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so the staff said, I don't know about that white man. Have you talked to anybody who wasn't a white man? Because we don't really think we're comfortable having a white man there unless you worked really, really hard to make sure it wasn't a white man and there was just nothing you could do about it. He was just the only person who could do this job. And we're kind of frankly a little bit skeptical…

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ir main source of funding — he's like the biggest source of funding for the Democrats — he simply posts something on social media and points to an article, and then that's the talking point.

So watch for the talking point to be that Trump's going to make inflation worse. Now you notice that the fakest of the fake news will always go after whatever is the Democrat's weakest point, and then they'll start a fake news that's whatever is the counter to the weakest point. So Biden's weakest point is inflation. So The Atlantic predictably comes up with some article that I'm never going to read, but the title says it all: Trump's plan to supercharge inflation. So yes, if you see an Alex Soros post about an Atlantic article, you just saw the signal coming from the funders of what the Democrats need to say to keep the person who gives them money happy. There it is.

Now if you didn't know that, you didn't know what The Atlantic is and you didn't know who Alex Soros is, it would just be a post. But once you learn the players, you can see that this is the messaging from the top telling everybody what to do. That's your real government right there. The actual government is Alex Soros posting an Atlantic story because that will change more things than almost anything else the government was doing.

So here's what you need to know about that. What you need to know is that The Atlantic is like the Adam Schiff of Jamie Raskins. I'm going to say it again because it was so clever. The Atlantic as a publication, it's like the Adam Schiff of Jamie Raskins. There are a small band of propagandists who are always the ones you see when there's a serious problem with the narrative. Like they're the narrative doctors. Yeah, or the narrative killers, assassins.

All right. Speaking of narrative assassins, the Biden administration, somebody in it as some Department of Justice group is indicting The Epoch Times chief financial officer for an alleged gigantic money laundering scheme of 67 million. Now the Gateway Pundit is reporting this. Now The Epoch — I never know if it's Epic or Epoch — but they are a right-leaning publication, and suddenly they're getting closed down. Do you think it's a coincidence this close to an election that one of the reliably anti-Biden, anti-Democrat publications just suddenly had a big financial allegation?

Now my take on this, I saw Mike Benz posting on this and the implication was that it was a BS lawfare thing. But there are details. The story comes with some details about the allegations, and there are a lot of details for something that's totally made up. So I'm going to say there's something that happened here because there are way too many details. But that doesn't mean the individual who got picked up is guilty. Innocent until proven guilty. And in these days of lawfare, you really do have to take seriously that maybe it's completely made up. I don't think Mike Benz is crazy when his first instinct is it's completely made up because we live in a world where it would be completely within the expected range of behavior to close down an entity entirely just because you didn't like what they were saying. We do live in that world. That's not speculative. That's exactly our current environment. Anything could happen.

Well, I continue to be amused and entertained by CNN trying to find the middle ground, and damn it, they did it again. So I'm going to give them credit again for telling a story exactly the way I want the story told. And what I mean by that is they showed both sides and they didn't shade it a bit. So here's what I mean. James Carville was on the network and he said, you know, stop making a big deal about the fact that Judge Merchan once made a $35 donation to some kind of stop-Trump organization. And he criticized CNN's own one of their top legal analysts,

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Elie Honig, who had pointed out a number of improprieties in the lawfare cases against Trump. So now you've got Elie Honig doing what I would consider a really solid analysis, exactly the kind of thing that CNN needs to be credible because you're going to see the other side. So why not see the real one? And then here, just pulling it all together, Smirconish — once Carville had criticized Elie Ho…

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