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when the bag is full, they would burn it. But there have been some burn bags found that were not burned. And Cash Patel says that they involve the Trump-Russia hoax, you know, the Russia collusion hoax, and that they're found in a secret room and they will be shown to the public. And Cash Patel says, quote, "You're going to see everything we found in that room in one way or another," blah blah bla…

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rtaining and people watch it for the let's say the hour that it lasts or whatever, they will be convinced of whatever it is you're trying to sell or whatever narrative you're putting forward. They will think it's true. So if you were to watch this documentary, which clearly is designed to show the California politicians failed, do you think you would come away with it with any other opinion than oh my god, they massively failed the state? No.

So I would warn you, I haven't seen it, but I also plan not to see it because I already know it will convince me that the politicians are crooked or incompetent, and there will not be showing the other side because even if it looks super obvious that the politicians were at fault, it looks like it to me, even then there's always another side. You know if you sat down with Newsom and said, "All right, you know, why didn't you do X? Why didn't you do Y," he might have some explanation that even though you're not a fan of Newsom, even though you're positive he could have done better, even though you're sure the state failed you, still everybody's got their version of events. And if you're not going to hear the other side, I don't know if you should spend too much time hypnotizing yourself on one side. So just beware. That said, I do think the state failed the residents.

All right. Well, I guess Charlie Sheen did an interview with Megyn Kelly. Blaze Media is writing about it. And what was interesting is that Charlie Sheen used the word hypnotized and he talked about himself and he said that he had been quote hypnotized by state-run media and that when he realized by looking at different news outlets he somehow unhypnotized himself to understand that they're two sides to the story basically and that he wasn't as anti-Trump or anti-conservative as maybe he thought he was.

But here's why I thought this was interesting. I went to Grok and I asked it, has the word hypnotized been used as often as it is now? And Grok said, "Oh my god, big difference." The word hypnotized would rarely come up let's say 10 years ago. I think I said 10 years but that in the past 10 years when people talk about politics they do actually use the word hypnotized and it is said according to Grok that hypnotized as a word used in politics went from bein

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g obscure to being fairly common such that Charlie Sheen would just have that as a go-to. I've told you before that one of the things I do is try to track my own influence on events. And one of the ways I do it is by tracking uncommon word usage. And hypnotize is sort of the word I introduced about 10 years ago talking about persuasion and whatnot. And so I asked Grok, and I've asked other AIs th…

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