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consumer right. They made something for the customer, so therefore it cannot win any awards because the awards are won by people who make movies for other people in the movie industry. So people could say, my God, your acting in that role made me feel terrible the entire time I watched the movie, but wow did you act well. You acted so well that I have a stomachache when I left. I felt so bad for y…

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day on some podcast or something, he said that every conspiracy theory about Twitter turned out to be true. And he laughed because he couldn't think of any conspiracy theories about Twitter that weren't actually demonstrated to be true. And this one is crazy. It's crazy.

Now I don't think it necessarily made any difference. Like I'm not going to say that if that had been different we would have seen Fauci in a different light. I doubt it. But just the fact that that person, his wife, was in that job, that's just too much of everything, isn't it? That's just too much of everything. How could that possibly be true? I don't know how many times I've been saying this lately. I'll just look at something that's definitely true and I'll just say, how could that possibly be true? How could it possibly be true that the number one person who's being questioned on ethics, his wife is in charge of his ethics? Like yeah, there are seven, what, eight billion people in the world. The odds of that were low, but maybe they were high, you know, given the way things work out.

All right. And then Musk seems to be directly accusing Fauci of gain of function research, which is another way, Elon Musk says, is another way of saying bioweapon. And then he notes that Fauci authored the 2012 paper arguing for gain of function research. And that now, this is all what Musk is tweeting. I can't, I'm not saying all this is true. I'm just going to say Musk is tweeting it, right? And Musk said that Obama wisely put this on pause, meaning the gain of function research, but Fauci restarted it. Now again, I don't know if that's true. Li

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ke I think that you would argue it's not. Yes, there's some indirect thing but not a direct thing. I don't know. And despite these glaring issues, Twitter nonetheless, so at Twitter there was an internal Slack channel where they communicate with each other on this little channel unironically called the Fauci Fan Club. So within Twitter there was a Fauci fan club and they had their own Slack group…

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