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Back to episode — Episode 2380 CWSA 02/10/24

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2 can feed plants such as Joe Biden and vegetables. I get it. I see your joke. I will steal your joke. All right. There's a Kentucky state senator who wants a constitutional amendment to ban non-citizens from voting. Can you believe this is even a question that we are seriously talking about not just letting a few of those non-citizens vote? I mean, it's just going to get lost in the noise anyway…

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victory lap. You might know the actor and activist Michael Rapaport. He's been making some news. He was on the Tim Pool show. I was talking about him and others. He was on, oh I can't, why can't I remember his initials? PBD. PBD. I'll never be able to remember his initials. I don't know why. Oh, it's because the P and the B and the D. Oh I got it. I'm dyslexic. Look at the letters. The lowercase letter p, b, and d. Lowercase, they're all the same letter. P, B, and D are all the same letter. They're just upside down and backwards. You see that? I just realized why I could never get his name. Yeah, if I remembered his full name it'd be easier. No, but P, B, and D in lowercase are all the same letter. I actually can't see it. They all just jump around when I look at them. I never realized that before, but that's I think that's the problem. Well, that and the fact that my brain is corroding faster than Biden's.

Anyway, Rapaport is coming out and saying that he was initially fooled by the fine people hoax and he actually believed that Trump had said those neo-Nazis were fine people. And now he's going public and saying he knows that that was taken out of context and when you see the full quote it's obvious he said the opposite of that. And here's what's amazing about it. The fine people hoax, in my opinion, was the second biggest political hoax of my time. The second biggest. The Russian collusion was bigger. But it was the second biggest political hoax. And it is now being treated, at least on the right-leaning side of the world, as being treated as simply a fact that it was a hoax. When you watch the Tim Pool show, there's nobody on the other side saying, "Oh but he did say it." We're actually past that. There's nobody arguing he actually said it unless you have actually just batshit crazy Democrats.

So I'd like to give... now I do think that this hoax is an evergreen. If you wait two years it'll just revive itself and somebody will believe it happened again. But at the moment it's beaten down more than I've seen it beaten down. So big shout out to Steve Cortes who's been working against that hoax for years now and Joel Pollak also and Breitbart especially in tweeting and posting. And then of course I have been a maniac about it. So I would say that the three horsemen of the debunking of that hoax, we may have made a difference. By the way, let me ask you, do you think it would be commonly understood that it was a hoax even on the right? Do you think it would be commonly understood without debate if the three of us had not been pushing on it for seven years? I think it made a difference. Yeah. Like I never know what makes a difference, but seven years of just maniacally pushing back on that thing, at least speaking for myself, I think it made some difference. But only on the right. The people on the left don't get real news so they have no idea.

All right. So no surprise here, but the Democrats are pulling out some lawfare against RFK Jr. and it looks like they're accusing him of illegal activities. I don't know, something about a Super PAC. It's probably... and now they've opened a federal investigation to remove him from the ballot. Come on. How do the Democrats not see what's happening now? How can you not see what's going on? They don't get the news. If they saw the same news we do maybe they'd see the same thing. But yeah, that's disgusting.

And you know what's funny about it is that, and I'll give RFK Jr. some credit, if you look at RFK Jr.'s character and his life of work, now that doesn't mean everything he's ever said about vaccinations is true because I doubt it. It's very unusual everybody would be true about that domain. But I swear I never really suspect him of intentionally lying. I just don't see it. I mean he's been talking about a lot of things for a long time and I'm looking for the lies. Now there might be things he's incorrect about. Not going to argue that at all. But if you compare the Biden administration to RFK Jr., I don't even need to look at the details of this story. Is everybody having the same impression? I'm just going to take his word for it that it's illegitimate because I think he earned that. Does anybody disagree? I think that the Democrats and Biden, his credibilit

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y is so low and RFK Junior's is so high, not in terms of being technically correct about everything he's ever said but just not lying, that if he says there was no crime and he says they're coming after him for political reasons, I believe that. And I don't even need to hear anything else because that's the difference in credibility. One is very high credibility and the other is a known serial lia…

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