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alent in my talent stack was the working on my ego. In other words being able to embarrass myself at an extreme level. I mean that would be extremely embarrassing if it had gone the other way. If it turned out the masks were killing people and there was, you know, it turned out there was lots of confirming science to that or that it didn't work at all. Pretty embarrassing for me. Wasn't an obstacl…

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nemy. If you take them out of the mix everything looks different.

Here's a question for you. I have not seen any reporting yet on which red states or actually red cities are rioting. Does anybody have any statistics on Republican controlled cities? Are there any? I don't know. Is there even a Republican-controlled city anywhere? Is that even a thing? Are there any Republican-controlled cities that are having problems? Why is there no reporting on that? That feels like the most obvious thing you would see reporting on. I don't think I've seen any.

Somebody says what about white supremacy as a common enemy? White supremacy would be a great common enemy if you could find any. If you could find any white supremacy let me know. I'll be your common enemy. I don't like white supremacy but if you find any, find a person or anything like that. But there's not enough of them. You need a common enemy where you can actually find one. Good luck finding a white supremacist except in your imagination and under your bed. I'm sure there are three or four in the country somewhere but otherwise it's mostly imaginary. There's lots of racism. It's just the supremacy part is the part that went away.

And by the way the reason why supremacy doesn't exist, again this is the cartoonist who has no ego and I will shame myself in public by saying you think they're white supremacists? I don't think you've ever talked to one. Because if you talk to anybody who is just a plain racist they will tell you that white people are not supreme. In fact that's a big part of the racism is that they're worried they'll lose ground to groups that they think will just do better than them. So regular racism is the opposite of supremacy. Regular racism, the way at least the way it's expressed by most white Americans who are racist, is a sense of inferiority. If you don't understand that it comes from a sense of, you know, sort of inferiority, don't think you can compete, then you don't really understand the situation. It's in many cases, yeah everybody's different of course, but in many cases it's more like the opposite of white supremacy. It's more like white insecurity, white inferiority, or at least feelings of inferiority that are driving a lot of it. All right, that's just my opinion.

All right, does it seem to you like the news is not showing you the news? I mean more than usual? Yeah I was making this observation that the best video footage we have of the riots and looting are coming from individuals with phones and all of the footage that's just sort of generic and it's behind the lines and it's too far away or it's a shot from a helicopter, like all of the generic stuff is coming from the news networks. Partly because I don't think they can get too close to the action. You know the police keep the professional news crews away. So as a result I'm left with this question. Do you think that the media has made a collective decision? Maybe they've even communicated. Maybe the government's communicated with them. It's possible. Do you think that the media has made a decision to show less of the violence? What do you think? Because it looks like a decision. It looks like there's a decision to just not showcase as much of the violence as they possibly could because it would be really easy for any of the news networks to just run a montage like Andy Ngo. If you're following him you'll see video after video of pretty shocking things coming out of the riots. So it would be easy to find them. I mean any of the networks could easily find all of these videos but they don't run them. You know they do some but it feels like there's some kind of conscious decision and I don't know where it comes from. Maybe they independently just figure it's good citizenship to tamp down the number of visuals that they're doing but I don't know if they are intentionally suppressing the news to manage the situation. Do you feel like that's what's happening?

Somebody says that Tucker aired some of the footage last night. Yeah but of course Tucker is an opinion program, an opinion show, and he can do whatever he wants. So yeah but I think that Fox News as a general statement is also not showing the full degree of it that you can see on Twitter quite easily. So I ask you this question. Does the news business have a responsibility to show you what's happening even if it's awful and even if it would cause you to act in a certain way or does the news business have a responsibility like a government in which they're trying to manage how you act by managing what they show you? Because it looks like they're trying to manage how we act by managing what they show us. You know lowering the amount of graphic images. I don't know if that's a bad thing. Do you? I mean what's your opinion? Is that a bad thing? Because if it's well-meaning and there's no good that could come from it you could argue that that's just being good citizens. You know there's no reason to unnecessarily show you images that will get you worked up and nothing good can come from it. I just have an open question whether it's a conscious decision by the networks.

All right there was a story that I saw yesterday that now I'm wondering if it's true. Can somebody do me a fact check on this? And I would be surprised that somebody hadn't gotten to me directly yesterday. I saw a report which today I'm wondering if it was fake news so I'm hoping somebody could confirm or deny this. I thought I saw that the autopsy showed fentanyl in and also meth in the body of George Floyd. Is that true? Because that would be like a gigantic story that didn't seem to be in the news today. I saw it on Twitter but not in the news.

Let's see while you're trying to come up with that. Fentanyl George Floyd. Because I'd hate to be spreading that rumor if that was fake news. So the headlines say interesting, asphyxiation, but let's see if they also say. Can you tell me? It takes a little while for the, they do this all the time and just to see if there's fentanyl in this story. Family finding neck compression. God I wonder if that was fake news or if they're intentionally not reporting it.

All right I'm looking at your comments to see do you guys know what happened to this news. So I'm seeing a bunch of yeses and truths but it doesn't seem to be showing up in the news. I'm looking at a long article about it. I wonder how far down I have to get before I would mention

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it being that it's the most important thing in the news. Huh. Well I guess I'll have to look that up. I'm not going to say any more about it until I confirm it's true. So somebody says Newsweek is reporting it, NBC and Wall Street Journal. Okay so it's not headline news is it? Are you seeing anybody reporting as a headline or is everybody reporting it as somewhere down in a long story? It's just…

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