at were in the vaccination decision-making capacity. To which I say don't you think there's a little context missing to that? Do you think he just fired them because they liked vaccinations? Or do you think he fired them because they were actively trying to stop him from gathering more information about vaccinations? Or do you think they may have had some ties to the pharma companies they were trying to regulate if that's the right word? Do you think there might have been some backstory as to why they got fired?

Do you think he did it just because he's a madman who wants to ban vaccinations and so he had to get rid of all the pro-vaccination people? Like do you really believe that's what happened? Because that would be nutty right? That would be nutty if the only reason he did it is because he disagreed with them and his spin was not based on any science. Well that would be nutty.

But why would you believe that's happening? What would bring you to the twisted and unrealistic assumption that the reason he was doing it would be nutty if you knew it? Why would you even think that? It's not like he's got some big track record of doing things that nutty. I mean he's done things that are fun in his personal life but nothing nutty in this class. Nothing like that.

So it seems to me that there is an RFK Jr. TDS kind of thing, derangement syndrome. And this is a really good test of how much psychosis can be installed by the media. There are probably tens of millions of voters in the US who believe the same narrative that RFK Jr. is a wacko nutty anti-science guy. But not one of them could give you an example that would be compelling that would make that case. Not one of them.

Now here I'm going to limit it to the work he's actually doing in the actual job right? Nobody has any examples. And when you hear one you say to yourself sounds like you just got that story wrong. So sometimes they'll say stuff like yeah he's making vaccinations unavailable. And then you'll find out really it's about mandates. So they don't even have the right story.

So how could so many tens of millions believe that he's a nut job? And the only reason is because the media and social media have told that story and that's all it takes. So if you wondered how powerful is hypnosis? Well if you extend the definition of hypnosis to include any repetition of a lie you can see for yourself. Tens of millions of people have been convinced that RFK Jr. is nutty when the truth is they've simply been hypnotized. That's it. They've just been hypnotized and they're not aware of it.

And then Bill Maher also is worried that Trump militarizing the cities by putting the National Guard in some of the big cities is a prelude to creating his own sort of dictator, personal police for his eventual potential stealing of democracy and taking over the country.

Now does that sound sane to you? Does Bill Maher sound sane when he says that sending the National Guard into what would be the highest number at the same time? Two. Do you think he can bite off more than two cities at the same time? I mean I think even Washington DC will wind down before Chicago might wind up and he's worried that that will militarize our cities and give him a chance to take over.

Let me ask you this. What kind of dictator is pro-gun? Is that a thing? Can anybody think of any dictator authoritarian who is pro-gun? Has that ever existed? And how exactly does militarizing the cities, but let's just call that sending in the National Guard, how in the world do you evolve that into some kind of secret police without the public being so all over it and dismantling it that it couldn't possibly even if he wanted to? How would that plan work?

It's sort of like believing, which Bill Maher also believes, that the January 6ers were doing a legitimate plan to take over the country by trespassing in one building. How do you take over a country by trespassing in a building? Like even if some of them were violent which they were how does that take over a country? In what twisted nightmare does any of that result in taking over a country? It obviously wasn't intended to do that because that would be insane. It would be insane.

So yes what looks to us like mental illness in Bill Maher is almost certainly susceptibility to brainwashing by the media. In his case more the media than the social media. It affects everybody. So he's a very high IQ, high functioning, well-informed guy. Doesn't make any difference. The brainwashing is just exactly effective on some number of people regardless of what you would imagine would be their ability to defend against it but that's not a thing. People can't defend against it.

Senator Tammy Duckworth said that Trump's use of the military against the drug smuggling narco terrorists is setting the conditions for occupying US cities to interfere in the next election. Now come on. Is she even serious? I mean what even is that? Is that insanity or is that being hypnotized? This doesn't feel like being hypnotized. This feels like somebody who knows she's lying and knows that the lie will work. Just I mean I don't know that because I can't read her mind. But that's what it looks like. It feels like she knows she's lying because it's too ridiculous. But I suppose cognitive dissonance would get you to the same place. So you can't be sure on this one.

And then of course the Hitler analogies live on. I guess a CNN person, Rana Foroohar, says that the fact that businesses are refusing to speak out against Trump and his administration is reminiscent of Nazi Germany. Come on. Can you believe that there's somebody still in 2025 who believes that going on CNN and comparing Trump to Nazi Germany is somehow additive? Is that additive?

If you were the producers of CNN and you heard somebody go on the air and say yet again, yet again, oh he looks like a Nazi. I think he's going to be a Nazi. When the smartest people in even the Democratic party have said can you just shut up about the Nazi stuff? It doesn't work. And every minute you spend doing that is a minute you weren't doing something better. Right?

So even the Democrats know it's the biggest dumb thing to do at the moment. So do you get invited back if you bring up Nazism? If I were the producers I wouldn't. I'd take you off the list. You wouldn't be a guest after that because it's 2025 people. You're supposed to say oligarch and authoritarianism.

Well here's a story that I don't know how many times I