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Back to episode — Episode 3065 CWSA 01/07/26

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l update. I'm still working on what to do with all my intellectual property after I pass. Obviously it will be owned by my estate. But we've been experimenting. Jay Plemmons has been helping me to see if I can turn my regular reframes from my book into a video that looks like me talking about the reframe. And he did some examples and they look pretty good. You can tell they're AI, but they're so c…

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noring widespread irregularities and weaponizing federal agencies to hunt down dissenters. Does that sound like me? Yeah, I introduced the word hunting about Republicans and despite no evidence of an intention and that the Democrats essentially reversed reality.

Now, here's where he sums it up. Trump does on the web page. He said this gaslighting narrative allowed them to persecute innocent Americans, silence opposition and distract them from their own role in undermining democracy.

So here are the concepts which I probably introduced to the thought process. It was a reversed reality that they got away with a scripted TV spectacle. They reframed or framed the event as a violent coup and no

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evidence of insurrection, intent, or planning, and that they weaponized federal agencies to hunt down dissenters. Now, how much of that sounds like it came from me? You have to tell me if I'm imagining this. Are these concepts and the way he presents them, are they so obvious that he just sort of ended up in the same place I was because we're just both smart? I don't know. I feel like the adminis…

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