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his feels like the kind of story that's a story because Trump is no longer in office. You know something is going to fill the news cycle no matter what. You take out Trump and there's this giant empty spot that has to be filled. I don't know. This story isn't interesting to me but it's capturing the imagination. Who do you think would be the natural leader of the populist movement if let's say if…

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he context of the Trump energy or populist gaining momentum will, while Trump is sort of absent from it at the moment, this is the sort of thing that's adding energy to that. Because this seems so blatantly, I hate to say unfair but that's how people will register it. You know the world, there's no such thing as fairness, but people will register this as unfair.

In other news, Black Lives Matter movement has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, which is interesting for a movement which many would consider a racist movement. Now obviously its intention is to be anti-racist but in application it became an overt racist movement I would say. Now that is not to say that the people in it are bad people. But in terms of just how it evolved and what it turned into, I would say that it turned from an anti-racism thing into just a completely racist movement. Even though the goals of it of course most people would agree with, of all that Black Lives Matter of course.

So I think the Nobel Peace Prize has become just ridiculous at this point. I mean yeah it always has been ridiculous but it went to a new level of ridiculousness I suppose. We say that every year.

Funniest thing I'm seeing lately in the news is, do you remember Daniel Dale who I guess works for CNN as their fact checker? So during the Trump administration he would come on and fact check Trump and say everything that Trump said was wrong. And now he's in the role of defending Biden for things taken out of context about Biden. So he claims that this was taken out of context. That when Biden was talking about executive orders, you know he said something along the lines of you shouldn't do a lot of executiv

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e orders unless you were a dictator. Now apparently that was completely taken out of context and it was right. It was taken out of context. So how is that different from every CNN story about Trump? Pretty much all of the news about Trump was just stuff taken out of context but they didn't call it out. Now Daniel Dale will have to call out all the times that Biden is taken out of context. So he we…

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