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ile they talk about how bad Trump could be or is or was. This is like, oh, he's going to become a stealer of democracy. I mean, you almost think they're tubing below the camera angle because they're just way too happy about what they're saying bad about Trump. And it's like creepy uncanny valley stuff. It's like, oh, what's wrong with you? Anyway, Beschloss is the top of that list, and he says he…

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though we already observed him not doing that. That's the weakest take of all takes.

Meanwhile, Steve Bannon is suffering a hearing on the 6th or three days from now to decide whether or not he's going to be remanded to prison. Now I don't know what that decision involves. Wasn't he found guilty? So I don't know exactly what they're going to be talking about. Is there some appeal that I don't know about anyway? Let's game this out. Let's say Steve Bannon goes to jail. Is that good for Democrats or bad for Democrats? It's bad for Steve Bannon if he goes to jail. But my guess is that Trump is going to raise more money and it's going to make more people vote for Trump because it's going to look to people like yet another example of lawfare. And whatever you thought happened to Trump, if you wondered if it might be coming for you, you're going to say to yourself, I don't know the details of this case. I'm not sure what that Peter Navarro situation was. I don't know what the Steve Bannon situation was. But it all sounds like they're going after Trump supporters for details, you know, like technicalities. Now you could argue whether they are, but it would feel like that to the casual news watcher. So I would think that if Steve Bannon goes to jail, it's going to be a boost for Trump. I don't want him to go to jail, but I feel like that's the way it would go at this point.

We're also in, as I said, not just the fake historian season but also in the fake news season, even faker than usual because it's election season. And The Hill has a story with a headline: "Why are Americans feeling so negative about the economy?" Do you need to read that? Is that an article you want to click on and say, huh, let's dig into this a little bit? Why are Americans feeling so negative about the economy? Does anybody have a question about why people are negative about the economy? I'm pretty sure anybody who ever bought anything in the last year, you know what's wrong with the economy. Anybody who is White and tried to get a job recently, you sure know what's wrong with the economy. Yeah, no, it's not really a mystery. I'm sorry, The Hill publication. I don't really need to read your article about why Americans are feeling so negative about the economy. And let me suggest that the tone of the title of the article, "Why are Americans feeling so negative about the economy," suggests that whatever this article I didn't read says is going to be a steaming pile of about how everything is great and I don't know what's wrong with you. Just because you can't afford, why are you not seeing clearly that everything's terrific? So fake news season. You don't have to read that article. It's also fake polling season.

I told you, and you'll be able to see it yourself, that there need to be a bunch of fake polls to balance out the real ones if things aren't going your way. Because if you plan to cheat or even if you just want to keep your supporters incentivized and feeling like they can win, you do some fake polls to balance things out. Now I don't know exactly which ones will be fake and which aren't, but it's a guarantee that there will be fake ones. And when I say fake, all they need to do is tweak a few variables in how they ask the questions and they can get any result they want.

So here's one. About half of Americans, this is according to a poll, ABC News/Ipsos poll. Would you trust a corporate news entity like ABC to be associated with a poll during election season that was accurate? Or would it be your expectation that this is really likely to be the kind of poll that would be fake? Because they would want the public to think that the felony conviction is causing

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people to be less inclined to vote for Trump to make it safe for other people to say, oh, lots of people are changing their mind because of the felony. I guess I could do that too. So the point of the polling is to tell you what normal people are thinking even if they're not, so that you, thinking you're a normal person too, can maybe be a little more likely to be persuaded to be on the same side…

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