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too. No, that's been debunked, sorry. And join me now for the simultaneous sip.

Oh, I just saw a meme on the Locals platform. I've seen it before but it always makes me laugh. Do you know what the advantage of right-wing women is if you're looking to date? What's the advantage of dating a right-wing woman? This is for YouTube people. On Locals you already saw the punchline. The advantage of a right-wing woman? No penis.

All right. Apparently what we thought was — what I thought I got fooled by fake news, but it's such good fake news I don't even feel bad about it. If you're going to be fooled by fake news you want to be fooled by a really good example of it. And there was a good one yesterday. Did you see the alleged statement from Trump and he was calling himself Herculean? And you said there was a Kevin Sorbo and Lou Ferrigno mentioned. Apparently those were fake. Did you know that those weren't real? But whoever did the fake wrote them so well that I actually thought it was Trump, and I thought he was really on a roll. Anyway, the fake one was every bit as good as a real one. Yeah, like Kevin Sorbo. That was hilarious. I laughed for ten minutes. I don't even mind that I got fooled by that. Did anybody else get fooled by that? And then when you found out you were fooled you're like, oh, that was a good one. So I could be fooled by more of those. That was fine.

Did I mention Brett Stephens last time? I can't remember if I did. So he wrote a piece, I think it's the New York Times, and he was saying that the anti-Trumpers haven't really dealt with the fact that the Russia collusion hoax was a hoax. And it started out by essentially sort of an apology for his own role. And now he can see that the Russia collusion thing was purely a hoax from the end. And he thinks that we have to deal with that more honestly and deal with that as a hoax. And I thought, my goodness, my goodness, here we really have some advantage, right? Because things are going well here because here the New York Times is calling out a hoax, the Russia collusion hoax. And you know it's an opinion piece but still. And then he closed his thing by talking about Trump destroying the republic on January 6.

And I thought to myself, apparently he's learned nothing. Nothing at all. All he did was go from the debunked hoax to the replacement hoax. January 6 is literally the replacement hoax for the Russia collusion hoax that fell apart. All he did was say yeah, that old hoax was a hoax, but I'm glad we have this new thing. And he actually embraced the new hoax like it was real. He was so close to being self-aware and then it all went to hell. He couldn't tell the difference between a hoax while he's in it. He could definitely tell the difference between a hoax and reality after the fact. Af

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ter the fact. But when he's in it, not so good. Not so good. Well, there's a big study out saying that depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance of serotonin. Specifically this news is half fake news. And maybe some of it is real. Here's the fake part. The headline said depression is not caused by a chemical imbalance. The detail of the study said not that. Right? So the first thing you ha…

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