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except shopping. It's called the simultaneous sip. Happens now. Go. Yeah, yeah, that's good. Well, happy Black Friday, as the racists call it. I call it All Day Friday or All People Friday. Yeah, it's All People Friday because it turns out that you're allowed — what was that? Something bad just happened anyway. It turns out that you're allowed to shop today even if y

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ou're not black. So it's called Black Friday but it turns out everybody can shop, which I feel is very open-minded. So happy All People Friday.

I don't know if I told you my play with Rob Reiner's tweet, and it's a play that I use a lot now. You know how the left and the right are in their own news bubbles and social media bubbles? They don't see much from the other side. So if you're trying to persuade the other side, how do you do it? Something very loud happening outside my house. Doesn't sound good. I don't know what it is but there's heavy equipment right outside my house. I hope nobody called the wrecking crew. That is a terrible prank, by the way. Never hire a wrecking crew for your neighbor's house. Somebody actually did that prank once anyway.

My play with Rob Reiner's tweet, in which he said he had a bunch of stuff wrong about the Rittenhouse case. He said in November 23rd — now remember, by November 23rd the entire country should know the actual story of Rittenhouse. Well listen how bad his version was, and I'll add something to what I've said before about this. An underage kid illegally took an assault rifle across state lines. Nope, nope. Didn't take it across state lines and it wasn't illegal, and that's why there were no charges. Now there were charges that were dropped, but by the time they went to a verdict there were no charges about any gun-related thing.

Now how could you not know that? Well you'd have to be in a pretty deep bubble, right? Now I saw some people saying, "Oh they know it. They know the gun wasn't illegal. They're just saying that." No, no, they really don't know. The level of ignorance — let me be fair, it's on both sides, left and right. The level of ignorance that both sides have about each other's news is really shocking. And if you don't think that's the whole story here, you think that they're just lying and of course they know the real story, I don't think so.

I would place a very large bet that when Rob Reiner wrote this tweet he did not know the actual story, because their news doesn't report it. Well it does report it but it reports it inaccurately. So let me tell you my play here. My play is not to embarrass Rob Reiner because I don't care about him individually, and my play is not to convince a whole bunch of people on the right because they already got the correct news. So how do I reach the people on the left?

Well here's my hypothesis, and I think it's fairly accurate, which is that blue check Twitter people kind of pay attention to the other blue checks. Am I right? Now if you don't have a blue check next to your name you may not have experienced this, but I can tell you that I regularly look at all — I try to look at most of my comments, but on top of that I also try to look at — uh, there's somebody at my door and I'm going to have to figure out what's going on here because something big is happening right outside my door right now. Sorry, I better check on this, see if it's anything important.

I'll show you what it is. It's a bird sitting in front of my security camera. So there's a bird. There's one bird today that walks — I think it's the same bird. He just walks in front of my security camera every day. All right, so I'm not being attacked now. I'm a little extra cautious because my neighborhood's been hit with a crime wave of people literally breaking through a window and carrying your stuff away while you're home. So it's a dangerous neighborhood at the moment anyway.

My play with Rob Reiner is to get him to see my comment because I'm a blue check and to see if I can break through. And here's what I want him to feel. I don't need him to be embarrassed. I don't need him to tweet something different. I want him to look at my tweet and say there's somebody with a blue check who has different news for me and he's saying it right out loud. Maybe I should look at this and see which one of us is wrong. So that's the play. I'm trying only to convince Rob Reiner that his news is wrong. I'm not even trying to change his opinion, so there's no politics in it. I'm just trying to convince people that they're watching fake news. And I think that's doable. I think that's do

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able, especially with the Rittenhouse case. It's like the Rosetta stone for unlocking all the fake news on the left. All right, well the Washington Post, as Dinesh D'Souza points out, the Washington Post is quote "working hard to deny human agency to black criminals." This is Dinesh's take on it about Waukesha. And you've seen this, right, where the news is talking as if the SUV driven by a black…

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