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something that’s not about politics last
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night was just so had it I can’t take it
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I don’t want it I have read that expense
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office all of them and the short stories
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I can’t take it don’t want it but it’s
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not like that was the first time do you
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guys remember 2018 do you remember
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Kansas the night of that primary it was
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ridiculous or in 2016 California like
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how long it took for the results like oh
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it’s just where’s the way you and and
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one of the things that made it even
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worse was like I was tweeting about how
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frustrated I was that people were just
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sharing like like whatever they they
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heard they don’t check it they don’t
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Google it they just share it something
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pops into their head it sounds good like
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you have an inclination you want to
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believe that something is true and so
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people are gonna like and they’re gonna
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retweet what says that they’re there
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right like there was so much
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misinformation and just people not
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caring enough about the material to
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actually Google it like like all the
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stuff going around about the
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like obviously there’s problems with the
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app but like the people who were like
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100% Budaj edge made the app I got it
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and and look we have the disclosures
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that were coming out and and responsible
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people we’re talking about the
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disclosures that they had paid that app
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company okay now before you then take
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that and say and thus he made the app
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and presumably put in some sort of
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backdoor where he could steal the
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election do just a little bit of
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googling like that company makes other
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apps political canvassing apps things
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for volunteers things that campaigns
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would use and so the fact that he paid
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money to that company does not mean that
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he invested in the construction of that
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app he could be buying one of the
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political apps that they already have
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and in fact it turns out that over the
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past year I believe Klobuchar Biden and
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Gillibrand all of them gave money to
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this company presumably for one of the
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political canvassing apps that they have
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sold for some time you know how I found
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out that stuff by googling for like 90
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seconds it was super simple but I
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noticed that when I started tweeting out
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those I guess inconvenient truths nobody
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cared like the people who were like no
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no no Buddha judge definitely made the
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app he stole this thing a hundred times
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as many of retweets a hundred times as
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many likes someone who’s like hey guys
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you know pump the brakes first of all it
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looks like Bernie’s Bernie’s still gonna
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win second of all it looks like this
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company actually has other apps nobody
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cares about that stuff nobody’s
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interested in that is really depressing
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you know because media is a big thing
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it’s not one thing it’s a lot of
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different voices in a lot of different
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forms but the fact that the people who
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are trying to be accurate and reasonable
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are always going to have to compete with
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people who are just their thing is I’m
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going to see what people want to hear
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what they desperately want to believe is
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true and I’m just gonna tell admit I’m
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just gonna say that it’s true and nobody
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ever tweets you know um you know I just
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I want to apologize because I retweeted
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something last night you know sort of in
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the fervor of what was going on it turns
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out that it was untrue I apologize if I
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helped to misinform anyone in the future
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I’m going to be
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but more careful before I spread these
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things and in particular I will not be
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spreading the the people who were
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spreading this misinformation I will be
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more critical of them in particular
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literally no one has ever said that you
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spread things that are false nobody
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cares nobody remembers even theirs the
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incentives are all wrong on social media
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and that is on top of all of the other
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problems of last night that is so
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incredibly frustrating I’m not having a
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stroke down that’ll come later based on
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diet have you seen the Saga comics I
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have not just be reasonable like it’s
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why I’m never gonna be a success
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honestly there’s no there’s no reason
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why would you why would you be
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reasonable yeah nobody at nobody admits
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that they’re wrong that’s where I don’t
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know if you were watching the coverage
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last night but I wanted to add on to
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they were there every conversation they
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were saying no one on TV in political
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media ever pays any sort of price for
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being dead wrong and I wanted to add on
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say you’re right but it ain’t just TV
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nobody in any form of media ever pays
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any sort of price for being wrong not if
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they were wrong in a way that reassured
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their followers their audience that
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things were gonna be okay who who ever
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gets mad at a person for a horrible
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prediction a prediction that when it was
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made was obviously not true nobody cares
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about that they want I want you to be
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wrong in a way that makes me feel warm
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and cozy I want you to tell me the sort
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of things that are a verbal light
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stroking of my head to make me feel a
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little bit better that’s that’s all
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really anyway the reason I talk about
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this now is we were on night one we have
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got a bunch of these nights to go and
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unfortunately I don’t I don’t think that
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any are gonna be as bad as Iowa but
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there’s gonna be a lot of bad nights and
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that’s really unfortunate okay everybody
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I would love to talk longer but we do
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have a show coming up and on it I’m
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gonna be joined by Jordan you’ll as I am
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every other Tuesday you know me also
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were to talk about last night but also
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author podcaster and founder of Vox Ezra
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Klein is also going to be in studio to
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talk about his book about polarization
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which seems especially relevant this
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both of last night and with the State of
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the Union so should be an awesome
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conversation there we’ve got so much
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we’re gonna talk about I have read do
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and I read the first one I wasn’t a huge
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fan maybe I need to read more of them
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but anyway thank you as always for
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joining me this a little live live video
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in ten minutes the full show starts so
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definitely tune in there I’ll see you on
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the other side