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ExpressVPN.com slash Ben. So indeed, fake news, but you know, no news is good news. Here's the thing.

There are a bunch of people online who are very, very upset that it turns out that Bubba Wallace's

news was, in fact, not a news. That Bubba Wallace's news was in fact just just a pull down string at the garage. Now, listen, behind closed doors and privately, I had my doubts that the story was real from the very, very beginning. But I was hesitant to voice those doubts because after all, NASCAR, which is a major organization, had backed the story. And NASCAR should know. I mean, they have cameras in all of the garages.

You think they have those multimillion dollar engines over there? And they don't have cameras in the garages. They have cameras in all the garages. They know all of their staffers. Presumably, they had done some sort of internal investigation and found that the story was legit in order to parrot it and make it, you know, the number one story in the world. or alternatively, they were duped, or alternatively, they are just unbelievably full of crap

and decided to go woke or go broke and simply believe whatever story Bubba Wallace told them. So wherever the story came from, the story was promulgated. And the story now that is being promulgated is the bubble Wallace really didn't know what was going on from the very beginning. Bubba Wallace was told that there was a noose in his locker and he didn't really check it out.

And then he repeated the story and all this. And listen, I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt until the point where they completely blow the benefit of the doubt. And at this point, I feel like NASCAR has blown the benefit of the doubt. I feel like Bubba Wallace has blown the benefit of the doubt. And this feels a lot like everybody decided to jump to a ridiculous

conclusion based on non-evidence and based on an obvious, based on something that obviously

was not in news in order to promulgate a particular narrative. I always say attribute to

stupidity, virtually everything and malice virtually nothing. I'm having a real hard time on this this one i'm having a real hard time not attributing to malice what happened here because again naskar has cameras there i mean i tweeted out about this because naskar had said that it happened and naskar should you know release the footage and then prosecute whoever did it right the person should be prosecuted well naskar must have known all along that it turns out that

the noose was not in fact a noose it was the polstring on a garage it was the pull that had been there

for a year before this i mean could naskar have been this ignorant could bubble wallace have been this

ignorant that he was just traipsing through the daisies here basically singing the song that that

that naskar had written for him or is it possible that bubble wallace kind of knew that he was just traipsing through the daisies here, basically singing the song that NASCAR had written for him, or is it possible that Bubba Wallace kind of knew that this was BS all along and decided to exaggerate it? So, again, I'm willing to grant people the benefit of the doubt. I was willing to grant NASCAR the benefit of the doubt until they lost the benefit of the doubt. And even last night, after this story came out, I was willing to grant Bubba Wallace the benefit of the doubt that he was told by NASCAR there was a noose in his locker and then he, or in his garage, and then he saw a picture and it kind of like a news. And he was like, well, if NASCAR says that that's the case, then probably that's the case. And that's really upsetting. And then Bubba Wallace went on national TV and decided that he was going to double down on this after the FBI investigation. And at that point, you know what? His sincerity is in question. At that point, I have to think to myself, well, maybe he knew all along this wasn't really what it appeared to be and he decided to go along with it anyway. So here was the statement the NASCAR released last night, that they released quietly. And first of all, this came after people online, right? The online researchers did some very easy research where they

showed pictures of the garages last year. And what they showed is draw strings on the garage,

right, the pull strings on the garage door that were shaped like a hand, basically like a handhold.

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