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how: set your clock for 5:00 a.m. every day, no matter how tired you were the night before, and get up at 5:00. Drink coffee, have some social interaction, a little bit of sunlight, a little bit of eating, and those things will set your clock. And next thing you know, you're a morning person. Do you believe that? How many of you believe that you could change yourself to a morning person if you're…

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and you're like, really? Really? Trump ate a baby? I got to see what that's about. Click, click, click.

But there are some headlines that make you definitely not read the story, and those are more interesting to me. Here's a headline that made me definitely not click the story. It was in The Hill, and the headline, it's an opinion piece, but the headline is "How Well Does Donald Trump Understand Elon Musk?" I'm not going to click on that. How well does Donald Trump understand Elon Musk? Well, let me say for the opinion writer that would require that they had penetrated the mind of Elon Musk and also Donald Trump so they can not only see what's in Musk's brain, you know, in order to write the article, but they can also see what's in Trump's brain. And also they can see so well that they can tell how much Trump's brain can understand Elon's brain. I'm not going to click on that. That might be the dumbest idea I've ever seen for an opinion. No, I will not click on that. Sorry.

Somebody is talking about Morning Joe. So Morning Joe on MSNBC, I swear to God, Morning Joe can't possibly be a non-comedy channel, right? Is it trying to be a comedy channel? Is it parody? It's so close to parody you just can't tell. Because now they're insisting that Twitter is where you get all the disinformation and you should really trust real journalism such as you'd find in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Axios, also known as the true guardians of truth. You know that they left off Washington Post. I don't know why.

Yep. So the first story is about how Morning Joe on MSNBC says that truth is on their network and these others, not on X. Not on X. My second story is about how Joy Reid, the host, one of the hosts of MSNBC, and their guests are talking about how Trump will deploy the military and shoot citizens and that Trump wants to, quote, end multiculturalism in America. How do you interpret that?

So Joy Reid is taking the story that Trump is thinking about using the military to transport some illegal migrants back to their home country, transport. But she, of course, has changed it into fake news where they're going to be shooting people on the street. There's not even, that's not even a conversation. The military is not going to be shooting anybody in the street. So it's a complete fake news directly after their episode about how the real news is on their networks, right?

But then she, with her guest, she ties it into, I guess the guy, one of the authors of Project 2025, had written that they want to end multiculturalism in America. Now if you're watching MSNBC and you're talking about the military shooting citizens, what do you think it means when they say they want to end multiculturalism? Well, if you put it in that context, it sounds like Trump wants to use the military to shoot brown people. Isn't that the way that comes off?

Here's what it really means. The military might be useful for some of the behind-the-scenes logistics such as guarding and then transporting immigrants who have been picked up by the regular authorities who do those jobs normally. So that's the military part that they've completely misrepresented. But the end multiculturalism, when I first read it I thought it couldn't possibly say that. There can't possibly be a document that somebody wrote those words: we want to end multiculturalism. But then I realized what it means. It takes a few seconds to understand what it means. It means that America is a melting pot. It's the same thing I grew up learning, that America is a melting pot so that no matter what culture you came from, when you got here your first or second generation would become Americans. So that would be ending multiculturalism. You're simply not being everything to everybody. You're trying to encourage everybody to become an American. When did that become a problem? That's not a problem. That's an ambition. It's an ambition to get people on the same page.

Multiculturalism is completely unmanageable. There's no way you could have a country where everybody can do their own thing. You know, as much as you think that'd be a great idea, there's no practical way to do that. You have to get on the same page on the basic stuff like, you know, is it Sharia law or is it not? I mean these are really basic stuff. Anyway, can you stone somebody because they were allegedly unfaithful to their husband? I mean, multiculturalism isn't something you want to have more of. That's not going to help you no matter how awesome it is. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with anybody's culture. I'm just saying you can't put them all in the same bag and expect it to work out.

So MSNBC, just pure propaganda. Glenn Greenwald, I love watching him dumping on MSNBC, talking about how their audience is so small it's smaller than a lot of YouTube shows. It's probably smaller than the number of people who will watch this. So my audience for this live stream is roughly the same as MSNBC's audience in prime time. But Greenwald thinks that it's because the audience realized that MSNBC had been lying to them about everything.

You said, oh, you definitely, Trump's going to jail. Oh, well he's not. Well, he's definitely not going to get nominated. Oh, he got nominated. Well, there's no way he's going to win. Okay, won. But at least he's not going to win the popular vote. Okay, won the popular vote. But at least he's not going to get more Black. Okay, he got more Black votes. But he's definitely not going to get the Hispanic. Okay, he got more Hispanic votes. And he's not going to win the women. Okay, won a lot of women. But there's no way he's going to sweep all the seven. Okay, he swept all the swing states.

So at some point, do you think the MSNBC audience realized that they've been lied to about everything? I'm not so sure. So you know, Glenn Greenwald I think is one of the better observers of everything. So I hate to disagree with him, but I don't think people are that smart. I don't think that they do know they were lied to.

Turns out that 9% of Democrats believe the election was stolen and that the reason Trump won was that he stole the election. And that because there couldn't be any other reason. Do you know why they watched MSNBC? They realized there's no way that Trump could win legitimately, but then he wins. So cognitive dissonance clicks in and your brain goes, click, must explain anomaly. Cannot explain how he cannot win but yet he won. Oh, I get it. Must have been. Yeah, cognitive dissonance. And I think the rest are simply avoiding it or trying not to think about it.

Because I think it went from a source of dopamine where they turned it on and agreed with everything that they were already thinking and it made them feel smart and superior. But now when they turn it on it's the same people except instead of making them feel smart and superior for being watchers of MSNBC, the very people who are supposed to be smart and therefore you're smart because you're watching them are saying, we seem to have gotten everything wrong for four years but we're trying to figure it out. We have 500 hypotheses of why everything was wrong. Why don't you talk for a while? And now it's just cringy. So there's no source of dopamine.

So if you see this, one of the mo

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st useful frames you'll ever have, the most useful frame for understanding your reality, is that people chase dopamine. They chase a good feeling. And it used to be nothing but a dopamine hose. Every moment it would make you feel smarter than those stupid MAGA people. And now you turn it on and you see some of your favorite people saying, you know what, MAGA is pretty good actually. And then you f…

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