ern emerging that our leaders are not so much selected by the voters as they are selected by whoever it is that redistricted and played with the rules of the election and then our science in this case is being determined by somebody who picked the co-authors?

So we just have this weird belief that voters are voting for things and science is running in this unbiased way. Nothing like that's happening. Not even a little bit. Everything is rigged one way or the other. Now, in this case, I like the way it was rigged. So normally I'm not supposed to talk about it, right? If things are rigged in your direction where you get what you want, the tradition is you're supposed to just shut up and go, but don't use words. Don't be like me.

So poor Bill Maher. You know, there are once again lots of Bill Maher TV show clips going around today and yesterday. And poor bastard, he's watched all the coverage of the Russia collusion hoax being determined to be completely a hoax and he's not convinced. He still thinks it's real, that there was Russia collusion and that it was proven and it's obvious. That's Bill Maher. His job is to talk about the news. That's his job.

And then he ran a clip to make his case. Now keep in mind this is obviously his strongest argument because he only showed one thing. It doesn't mean there is only one part of his argument, but he would obviously not show the weak part of his argument if he's only going to show one thing.

So he shows a clip of Trump as president and he was at maybe Helsinki and he was at the podium and nearby Putin who was also at the podium and there was a group of reporters asking them questions. And I'll paraphrase but one of them asked Putin, did you want Trump to win the election and did you do anything to make that happen? And Putin said, at least the interpreter said he said yes.

So that's Bill Maher's proof that not only did Russia help Trump, but he's just admitted it in a speech in public with cameras rolling and he knew he was doing it.

Bill, let me explain what you're seeing. This is cognitive dissonance. If you were not deeply in some kind of weird TDS bubble, do you think you would see that the same way? Do you think you would have imagined that Putin would say, "Oh yeah, I totally influenced your elections" and he'd say it standing next to the president, Trump? And he would say it while the cameras are rolling and when he needed the United States to sort of like him so they could get what he wanted. Didn't work out.

But do you really think? Here's what I think happened. It was a two-part question. Did you want Trump to win? And then secondly, did you help him win? Putin says yes to the first part. Now, is it true that Putin wanted Trump to win? Who knows? But what is the correct answer? The correct answer, if you're Putin, is, "Oh yeah, totally. I want him to win because you're going to be working with that guy. So of course he's going to blow smoke up his pant leg. So yeah, we totally wanted Trump to win. We're so glad."

And Bill Maher thinks that none of the prosecutors or none of the people looking into it used that clip as any part of the evidentiary path. There's nobody in the Department of Justice or the FBI who used that clip to make their case that Trump was part of the Russia collusion hoax. Bill Maher had to go find his own clip and make his own case for Russia collusion and act like nobody else had noticed.

That is really, that borders on just terrible mental illness. Now it is mental illness. It's TDS. And I don't say that in a looking down my nose kind of way because obviously human beings are easily hypnotized by this kind of thing. And he's no exception. No matter how smart and well-informed you are, it doesn't protect you at all, not even a little bit from cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is completely unrelated to IQ and knowledge. That's a good example because he's smart and he's knowledgeable. But it didn't seem even a little bit weird to him to go find his own evidence after all the looking into it from the FBI and the DOJ. He just thought, well they probably missed this video.

And then it gets worse. He kind of changes the topic to, well the Russia collusion hoax certainly wasn't as bad as January 6 insurrection. He still thinks January 6 was an insurrection where the Republicans forgot to bring guns. Now to say that that opinion is stupid is generous. It's really just mental illness because there's nobody in the world who really believes Republicans tried to overthrow a country and left their guns home. Nobody thinks that.

Moreover, as I've said many times, have you ever seen any news program, left or right, so this includes Fox News, interviewing people who were arrested on January 6 and saying to them, why were you there protesting? Did you believe that Trump had lost fair and square but you wanted to overthrow the country with an insurrection and put him in anyway? Or did you think that it was obvious that the election had just been rigged right in front of you because of the weird pattern of the voting which everybody had seen by then, I think, and that you were there to make sure an insurrection hadn't just happened? So it was the opposite of an insurrection. It was trying to make sure that one hadn't happened right in front of them. And so they were willing to march in the Capitol to slow things down to find out.

Now the January 6 hoax, and I call it a hoax, well it was a hoax. There's 100% chance