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Thank you so much for joining me.

The question of how absurd this country can become, or how absurd this country can become or how absurd will we be I think we're

answering it in real time as the entire nation is having to respond to the propaganda from Fox News and Tucker Carlson in

their attempt and their collective attempt there it's not just Fox News and

Tucker Carlson this is the full-owned assault by conservatism on history.

They are flexing their muscles to demonstrate their capacity to change the narrative of history in real time, facts be

damned. Video doesn't matter. Truth doesn't matter.

We are literally underneath a full-blown psychological operation

where the entire nation is being gas gaslit by one media company in particular, one pundit in particular, yes, but the entirety of the conservative echo chamber from podcasters to youtubers to eelon musk on

Twitter to all of the actors in their various places to the politicians in their

various places doing the conservative politicians

doing their role in creating an alternate reality, an alternate narrative

that says that January 6th did not really happen. It was a tourist event and

that it wasn't a violent insurrection. And what they're trying to do as we

discussed yesterday they are attempting to create

critical mass where they can create political action out of a lie out of something

that Tucker Carlson manufactured from thin air, they want to be they, the conservative

movement, the Republicans in this country, they want to be able to move people into action based on the false idea that has been put out by Fox News and Tucker Carlson that January 6th was merely a tourist event.

This idea has been planted and regurgitated over and over and over again hundreds of thousands of times, millions of times across

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