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These episodes are comprised of our crew of researchers, Amanda and myself, all getting together

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So here's a few minutes for free so you can know what all the fuss is about.

And now on to our final story, which is, I don't know that it's particularly positive nor negative

more than it's just an explainer that I really appreciate. Vanity Fair

did this article. Steve Bannon has called his army to do battle no matter who wins in November.

And it is the best explainer piece about the mirror world and what is attracting otherwise left-ish people into the Bannon Trump MAGA world and like the

dumb dumb left, which ends up being sort of Bannon a parallel, even if they say they're not.

And it gets complicated.

And this article has done a better job than anything else I've read trying to explain it.

So obviously, this was written before the election.

Since the election, one of the major stories has been that AOC sort of asked her followers on,

what was it, Instagram.

TikTok, yeah.

She started on Instagram. I went to TikTok, not that it, Instagram. TikTok, yeah. She started on Instagram.

I went to TikTok, not that it matters.

See?

Truth and accuracy.

So she caught wind that people voted for both Trump and her down ticket and asked,

if you were one of those people,'s up with that tell me your reasoning

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