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ernie's too old and say that ah Trump's fine because he's acting right. To be clear, Trump does not show any worrying signs of age. I don't see any. He looks like he's 100%. But can you trust that? Can you trust it? No, I don't trust it at all. Then you shouldn't trust it. It would be crazy. In fact Biden wasn't completely gone when he ran for office. If we'd gotten the Biden that ran for office…

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on for climate change.

Is climate change real? I don't know. But I know there's no way to know. There's no way for me to know. I don't know if there's any way for anybody else to know but no way for me to know.

All right. So CNN and MSNBC have dropped the veil of trying to be news. Is that a fair statement? The MSNBC and CNN based on the Iowa caucuses and how they were handled, I feel like they stopped pretending. Which actually is sort of a relief because it was the pretending they were real news that was bugging me the most. As long as they don't pretend they're real and people understand that then I'm a little more comfortable.

I've always liked that about Fox News. In my opinion Fox News you know has obviously it caters to a right-leaning audience and so they present news that their audience is going to like. And but the thing is with Fox News they're completely self-aware as are the audience I think. You know when Jesse Watters jokes that he's going to be you know sort of an unreasonable Republican sounding pundit, we laugh with him because it's obviously true that he's going to take a Republican pro-Trump position. And so once he laughs at himself right in front of you because he's mocking you know the understanding that he's pro-Trump, it doesn't bother me because it's transparent. Here I am going to be favoring this person. So if you want to watch that content Fox News is a great place to do it.

I always say the same thing about Fox News because they don't get enough credit. The producers for Fox News are just the best. Like they just put on the best shows and they're consistently the best. Everything from who's on the show to the combination of people on the show to the topics they pick, the production quality itself. It's just all the best. Well you can dislike the coverage or the bias or whatever that would be fair but the production quality is just it just blows me away every time I see it.

You know somebody just said hair and makeup. I have a hypothesis that I haven't checked that Fox News changed their style in the last few months because I noticed that the on-air personalities especially on The Five, I noticed it the most, suddenly went from you know professionally dressed of course to really well dressed. Did anybody else notice that? It was sort of striking. It happened kind of overnight. Every like especially the women. I don't notice the men so much because they wear boring clothes but the women they all just their wardrobes just like went up a level suddenly. So good news anyway.

Why am I talking about that? All right here's some more lies. There's a Michael Moore video going around that reports to show Michael Moore giving a full-throated endorsement to Trump. That is a fake video. How many were fooled by that? How many of you think you saw a Michael Moore video on X and said my God I didn't realize he was totally supporting Trump? Now did it get you? Yeah it was a pretty good fake.

So here's how it was done. It's a Rupar from 2016 so it's not current. It's 2016 and the Rupar part of it is they edit out at the end where he says basically ugh Trump he's terrible don't vote for him. But the first part he was doing pacing as I often tell you you should do for persuasion. So it looked like he was reading an opinion of someone who was very pro-Trump so the audience could understand how an ordinary person could say Trump was on their side. So he read it with you know the complete sincerity of the person who wrote the letter even though it disagreed with him. So that's pacing. He was agreeing with his audience that yeah there is a reason w

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e do fully understand why somebody would support Trump but and then he would give his reasons why it's a bad idea. But they cut out the part where he changes and says it's a bad idea. So that was just a fake news but weirdly it was a true fake news because the part that it did show was based on a real person's opinion in a real letter and it did very well point out why real people support Trump.…

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