said, nope, there's no longer...
And every, I don't know, five, ten years, there'll be a woman on the subway.
They used to have a thing at Times Square.
We have this fellow called the Naked Cowboy.
And then there was the Naked...
Was there Naked Granny?
What was her name?
The Naked Granny?
Naked Grandma?
Yeah, Cowgirl.
Right, right.
Now, there was also something.
Listen to this.
This was in 2017.
This was called Desnudas.
Or Desnudas.
And people were going crazy.
These were women who were brought into Times Square and they were painted.
They were painted.
Various colors, but they snood us.
Notice how I...
And during the time this came up, people said, that's disgusting.
I said, but there's a law in New York that says that's okay.
Not only that, if you camouflage this with body paint, which is what they did, does that matter?
Okay.
I realized then...
I couldn't get through a conversation with this.
Why?
Because nobody understood critical thinking skills.
Nobody knew the history.
Nobody knew the law.
Nobody knew anything.
All I know is if it played locally, depending upon the platform, you knew the answer you were going to get based upon the people you were talking to because of their role-playing.
This is what you've got to run from at all.
Okay?
It's enough to make you just want to go under the bed, pull the covers over your head, and say, you know what?
I've had enough of this.
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My dear friend, what I'm suggesting to you is so antithetical to what people think because I do not believe in saying the usual stuff.
I want to know the truth.
And I love having my opinion change.
When the facts change, I change my opinion.
There is a piece I did, which I feel a little bit, I don't want to say freer, but I am, regarding how certain ideologies get expanded upon.
There it is right there.
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And how people use This is just my opinion.
But in my opinion, the greatest suppressor of all information is not from social media platforms, not from the government, but from us.
We individually do more to suppress, redirect, and to obstruct free speech and free thought than you could ever imagine.
I don't know about you, but I...
I love finding...
I was reading something the other day.
If you think you know about JFK, Jackie Kennedy, Bobby Kennedy, if you think you know...
I'm not talking about any assassinations, God forbid.
I'm just talking about just their life, their private life.
Your hair will curl.
And one of the reasons why people do not like this is that they do not want to hear stories that conflict with their worldview.
I am the opposite.
Shatter my dreams, shatter my perspectives, and I will thank you forever.
I love when I find out, do you know that that's not true?
Did you know that this isn't true?
That never happened.
I love those books that say, this event never happened.
This is nonsense.
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And I love it more than anything you can imagine.
You know, it's funny also, speaking of which, and I don't want to be so, dare I say, crass, but somebody was talking the other day about this thing in the world about food.
Do you notice how, all of a sudden, Some things just...
We just stop talking about them.
Remember supply chains?
Remember that?
There were ships in the Los Angeles harbor and they couldn't get in.
Whatever happened with that?
Whatever happened to the yellow vests in Paris?
I don't know.
Whatever happened to the truckers in Canada?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Whatever happens to...
Do the problems go away?
No.
They're just not noticed.
It's like, for example, instead of cleaning a room in your home or apartment, just turn the lights off and have those blackening shades so nobody can see.
No need to clean that room.
Can't see anything.
Now would you do that?
Of course not.
Well that's what happens when you obscure truth.
When you talk about foods, we had In our neighborhood one time, we thought our favorite little food store was going out of business.
It was the most horrible thing in the world.
We didn't know.
And have you ever gone and seen empty shelves?
Doesn't that make you say, oh no!
There's something psychologically scarring, especially here during times of any kind of snow.
Or snow threat.
You know, there's always bread and milk.
Always, you know, drink snow.
There's no more snow plows.
Remember hand sanitizer?
There's this thing, and there's something that just scares us about the loss of something.
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Now, my friends, I understand that I am a rare bird.
A rara avis, as we say.
I don't think like people do.
I don't.
Yes, it's true.
But I don't.
I simply don't.
I do not think the way people do.
I don't fit in.
I don't fit in politically, socially.
I just see things differently.
I'm not.
A role player.
I'm not going to tell you what you want me to say.
I see things differently.
I can hold two seemingly inconsistent thoughts simultaneously and not lose focus.
Yes, but.
Yes, no.
Yeah, however.
That's life.
Should kids be given freedom?
Yeah.
It goes back to the it depends thing, which I joke about, but it's true.
Life is great.
Life is a balance of this.
And I'm telling you, I'm telling you right now, do yourself a favor.
Stop necessarily going to your same sites and look and see what's happening.
Think about this right now.
If you want to see what's happening, how about this?
Have you read about the Brian Walsh dismembered case?
Fantastic.
Interesting.
People love crime.
Are you following this?
How about the George Santos case?
I'm looking at the front of CNN right now.
Look at this.
Donald Trump...
This is the deposition of this case involving E. Jean Carroll.
Have you heard about that?
Did you hear where Adam Sandler is being honored with the Mark Twain Award to air on CNN?
Did you see this?
Adam Sandler?
How about Ardern's resignation shows burnout is real and it's nothing to be ashamed of.
This is A take, which is fascinating.
I'm looking at CNN right now.
The debt ceiling drama explained in two minutes.
The debt ceiling, what does that mean?
Read everyone's perspective, but I want to see what this says.
This is the George Santos story.
CNN reports George Santos says his mom was in the South Tower on 9-11.
New evidence contradicts that claim.
I have never seen mendacity at this level.
And believe it or not, if you try, just listen to what I'm saying.
Don't necessarily, and by the way, if you're a CNN person, you might want to go to Fox.
Just go everywhere.
Triangulate.
Use binocular vision to try to look at depth.
Understand the story.
Then have your analysis.
And if you're smart, you go to linomedia.com and let me tell you what I think it means after weighing all that.
And many times, my opinion I think will shock you because I am not a role player.
You got it?
Okay.
Now, a couple of things.
Let me say, first and foremost, it is Mrs. L's birthday today.
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Support her.
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That simple.
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Wonderful, wonderful videos.
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Absolutely.
But you're not going to always get the result that your role-playing friends get.
And that, you'll find, is...
More fun, because then you'll be more of the rebel and more of the maverick.
All right, we'll see you tomorrow, 9 a.m. Eastern Time, Monday through 24 hours, not 24 hours, seven days a week, what am I saying?
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