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ng banned because those platforms would not be so clever that they would do it all in the same way at the same time. But if you are being shadow banned on a platform what you would expect to see is that one would stay the same, business as usual, and one would go boom, suddenly down. That's what you should expect to see if somebody's playing games with your traffic. And so I suggested that there…

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ut somebody said just put it close. Does that help? Oh yeah it does. Thank you. Good advice.

So here, here I'm sorry right there. See that week? Notice that that week doesn't look like anything else. Even the low week is not even close to that week. So right here my Twitter traffic went to almost nothing in terms of new users for a week.

So what happens if I look at, since that's Twitter, what happens if I go over to YouTube and look at same thing. So same graph. Yeah here's the YouTube traffic and over here is where you would expect to see that week where there was a solid week of nothing and it isn't there. There are down days which is normal. I think there's mostly the weekends. I think the weekends just go down and then pop back up. But as you can see Twitter traffic went down for a week but my YouTube traffic did not.

What's that mean? Well it could mean that there was something going on over at Twitter. Now here's the next thing which I haven't done. There was one other week in which Twitter had that low traffic some time in the past few months and I think it was because of the same topic. I think there was one topic in which I am especially dangerous. There was one topic that I could actually change the world and you know what that is, right? There's one topic. That's the Alpha hoax. It's the hoax that all the other hoaxes depend on. And I am the most dangerous person in the world to that hoax because I've hammered it like it's a rented mule and I'm not going to give up on it now.

When I hammered on that I think those are the two times that my traffic just disappeared. But I'm not positive so I'll say that that's just a hypothesis, not any kind of confirmed anything. So if you wanted a sensor that would find out if you're being shadow banned the first thing you do is monitor your different platforms to see if they move in lockstep or not. Then the second thing you would want, which I haven't done, is to find out if when there's an irregularity if there are also keywords or hashtags or topics that were in common. Are all of your low days on the same topic?

All right, you probably tuned in because you want me to predict who's gonna win the first Democrat debates. Are you ready for that? A number of you were telling me that the Periscope here got cut off just as I was talking about that but it looks like most of you are back. So let's talk about the — and is it a coincidence that I get cut off in exactly those times?

All right so as you know there are going to be two teams of Democrats on two different nights doing debates on June 26th and 27th. So because there were so many candidates I guess four of them got dropped off but the rest of them are going to be in two teams of ten I guess it looks like. So because of the groupings which they say are random and let's say that they are, you have an opportunity for some people to get some attention and the specific groupings, who's in each group, is going to make a big difference in who can succeed. So that tells you a lot.

So the first thing you do is you look at the groups and say okay what do I know about this group that's special? And here are some general statements. So here are my predictions.

Number one, the more you see of Biden the less support he will have. So prediction number one is that Biden's polls will go down after the debate because people will see new people that they didn't know before and they're going to start to learn about the new people. So for every person who likes a new person probably it's going to come from either Biden or Bernie.

So the second prediction is that Bernie's poll numbers won't go down. So I see Biden and Bernie being injured by the debates because everybody knows them. I don't see any way that Biden is gonna have a breakout night or that Bernie will have a breakout night because we just know too much about them. So there's nothing, there's no upside for them. It's only a downside.

But for the new names they still have a lot o

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f clutter to break through. So you have to ask yourself who is capable of breaking through the noise. So in the first ten I'll just read off who's in the first group. You got Cory Booker, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O'Rourke, Amy Klobuchar, John Delaney, Tulsi Gabbard, Julian Castro, Tim Ryan, Bill de Blasio and Jay Inslee. Of that group in the first group the two who will have a good night are Elizab…

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