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hole information, we're done. I was trying to imagine what would happen if I were to talk to him on Club Random, you know, one-on-one about his Trump derangement syndrome or anything else in politics. And one of the weird things I came to believe is that he and I have enough of a similarity in age and background and demographics, you know, I almost went to the college he went to, upstate New Yor…

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with New York Times and some basic reporting entities that he thinks he trusts. But I feel like that's a 40-years-ago strategy. I mean back when we had this idea that there were a few trusted sources and if you stuck with the trusted sources you were in good shape and you were in better shape than all the poor unwashed bastards who were looking at the wrong news. And now it's completely reversed. Well not completely. I don't mean that the bad sources became good sources. Nothing like that. I mean that if you don't look at both the bad sources, the bad sources in quotes, because you know my bad source is your good source, which is the whole point. Even if you don't like the other person's source you got to look at it. You just got to look at it. Because both sides leave out stuff that's inconvenient to their narrative. So it's not that necessarily they're just telling lies, although there's that too, but they're just leaving out major variables that would completely change your opinion. So if you don't see both sides you don't at least get alerted to something you should try to find out if it's real or not.

So even the entities which the left would say those are all fake news, they all have stuff that's context that you could kind of check out on your own. Wait, let's Google this. Is this context true or not? And if you're not exposed to the context you just don't know what's going on. You really don't. So I think that's the only thing I would want to accomplish is that Bill broaden his net of news acquisition and then I think he and I would end up on the same page, minus you know he might hate Trump for personal reasons which would be different.

How many of you have seen videos of people stuffing dropboxes? Yes or no? Have you ever seen a video of somebody allegedly stuffing an election Dropbox? Probably everybody uses X. All right. Now in how many of those videos did the video showing somebody stuffing an election box, how many of them told you whether that was legal or illegal in that state? I haven't seen one of those yet. I've only seen the video of somebody stuffing a box. The one I saw today, y

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ou know, was allegedly a gotcha on CNN because there was a CNN reporter standing in front of the only Dropbox and wherever they were. And as he was standing there on one side of the Dropbox the video is showing a citizen pulling up and stuffing a whole bunch of ballots into it. And then the video was, you know, obviously the box is being rigged and stuffed right in front of the CNN guy and he does…

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