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w how many people there were named Jim Baker who were lawyers. This is not a joke. Until yesterday I was telling myself, "God, why is it there are so many lawyers named Jim Baker?" Right, because there was a famous James Baker in the Reagan administration, right? And I always think of him as a famous lawyer named James Baker. But it seemed like lately I kept hearing stories about, you know there'd…

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ations against him that he is like the dirtiest lawyer and he's connected to the Clinton machine and all Democrat stuff.

Now here's the payoff. Here's the part that I thought I was hearing wrong all day yesterday and Eric Weinstein tweeted apparently his brain was exploding the same way. So I'll just read his words because his words capture exactly what I was thinking.

He tweeted, "I can't quite believe what I'm reading so let's go slow. It's a common name. See the problem? It's a common name but they all seem bad lately. It's a common name but they all seem bad lately. All those Jim Bakers. Every Jim Baker."

All right. And then Eric goes on. He goes, "The FBI's former attorney – oh yes." So Jim Baker was Comey's guy. He was the FBI's attorney and the FBI of course implicated in all the bad stuff. The FBI's former attorney was hired by previous Twitter management and was the one who was vetting the Twitter files to be given to Matt Taibbi and also Bari Weiss.

So apparently I think it was Miranda Divine who noticed that the Twitter files were seeming to miss references to the FBI that everybody expected would be in the documents but it turns out that those documents were vetted and filtered through the person who had been the FBI's main guy.

Now how in the world did this happen? And here, and the further to the joke you know is reality but it looks like a joke. Further to the reality that is a joke: Elon Musk who bought the company didn't know that the hold up with some of those materials is that they were being vetted through the one person out of eight billion people on the whole planet there was one person you didn't want in that job: Jim Baker. He was in that job.

Now, quiz me this, riddle me this. Remember when Musk took over and there were mass quitting? A lot of Twitter people said "I can't survive this situation. I'm out of here." But you know Jim Baker wasn't one of them. Jim Baker stayed in his job. I wonder what could be more than one reason that Jim Baker would have stayed in the job when so many disaffected people, especially ones who really really like the Democrats, they were leaving quite rapidly. And yet Jim Baker who one imagines is very employable, somebody who would have no problem getting another job right away, why would he stay under the Musk control when that would be everything bad for a person like Jim Baker? Why, why, why could it be? Oh it's because he needs the job, needs a paycheck. That's why, right? He needs a paycheck. That's why anybody keeps the job. But is there any other reason? Any second explanation that a person exactly like him would stay in the position longer than you would imagine they would? Hmm. It see

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ms he was in the perfect position to cover up his own behavior and that of people who he might want to protect. Now I'm not alleging he did that because you know he's a lawyer. I don't want to get a suit. I'm just saying that if you had two explanations for your observation I wouldn't discount either one of them. He might need a paycheck. Possible. Maybe he's not as employable as I imagine. But h…

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