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Fringey Mini: CTRL‑ALT‑Delete 3.8 Million Files · Journey to the Fringe

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  Okay, Chelsea, we got the same choices this time,
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  except two less, because we found out that one
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  wasn't a real news article, and then you picked
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  that other one. Yes. So we got animals. Good,
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  you're going to tell me. Space, UFOs, pollution.
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  I'm going to go UFO. Okay. And this comes from
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  Daily Mail, not my favorite source, but it's
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  UFOs, so we can use it, because it's always fun.
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  This is a short article, but it's not the same
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  kind of shortness. Like with a video or what?
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  Yeah, there's no video with that. What do you
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  mean same shortness? It's not the same shortness
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  as that other one that I deemed too shortness.
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  Okay. Anyhow, we have from the Daily Mail, written
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  by Chris Malor, who is the U .S. Assistant Science
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  Editor, posted February 23rd, 2026 at 5 .10 p
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  .m. article title mystery as ufo vault with 3
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  .8 million files is wiped clean hours after trump
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  demands alien docs released oh i saw this yeah
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  a massive public archive of declassified u .s
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  government files vanished just one day after
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  president trump ordered the release of all ufo
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  related documents i guess this really is everything
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  trump says is really the opposite Do you think
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  that he wiped it so that he can release it and
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  say this is it? No, he said release it. So they
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  actually took that to mean, oh, we got to get
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  rid of everything. In fact, even everything that's
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  public, we got to get rid of. Okay. Massive public
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  archives of declassified U .S. government files
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  vanishes one day after President Trump ordered
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  the release of all UFO related documents. The
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  Black Vault run by researcher and ufologist John
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  Grenwald Jr. had its main server reportedly wiped
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  clean on february 20th deleting hundreds of gigabytes
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  worth of files on ufos to classified cia projects
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  and major conspiracies including the assassination
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  of jfk granwald shared the news online explaining
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  that some server directories had their permissions
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  the safeguards on who can access or edit them
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  and the file ownership logs changed without explanation
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  Black Vault has become a go -to resource for
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  anyone wanting to see exactly what the government
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  has quietly made public over the last 80 years.
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  Grinwald has spent three decades organizing information
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  on hidden programs and little -known incidents
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  that suggest the US has been involved in top
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  -secret efforts to recover and take advantage
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  of alien technology. Troves of declassified files
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  the public can freely search through on Black
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  Vault detail military base reports, witness testimonies,
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  and even CIA directives since the 1940s and 50s,
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  which have been unsealed without widespread public
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  knowledge. The research has also publicly revealed
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  every time a Freedom of Information Act request
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  was returned by the CIA, FBI, and other government
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  organizations with little or no response. The
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  timing of the potential sabotage came just hours
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  after the president's history -making declaration
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  ordering the Pentagon to disclose anything related
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  to aliens and extraterrestrial life, unidentified
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  aerial phenomena, and unidentified flying objects.
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  Oh no, there's more to this article. It's just
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  a lot of things in the way. In a statement released
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  on X, Grenwald said he did not fully suspect
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  foul play, but noted that he couldn't rule out
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  the possibility because of the suspicious information
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  he had received from the website hosting provider.
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  Quote, They had no idea what happened, and on
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  their side, they said it was a deletion, not
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  corruption." The researcher posted on Saturday.
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  In simpler terms, someone or something intentionally
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  removed every single file from Black Vault's
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  server, deleting all the records released by
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  the CIA and other groups, without fully shutting
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  down the site so alarms wouldn't go off right
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  away. Until recently. The US government has flat
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  out denied that UFOs or extraterrestrial beings
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  existed, maintaining for decades that there has
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  never been any physical evidence recovered that
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  proves something non -human has ever landed on
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  Earth. However, Trump's February 19th order came
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  after he publicly criticized former President
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  Barack Obama for saying in an interview that
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  aliens were real. Trump claimed the 44th president
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  had revealed classified information. Grinwald
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  has previously filed over 11 ,000 FOIA requests
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  with the U .S. government to obtain these documents,
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  including some declassified reports that date
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  back to the alleged UFO crash landing at Roswell
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  in 1947. His investigations have also provided
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  legitimate paper trails detailing how former
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  administrations and the intelligence community
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  created secret task force of high -ranking military
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  and scientific officials to research UFO incidents.
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  these groups include the majestic 12 which was
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  allegedly formed under the roswell crash and
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  worked for over two decades investigating sightings
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  of alien spacecrafts working with non -human
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  technology and contacting extraterrestrials luckily
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  for the black vault greenwald revealed that all
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  of the more than 3 .8 million files were backed
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  up in secure locations and the site was restored
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  soon after the mysterious wiping took place.
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  Oh, so this article means nothing. Quote, is
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  a stark reminder to us all, me included, keep
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  backups, keep them in multiple places and never
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  be intimidated by anything that comes out our
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  way. No matter what we expect may have happened.
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  End quote, the researcher wrote on X. There was
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  a moral of the story. Sorry, I have a real hard
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  time taking this article seriously anymore. There's
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  a bit more to go, but now I'm mad at it. Not
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  only for misrepresenting the entire background
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  of disclosure from the government. But also,
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  what happened to their website? So, sorry. I
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  just can't. I can't go forth anymore. I'm mad
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  at it. And you know why I'm mad at it? If we're
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  talking about reasons that we're mad at it. You
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  know what I'm all for? I think I've talked about
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  this on an episode recently, too. But I'm going
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  to talk about it again. I'm all for, like, people
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  saying, yeah, aliens really do exist. But not...
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  when it comes to trying to distract from holding
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  anybody accountable for their crimes and the
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  Epstein files. And it completely downplays, like
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  there was actually like fundamental pushes forward
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  by Joe Biden's administration that we learned
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  about in Canada's response to the UFO situation.
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  That they released. I think we did that episode
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  last year. Yeah, by bait. We do remember that.
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  They not only released everything they were able
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  to find. They also specifically set up how things
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  are supposed to be administered publicly. And
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  none of this is supposed to be classified anymore.
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  Just completely swept over that. And don't talk
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  about how Obama went on record in an interview
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  saying aliens are real. And then went on afterwards
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  because... People took it way too seriously and
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  he said this is my personal opinion because of
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  how big the universe is. Yeah. And you know what
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  is the funny thing when I watch that Obama thing?
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  That's totally what I got from it. So I'm not
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  sure why everyone like was freaking out about
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  that. And then I just think that Trump is just
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  looking for literally anything to distract from
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  the appearance that he briefly made in the Epstein
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  files because they accidentally leaked his by
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  accident and took it away. Anyhow. He is not
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  briefly in there, Chelsea. Well, I mean that
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  one, like, super incriminated thing that they
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  took away. Anyhow, I think that we should definitely
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  still release what they're keeping back. Oh,
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  yeah. No, release what there is. I really don't
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  know what could still be classified that would
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  be released at this point. Because, like, there's
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  been so many pushes for declassification. Over
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  the last three to four decades. Where we got
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  Blue Book. We got Project Grudge. We learned
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  all about them. We learned about Project Stargate.
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  You're talking about the Epstein files. We learned
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  a bit about the Epstein files. And how there
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  is UFO stuff in there. But not really. And I
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  can't remember the name of the program. But Biden
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  completely released everything they had on it
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  too. And it didn't make that big of a splash.
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  Because for whatever reason. The UFO community
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  is incredibly right wing. Oh, not only that,
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  but the stuff, when they actually release, it's
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  so boring. Yeah. And so nobody ends up caring
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  because it's so boring. Yeah. Well, and it's
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  because also, too, they have to give a good,
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  like a kudos to you to a democratic leader. who
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  they don't want to do. Yeah, that's true. Which
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  is an unfortunate thing within this community.
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  I always get so mad at this, and everybody's
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  giving Trump credit for this, and they're like,
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  oh, he's going to say something in the State
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  of the Union. Didn't come up once. Didn't come
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  up once, because he doesn't give a shit. No,
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  he really doesn't. And that's what it felt like
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  when he said that. I think he just saw Obama
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  say something and like what was happening around
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  him. I need to one -up him because he hates Obama
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  so hard. It wasn't just one -up him. It was,
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  I think he just takes whatever he can to try
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  and distract from what's going on with the Epstein
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  files as well. And he starts just saying shit
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  just as he does. Just like things just come out
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  of his mouth. And I'm just so sick of hearing.
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  Anyhow, this is a mini - about hate and why we
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  hate as many. Yeah. But you guys got 48 hours.
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  What's Trump's distraction over this time? Yeah.
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  And what do you hate? Email us. Email us. Email
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  us your hate. Email us, please. Bye.