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was thinking I swear to God I actually had this thought. Was it only yesterday it feels like it was literally only yesterday that the United States was controlled primarily by Joe Manchin and this guy named Jim Baker? Does it feel like that was just yesterday? Oh wait, it was yesterday. It was actually yesterday. Yeah, yesterday Joe Manchin was the most important person in Congress. Today is not b…

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people who now are out of their positions or whatever. That's real. Like it sounds so ridiculous when I say it but that's actually just an objective statement of what was going on. All right, there were other people had some influence but they were unusually influential.

MSNBC, which I read for comedy and that's not a joke. I read MSNBC because I think it will be funny and it's really funny when the news cycle is not going their way because instead of just being quiet about it like CNN or being reasonable about it like Axios, MSNBC will struggle and fight like a narcissist and they'll just gaslight the piss out of you because they're total narcissists over there. It looks like an entire network of narcissists.

And so there is a piece, an opinion piece on MSNBC today that says there are signs that Musk is quietly suspending left-leaning Twitter accounts for ideological reasons. Yeah, there are signs. There are signs.

Now if you saw an opinion piece that said there are signs of something happening would you expect that later in the body of the article it would list those examples? Like some of the signs that he's being a dictator and getting rid of people for their political beliefs. So you would expect an example, right? Like maybe one, two, three examples would be pretty good. One maybe not enough. Are you like at least three?

So how many examples did they give in this important opinion piece about how Musk is quietly suspending left-leaning Twitter accounts for ideological reasons? None. There's not even one example.

Now do you think that the MSNBC readers who read it will notice that there are no examples? Do you think they'll notice? Nope, they will not. They will not notice. They'll think well that must be true because it's right there in the news. And wouldn't you love to see – because first of all the criticism is a valid, let's say directionally valid because don't you think you need to know if he's suspending people on the left? Would you like to know that? Now I suspect he's not. I suspect he's not. But could there be anybody on the left, anybody with let's say a notable person on the left, was there anybody on the left who was suspended for illegitimate reasons? Reasons that if it happened to somebody in your team you would have said "oh no." Wouldn't you like to know that? Somebody says I don't care. No, I would like to know because I don't want to be backing somebody who's not playing it down the middle, right? Because I'm backing Musk pretty hard. If he's going to start discriminating against the left, not cool. So I want to have as much transparency as possible.

So MSNBC is sort of a useful critic meaning I'm glad somebody's asking the question. Are you? Because somebody should ask that question. Give us some examples of what's happening to the people on the left just so we make sure it's not some pendulum thing where suddenly it went from holding the left, holding the right, now reverse. You know what I mean? Right? Manchin out, Musk in maybe. But I don't think there's any examples that they would have given.

Let's talk about Jim Baker. How many of you are up to date on yesterday's bombshell that the regular news will completely disappear by today?

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w how many people there were named Jim Baker who were lawyers. This is not a joke. Until yesterday I was telling myself, "God, why is it there are so many lawyers named Jim Baker?" Right, because there was a famous James Baker in the Reagan administration, right? And I always think of him as a famous lawyer named James Baker. But it seemed like lately I kept hearing stories about, you know there'd…

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