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How the news is predetermined.

This is Propgander Report.

I am Brad Binkley.

Happy Merry Christmas to everyone.

It's the 21st of December we're just four short

days away till till Santa comes down that chimney and brings everybody what they want for

Christmas I hope everybody's having a good time this is probably the first day of

the Christmas holiday for many of you guys, so enjoy your time off.

Let's dive into the show. I want to talk today about the talking points that have seemingly emerged as a response to what the media is telling us was Elon Musk's outsized and far greater than Trump's influence on the government funding fight

that happened this week, on stopping that first bill from passing.

And the reason I want to chat about those talking points

is because despite appearances, they were not in fact created as a response to that government funding fight.

Those talking points were predetermined before that first vote ever happened, probably a long time before.

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