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rent and sometimes you like it and sometimes you don't? That's the America I want to live in. I don't care that my neighbor, I mean take my neighborhood. Do you think they all agree with me on politics? No. Do I love my neighbors? They're awesome. I got the greatest neighbors. I'm so lucky. That's true. I just have amazing neighbors. But none of us are worried about who agrees with anybody about p…

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going to shade that. It works and it's brilliant. So this is the first time I can remember, and you know I'm not an expert in politics, I've never seen two campaigns that were this good. And when I say good I don't mean honest. I mean they know their job. They know persuasion. They know what buttons to push. The Harris campaign is freaking good with what they have to work with. If you look at what they have to work with and the fact that they're a tie, they're just so good. But as I've said before I think Trump's campaign advisors are extraordinary and I think that his campaign has been extraordinary as well. So I wouldn't put one of them ahead of the other. They're both A+. I've never seen this before. You know we got we only have one candidate who's worth a damn but the campaigns are really good. That's my persuasion rating anyway.

So I suggested that the antidote to the hoax overload strategy would be a website of debunks so that somebody like Trump and any of his supporters, if challenged with any of these hoaxes, can say not that the hoax is fake because that doesn't buy you anything. You say let me teach you how these hoaxes are created. Go to the site AmericanDebunk.com. So it's American with an N on America, AmericanDebunk.com. That's all you have to remember. And I'm going to ask you all this. Memorize that. Say it a few times in your head. AmericanDebunk.com. I want you to be able to produce that in a conversation and say you know you're going to be amazed when you find out how they did that hoax. And then the Democrat you're talking to will say that's no hoax. And you say do me a favor, go to AmericanDebunk.com and you'll see what Republicans are seeing. You don't have to believe it. I won't try to change your mind but I want you to see what the Republicans see that you don't get to see. It's very short. They're very, very small segments of what the hoax is. I call it a hoax. You think it's real. But it also shows you how the hoax was created. It's the how it was created that's the magic sauce. I'll say this as many times as I need to. It is not anything to debunk a hoax by saying nothing. Nothing. You have to show how it was done. That's the thinking past the sale. If you can do that you can change minds.

Now somebody said to me nobody's going to change their vote because of the fine people hoax and finding out about it. Yes they will. We have multiple public examples where people on X, you know notable people, people whose names you've heard in public say you know when I saw that the fine people hoax was a hoax it just opened up. It was like the key to open the door to all the fake news. And then I switched sides. So yes that will change votes. So AmericanDebunk.com. I don't know who's behind it by the way but I did see some of my influence in the writing. So it's somebody. Could be somebody watching right now. I don't know. But if you want to take credit for it I would love to give it to you.

Mark Cuban asked a question. Oh you know what I want to show you. There's a new interview with Kamala Harris. And I first saw it when investor Bill Ackman was pointing to it on X. And his comment made me so curious. He just pointed to the video of the interview. It's with some local news station. And I'm paraphrasing but he basically said just watch this and make up your own mind who you're voting for. And I thought why would you not want to put your opinion on it? And then I watched it. Oh my God. I'm going to play it for you if my technology works here. So my plan is that if I push this button you're going to see me in the corner and then you're going to see her. And then if I push this I can play it and I'm going to turn on my sound.

"Madam Vice President, pleasure to meet you. Thanks for your time today. Our audience appreciates your time. As of course as you know we're sitting here in a state and arguably in front of an audience that 54 days from now could decide..."

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iew. You hear it more than I do. People want to know more about you and about your specific plans. At the debate the other night you talked about creating an opportunity economy, talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people. What are one or two specific things you have in mind for... watch the specifics. Well I'll start with this. I grew up a middle class kid. My mo…

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