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Joe Rogan Experience #2526 - JD Vance

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California had never before had more people moving out than moving in.

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A Pennsylvania court said ballot harvesting affected Republicans in a more negative way in a case after the 2020 election.

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A Pennsylvania court said certain people in rural parts of Pennsylvania were underrepresented in a case after the 2020 election.

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In California, voters are not allowed to show their ID when voting.

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U.S. Supreme Court rulings prohibited student-led student organizations from praying in school.

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Iran's nuclear sites have already been destroyed.

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Instructions for how to build an atomic bomb are available on YouTube.

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Hal Puthoff used to work for NASA.

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A healthy adult would be dead after four years in space.

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Socialism always leads to government control of the population.

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Confiscating landlords' property has been step one in every communist dictatorship throughout history.

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Closing the U.S. border was one reason U.S. rent and housing costs stabilized.

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In the U.S. Senate, anything that has to do with the budget has a 50-vote threshold.

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Iran's ability to rebuild its nuclear sites has already been eliminated.

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Muammar Gaddafi was killed by the Obama administration.

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People who spend three to six months on the International Space Station return with severe health problems.

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Theodore Roosevelt said some steel trusts were more powerful than the United States government.

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The economics literature consistently finds that large supplies of low-wage immigrant workers reduce native workers' wage bargaining power.

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U.S. Supreme Court rulings prohibited a teacher from putting up the Ten Commandments in the teacher's own classroom.

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A shutdown of the Strait of Hormuz would shut down 25% of the world's energy supply.

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The Trump administration released all responsive Epstein estate files except materials courts required to be redacted or withheld.

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Jeffrey Epstein was Les Wexner's tax adviser.

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Hal Puthoff said a Bush administration UAP disclosure proposal included a claim that the government had physical crafts.

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Commander David Fravor's reported UAP encounter involved an object moving from 50,000 feet above sea level to sea level in about one second.

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Workers at a Foxconn factory in China work 72 hours a week.

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During Joe Biden's administration, working-class neighborhoods had much higher rates of carjackings.

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The White House UFC event had 85,000 people outside on the Ellipse.

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More than 3,000 people were close to the octagon at the White House UFC event.

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California has more people moving out than moving in.

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There is evidence that homeless people were recruited in Los Angeles with cigarettes and cash for mail-in ballots.

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A Pennsylvania court concluded that the mail-in ballot dispute after the 2020 election was not a problem a court could fix.

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In California, a person can be prosecuted for trying to force somebody to show their ID to vote.

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In the U.S. Senate, non-budgetary matters have a 60-vote threshold.

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Kamala Harris supported taxpayer-funded sex changes for illegal aliens.

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Some people within the Israeli government are manipulating American public opinion to keep the war with Iran going indefinitely.

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The original warrant in the Jeffrey Epstein investigation in 2008 did not look at a broader conspiracy.

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Travis Walton said he had been in a spaceship for five days.

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Hal Puthoff said officials decided against disclosure because the disclosure pros-and-cons lists had more cons than pros.

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Luis Elizondo and others have said mass amnesty is needed for people involved in alleged UAP programs.

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Human DNA seems to function less well outside Earth-style gravity.

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Union-employer arrangements that pay junior employees below minimum wage in exchange for job training and better benefits are effectively illegal in the United States.

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Workers at a Foxconn factory in China sleep four to a bedroom.

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During Joe Biden's administration, working-class neighborhoods had much higher rates of violence.

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The Democratic Party had no primary to select Kamala Harris as the 2024 presidential nominee.

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Medicare is a program that provides health care to elderly people.

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A military commander said President Trump had been anointed by Jesus to light a signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark Jesus's return to Earth.

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The United States has 330 million people.

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The memorandum of understanding says the United States will permit other countries to invest in Iran if Iran meets all of its obligations.

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Donald Trump reported Jeffrey Epstein to the Palm Beach police.

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Part of Jeffrey Epstein's money came from setting up tax schemes for very rich people.

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A prosecutor in Jeffrey Epstein's case said he was told Jeffrey Epstein was above the prosecutor's pay grade.

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Hal Puthoff said every disclosure pros-and-cons list had more cons than pros.

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Cells in the human body start to discombobulate in response to a low-gravity environment.

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Cesar Chavez was a restrictionist on immigration.

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Every fight at the White House UFC event ended by knockout.

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Mail-in ballots became ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Senate filibuster is a rule created by Senate procedures.

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Kathy Hochul said Black people in inner cities did not know what a computer is.

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A 2020 Democratic presidential primary debate included a question about taxpayer-funded Medicare for illegal aliens.

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A military commander told troops that bombing Iran was part of God's divine plan.

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The collapse of Libya fueled the migrant crisis in Europe.

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Syria is a failed state.

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The Trump administration collected six million documents as part of its Epstein-files effort.

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The Jeffrey Epstein prosecution focused specifically on underage sex.

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Cameras are not allowed inside SCIFs.

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Counting noncitizens in the U.S. census shifts congressional representation away from areas with lower illegal immigration.

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Tony Hinchcliffe told a joke at Madison Square Garden during the 2024 election.

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Research shows that dogs who maintain a healthy weight can live up to two and a half years longer on average than dogs who are overweight.

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California does not require voter ID.

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Polling shows Black Americans support voter ID requirements.

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Most Americans want voter ID.

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A main provision of the Save America Act is a voter ID requirement.

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Medical professionals have stated that Joe Biden suffered no lasting brain damage from his 1988 brain surgeries.

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Medical professionals have stated that Joe Biden suffered no lasting cognitive impairment from his 1988 brain surgeries.

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The memorandum of understanding says the violence is going to stop.

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The memorandum of understanding says the parties will negotiate over the long-term nuclear issue.

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Iranian hardliners shot at a couple of ships after the memorandum of understanding was signed.

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Libya turned into a failed state after Muammar Gaddafi was killed.

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The proposed investment money for rebuilding Iran would not come from the United States.

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The Trump administration was not planning to give Iran $300 billion.

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Certain influencers in America are being paid to attack the Iran deal.

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A Time magazine article said a foreign influence campaign was being funded to tank the Iran deal the speaker was pursuing.

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Israel is losing the public opinion battle in the United States.

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Some people within the Israeli government are trying to shift the United States away from the Iran negotiation policy pursued by the president.

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Some people within the Israeli government want to continue the military campaign against Iran.

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Pam Bondi said the Epstein client list was on her desk.

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The 2007–2008 Alex Acosta investigation of Jeffrey Epstein dropped federal charges against Jeffrey Epstein.

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About 3 million documents collected by the Trump administration were responsive to the Epstein estate.

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Donald Trump kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago.

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Some people identified as alleged victims in Jeffrey Epstein-related documents were also identified as alleged co-conspirators.

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Jeffrey Epstein tried to contact people he considered influential.

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Jeffrey Epstein tried to get people to meet at parties on his island.

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Jeffrey Epstein funded many scientists.

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David Grusch and others have alleged that UAP crash retrieval programs have existed.

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Hal Puthoff said a Bush administration UAP disclosure proposal included a claim that the government had biological remains.

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Ryan Graves and others said pilots began seeing unidentified objects after fighter-jet equipment was upgraded in 2014.

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Ryan Graves and others said unidentified objects stayed completely motionless in 120-knot winds.

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Ryan Graves and others said unidentified objects appeared as cubes inside spheres.

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The United States became a services and finance economy.

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The Industrial Revolution created many jobs that did not exist before.

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Private-sector unions have largely disappeared from the United States.

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Cesar Chavez believed employers would bring in low-wage immigrants to compete with his workers and drive down their wages.

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The Democratic Socialists of America is an open-borders organization.

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A fighter at the White House UFC event said, “Michelle Obama is a man.”

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Most Black Americans vote Democratic.

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The 2024 Biden-Trump debate occurred earlier in the election cycle than any previous presidential debate.

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Medical professionals have stated that Joe Biden made a full recovery from his 1988 brain surgeries.

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Texas passed a measure to put the Ten Commandments in all public school classes.

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Christianity is the majority religion in the United States.

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Bible stories became required reading in Texas public schools.

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Donald Trump publicly said JD Vance was less enthusiastic about the Iran decision.

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The memorandum of understanding says Iran is going to open the Strait of Hormuz.

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Iran funds terrorist organizations.

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The United States bombed Iran in June 2025 in Operation Midnight Hammer.

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The binders displayed as Epstein files were largely documents that had already been released.

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Pam Bondi said there were tens of thousands of hours of Epstein-related film.

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Travis Walton reappeared five days after he went missing.

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Some UAP-related videos have been released and declassified.

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Under current physics, a spaceship cannot travel faster than the speed of light.

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A Foxconn factory in China has suicide nets around the top of the building.

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The U.S. census used to apportion congressional seats counts noncitizens.

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The White House UFC event took place on June 14.

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The White House UFC event had seven knockouts.

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The White House UFC event was held on the South Lawn of the White House.

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No provision of the U.S. Constitution requires treating voter ID legislation as subject to a 60-vote Senate threshold.

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Joe Biden underwent two brain surgeries in 1988.

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Joe Biden's 1988 brain surgeries repaired two intracranial aneurysms.

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Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019.

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By 2017, Jeffrey Epstein had already faced at least one sex abuse case.

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The Travis Walton UFO-abduction case was from the 1970s.

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Travis Walton was a logger in Arizona.

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Charlie Kirk died.

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The Industrial Revolution changed many jobs.

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Pope Leo XIII wrote an encyclical in the late 19th century.

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Inflation in the United States during the Biden administration reached 9%.