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nd of lined up by politics, right? We expect all the political questions to be roughly Democrats say this, Republicans say that. But they found out that when they primed the people with a one-sentence summary of what the Durham report said, it completely changed the answers to the poll. In other words, the public was so misinformed that they didn't know, because they watched legacy media. If you…

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ople who just weren't aware of the news, as soon as they heard an accurate summary of the news, the Durham report changed their answer immediately because they had never heard the news. And this was the news that, if you could call it news. So this is the story that made me think, holy cow, we no longer live in a world where the news is even trying to be news. It's only trying to prevent you from hearing stories. That's it. It's news prevention.

All right. Speaking of polls, there's a Berkeley IGS poll on Feinstein. And as you know, Feinstein is decomposing in her chair and doesn't remember that she was gone for three months from the Senate.

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Basically she's completely dysfunctional. And while we feel human empathy for her situation, she does work for us, right? She works for us and she's not doing the job. So those are just facts. But there was a poll. Well, let me just do a little test of my audience. Let's see if you can get this within two basis points. Obviously if you can guess the answer within two. How many people polled do yo…

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