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trick. Once your brain is primed for looking for the magic trick you can see it a lot easier. So here's the correlation. People who were interested in magic tricks when they were kids, watch for this correlation, they're less easily fooled by fake news because they're just primed for it. All right. The best Freudian slip of the day was Kamala Harris referring to, quote, a Harris administration,…

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claim that it could not have been a naturally occurring virus and that she can tell you exactly how they made it. Now that's a pretty big claim. Not only is she saying that it's man-made but she's claiming she could make it herself. In other words she already knows the components. If you take this, you take this, I think she said in six months you could make this thing. Is that true? Well I don't know if it's true but there's a claim today that the research institute had some connection with Steve Bannon. Now Steve Bannon has been hammering on China for the Wuhan coronavirus. So that's a little flag. You have to ask yourself, huh, why is this not the headline news? And the answer is I guess the news business has decided it's not entirely credible. That doesn't mean it's false. Remember whenever I use the word credible that doesn't mean true or false. It just means that the nature of it tells you to be cautious about believing it. That's all. So we'll keep an eye on that.

So here's another magic trick. And something that people who study magic would see. The Antifa are using a magic trick. Now most of you know this, which is, and the magic trick is that they name themselves Antifa and then they say, don't you get it? We're anti-fascists. So therefore if you're against us you must be a fascist. Now that's a magic trick to force you into thinking a certain way. The real trick is that capitalism and fascism are the same thing. That's the magic trick. So instead of saying, hey we're going to destroy all capitalism, which you might say to yourself, um that sounds pretty bad because I'm pretty sure if you destroy cap

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italism we all die or we're conquered by China, et cetera. But the Antifa gets to say, oh capitalism? Who said capitalism? I said anti-fascist. I didn't even mention capitalism. What's capitalism got to do with it? But here's how you know that's the magic trick. Have you ever seen the regular news interview somebody from Antifa and ask them this question: Can you tell us, is there such a thing as…

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