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e. Oh, so good. All right, we're going to do a little test, a little intelligence test here. Let's see if the Locals people can beat the people on the YouTube platform who are watching now. All right, it's a question for all of you. It's going to be based on a Rasmussen poll. People were asked if they agreed with this statement. This was something that Trump had said at one point. He said, quote,…
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Anyway, the CDC, who came under a great deal of criticism for their handling of the pandemic, how do you think the CDC is going to respond to all the criticism? So they're going to take action now. They're responding to the fact that they, I guess they confess they didn't do as good a job as they'd like to do. What do you think they're going to do about it? What would Dilbert's boss do about it? What would they do about it? Like literally in a Dilbert comic, what would they do about it? They would reorganize so it appeared that they had done something. That's exactly what my comic would do.
Now, do you remember the rule that Elon Musk has for Tesla? Don't do something that could show up in a Dilbert comic. I've never done a comic about Tesla. Just think about that. I've never done a comic about anything that happened at Tesla. So apparently they take that seriously. But the CDC, as soon as they're being criticized, they decide that their response is to reorganize. I'm thinking to myself, that is exactly my comic. That's exactly my comic. There's nothing I would even add. That's the joke right there. So good job there, CDC, at making it worse.
All right, so yesterday, based on a smart suggestion, I decided to grab the domain hoaxquiz.com. So now I own that domain, hoaxquiz.com. And it seems to me that what we need is some kind of a competitor to Snopes and the other fact checkers. And so I started with my list of the top 10 hoaxes, which is now up to 14. People have added to it. So we've got 14 what I would consider confirmed hoaxes. One of them's not quite confirmed but looks like it will be.
But here's my problem. I'm not willing to put the Hoax Quiz up unless I can do conservative hoaxes too. You okay with that? If I say Seth Rich being murdered by Hillary Clinton is a hoax, you're gonna be okay with that? Because if I don't do it, there's no point in doing it at all, is there? If I don't have conservative hoaxes on there, there's no point in doing it at all. It'd be a complete waste of time. But if I put both of them on there, then what position does that put me in? It puts me above the news. Now, could I pull that off? Probably not. Probably not. It would be pretty tough.
But imagine you could create a place where people could go look and find out if the news is promoting a hoax. And let's say you actually were convinced that it showed hoaxes on both sides. You showed the conservative ones as well as the left-leaning ones. Would that make you more likely to find it credible? Before you answer, know for sure that I'm going to tell you things that you believe are true or hoaxes. I can't help it. I can't help it, because we all have different opinions, right? So there are going to be things on that list that you think are real that I think are a hoax. So you have to be okay with that. Can you handle it?
See, the trouble is this is not the sort of thing you can do right. Okay, can we agree on that? You can do maybe good enough. And good enough would be some kind of a guardrail on the fake news so the fake news doesn't get too far out of control. But it wouldn't be possible for me to be right every time, no matter how I judge it or who I bring in to help me judge it. It's not really possible that I'd be right all the
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time. Should I do it anyway, knowing that I would be wrong on some notable, probably some big examples too? I don't know what that would be. But should I do it if I know I'm going to be wrong? Yeah, see, already I'm getting pushback on the Seth Rich. Here's what I'd s
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