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-Trump. And so he even has positive nicknames. So over there they have some kind of very positive nickname for him and they're all talking about him. And President Xi is sending the highest ranking person who's ever gone to an inauguration, his VP. And wow. So CNN definitely seems to be trying to adjust and find that middle ground where they're not so just always anti-Trump all the time. More to…
← Previous segment →im in my little comment on this saying that maybe they should just debunk the fine people hoax. Because you may have heard that yesterday the fine people hoax got another one. So billionaire tech billionaire Mark Pincus, I think he still lives in the Bay Area and he's been a lifelong Democrat and was all in on the Democrats. But he was talking to Chamath on the All-In Pod and he said he'd basically changed his mind on Trump. And Chamath stopped him and said, right, what was the moment? Like what was the thing that made you change your mind? And he started talking generically but then he said, okay there was one thing. It was I read an article that debunked the fine people hoax and that was it. And then it opened up his mind to all the other hoaxes and he could see it all. Now that's my words not his but that's essentially what it was. And this is amazing.
So in May 2024 he said he read an article that talked about and debunked the hoax. Now I'm really curious which article was it? Because there have been lots of articles that I've been associated with, you know Joel Pollak, Steve Cortez. I wonder if it was one of those. It could have been anything. Could have been the Daily Wire or something. But how often would a lifelong Democrat read any press that was just really identified with the right side of politics? So I'd love to know what was it that broke through the bubble that he thought was worth reading as a lifelong Democrat and then it actually just shattered his whole story.
So remember I've been telling you that was the tent pole hoax. That if you can just debunk that one all the rest just fade. And that's what happened. So more to that, I was wondering do we have a pretty good list of all the people who have been converted by the fine people hoax? I was trying to do it mentally but if somebody could pull that together I would love to see that as a post on X. How many well-known people were converted by just that one thing, the debunk of the fine people hoax? Because I think Chamath said it himself. So we got Pincus. I think Elon said it. I thought Joe Rogan said it. Did Zuckerberg say it? Can't remember if Zuckerberg said that but I feel like maybe that was part of it. You know the assassination attempt seemed to be persuasive with him as well. So if we could put together, ideally it would be a clip where you showed each of the people saying what it was. Oh the fine people hoax. And then you know one after another so you can see how powerful it was. That's what I want to see.
Wall Street Journal is going further and saying not just that Trump's kind of popular but he's turning the culture. The entire culture is turning conservative. Do you see that yet? It feels like it. So you know once you get the richest entrepreneur in the world, Musk, you get the All-In Pod guys. You've probably noticed the number of comedians that I would call mainstream are now turning at least a little bit Trump. You know they're willing to say things that are po
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sitive about Trump. You got at least one cartoonist. Snoop Dogg and Carrie Underwood are going to perform and that's a pretty strong signal. And by the way Carrie Underwood, oh my god do I have respect for that. Did you know Snoop is a unique character? There's nobody like Snoop. He's the only person who could do all these bad things and be popular with everybody. Now I don't know exactly his sec…
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