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t be completely Russian. Parts of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia would go to Russia. Some additional eastern territories including some in Kyiv would transfer to Russia. All right. So you and I don't know too much about any of those regions, but we knew that Russia would demand some keeping forever some part of it. And maybe these make sense. And then there's the Odessa region's coastal areas which wou…
← Previous segment →y is not about the story. So here I have no interest, not really, at least at the moment, about which of these states did a better job. That's not the point. I'm going to make a point that's not about education. That's also interesting, but that's not where I'm going here. So it's not about the states. It's not about education. It's about this: that the way Bill Maher framed it was two people in different information bubbles. When was the last time you saw that? That it got framed as reasonable people who just happen to be getting different information. What's that sound like?
It sounds like something that comes from Republicans. What's important here is that Bill can now speak the language of Republicans the way we would speak it because I would have said maybe the same thing. I would say, "Well, if you don't know about that story, you might be in a bubble." And it doesn't mean you're smart and I'm dumb or vice versa. It just means you and I get different information. And if we got the same information, especially about something like education, don't you think we'd probably be on the same page if we had the same information? Probably.
So again, I'm not arguing the merit of the point about education. I'm just really impressed when I watch, in this case, Bill Maher. He's trying to see the whole field, but he's not trying to see the whole field just factually. He's trying to see how it works. And how it works is that we get pushed into these little bubbles and then we believe that our bubble has the right facts and then we're completely lost after that. It's a big deal. It's a big deal that somebody has learned how to speak the Republican language and they're not a Republican.
By the way, do all of you see that how big a deal that is? Am I getting too excited over nothing? I don't think so. Because, you know, I've been making this point that Republicans learn and also teach their base. This is more important. Republicans teach their base and their followers how to think about things, not just what to think. And did you see that Bill Maher just did that? He just told Don Brazile how to think, which is make sure you're not in a bubble. He didn't tell her what to think. That came along with it. Oh, by the way, if you had done that, you would see this differently.
So every time you see somebody on the left start to adopt the idea that common sense and affordability and these are also how to think kinds of issues. If they start focusing on how to think about things, we're going to end up in the same place. That's the magic of it. You'll end up in the same place if you learn how to think. But if they try to teach you what to think, you'll all end up in different places and then you fight.
Apparently the FBI has now concluded and that would include Dan Bongino who I think most of us completely trust. So to me I would be amazed if Dan Bongino started lying to the country. It just doesn't even seem possible. He seems so credible that you know like anybody could be wrong about something but would he lie? It just doesn't even seem possible. But they say that they've now looked into it totally and Thomas Crooks acted alone.
But what I found even more important, this was in a Fox News report, is that there were some things I thought I knew about that story. So Crooks is the one that was on the roof and got shot as soon as he took his shot. One of the things I thought I knew about that is that Crooks had some encrypted apps or some devices that we couldn't get into. How many of you thought that was real? That the shooter was known to have some encrypted apps and even the FBI couldn't get into them. That was never real. Did you know that? That was never real. That there are no apps and no devices. According to Bongino, there were no apps and no devices that were impossible to get into. The FBI just opened them up like they were all just cans of soda. No, no. There was—I remember you thought to yourself, how can this even be possible? How is it possible that in this day and age, you know, the FBI can't get into all these apps? Of course they can. They got into them right away. There's no problem at all.
So what was the other thing? There was at least one other thing in that story that I thought everybody knew was true that just turned out it was never true. So anyway, once you adjust for the fact that you had the wrong facts, you know, you can't—I guess you were in the wrong bubble. Once you adjust to the fact that you had the
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wrong facts, it does look pretty believable that it was a single shooter. But if you had believed that there were these secret encrypted apps that nobody could get into, well, it's a little bit more suggestive that there's more to the story. I guess JD Vance has been mocking Canada. I don't know if mocking is the right word, but Canada's living standards have stagnated. And JD points out that it'…
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