Episode 3014 CWSA 11⧸10⧸25
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Summary
Trump pardons a bunch of his cronies, and it makes them look a little guilty. Also, a new deal between Microsoft and ChatGPT, and why you should be worried about super-intelligent robots.
Transcript
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It's funny that the company named Snap is probably moving on the news about Snap.
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Last week was devastating, so not that good either.
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I didn't think I was going to be awake for the show.
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It's been pretty bad lately, but maybe it's a little bit less today.
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Well, apparently Microsoft, according to Tech Explorer,
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Microsoft is going to look into what they call super intelligence after the open AI deal.
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So their current deal, I guess, allows them to explore with ChatGPT.
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Allows them to explore sort of ordinary AI, as if there's anything ordinary about it.
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But if they want to go all the way to super intelligence, super intelligence,
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then it looks like they would make another deal.
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And that super intelligence would look different.
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It means they don't know how to do super intelligence.
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And that whatever they're doing now is the best they know how to do at the moment.
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Does that mean they'll ever be able to do super intelligence?
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But I don't know if it's going to happen on Tuesday or anything.
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So that would be when robots can do everything we can do, super intelligence.
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Well, Trump is pardoned, or is it called a pardon?
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I always get the pardons and the clemencies and all that mixed up.
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But basically he pardoned a whole bunch of his cronies before they've been charged with anything.
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This would be a situation where it's just getting ahead of it, just in case.
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But it includes Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, Ken Chesibro, a whole bunch of people, some of the names you've heard.
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But they seem to have all been involved in one way or another with the, quote, fake electors plot.
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If they can get you to accept that a good label for what happened was that it was that,
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there's a bunch of people who did some illegal stuff and they need a pardon, well, then they win.
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So I did wonder if this is actually a good play.
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Because it does, even though they're not even charged with anything relevant to these actions,
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they're not charged with anything, it kind of makes them look a little guilty, doesn't it?
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So Trump himself did not pardon himself, but does that matter if you can pardon yourself anytime you want?
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He can kind of, you know, if he got in trouble, he could bang that out in a few minutes.
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So I wouldn't make too much of the fact that he excluded himself from that.
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So it's one of those stories that reminds you that the Trump people may have been mistreated.
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But it also makes it look like maybe they needed a pardon.
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But if Trump thought this was a really good timing for it, because we're too distracted with other things, he'd be right.
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So this one just, it isn't going to move any, you know, move anything.
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So if some people he liked got some pardons, well, he wins.
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I don't know if the juice is worth the squeeze, as the boring people say.
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But the Democrats will get to sell this as authoritarian, right?
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That would look like he's some kind of authoritarian.
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I don't believe it all, but Dylan Butts over at CNBC is talking about China, allegedly.
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How many times have we heard that China or the U.S. made some kind of change to their tariffs and their, you know, their minerals?
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But more likely, they're all just going to go ahead and do what they were going to do anyway before any of this was announced.
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I just don't believe anything that comes out of, oh, China decided to do a totally reasonable trade deal with us.
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Allegedly, you were easing, somebody's easing some restrictions and blah, blah, blah, I don't believe.
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So how many of you were with me in 2015 when I changed the world by introducing the reframe that it's not about the policies, it's about the persuasion.
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And if you didn't see that Trump was coming, oh, he was coming in 2015.
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If you didn't recognize how much power he was bringing to the domain, you were probably really surprised when he won.
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So I had a worldview that predicted, would you say?
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Would it be fair to say my worldview, that he's persuasive, predicted that he would win even outside of his domain?
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So I often say that the closest you can get to reality is prediction.
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So if I was able to predict that Trump would do well based on his persuasion skills, and I think most people agree that that's exactly why he's doing well, his persuasion skills.
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Okay, even the AI acknowledges that I changed the argument from policy to persuasion.
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I've got another reframe that you haven't heard yet.
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I'm going to have to tiptoe into it a little bit.
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Because once it settles in, you're going to be like, whoa, whoa, why did I never think of that?
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And he does a really good job of explaining stuff, doesn't he?
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And I always wonder, who do the Democrats have on their side who's a good explainer?
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And how important would it be if in 2015 you started training half of the country, but not the other half,
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in how to think better, how to think better, which is not really persuasion per se.
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You know, persuasion would be part of thinking better, but it's much bigger.
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And then you're going to see this come together pretty fast.
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So the other day, I was, remember I was naming some well-known conservative podcasters?
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And I started realizing how many there are and how skilled they are.
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But let me just go down the list, and I want you to see if you can find the pattern.
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The pattern is that conservatives have been teaching each other how to think better and more productively for about 10 years.
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And I don't think that the Democrats have even tried.
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So when I look at the conservatives, Republicans, trying to figure out a new thing,
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you know, let's say there's a new policy thing pops out,
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you can see them thinking better than they used to.
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But let me give you some names of people who are identified with the right,
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and then you can see why you can see this, but the left can't.
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Newt Gingrich can explain, you know, any kind of history thing,
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and he's got the whole context of everything from the Clintons, from the Congress, and everything else.
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So when Newt Gingrich is explaining something to you, you know,
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whether it's in a blog or he's doing an appearance, he's making you smarter, right?
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Now, you can hate on Ben Shapiro, so I put him near first so he can get over it faster.
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Wouldn't you rather have Ben Shapiro on your team if you're trying to be the smart team?
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Now, you could disagree with him on all kinds of policies because people are different,
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but don't you want the smart team on your side?
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Like they're all smarter than, way smarter than average.
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Now, Jordan Peterson, I don't think he tries too hard to be a Republican or a Democrat,
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but he seems to get along better with the conservatives.
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Who in the world is as productive in terms of telling you how to live your life
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and understand reality and be effective than Jordan Peterson?
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You can do a deep dive on anything with the right set of guests.
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So I would add myself to the list of people who help you think.
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If you look at all of my books on the shelf behind me,
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They're what is loser think, what is persuasion, you know, systems versus goals, talent stack.
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So those of you who have consumed my content for the last 10 years,
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most of you have read maybe at least one of my books.
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Can you validate that if every Republican read my books, that Republicans would have like a superpower?
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But they read other books from other people who are also very good at explaining things.
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And it seems to me that we've got 10 years of conservatives teaching people how to think and operate better,
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and no years of the Democrats doing that, like none.
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The Democrats are more like arguing if you're a racist or not.
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If your whole strategy is arguing the other side is a bunch of racist, sexist, does that last?
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I also think that one of the reasons that we note that conservatives seem to tolerate more dissenting voices
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If someone who had never been introduced to Nick Fuente's content, let's say a Democrat,
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were exposed to it with no preparation, just exposed to it, would you be happy with that?
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I mean, it's free speech, but beyond the free speech, would you be happy with that influence?
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But suppose you heard that I went on, and I'm not going to do this, by the way,
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but suppose you heard that I went on a show to talk to Nick Fuente's,
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and you know who I am, so you know everything about me.
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Would you be worried that his opinion would change my opinion?
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I'm not saying it would, but if you're going to guess who is likely to change the person's opinion,
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it would be the one who's trained to do it, although he's very good at it.
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So I think the reason I can watch Candace and Nick and Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro,
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and they're all arguing, and it sounds like somebody's anti-Semitic and somebody's not.
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And I think a lot of conservatives are just trained the same way.
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It's like, you know, I'm not saying it's a nothing.
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I'm just saying that the conservatives can handle it better.
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I'm going to go way back to where I started, because then I'm going to maybe have some more examples of this.
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So as you know, the government's going to reopen maybe on Monday.
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So eight Democrats crossed over and voted to reopen, which, if that holds, they'll reopen today sometime.
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There's only eight of them, and, of course, you should see.
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Have you seen how angry the Democrats are at the ones who voted for this?
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They're calling their own team traitors and everything.
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And, well, if that's how you want to play it, that your own team is traitors if they do something that's, first of all, perfectly predictable.
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Even on MSNBC, one of the hosts said, it seems like the president was kind of getting what he wanted.
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That's the president kind of getting what he wanted.
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And he still hasn't given up on getting rid of the filibuster.
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I thought he wanted to get rid of the filibuster.
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But even though he gets his government reopened, he's still like, well, while we're at it, maybe we'll kill that filibuster while we're at it.
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Anyway, Fetterman is one of the ones who famously cross-sized to vote for opening the government.
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As long as he doesn't want any future in the Democrat Party, it's good for him.
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He basically eliminated himself from higher office as a Democrat, I think.
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Because the Democrats believe that fighting is just doing annoying things while people are watching, I guess.
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I guess that's what they think fighting Donald Trump is.
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So did it work that Trump threatened the filibuster or threatened to end it?
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There's no way to know if anybody changed the vote just because of the filibuster.
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People might have thought, well, if we give him this, maybe he won't also try to get the filibuster.
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No, he's not going to give up on the filibuster just because he got something else.
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He'll try to get everything he can get, whatever is the most aggressive stance, of course.
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Anyway, the other thing that's funny, going back to my theme,
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is that Democrats will have no idea what's happening today
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because they don't have a worldview that incorporates what they're witnessing.
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They just don't have any worldview that explains this.
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Like, why did all my heroes say, there's no way, no way we're going to cave,
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Don't you think it leaves the Democrats with some big questions about their own side?
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So the Democrats are going to look at their side as a bunch of wimpy losers.
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There's going to be more pressure on Schumer to get the heck out of that job
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Bernie Sanders pointed out that the Republicans ruined health care.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but one of the things I'm watching
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is that every time the Democrats ruin something,
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which is the Democrats do these things which have gigantic downsides,
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and then they sell as hard as they can that the problem was from the Republicans.
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is doing dumb shit and trying to blame it on the other side.
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Anyway, and apparently there's somebody who admitted
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that the real play for Schumer and the Democrats
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because I guess the Democrats thought they were losing
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it was kind of a good play, you know, politically,
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They're all just going to get totally thrown under the bus.
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how do Democrats understand what they're seeing?
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And this is something that the Republican model of the world
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The Republican model is that Trump is very persuasive,
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oh, why did we ever think he was going to lose this negotiation?
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and the fact that this is a government-funded news entity
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the BBC edited some text from Trump's speech on January 6th
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to go there and be violent when nothing like that happened,
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and made it look like he was calling on violence.
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Who's the guy on CNN that Greg Garfield always mocks Tater?
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Tater is completely supporting the point of view
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and it was exactly the same as the fine people hoax.
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and crafted them together in a way that he didn't say them