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d went to nothing. Do you know how to tell which of those stories are fake and which are not? The answer is all of them are fake. Yeah, every one of the country graphs that says ivermectin was introduced — doesn't matter if it's India — they're all fake. They've all been debunked. Now did you just hear me say that I debunked the effectiveness of ivermectin? Did I say that? Did I just tell you tha…

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e world and the desperation somebody would have actually solved their entire country's problem with ivermectin if it worked. Am I wrong? You don't think that one country somewhere would have totally solved their pandemic?

Or how about this: If ivermectin worked as well as the anecdotal reports, you don't think that a hospital would have noticed by now? A hospital that does nothing but COVID patients. They wouldn't have obviously noticed that? Because you know what they do obviously notice? Regeneron. I'll bet you could go to any hospital that does a lot of COVID and say have you noticed on your own that Regeneron is bringing people back to life who maybe seemed like they'd gone too far? I would bet one hundred percent of hospitals would say oh yeah we see it every day. We give them a Regeneron, it totally turns them around. They would see the same thing with ivermectin. I mean maybe not us because it's sort of a semi-ban here but somebody would see it. You don't think any hospital, any country would have seen the effect yet?

So go back to my hydroxychloroquine predictions. Early on in the pandemic like ivermectin it looked like it was anecdotal and there were studies that suggested it worked. I said that every month that goes by where you don't have proof that it works you have to lower your odds that it worked. And then you saw every month I would lower the odds of hydroxychloroquine working. It was down to thirty percent. The last number was ten percent. I think I'd drop it to two. Now we've gone so long that if hydroxychloroquine worked we would know it. I don't think there's any chance we wouldn't clearly know it by now. Ivermectin is the same path.

Can I tell you ivermectin doesn't work? Absolutely not. So you're not hearing me say that. But I will say that every day that goes by you have to lower your estimate if you're being wise about this because you would see the signal somewhere or somebody would see it. But you don't see anybody in an official role who sees it, right? You see a rogue doctor but do you see anybody who runs an ICU? Have you seen any ICU doctors say oh yeah we're giving people ivermectin. It's just taking them right off the ventilator? Nope, nope.

So does ivermectin work? I have no idea. But I can tell you that the longer you go the less likely it is.

CNN has some — oh no let's talk about that next. So apparently the Lincoln Project, they are a scrappy bunch of losers, the Lincoln Project. So Rick Wilson especially I guess. He's trying to revive this monstrosity that's been completely humiliated in the last year or so. And they're trying to make it a thing to get Trump to be the nominee. So they want Trump to be the nominee even though he's the target of all their attacks because once he loses then it will destroy what's left of Trumpism and that's their real goal.

And so this is what Rick Wilson said about that strategy. He says the people who think we want Trump back in 2024 for any reason other than killing off his vile repugnant cult and driving it into the dustbin of history display the same failure of imagination they always have. Do you think that's why Rick Wilson is reviving the Lincoln Project which made them all millions of dollars? Huh? Is it to make the millions of dollars that they know they'll make or is it to kill off Trump's vile repugnant cult and drive it into the dustbin of history? Which one of those seems slightly more likely?

Have I ever mentioned follow the money? You know I tell you it always works even when the people involved are not following the money it still always works. Yeah the Lincoln Project grifters are just accusing Trump of what they are. It's just projection. They are horrible grifters, race grifters really. Some of the worst people in the world I would say. But they're funny so I'm glad they're in the news.

CNN has a wonderful bit of fake news here and I'm going to see if you can spot it. So I'll tell you what they reported and then you tell me what the fake news part is, okay? So CNN is reporting that the reason we don't have more rapid tests and faster — you know why didn't we have this rapid testing cheap and fast because we did Project Warp Speed so don't you think we could also get rapid tests quickly if we wanted? Here's what CNN says to describe why we don't have them. It's because we don't have tests because there were too many available and the Food and Drug Administration had more than three thousand emergency use authorization applications and didn't have the resources to get through them.

So the reason that we only had one, Abbott Labs, for months and months, the reason we only had one is that there were three thousand others who wanted but there was not enough FDA resources to test them. So we had to live with just that one for a long time. That, ladies and gentlemen, is fake news. It's really clever because what do I keep saying about the reason we don't have the rapid tests? What do I keep saying loudly and in public? Corruption. It's obviously corruption.

I would say at this point that the corruption hypothesis I don't know ninety-five percent likely because if this is the best alibi that we have, the best alibi from the FDA is that there were too many of them and they didn't have enough resources. What would you do if you were the FDA and you didn't have enough resources? You do have some resources so it's not like you're not testing anything. You are evaluating things but you can't do three thousand. Would you say hey guys let's evaluate all three thousand things at once with our limited resources? Is that the way you'd handle it?

You take your limited resources in the context of a pandemic. You say huh we'd better spread our resources. So you got a thousand at first. You say let's look at them all at the same time but then it goes to three thousand and it's too fast to add people so you say to

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yourself oh I'll just work less on the first thousand so I'll have enough for the extra thousands of them. Is that the way the FDA decided to manage that? Now hiring help wouldn't be fast enough. I have to admit that staffing up probably would be hard. They should do that too but probably that wouldn't be a magic bullet. It just feels like it would but it would take a while to staff up. I'm no ma…

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