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at technique a try. And here it's happening and it's working. It looks like it's capturing our imagination in a very similar way. I mean kids is obviously the ultimate. If you could do something about a story where kids are being injured that's your ultimate persuasion. But Haitians have something going for them too don't they? What the Haitians have going for them is that they're black. And in t…

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y the time we're done here. I haven't checked the comments yet but it looked really persuasive. If you had only seen the claim you absolutely would be convinced. If you've never seen any pushback on it, it looks very convincing. There's a graph and it shows that the time that ivermectin was put into place and then the graph falls. And then you compare it to the United States and other countries and we're just going up.

But allegedly, I don't know if any of this is true but allegedly India went up and then ivermectin and it went way down. Did that really happen? Because it's an outrageously specific claim with stuff that could all be checked publicly. Now I don't have the time to check it. That's why I was asking other people to look at it. But somebody says curry. I don't think so.

Anyway so I'll just put that out there that I don't think there's anything true to that story but I'd love to be wrong. That would be fun. What did, oh ivermectin sounds good until you listen to the Z dog. All right so I'm going to call that BS, that story BS that India beat the delta with ivermectin. I don't think that's true but I'll let the skeptics tear that apart.

The new story about Hunter Biden. I guess Business Insider has this breaking news. Allegedly Hunter Biden asked, there's some new emails of Hunter Biden that have been discovered not from the laptop. So they're Hunter Biden emails allegedly but not from the laptop. So you have to w

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onder if they're real. That's the first question. All right apparently Hunter Biden asked for a retainer of two billion dollars per year plus a success fee because two million a year not enough. You also need a success fee to help unfreeze money belonging to the Libyan government. This was in 2015 while his father was still vice president. What? What am I reading? Is this real? And now it's brea…

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