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Podcast: The Paranoid Strain
Episode: New! Qanon: How we got here - Maybe the "Russia Hoax" was...kind of fake news. Really.
Description: This time, I'm maybe gonna hit some of you where it hurts. By "some of you", I mean "those of you who like me loathe Trump and want to believe every bad story about him, and have trouble admitting we may have been wrong about some of them." So, yeah. We're talking about Russia Gate, and how those who cling to it in spite of a total lack of evidence are--to a very, very small extent--kind of putting themselves on the same continuum as the Q nuts. WE'RE NOT MAKING FALSE EQUIVALENCES. We're just trying to innoculate y'all (and ourselves...