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380 w/ Robert Draper "Democracy is on the Ballot (Cause They Crazy)"

The Fifth Column

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The Russia Collusion Thing

The Russia collusion thing and how it gave kind of a permission structure for for those people who believe all that was a hoax to then ignore the mainstream media altogether. That was essentially what the Bush administration did after 9-11 saying that the intelligence community didn't tell us, you know, that this was coming. So let's ignore the intelligence community and let's find only the facts that subscribe to the narrative that in our imagination were most preoccupied with. We generally prefer the ones that tell us what we want to hear, the confirm our own biases. The evidence is very inconclusive, but it's, but, but,. but to, but to, and there's some question, but

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