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ia. Yeah, and green tea didn't help a bit. Well, screw your green tea. Coffee will take your dementia down to nothing. And now the simultaneous sip. I don't know about you, but I do feel my dementia going down a little bit. Approximately 51, 50, 51. That's what it feels like. Oh, antibodies, antibodies coming online, going hot. All right. You know, most topics in the United States end up coming…

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the cleanest topic I've ever seen on this. Are there any other topics you've ever seen in which it broke down not by political party? It broke down by smart people and idiots. Can you think of anything else like that? Honestly, is there any other topic like that? Yeah, term limits. I don't know. Term limits. Sorted. I think that can be all over the place. Yeah, okay.

Bill Maher continues to be the most interesting person in political commentating because he's doing something fairly heroic, which is he's trying to turn the ship on his side. But I swear to God he's doing it single-handedly. It's like he doesn't have any help at all. And what I mean is he's the only person with one eye in the land of the blind, and he's realizing what the left is doing. He can see the overreach. I guess that's the best way to say it. He can see that he still likes the left in terms of general politics, but he can see the overreach, and he's trying to push back on that. He's using his platform.

And he had an interview with Chris Cuomo that I definitely recommend you watch, because I hope I can do this justice. But you have to see Bill Maher correct a Cuomo in the gentlest way I've ever seen anybody corrected on anything. And it's kind of brilliant. I mean, my instinct was he should have gone harder at it, but when I think about it a little bit more, I think the pacing and the leading are important.

So here's the setup. Cuomo says that nobody even understands what CRT means, much less do we teach it in school. It's not being taught in school, and nobody even knows what it means, but it's definitely not being taught in schools. So that's what Cuomo says on CNN, your trusted news source station. He says this to Bill Maher. Bill Maher, of course, knows this is a lie, and kind of. It's not a direct lie, but it is intended to mislead, clearly, because the answer is that the CRT ideas are baked into the curriculum in a lot of schools. And they just don't call it CRT because they're not teaching the theory. They're just taking parts of it and embedding it in the curriculum. So that gives CNN enough cover to say it doesn't exist. But it does exist.

And Bill Maher knows it exists. He says he read up on it. There it is. He's read it himself. All right, there's no question that it exists. It just isn't called that. It's just embedded. And you have to see how gently Bill Maher, without actually disagreeing with him, corrects him. It's actually really, in terms of quality of communication, it's really good. I don't know. I was just impressed with how he did it. That you could see somebody totally fact-checked, and I guess here's the frame that makes it interesting. CNN is supposed t

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o be the news, so CNN is the one supposed to be bringing the facts. Their guest fact-checks them on live TV and didn't even get a pushback because he did it so cleverly. There was nothing to push back on. It was really well done. All right. Nuclear energy is the new solar panels. That's me talking. Nuclear energy is the new solar panels, meaning it's the new thing. The Indonesian government said…

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