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So when we're dealing in the next year with hoax number five, which is the New York Times has announced they're going to make the news in this coming year all about racism, I saw the first take of it this morning. They wrote an article. The headline says that the reason we don't have universal health care is racism. I mean, they're really serious about making every story about racism. Now I didn't…

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Now people are saying how come I didn't include the Jussie Smollett hoax? That was sort of borderline for me. I decided to leave it out because the hoaxer was Jussie Smollett and the people getting hoaxed were the media on both sides for a while, more of the media on the left. I don't think the media on the right ever quite fell for it, did they? So in the smaller case the victims were the anti-Trump media. They believed it, whereas the other hoaxes, those things are clearly things that they don't, at least unanimously, they don't believe. So it's the difference between the news creating the hoax and spreading it versus them being victims of the hoax. Smollett perpetrated the hoax on the media. It wasn't the other way around.

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All right, I'm starting a list of things you would have to believe in order to be a Democrat in 2019. It's just a starter list. I'm going to add to it. But here are some things you would have to believe. You'd have to believe that Israel can't spot an anti-Semite. You'd have to believe that Israel's not good at that because they like Trump and they don't like some Democrats such as Tulsi. So in or…

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