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It's Alpha-Male Trump Versus DEI and Ineligible Haitian Citizen Harris
Not the first time a non-American ran for President, but the first time the Marxocrat Party's new DEI Freak Show met an Alpha-Male Opponent
Vic Biorseth, Thursday, August 01, 2024
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Long before the 2020 election Presidential candidate Biden, who lost his primary race but was made the candidate anyway, chose his Veep, he announced that he would only select a black woman, without mentioning any other qualifications. That was it; she had to be a woman and she had to be black.
He then selected Kamala Harris, who was actually of Indian heritage and therefore brown, but who immediately "identified" as black, and who had been the very first candidate knocked out of the primary race, but wound up in the Veep candidacy anyway.
(Actually, Cackling Kamala is a descendant of Haitian plantation owners who were the drivers of African slaves.)
So the two people at the top of the Marxocrat ticket were not selected by the Marxocrat Party voters at all. Marxocrat voters were once again disenfranchised; no big deal; happens all the time.
It's a Political Party thing; don't try to understand it.
The real reason Biden and Harris wound up in the Presidency and the Vice Presidency is that they are more malleable and controllable, and more obedient to and dependent upon the corrupt political machine that put them in office. And those who could have and would have won the evil Marxocrat Party's primary race, such as Bernie Sanders, could not have won the general election without a huge and unprecedented level of election cheating. The Parties never want to be that glaringly obvious in their cheating. Yet.
So what is an Alpha Male?
Essentially, a natural born leader. Highly intelligent, supremely confident, usually in a position of power because that is their natural place to be. Highly successful, comfortable with high responsibility, likes challenges and takes them head-on, insightful decision-maker, usually the most impressive person in the room, highly influential, drawing other people into a growing following.
Not what you thought, right? The Leftist, or lame-brained DEI definition involves muscles and physical dominance to the point of bullying. The DEI nuts, who are always trending mono-sexual, uni-sexual, asexual or any of a blue million "genders" that are really all the same, see the term Alpha Male as being a throwback to the differences between actual males and actual females, something they all abandoned years ago. To them, everyone is the same, and if you deny that, you are a science-denying right-wing extreme racist-sexist troglodyte.
But, whether they like it or not, men and women really are different.
Carl Higbie laid it out pretty well recently on NewsMax. When the bullets start flying and the Schiff hits the fan so to speak, the immediate biological reaction in all people is an adrenaline pump, invoking the fight or flight instinct.
- The reaction in women favors the flight instinct.
- The reaction in men favors the fight instinct.
If that's not 100% true, it's a high enough percentage to be definitive. It's a human nature thing; it's how God made us. It's why women have a lot more to overcome than the mere feminine strength deficit in becoming professional warriors.
The Alpha Male differs even from other males in that, when the bullets start flying and the Schiff hits the fan so to speak, they don't just want to fight; they want to go to the sound of the guns and take it to the enemy. They go all aggressive. They don't just want to fight, they want to attack, and win, immediately.
To hell with mere self-defense; let them defend themselves, if they can.
But now, it is deemed by the Marxocrat powers that be, Kamala the Cackler has to "triangulate" a la Billary Clinton, after years of insulting and demonizing American males and touting the supposed "toxicity" of actual masculinity.
She has to try to get some of them to vote for her.
So she's supposedly vetting (as if she knew how) potential VP picks for her 2024 running mate, from among the few Marxocrats who still identify as male, and they all start trying to out-effeminate each other and engage in open competition for who's the most in touch with their innermost feelings, and the most welcoming and inclusive of the other, the least masculine, the least paternalistic, the least fatherly and the most openly emotional.
Look at the Party-recommended lineup: all white men. isn't the Party opposed to the white race too? Well, the powers-that-be insist that the Cackler has to somehow win some of the white male vote in order to not have to cheat so grossly as to be unable to get away with it, so long as the people still have guns. They can go back to being anti-white and anti-male after the election, if they win, and they can't win without a big piece of the white male vote.
And the Party has nothing to fear from any of these white men; they are all listing to port, i.e., to the Marxist Left.
But What About the Harris Citizenship Question?
Elsewhere herein I have poo-poohed the notion that Obama was not a natural born citizen because his mother was an American, even though his father was not. And that the meaning of "natural born" American citizenry, since the freeing of the slaves, was anyone born of American parents, regardless of where they were born.
Meaning, of course, that, constitutionally speaking, there is no such thing as an anchor-baby. Babies born here but not of American parents are not citizens, no matter what their birth certificates say.
The main thing I wanted to point out was the basic dishonesty of Obama; he either lied when he went to Harvard and claimed to have been born in Africa, or he lied later in his political life when he claimed to have been born in Hawaii. He's a liar, either way.
But still a citizen, or so I thought.
But it turns out I was wrong. What the authors of the term "natural born" actually meant was that the father had to be an American citizen, not the mother, and not both parents or just either parent.
And Obama's father was, guess what, not an American citizen.
And that makes Obama not a natural born American citizen.
Natural Born Citizen Clause Still Ignored, by Lex Greene, is a timely piece that reveals that Cackling Kamala is not a natural born American citizen either. (Comment to Lex Greene at: lexgreene23@mailfence.com Lex Greene is a pen
name and if you know American history, then you know why this name was
chosen.)
Kamala's father was Jamaican, not American, and that makes her Jamaican too. Not natural born American, and unqualified to hold either office of President or Vice President. Why is this important today? To quote the article,
The broad answer is, for many reasons. But in the context of what’s happening in the USA today, it’s because if this one Constitutional Clause had been known, understood, and enforced by the people in 2008, our country would not be on the brink of collapse today.
According to the official story, Barack Hussein Obama’s father was never a legal citizen of the USA. Therefore, Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. is not a natural born Citizen of the USA and was never legally eligible for the Oval Office. Had the American people known it, cared about it, and enforced Article II requirements for the office in 2008, Obama would have never occupied the Oval Office and we would not be here today.
This one little simple constitutional requirement for the office exists to prevent everything we are seeing today in our country. Preventing all of it would have been as simple as “the people” enforcing the natural born Citizen requirement in 2008. Preventing election fraud falls to “the people” as well.
But instead, here we are fifteen years later, with Kamala Harris sitting in the VEEP seat and now, running for President of the United States, whose father Donald J. Harris, was a legal citizen of Jamaica, not the USA. She was never eligible to be Vice President, much less President. But who cares, right?
Thanks to our corrupted government-run education system we have had multiple Republicrat contenders for the office of President, among them,
- Nikki Haley – an anchor baby citizen under 14th naturalization laws.
- Marco Rubio – an anchor baby citizen under 14th naturalization laws.
- Vivek Ramaswamy – an anchor baby citizen under 14th naturalization laws.
- Ted Cruz – born a legal citizen of Canada and never naturalized to the USA, the son of a Canadian citizen father at the time of his birth.
But, as pointed out earlier, there is no such thing as an anchor baby.
The problem here is the corrupted government run education system, which no longer teaches the Three Charters of Freedom: the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights. One upon a time those three documents were required to be taught and required to be learned, as the most basic elements undergirding all American political education. If you didn't know those three documents you were considered to be as uneducated as if you didn't know your Bible.
I remember having to memorize and recite sections of those documents in grade school. I remember being tested on them in order to advance to the next grade.
Today, most Americans, including perhaps President Trump, think the constitution is somehow too complex and difficult for non-lawyer laymen to read or even try to understand, and it is left to law professors and high ranking judges and justices of courts to interpret for us.
As if we were idiots.
We've said it before but it bears repeating: the Constitution is a legal document that says very specific legal things. All Americans should be able to read it and understand it, likewise the Declaration and the Bill of Rights.
George Washington never went to any college. Neither did Abraham Lincoln, who practiced law without ever passing any bar exam.
All that was required was the ability to read and a copy of the law.
Any jury in Lincoln's day was comprised of better scholars of the law than most lawyers and judges today. Today, the average English speaking Amish man with an eighth grade Amish education is capable of reading, comprehending and explaining to others the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill Of Rights.
Why do you suppose the rest of us are no longer capable of doing that?
There's nothing difficult about the constitution, which was written for us. It is ours; not theirs, but ours! The minute we start depending on the government to read it and understand it for us is the minute we stop being independent citizens and become dependents.
Because who will be doing the interpreting for us will be a political party who's ultimate goal is to rule over us, and constitutional rule will be gone.
The only thing Truth has going for Him in this world is us.
The restoration of Truth = Reality in the hearts and minds of men is now totally dependent upon you and me; if we don't do it, it won't get done.
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The Evil One and the Impenitent Who Receive His Mark. “And the LORD God formed man (and) breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7
Darwinism: An Abomination Aborting and Rotting the Church. The falling away and apostasy from the one true and personal Holy Triune Creator God has not ended
Blessed is the Man Who Does Not Listen to Falling Stars. Who Follow After Damnable Heresies
Global and Ruling Class Criminal Elitists Their Ring of Power and Pact with the Spirit of Death and Hell
The Secret Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. A life almost totally at odds with his reputation as a minister of the Gospel.
Abortion and Communism. If you ever wondered where all the popular abortion-contraception-sexuality-perversion nuttiness came from, look to Marx's Communist Manifesto.
Could an American Surrender be in the offing with Biden at the wheel? Is this not the perfect time for Communism to strike, with Commies now governing America, China and Russia? What would Biden do?
The Soviet Union: Back From The Dead The Return of the Evil Empire
Can Ukraine Survive Putin and Biden? Can America? Can the Free World? Can Faith in God?
The Need for Secure Borders. Have we so easily forgotten what borders are for? Have we forgotten that evil exists in the world? Have we forgotten how to keep apart from this evil?
Tucker Carlson Carlson Gets His Comeuppance. Tucker's View: It is not moral for us to intervene in support of any nation's (Ukraine's) democratic self-determination and against Soviet military expansion.
Infernal Apocalyptic Atmosphere Over America Disintegration into nothing
Stand With Ukraine Against Russia and China By Cliff Kincaid
The True Christian Church Biblical Christianity and Roman Catholicism Contrasted
World War Quietly Conquering A Distracted and Blithely Unaware World. Could it actually be Satan's world war on despised humanity?
Systemic Nihilism: End of the Human Race Eternal Damnation of Human Souls
The Errors of Russia, the Dupes of Putin, and Another Holocaust Can The Increasingly Faithless Free World Be Saved From Russia?
Revelation 2:7" ...the closing of a steel door – a solemn, cataclysmic slamming of a door."
Teachings of Demons The Aeon of Horus, Reign of God-Men, and End of the Christian God
The Triune God, Supernatural Heaven, Souls, Hell, and Demons Do They Exist?
Message to All Wearied Truthtellers: Let Isaiah Be Your Inspiration the Remnant
America's Transformation Into A Mystical Pantheist God-State What the Death of God Has Wrought
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Judgment and Wrath The Biblical Explanation for Madness and Evil
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2 Corinthians 10:5
The Serpent’s Gnostic Luciferian Elite Oligarchy and Global Powers Demonic Darkness Over the West and America
Our Age of Malicious Perversion How Truth, Meaning, and Reality Have Been Perverted
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Gnosis: The Main Expression of Paganized Christianity in the New Age Inner Knowing, Self-Salvation
Doctrines of Demons and the Modern Pagan and Pantheist Antithesis The West's Greatest Threat
Americas’ Spiritually Dead, Deep State and Ruling Class Nihilists Walking Dead Parasitic Idolaters
Pagan-Darwinian-Materialism Redoubt of Miserable Self-Deceived Non-Self Nihilists
Bury The Dead And Move On Fuggedaboutit!
China's Mass Murder Experiment Phase Two
A Top to Bottom Housecleaning of America When we clean our house, my wife has a slogan, “Top to bottom,” meaning you have to target the whole house. The same advice applies to nations.
THE WORLDVIEW OF EVIL SPIRITS - an article by Linda Kimball MAGICAL MYSTERY CHURCH
A Republican Church Committee? Do Pro-American Republicans Even Know Who Frank Church Really Was?
Death of the Christian God in Hearts of All Humans Why America and W. Europe are Committing Suicide
Who Is Intolerant Because Ashamed: Creationists or Evolutionary Theists?
The Biden Doctrine of Demoralization and Defeat By Cliff Kincaid
Luciferian Humanists: Citing the Genesis Account is Evil “Any country grounded in Judaeo-Christian values can’t be overthrown until those roots are cut
Eternal Paradise Or Hell? How And Why Both Choices Are Freely Made… "
The Five Stooges on Capitol Hill They Think We Need Even More Doped No-Hopers In The American Intelligence Community
Luke 21: 29-31: Some Signs Of America’s Abandonment
And Spiritual Bondage
Trump and His Communist Enemies The Demonized Joe McCarthy Turned Out To Be Accurate In Everything He Claimed: Fox News Is Wrong About Him And About Much More
Fox Is the Leading "Trans" Channel There are some rather peculiar goings-on at the Fox News Channel.
Supernatural Genesis 1-11 vs. Pagan Darwinism God and Liberty or Fallen Mankind and Tyranny
Satanism, Communism: What's The Difference? Look To The Roots Of Communism
Evil in the White House In This War, The Enemy Is In The Ranks, Standing Right Next To You
Psychopathy and the Western and American Tyranny of Evil Leftist Progressive Myths
The Next Phase of Obama’s “Permanent Revolution” By Cliff Kincaid
Climate Emergency To Produce a New World Order By Cliff Kincaid
Raising the New Tower-- Occult Evolution: Antediluvian, Babylonian and Modern Expressions
De-Nazification and De-Communization in Russia The The mutual non-aggression Hitler-Stalin Pact, which started World War II, has been carefully “forgotten”
God to Mankind: NOW Do You See the Stupidity, Depravity, and Evil in Your Hearts?
Making Russia Great Again By Cliff Cinkaid
Our Call to Battle: Rise of the Spirit of Antichrist Prayer Article: “And this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.” (1 John 4:3)
The Last Hour and the New World Order Prayer
On the "Days Of Rage" Planned For The 2024 Marxocrat Party Convention Some of you just couldn't believe that the formerly Democrat (Confederate) Party had already gone totally Communist before the 1968 Party Convention
The enemies of God, reality, truth, western civilization and our souls Linda Kimbal column
Revisiting Nihilism: The Will Turned Toward Evil and the Destruction of Western and American Civilization
Nihilism…All That Exists is Matter and Energy The Worldview that Caused the Collapse of Christendom and Protestant America
Obama’s New Nazi-Communist Alliance
Moscow Terror Attack is Another KGB Operation to Fool the West
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The presence and influence of powers, principalities, and demons in our age of apostasy into godlessness
Christendom and Protestant America’s Apostasy into Paganism A Timeline
System of Lies: Ideological Paradise on Earth and Why the Bloody, Violent Dream Will Not Die
Prayer Against Wicked Ideologues Rescue us, O Lord!
Trump is a Marked Man By Cliff Kincaid
The evil materialist faith of global Luciferianism, Technocracy, Socialism, and Marxism
Trump is Destroying Reagan's Legacy By Cliff Kincaid
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The Last Hour and the New World Order Prayer
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Luke 21: 29-31: Some Signs Of America's Abandonment And Spiritual Bondage
Eternal Paradise Or Hell? How And Why Both Choices Are Freely Made
Luciferian Humanists: Citing the Genesis Account is Evil "Any country grounded in Judaeo-Christian values can't be overthrown until those roots are cut ... "
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The Serpent's Gnostic Luciferian Elite Oligarchy and Global Powers Demonic Darkness Over the West and America
The Creation Model Versus Modern Pagan Models
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Evil Spirits, Death of God, Satanic Inversion Pagan America's Reality of Madness, Demonic Bondage, and Non-Self
Judgment and Wrath The Biblical Explanation for Madness and Evil
The Worldview of Evil Spirits Revolution, Evolution, Materialism, Nihilism, New World Order, and More
Gnosis The Main Expression of Modern Paganized Christianity
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Message to All Wearied Truthtellers: Let Isaiah Be Your Inspiration the Remnant
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Teachings of Demons The Aeon of Horus, Reign of God-Men, and End of the Christian God
Revelation 2:7" ...the closing of a steel door – a solemn, cataclysmic slamming of a door."
Systemic Nihilism: End of the Human Race Eternal Damnation of Human Souls
Infernal Apocalyptic Atmosphere Over America Disintegration into nothing
Global and Ruling Class Criminal Elitists Their Ring of Power and Pact with the Spirit of Death and Hell
Blessed is the Man Who Does Not Listen to Falling Stars Who Follow After Damnable Heresies
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The Evil One and the Impenitent Who Receive His Mark“. And the LORD God formed man (and) breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:7
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Why Secular Liberals Actively Promote Evil. Mentally Retarded Liberals
Cultural Marxism. The Many Hidden Faces of Living Active Communism
The Devil, the Big Bang, Evolution, Extraterrestrials and the Genesis Problem
The Ascension To Power Of Misogyny. Hatred of Women
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America's Modern Pagan Oligarchy, Aztec Gods, and Human Sacrifice. Isaiah 57 Revisited
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Americas’ Spiritually Desolate, Parasitic, Ruling Class Nihilists. Satan and Powers and Principalities
Global Oligarchy, Forces of Darkness, and the Spirit of Antichrist. Forces Darkness Within Church and State
Darwinism: Idol of mind symbolizing hatred of Triune Creator God. And Logical End of America
Is the World a Computer Simulation in the Minds of Robotic Overlords? Magic Science, Transhumanists, Gnostic Physicists.
Your soul: Cost of admission to the Progressive Pagan City of Man. New Egypt, Babylon, Sodom and Gomorrah
Iron Curtain Over American Minds Progressive Marxisms’ Ideological Utopia
Satan’s New World Order Blueprint and Key Strategy. Christian Capitulation To the Serpent's Consensus Process
Chaos, Breakdown, Demoralization, Destruction: America's New Normal. How it came about and where we are going.
Demonic Darkness: America's Invisible Wave of Evil. Staring into the abyss
Cain, Marxism, Leftism and America's ruling class of 'superior' humans. The dragon they have in common
Modernist Christians in a Man-Centered Universe. Scientific Neutrality and Biblical Deconstruction
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Isaiah 57 revisited: America's progressive pagan elites. Staring into the Abyss
Evolutionary Theism Implies That Christ is Wrong About Creation. "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me. But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?" John 5:46-47
Utopianism. Progressive Utopian Cultural Marxism Poisoning Minds, Churches, Schools, Politics
Acts 17:18-19-modern pagan and pantheist antithesis of the Word of God Ecclesiates 1:9 "What has been is what will be.."
Trotsky's Permanent Revolution From Hell In America. The Soviet System in America
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The Evil Eye Of Envy: Why Being ‘White’ Is Offensive To Some People. No Vice Worse Than Envy
Absolute Nothingness and Non-Self: The Reigning Worldview of Global Power Elites and Western Ruling Classes
What is Evil? Man-made alternative realities
Cliff Kincaid
Trump is Destroying Reagan's Legacy By Cliff Kincaid
Trump is a Marked Man By Cliff Kincaid
Terrorist Attack in Baltimore By Cliff Kincaid
Moscow Terror Attack is Another KGB Operation to Fool the West
Obama’s New Nazi-Communist Alliance
On the "Days Of Rage" Planned For The 2024 Marxocrat Party Convention Some of you just couldn't believe that the formerly Democrat
(Confederate) Party had already gone totally Communist before the 1968
Party Convention
Making Russia Great Again By Cliff Cinkaid
De-Nazification and De-Communization in Russia The The mutual non-aggression Hitler-Stalin Pact, which started World War II, has been carefully “forgotten”
Climate Emergency To Produce a New World Order By Cliff Kincaid
The Next Phase of Obama’s “Permanent Revolution” By Cliff Kincaid
Evil in the White House In This War, The Enemy Is In The Ranks, Standing Right Next To You
Satanism, Communism: What's The Difference? Look To The Roots Of Communism
Fox Is the Leading "Trans" Channel There are some rather peculiar goings-on at the Fox News Channel.
Trump and His Communist Enemies The Demonized Joe McCarthy Turned Out To Be Accurate In Everything He Claimed: Fox News Is Wrong About Him And About Much More
The Five Stooges on Capitol Hill They Think We Need Even More Doped No-Hopers In The American Intelligence Community
The Biden Doctrine of Demoralization and Defeat By Cliff Kincaid
A Republican Church Committee? Do Pro-American Republicans Even Know Who Frank Church Really Was?
A Top to Bottom Housecleaning of America When we clean our house, my wife has a slogan, “Top to bottom,” meaning you have to target the whole house. The same advice applies to nations.
China's Mass Murder Experiment Phase Two
Bury The Dead And Move On Fuggedaboutit!
9/11 Truth This is the real 9/11 Truth: Our “intelligence” agencies are infiltrated.
Moving Toward Gorbachev’s “World of Communism” It's called the Monster Plot.
The Errors of Russia, the Dupes of Putin, and Another Holocaust Can The Increasingly Faithless Free World Be Saved From Russia?
World War Quietly Conquering A Distracted and Blithely Unaware World. Could it actually be Satan's world war on despised humanity?
Stand With Ukraine Against Russia and China By Cliff Kincaid
Tucker Carlson Carlson Gets His Comeuppance. Tucker's View: It is not moral for us to intervene in support of any nation's (Ukraine's) democratic self-determination and against Soviet military expansion.
The Need for Secure Borders. Have we so easily forgotten what borders are for? Have we forgotten that evil exists in the world? Have we forgotten how to keep apart from this evil?
Can Ukraine Survive Putin and Biden? Can America? Can the Free World? Can Faith in God?
The Soviet Union: Back From The Dead The Return of the Evil Empire
Could an American Surrender be in the offing with Biden at the wheel? Is this not the perfect time for Communism to strike, with Commies now governing America, China and Russia? What would Biden do?
Abortion and Communism. If you ever wondered where all the popular abortion-contraception-sexuality-perversion nuttiness came from, look to Marx's Communist Manifesto.
The Secret Life of Martin Luther King, Jr. A life almost totally at odds with his reputation as a minister of the Gospel.
"We belong to the Church militant; and She is militant because on earth the powers of darkness are ever restless to encompass Her destruction. Not only in the far-off centuries of the early Church, but down through the ages and in this our day, the enemies of God and Christian civilization make bold to attack the Creator's supreme dominion and sacrosanct human rights." --Pope Pius XII
"It is not lawful to take the things of others to give to the poor. It is a sin worthy of punishment, not an act deserving a reward, to give away what belongs to others." --St. Francis of Assisi
Truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.—Winston Churchill
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.—Ayn Rand
Atheist Genesis:
In the beginning there was nothing, and nothing happened to nothing.And then nothing accidentally exploded and created everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally encountered other bits of everything and formed some new kinds of everything.
And then some bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into self-replicating bits of everything.
And then some self-replicating bits of everything accidentally arranged themselves into dinosaurs.
See?
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