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t of the time. So your starting point should be 99 percent likely not true. If you started with it's probably true because it's in the news and it's probably true because the intelligence people say it's true, as probably true because the CIA says it's true, as probably true because all of the networks are reporting it, if you started from that perspective you've learned nothing. None of those are…

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cause that is exactly what a mass hysteria is. It's exactly that. It's people who should know better falling for it. That's what it is.

So the fact that all the doctors were falling for it, let me think, do you have any recent experience in which all the doctors seem to be wrong? Yes, all the time. Is the most common thing in the world for all the doctors to be wrong. Very ordinary. You know it's not ordinary a secret sonic weapon used by Bigfoot. That's not ordinary. But all the doctors being wrong, I hate to tell you that's ordinary. It's very ordinary. Yeah go get some statins if you don't believe me.

Anyway and then the final tell, the intelligence people blamed Russia. Is there anything else I needed to say? If you add that it looks exactly like a mass hysteria, it's an absurd ridiculous extraordinary claim on its face and then the intelligence people blame Russia. People, the next time this happens you can do this on your own right? Have you learned? Extraordinary claim, fits the mass hysteria perfectly, and the CIA blames Russia. That's the triple header right there. So it was exactly what it looked like.

Well are there any mass hysterias that are brewing right now? Is there any mass hysteria right now that is obviously fitting the pattern? Let's see the pattern would be lots of capable experts think it's happening. They've got lots of specific examples of it happening. It's an extraordinary claim like what are you kidding me that I don't believe that that's incredible. And sometimes they blame Russia. It's called the January 6 insurrection hoax. It just got Ronna McDaniel fired. You don't think it's still active and changing things in our world? It is. It's changing things in our world and it's a mass hysteria.

Now this mass hysteria was initiated by the news. So the news very intentionally caused this mass hysteria. But I'd say at least a third of the country was told that an insurrection had happened and that Trump wants to stay in power forever and that he was planning an insurrection and that's exactly what he planned.

Well Jeff Clark, Jeffrey Clark, he's a former Justice Department official who worked with Trump around that time. Excuse me I'm allergic to the news anyway. Jeffrey Clark's being investigated now and some of the things we learned from one of his co-workers is that you know there was this attempt to try to organize these alternative electors. So that was true. They did try to get them. They were a placeholder to keep their rights active so that it would be obvious there's a dispute. That the dispute could be worked out the way we work out all disputes usually in Congress or in the courts. But it wasn't meant to be nefarious and it wasn't meant to be illegal and it wasn't meant to be overthrowing the country.

But what we learned today is from somebody who worked with Clark who's in a lot of trouble by the way if things don't go his way. What we learned is that his coworker believed that Clark was serious and truly believed that the election had been stolen and that his work was trying to correct what looked like an insurrection, a stolen election. So he was, and paint that same set of actions as being somebody trying to take over the country and keep Trump in power. They got to sell that narrative.

But now we know what he was thinking based on the fact that people were with him and working at the time. That all of his everything he did suggested that he genuinely believed there was this great injustice and he was trying to figure out how to fix it. Now what does that do to the narrative of January 6? The entire narrative is that it was planned and that people knew the election was fake. I'm sorry the allegation is that they knew the election was fair which is stupid. Nobody could have known that even whether it was fair or not you couldn't know it. It wasn't knowable. But the news told us you could know the unknowable and so their idiots believed them.

So now we know for sure that a main character, and indeed there has not been one set of evidence that anybody who was trying to reverse the January 6 results, not a single person has any evidence, there's no evidence that's been presented that any of them believe that they were doing something wrong as opposed to trying to correct a wrong. Every bit of evidence from every testimony from every person supports the narrative that Trump thought the election was truly rigged and thought they were avoiding an insurrection not causing one.

Has your news told you that? Did your news tell you that we know for sure that the January 6 main theme that Trump knew it was a fair election and was trying to overthrow it anyway, the main theme has been completely debunked by a complete lack of any evidence? That should be the biggest story because now we know that all of the prosecutions were illegitimate. We know that once you know the people's intentions were to correct a wrong not to create a wrong but to correct a wrong and that's definitely in evidence now, widespread in evidence. The whole narrative is gone. And yet the news treats it like none of that happened and the whole tent pole that was holding up the hoax is completely gone. Not a single bit of evidence. Nothing in writing. Nothing. Nothing even people speculating about what somebody else was thinking. No evidence at all that it was anything except what it looked like: somebody trying to correct a wrong in his mind.

All right we'll talk about that Baltimore bridge. How many of you think it was a terrorist act? That something got hacked and maybe Putin was getting revenge. It was all kind of perfect because it was the Francis Scott Key bridge so that gets to the real patriotism. And it was a critical bridge because apparently it's going to have a massive impact on the supply chain. I think we'll adjust but it could affect prices and timing and stuff.

I'm going to say not likely it was a terrorist attack. And the reason I'm going to say not likely is that terrorists like you to know it was intentional. That's sort of the whole point of terrorism because people don't get the same amount of fear for a natural accident. They just say well stuff happens.

Personally I would say that my suspicions were raised but as of today even the FBI says no it wasn't a terrorist act. Can you give me a fact check on that? I believe the FBI has ruled out terrorist attack. Is that true? Which would suggest they've talked to the captain and the crew and they have a better idea that it may maybe it was some ordinary mistake or mechanical problem. I think it was just bad timing.

Yeah you're saying that the FBI lies. Well that's true but would they lie about this? They might. They might yeah. The FBI is no longer credible on any political stuff. All right would Putin do this though? On some level it would be a perfect response because if the CIA was behind hiring these terrorists that went into Moscow and some people say they were I don't know if that's true and

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they didn't leave any trace but yet Putin was sure it was true, would he do a similar attack in which you couldn't tell if it was real or not? You couldn't tell who did it. It would be kind of perfect. Yeah there is a little of a perfect payback symmetry to it but I'm still thinking coincidence because you can read into these situations anything you want. Well more climate catastrophe. It turns o…

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