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I love the handshake.

He just does the handshake.

He'll just walk right up to people and look like he's going to mow through them and then grab their hand and stare them down and not let go.

And they go to let go and he grabs it double hard and stares them down. Dude, he's a fucking monster. It's amazing. Yeah, he is a little old. So I like Putin. I've always liked Putin. And some people have the perspective. They're all in one big club.

I kind of understand that.

I don't think that's the case, though, honestly, we're Russia.

And the reason I say that is because motherfuckers, you know who, they hold a really long grudge.

And they were fucking driven out of their homeland a thousand years ago by the Russians.

And I think that's the root of all Russian fucking hatred in the narrative, all of it for all time.

And so I don't buy that they're in Putin's in any club with anybody else, unless there's

some like back channel weird clubs going on that we don't know about.

I would, I would like to challenge that in the sense that Putin said something.

And there's a picture of him that I think kind of illustrates what he's talking about.

He said one time, it doesn't matter to me who the American president is.

I can work with whoever's there.

It doesn't matter because they come into office with these ideas about what they're going to do.

And then they get visits by the men in black suits. And then those ideas go away.

And when he said that, I think the translation or I think the inference was that he was talking about the CIA.

But he's talking about Habad Lovic, the man in the black suits with the black hats and the big beards.

And they're in pictures with Putin as well.

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