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t the right decision? Yes, of course yes. So the right decision if you're the leader is you stop the danger immediately. You stop the danger and then you figure out if you did it legally. That's the order of things. That's what leadership is. The whole point of a commander-in-chief is we say, you know what, there are going to be situations where you have to act fast and then we'll debate it later…

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at's what they're adding. The narrative. So the narrative is also the lying. You know, it's lying by narrative or lying by what you leave out. So the human's going to have to come in and remove the context because the AI will be tempted to add context. Well, some people say this and other people say that. So the human's got to get rid of the "some people say." No, no, no. The narrative does not support both sides, so get rid of the both-sides stuff.

Yeah, the human literally is only for the lying.

Speaking of lying, you know the story of the NPR editor who admitted that NPR didn't — they actually left their business as being a news entity when Trump got in the race or got elected, I guess — and they became an anti-Trump organization with no regard to what was true. That actually happened in the real world. It's exactly what it looked like. We all saw it. But now an insider, an actual editor from NPR, is saying everybody, that's true. They just became a bigoted, biased propaganda network. They completely abandoned their responsibility to the public because they thought there was a bigger responsibility. They came to believe that Trump was Hitler and they couldn't just do their journalist job. They had to kill Hitler.

So how did that strategy work with NPR? Let's check in on their numbers. Let's say in 2022 they had 45 million views on the radio show, I think. 45 million. Wow, that's doing pretty good. How'd they do two years later, once people knew that they had lied about everything? So they've gone from 45 million views in 2022 to 2024 is now around 14 million. 14 from 45 two years ago.

Do you think people noticed that it's not real news and therefore they didn't need it whatsoever? Did they notice

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it was just screechy? Did they notice it was a lot of mentally ill women who got radio shows? They probably did. Now some of it might be that social media is more interesting or whatever, but yeah, turns out NPR literally turned from a news business into a propaganda business. And during at least the second half of that they dropped almost all of their business. They're basically on the way of goi…

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