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t doesn't get much play. Do you remember the story about the border patrol people who were whipping the immigrants with literally with whips? And it turns out nope they were just riding horses. It wasn't so much that they were whipping immigrants it was more like they were just people on horses and they were using their horsey thing to keep the horse in control. But most people heard the story but…

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op trying. So you have to figure that over some amount of time eventually our system would be owned by bad actors. It's almost guaranteed.

We have a system that money buys too much. If you can buy influence with money of course the system is rigged. How could it not be? Maybe not in an illegal way. It could be that the rigging is just owning the news sources. All you would need to rig an election is to own the sources of news. You don't need anything else right?

So we act as though owning and funding and promoting fake news we act like that's completely legal so that's not rigging. Of course it's rigging. Yeah if you look at CNN and MSNBC they're not even trying to be news you know after the Iowa caucuses. Not even a wave at ethics. I mean basically they just walk right into full propaganda mode because they can. Yeah so yeah fake news is the biggest problem in the country. Yes it is. Yeah probably is because it drives every other problem. All of other problems would be solvable if we understood what the problem was. It's only because we don't know what it is that we're not solving.

All right Eric Weinstein posted a serious question. Is the Democratic Party of the United States going to rely so heavily on January 6 that it never does any self-examination as to why so many Americans are still voting for Trump? No. Do you know what their self-examination is? Let me do a Democrat self-examination. Huh let's see. Trump has all of these indictments. He's been accused of so many improprieties and yet he's still wildly popular. How do we explain it? Let's do some self-examination. Uh-huh uh-huh. Okay it looks like it looks like the problem is MAGA extremism and probably racism. Uh-huh yeah it turns out the problem is entirely on the other side. There's no fault on this side. Yeah I'm examining as hard as I can and I don't see anything on our side because we're good people and the other side are morons and criminals. And so there's my self-examination.

That's the way everybody does it you know. I'd love to say that's just the Democrats. That's basically every person. That's every person. Yeah yeah you know if you happen to be on the side that's right it doesn't sound stupid. It only sounds stupid when it's obvious you're on the wrong side. I mean you literally have Democrats arguing in favor of racism. You don't have to be a genius to know that's the wrong side right? I mean they act like they're not but they're clearly promoting racism as hard as possible. So it just sounds funny when you know that they're doing everything they can to make things worse but they don't know it. Maybe they do.

Here's some more news if you can call it that. This is also more some more fake news. So I saw Chuck Callesto posted breaking now mutant coronavirus strain that attacks the brain has 100% kill rate in mice created by Chinese scientists as they admit there's a risk it spills over to humans. That's right. China is working on a coronavirus type mutant virus that kills 100% of the mice in which it suggests that it might, don't know for sure, might be able to kill 100% of the people. And the problem would be you know if it got out. That sounds pretty bad right?

Now here's the fake news part of it. Community note says that the headline is misleading. Not the Chuck Callesto part but the headline. Is that the virus strain mutated from a virus that was found in Malaysia in 2017 and the reason they're testing it is to basically be in you know better shape in case it did spill over. So the idea is that the virus already existed and if they test it better they can have a better idea how to stop it.

Now that doesn't mean it isn't a deadly virus and if it gets out we're all dead. That's still true. So you know Chuck Callesto'

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s point about it is accurate directionally. The only thing that needs a tweak here is that it wasn't created by Chinese scientists. It already existed but they do have it in the lab. So it sounds worse if you think they created it. It sounds less worse if you know they're studying it to try to avoid it as a problem which would be rational. But we don't trust anything coming out of China so who kno…

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