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Chelsea-style canteen, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure, the dopamine, the other thing that makes everything better except for elections. It's called the simultaneous sip, and it happens now. Go. Ah. Wow. All right, it's all going down. Well, Rasmussen asked people what they think about celebrities or ex

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ternal politicians campaigning for a candidate. Do you think it helps? Do you think people think that makes a difference when the celebrities and the external candidates are helping out? Well, most people say no, but shockingly 30 percent say it's important or somewhat important. The celebrities and outside politicians help campaign.

Now I don't think I've ever been influenced by a celebrity endorsement. I don't know if I've been influenced by a politician endorsement, although those seem more weighty. But I feel like it works. I feel like it works because if Newsom is campaigning with a celebrity or with Kamala Harris or Biden, he just gets more attention. And the attention is the thing that gets you elected, right? The more attention you get, the better. So I think that these celebrity endorsements do work just because they draw people in and they draw attention. I don't think it has anything to do with the endorsement per se.

Well, do you remember, most of you who watch this recently, I think it was yesterday, I was talking about what? Yes, the preprint paper about young boys getting some myocarditis from the vaccination itself. And I said to you, do not be too confident that this is correct, because even peer-reviewed studies, you know, half of them turn out not to be right. And this is before it's even peer-reviewed. So a preprint should be your lowest level of credibility within the scientific realm. And I warned you that maybe these initial findings might not hold up.

Well, that took about 24 hours. And Alistair McAlpine, MD, so he's a doctor, he says of this major study that showed that young boys were having heart problems from the vaccination, he points out that it's non-peer-reviewed, it's an unpublished preprint, it's based on data dumpster diving through a non-verified database that once listed becoming the Incredible Hulk as a side effect, and it uses outdated statistics to paint a false picture.

So that's one opinion. All right, so one knowledgeable opinion is it's

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a garbage study. And Andres Backhaus is also warning us it's going to fall apart. So if you're worried about young boys having a little heart risk with the vaccination, the first thing you should do is compare it to the risk of getting COVID itself. Because I think it was Scott Gottlieb, ex-head of the FDA, who is now calling this an endemic, meaning you're gonna get it. You get that, right? So w…

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