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for a job. Because that's the person you want. You want the person who is going to say yeah, now you've gone too far. I'm with you on the concept but I'm not going to get on my knees because you're going to make me. It's just not going to happen. So yeah, I would have walked off the team as well. You know Twitter has become this weird alternate reality where a number of people that I follow and f…

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ou know one will say that the sky is blue, the other says the sky is orange. And they'll just be at the same time about the same data as if we can't tell the difference. And we can't. I actually don't know sometimes what's true.

But I've started to block the skeptics who have been so wrong for so long. You know I say this often but the people who are doubting the official narrative are patriots and heroes and you need them even when they're wrong. You need the skeptics even when they're completely wrong. You just have to have that tension. But we've reached a point where some of the skeptics, I'm not going to name names, but some of them have been so wrong for so long that I just can't see them anymore. I just have to block them out of my life. So you may disappear if you're following me if you've gone too far right. I'm still okay with the people doubting mask effectiveness if you want. That's fine. But you know there are some things that are just so beyond proven now that I don't think skepticism is warranted. But it's a judgment call.

Here's an update on propaganda, some people call it news. Huffington Post ran this headline. People are tweeting it around. Cops kill six people in 24 hours after the Chauvin conviction. Don't you feel that headline needed a little context? That the police kill six people in 24 hours after the Chauvin conviction sort of makes you feel as if the police were just going wild and shooting Black people. Nothing like that actually is indicated. But boy, the Huffington Post doesn't even try to be anything but propaganda.

So I'm wondering if the FDA should require warning labels on news. What do you think of that? And I'm not sure if they have that power but let's just talk about this. Now we've talked about the fact that science has determined that watching only the news on one side of the political aisle gives you brain damage. That's the actual word that they use. The scientists do. Brain damage. Because you can't discern reality from fake news if you're only watching one side. It doesn't matter which side, only the right or only the left.

Now I've said before that the people on the right tend to be automatically exposed to the news on the left because that's in the atmosphere. It's just sort of around all the time. But it doesn't work the other way. The people on the left will never watch Fox News. They'll never click on a link. They'll just never see it. So they're not going to watch Breitbart. They're not going to watch anything on the right. So although both sides can be silly, if you're only watching one side you do get brain damage.

And I wonder if something like the FDA could put a warning label on the news. And why not? If you knew that consuming only news from one source gave you brain damage, and again there's no hyperbole here, literally actually those words coming from the scientists, brain damage, shouldn't you label it? Now I don't think the label should go too far because then you'd be impinging on

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maybe freedom of speech a little bit too much. You know you don't want the government putting too much pressure on freedom of speech. But truth and labeling is good. Telling us when there's a legitimate danger. I will still watch it or not watch it. I still have a choice. You're not taking my right to watch it away. But what if CNN and the other, I just used CNN as my example, you could apply thi…

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