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ople are magnetized such that they could put a key on their forehead and it would just stay there. And I don't have to tell you that there apparently is no way that the vaccinations actually magnetize you. So but this was a doctor, right? Do you know what people tell me all the time? Scott you're not an expert in this field. Don't give us your stupid cartoonist opinion because you're no expert. W…
← Previous segment →is the biggest threat. But if you take out the rest of the world and you're looking at the greatest threat to democracy that comes from within, what do you think it is? I think it's the fake news isn't it? I'm pretty sure it's the fake news. Because if we had real news we'd make good decisions. We'd keep our democracy. We might even make it stronger. But if you have fake news you're doing the wrong stuff because you don't know what the problem is.
This is projection. CNN is the biggest threat and other you know fake news. The fake news is by far the biggest threat to democracy. There's nothing even close. Nothing even close. So you see it right? This is the projection part where they are the biggest threat to democracy so they say you are. That's how it works. That's how narcissists work. They always tell you that you are the thing they're doing.
Here's something else they do. They act arrogant like they're better than you. Does CNN ever act like it's better than Republicans? Yeah that's their whole act. Their entire act is that CNN is better than Republicans. Not just different, not just disagreeing. They're better. It's the whole act is that we're better than you. That's it. That's narcissism.
How about misdirection? When they get caught does the CNN directly address criticisms when they don't run the story or they get something wrong? Well sometimes they might run a correction but they don't really do that. They kind of go after the other team and say but you did worse. Look at what you did. Misdirection. That's a narcissist trick.
How about blaming the messenger not the message? Do they go after the people or do they go after the ideas? They go after the people. Now the right does that too but the right almost always also goes after the idea, right? You know the idea that Marxism works. You know it doesn't have the right incentives for example. So the right does go after people as well but they always include the motivation, the system. You know that's the real criticism. The fun part is going after people. But I believe on the left they just sort of go after the people. They never say the system would work better if. They just go after people it feels like.
And lots of lying. Lying is part of narcissism too. Here's Chris Cillizza also opinion piece on CNN. And he says today everywhere you look within the Republican Party these days there is an effort to forget and to minimize what happened at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th.
A Senate report released this week and I guess must have been Republicans behind this aimed at examining the security blah blah about the riot and they left the word insurrection entirely out except when quoting somebody talking about it. The reason aides also steered clear of language that could turn off some Republicans including not referring to the attack as an insurrection.
So CNN opinion guy Cillizza is saying that it's bad that Republicans are leaving out the word insurrection. Do you know why? Why would they leave out the word insurrection? Could it be because they know that you can't conquer a country by occupying a room for a while? That's not an insurrection. It's not even close to an insurrection. That would be as close to an insurrection as mowing the lawn is to a haircut, right? That's really not even in the general neighborhood of an insurrection. That's not in the solar system of an insurrection.
And CNN is actually criticizing them for not using the word that is completely inappropriate. And the way they talk about it is like well you can see it too right? Isn't it obvious to you that they stop using this word insurrection so they don't even make arguments anymore? They just act like it's obvious. It's obvious. Well yeah they should have used the word insurrection. It's obvious. I don't need reasons. Don't ask me about the reasons. It's just obvious.
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is right. I'm reading your comments and you're all right. My daughter thought we mowed the carpet when it got too long. Okay. The fake news is responsible for 2020 maybe. Maybe they were. I feel as if the fake news causes almost all of our bad activities really. We just don't know. At least in the political domain. All right that is all I had to say today. And I'm pretty sure this was one of the…
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