et a little bit closer to the truth because I just can't be that far away. But once you've said hey it's a subjective opinion, what's your lived experience, put that into your opinion and it's all good. Once you say that you get pure batshit insanity. Now anybody who knew anything about human beings would have predicted that and that's where we are. Actual batshit insanity. Because the guard rails are off. Anybody who understood humans would have seen that coming. Interestingly.

So I had a little back and forth with a gentleman named Luke Zaleski. He's a legal affairs editor at Condé Nast and he's also a fact checker. He's head of fact checking and he's part of the resistance so he's very very left leaning guy. And he replied to one of my posts today and he said, and I want to just get your impression of what this sounds like to you. So remember he's in the media. He's literally a fact checker associated with big publications. He said the truth, and he put truth in all capital letters. Is that a tell? When somebody says the truth and they put truth in all caps? Yeah on the second word he signaled that he was not a legitimate player. That's the fastest fail you'll ever see in one post.

Okay the truth is Trump is a lifelong fraud who took office in 2016 with Russian interference, lied about it, acted like a Putin asset, lost re-election, contested it as asked to by Russia in 2016 and incited insurrection and now he's ruling the GOP in exile just as Putin would want. Does that sound like an opinion? It doesn't even sound like advocacy journalism. It comes off as a mental health issue doesn't it? Am I the only one who feels it? Now I'm just to be clear I'm not qualified to diagnose mental health and if I were I would know enough not to do it from a distance from somebody I had not met with in person. I'm telling you as a receiver of the communication how it, how I'm responding to it. And my response which I replied back was this looks like this looks more like a mental health issue than an opinion. But one could also end up here by not having access to real news. So that would be the Bill Maher situation. You could get here by not having access to real news as is common on the left. And I said or it could be advocacy journalism which I understand is a thing. I can't read minds. I'm just observing how it looks.

Now how do you think Luke took that? Do you think Luke said well that's some good input. I will analyze the way I've been communicating and take seriously your observation because I can tell that you're really just giving me feedback and you're not my enemy. Did anybody expect it to go that way? Okay it didn't go that way. Didn't go that way. So Luke said Trump's willing to treat his fellow citizens like mortal enemies. What? Trump is treating his own base like mortal enemies? What? But he goes on. He's the most divisive character in American history. He's an effective vehicle for Putin's aim of destroying the nation. He is dividing and conquering us and his followers have no idea they live inside a giant lie.

All right. Treat his fellow citizens like mortal enemies. As I responded, comes off as a mental disorder. That comes off as a mental disorder. Again I'm not saying he has a mental disorder because I wouldn't be qualified to diagnose that. I am qualified to diagnose somebody who's brainwashed. You know I am a trained hypnotist. He's very brainwashed. Let me say that with certainty. This is just brainwashing and it's a real bad case of it.

Anyway I recommended that he find a Republican therapist because it must be stressful to live that way. Now was that good advice that he should find a Republican therapist? Now is that just a joke? It's not. That's not a joke. This gentleman, if these are his actual opinions, you never know it could be just advocacy for a team, but if these are his real opinions imagine living inside that reality and imagine how much better he'd feel if he talked to a well-informed Republican therapist who could maybe sort out hyperbole from reality and truth from advocacy. Now imagine you went to a Democrat therapist instead. Do you think it would go the same? Do you think a Democrat therapist would say well you do ha