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o notice now? Maybe they'll just never see this news because it was in the Washington Times, you know, so they're not going to necessarily see it. But I feel like it's the beginning of a crack in the two-movie model. I've been telling you since 2015 or so that we're watching two movies, but they're playing at the same time on one screen. We're both looking at exactly the same stuff or similar stu…
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Somebody says Microsoft covered it. You mean MSNBC? Somebody saw a live streaming. Who has the talking stick? I don't know what that means. Business Insider, Daily Beast, and Business Insider covered it. So do you remember my rule that if CNN and Fox News treat it the same, that means something? Fox News and CNN treated this the same by ignoring it. What's that mean? Because they didn't even report it as a mystery. You know, I would get it if they didn't know who was behind it and they're looking into it. That would make sense. But how do you not report that you're looking into it or that it's a mystery or that it's a question?
I just saw that Scott's on Gateway Pundit this morning. Am I? What's it say about me on Gateway Pundit this morning? So, but here's my main point about this alleged Patriot Front group. You want to hear the good news? Nobody believed it. Now take yourself mentally back four years ago. Just in your mind, just go back four years ago. Imagine the same event looking exactly the same. Does everybody believe it? Four years ago everybody would have believed that that was a real group marching. What do you believe today? Today nobody believed it. It was so unbelievable it didn't make the news. It was so unbelievable it didn't make CNN or Fox News. That's how unbelievable it was.
Oh, another truth bomb. Okay, that's what Gateway Pundit's talking about. One of my tweets or something. Okay, I'll take a look at that. Thank you for that.
So I would say that this is another indicator, similar to the AOC pretending she doesn't know there's any smash and grabs going on of any size anyway. The Patriot Front thing plus the AOC thing is suggesting to me that the credibility of the hoaxes is starting to decrease. It looks like the left is not as uncritically believing everything that happens or everything told. I believe that the left has gained skepticism, possibly for the first time.
All right. Yeah, most people were blaming the Lincoln Project. I don't know that the Lincoln Project was behind it necessarily, but the fact that that's your first instinct shows that we've all grown up, haven't we? Think about how your awareness of how the world really works has changed since the era of Trump, right? The way you think of reality itself, what you think of the news and how true it is, how you think of the narratives, completely different. And I would argue that we've inoculated ourselves maybe better than other countries.
Now I'm not your big international expert, but I'm going to put this out here. You know, we sometimes like to talk about American exceptionalism, which I generally reject as being just a little bit too "we're awesome." But there are some things that are unique to America. The Second Amendment, chief among them, that I think does make us different. But here's another one. I feel like America is now way ahead of the curve for understanding propaganda and its effect on people.
Now I don't know that, you know, it could turn out that Denmark is way ahead of us or something. I wouldn't know. But I feel as though the age of complete information warfare, where misinformation being fed into other adversarial countries is going to be World War III brainwashing, and I feel like America inoculated itself with the Trump experiment. Because the Trump, let's say, ex
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perience, the Trump experience caused so much fake news in the United States coming from official sources that the citizens of this country learned that news is fake or can be or is narrative and all those things. And I don't think we knew that five years ago. Like as a country we didn't know it. We suspected it, you know, people talked about it, but we didn't know it. Now we know it. Now we know…
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