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point out that 25% of people polled get every answer wrong. I don't know if it's the same 25%. I worry that it is. I'm concerned that it's always the same 25% but I'd like to think it's a different 25% for each question. Well so there's a, as I tweeted cryptically, there's sort of an I am Spartacus thing happening right now. And if you know the reference from the movie Spartacus, Spartacus was hi…

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nd of like a famous movie scene. And I'm watching what I would call a subtle Spartacus movement in which people who have tremendous influence in society but they're not elected, it's just people whose opinions are going to move your opinion more than other people, they're starting to emerge.

I told you that Naval has just sort of very subtly weighed in and said of course we're going to fight over Twitter. Of course we're going to fight. He didn't say which side he's on because he famously is not aligned left or right. But do you think he's against free speech? Do you think he's against free speech? I don't think so. I don't think so. But the most surprising one, Jack Dorsey. It wasn't surprising that the news says that Joe Rogan is strongly backing Musk for buying Twitter. You weren't surprised at that. But interesting that it's a major story right? Because Joe Rogan's influence and credibility is now so big that the fact that he endorses somebody for a specific action is national news. I mean who else does that? How about Bill Maher? Bill Maher is also pro-Musk in terms of buying Twitter. Interesting isn't it? I guess he's Spartacus too.

But the most interesting Spartacus is Jack Dorsey who on Twitter of all places has now insulted Twitter's board of directors for their competency. So there was a post by somebody else in which the user equated that the company's early beginning was mired in plots and coups among its founding executives and I guess Jack Dorsey liked that. But then he gets a little back and forth with Brian Stelter of CNN and he also talked about how CNN had faked a news report in Ferguson and Jack Dorsey was there and watched it live. So he actually was there in person in Ferguson during the riot situation there and watched CNN trying to incite some trouble to get it on camera. And I would imagine that's the sort of thing that changes you.

So here's what's news about it. First of all to have Jack Dorsey publicly criticized the board of directors of Twitter as the problem with Twitter. And somebody asked him are you allowed to do that and he said succinctly no. Are you allowed to criticize the board of Twitter? No. And that he did it. It's I am Spartacus. It's basically a whole bunch of people who are just done. They're just done. They're done with being gaslit by everyone. It's not just Fox News. It's not just CNN. It's just everyone. Just everyone's gaslighting everyone. And there appear to be some very influential people who are just done. They're just done with that.

So yeah I can't say this. Okay I'm gonna do it. I can't endorse this guy. I'm gonna do it anyway. Bill Maher. I can't endorse somebody who's not all on the left. Well I'm gonna do it anyway. So there are some Spartaci, that's the plural of Spartacus if you didn't know. So the Spartaci are starting to line up. I'll add my own tiny Spartacus influence to say I'm 100% behind Musk buying Twitter. 100%. I don't have even the slightest reservation about that one. And I would argue that there's really really smart people who disagree with Musk buying Twitter or at

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least I haven't seen one. So I've seen people, I've seen Max Boot say it's a bad idea. You might see some people who are purely political say it's a bad idea but you can't count that. They're just being purely political. But tell me, just show me somebody who's sort of not famously political, an independent thinker with an IQ over 140. It's a pretty high bar. Show me somebody with a history of ind…

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