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I'm a big proponent of having free and fair debate. I'm a big advocate of discussion

of complicated, important topics. And you'll notice that when it comes to so much of COVID

we haven't been able to do that. We've been told to shut up and do what we're told.

That has been the theme of the last year. People who have taken unprecedented power into

their hands and people who claim the mantle of the science have been telling you to just

shut up. Don't ask any questions. We're not having this discussion. You do it because

we say so. We do it because otherwise everyone's going to die. And they were wrong many times.

And their policies didn't work. And the things that they said would happen did not. And

the things they said didn't happen did. And at every stage it just was the same game. Play

upon people's fears and use the power of the state to force them to comply. Well now as we see

with where we are with this Johnson and Johnson vaccine situation, we have a lot of undoing

of this brainwashing to do and we'll get into all of that. And I mean just about whether we're

allowed to have certain topics discussed. I'm not even taking a position on all this stuff.

I'm not even telling you one way or another. I'm just saying we should have had much more

debate about everything going on with COVID. And a big problem with all this has been social media

censorship. As you know, the left has been dominating these social media sites for well, all time.

But now they've decided to completely crack down on conservative speech and Twitter and Facebook

act like the editorial pages of the New York Times. They decide what can and cannot be shared,

be written and they'll kick you off. They'll they'll punish you. Well, one way that you can protect

yourself from this is with a virtual private network. Okay, a virtual private network creates

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