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feel good. It's like one of the best feelings. There are very few times when you don't have to, let's say, respond to other people's social pressures. But a good sneeze in the woods, that'll set you free. You'll feel good all day. So if you haven't tried that, go try that now. Here's a question that I've been wondering. What is the exact ratio of fake news to real news? Fake news over real news.…

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y pushed as real.

How many of the hoaxes that CNN promoted did Alex Jones believe? How about none? How about none? Do you get any credit at all for being able to spot the other side's conspiracy theories? You know, CNN acts like they're the only ones who could spot a conspiracy theory. I'm pretty sure Alex Jones spotted a few on them. Pretty sure. And we're going to talk about somebody else who spotted some sketchy behavior on CNN in another segment.

So anyway, Alex Jones is responding I think because he lost some lawsuits or one lawsuit about the Sandy Hook story. So I don't need to get into that. But he made some claims that did not hold up and some people proved that they were injured in court. They proved it anyway, at least to a jury's satisfaction. So he owes lots of money to people who claim to be victims of his so-called conspiracy theories, at least one specific one. And so when you file for bankruptcy you're really just trying to give yourself protection against a big lawsuit or a big specific problem. It doesn't mean that he's cash negative or that he's losing money. It just means he couldn't pay all of that money all at once or he chooses to find some way to weasel out of it. So it's more of a financial technique. The only thing we can know for sure is that he's not making so many millions of dollars that it's worth it to him to just pay a few million to make it go away. So we don't know exactly what his financial situation is but don't assume that it's bad just because he uses this financial technique. That doesn't mean he's in trouble financially.

How about this? A Florida judge just put the kibosh on mask mandates and at least the TSA for example is dropping them and now Uber and a number of other places are dropping them. But they're not being dropped everywhere. So there are some cities that are keeping them on local mass transit for example and not all of the airlines have weighed in yet. But most of the airlines are going along with dropping the requirement.

Can we take a moment? I mean it's not over over but it's going to be because you know the slippery slope works in both directions. Right now we're heading back to something closer to normal. Now I never believed that we would have to wear masks forever. Did any of you? How many of you believed? Yeah, somebody I'm seeing in the comments, I don't know if this is true but somebody say it was a Trump-appointed judge. Was it a Trump-appointed judge that made that decision? Is that confirmed or is that just a Twitter thing? A lot of people say yes so let's treat it like it's yes. Isn't that kind of perfect? Remember I told you that one of the prediction methods I use is if things work out too perfectly like a movie would work out it might tell you you live in a simulation. But for some reason it predicts we so often end up in a situation where that could only happen in a movie. There's another one I'll tell you later about one I got wrong.

So I don't have much to say about this except that thank God. Oh my God. And by the way congratulations to all of you. Congratulations. I know some of you fought the mandates and thank you. So for everybody who pushed back against the mandates when it was really clear, once it became clear that they were over-applied, thank you. Thanks for all the citizen pushback. Thanks for being on the right side in my opinion and thanks for being active. At least making your thoughts known. You know I've always told you that I can't speak for other countries but in the United States the public does run the government. We just sort of act like we don't know it. The only thing the public has to do is agree. If the public agrees they can get what they want. Our system pretty much guarantees it. Maybe not on day one but if the public is all

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on one side solidly they're going to get what they want. So basically this is a victory of the public because who knows what the government would have done on its own. Who knows. But we do know that the public pushed it until it broke. I think that's just what happened. I think that anybody who makes a decision to unmask is doing it in the context of knowing that the public has had enough. It's go…

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