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1. 1Can’t tellReal America’s Voice has filed a lawsuit in New York alleging First Amendment retaliation over challenges to election records.The only matching lawsuit in the sources is NY Citizens Audit Civic Fund, Inc. et al. v. the New York AG's Office and State Board of Elections (filed October 2025, with First Amendment free speech and petition claims over voter-roll investigations), and no source names Real America's Voice as a party or connects it to NYCA. The claim's identification of Real America's Voice as the filer therefore cannot be checked, and the claim is not contradicted by the sources.3 sources →
2. 2TrueDonald Trump has ordered a wave of missile strikes on Iran.Multiple sources show U.S. missile and other strikes on Iran in early September 2026 that were carried out under Trump's direction, with Trump publicly explaining and endorsing them, so the claim that he ordered a wave of missile strikes is supported as of 2026-09-07. The post's 'huge' and 'major escalation' wording was dropped in extraction, which is a faithful reduction and does not change the verdict. The sources are mostly unrated and some have inconsistent publication dates, which caps confidence.6 sources →

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3. 3TrueIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated on Tuesday that his government is preparing to return to talks and resume honoring commitments under the June 17th memorandum of understanding.Multiple reports (Khaleej Times, Firstpost, Breitbart) of Pezeshkian's Tuesday, September 1, 2026 remarks at the SCO summit in Bishkek support the core claim that Iran is ready to return to the June 17 MOU and reciprocate. Those remarks were explicitly conditional on the US first returning to its MOU commitments, a qualifier the claim omits but the post also omits, so it is noted rather than treated as a contradiction. The claim departs from the passage only in its date rendering, which the posted day supplies, so it is graded normally.5 sources →

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4. 4FalseThe U.S. military campaign against Iran has lasted for eight or nine weeks.The claim that the U.S. military campaign against Iran has lasted eight or nine weeks is contradicted by multiple sources. They date the campaign from February 28, 2026, and describe it as roughly eight months old by late October; the speaker's 'cumulative strike time' qualifier is dropped in the extraction and no source quantifies cumulative strike days.5 sources →

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5. 5MixedThe population of Iran is 90 million people.The 90 million figure falls within the range of available estimates: UN-based sources put Iran at roughly 92.4 to 93.6 million for 2026, while the Statistical Centre of Iran reports about 87.1 million and one tracker shows about 89.9 to 90 million. The claim is consistent with some estimates and inconsistent with the UN-based ones, so it depends on which measure is used. As of 2026-09-07 the sources do not show a single settled figure.Minor detail. The sources confirm the claim; only a minor detail differs, such as a name's spelling, a title's wording or a rounding.11 sources →

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6. 6TrueBrandon Gill stated that Islam is entering schools and transforming communities in his district north of the DFW metroplex.A transcript of Gill's own speech (source 11) contains nearly the same words, including 'Islam is entering our schools, and it's transforming our communities,' and related reporting (sources 6, 9, 10) describes him making similar statements about Islamic migration transforming DFW and mosques and Islamic activities in local schools. The claim is graded as of 2026-09-07 and no source contradicts it.5 sources →

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7. 7Can’t tellThe book Jihad was written by the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1980s or early 1990s.No source identifies a book titled "Jihad" written by the Muslim Brotherhood in the late 1980s or early 1990s, so the claim cannot be graded. The only "Jihad" book in the sources is Gilles Kepel's study of Islamist movements, which is a different work, and the Brotherhood-linked book cited (al-Banna's "The Way of Jihad") has a different title and date. The extraction is faithful to the post, so the claim is graded as the post made it.7 sources →

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8. 8FalseA march of 50,000 people chanting 'Death to America' occurred in Michigan.The sources document 'Death to America' chants at the April 5, 2024 Al Quds Day rally in Dearborn, Michigan, but describe them as coming from a few attendees, not a 50,000-person march. No source reports a crowd anywhere near 50,000, so the magnitude, which is the claim's central figure, is contradicted.6 sources →

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9. 9FalseMosques in the UK and Ireland are being used as armories with weapons stored inside them.The claim that mosques in the UK and Ireland are being used as armories with weapons stored inside them is contradicted by authoritative debunks of the Dublin mosque gun video, where police said the objects were airsoft replicas and the footage was not filmed at a mosque. The closest real events are a foiled plot against a Galway mosque, where the weapons and explosives were found in a car rather than stored in a mosque, and the sources show no mosque used as an armory. The claim faithfully reflects the post's wording, and the Geller Report repetition is circular coverage that adds no support.6 sources →

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10. 10TrueTallarico is tied with Paxton in polling.The claim is about the race as of 2026-09-07. No source polls that exact date, but the closest evidence points to a tie: an August Emerson/Nexstar poll had Paxton narrowly ahead 47-46, and a UMass Lowell/YouGov poll fielded Sept. 18-28 found 45-45. Later October polls show Talarico narrowly ahead, which postdates the claim and does not change the September reading.8 sources →

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11. 11Can’t tellBlaine Holt's podcast Dangerous Intellectuals has reached over 10,000 subscribers in three episodes.None of the sources reports a YouTube subscriber count for Dangerous Intellectuals, so the 10,000-subscriber figure can be neither confirmed nor refuted. The only subscriber figure present is a 3.2K+ Substack count from 2022 on a different platform, which does not address the claim. The extracted claim also omits that the post says the show 'opened up onto YouTube' and gives the milestone as a self-report.3 sources →

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12. 12MixedLancaster County District Attorney Heather Adams stated that 60% of voter registration applications in Lancaster County were fraudulent.Adams did publicly state that about 60% of the suspect Lancaster County registration forms were fraudulent, so the figure is supported. However, the sources say 60% of the forms examined so far, with the rest still under review, so the claim's broader scope (all applications) is not what the sources report, and the extraction dropped that qualifier.7 sources →

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13. 13TrueThe Department of Homeland Security launched a voter fraud investigation in Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, New York, Nevada, and Connecticut.Multiple outlets report, citing internal federal guidance reviewed by CNN, that DHS/HSI launched a coordinated voter fraud surge on September 1, 2026 covering Washington, Wisconsin, Missouri, Georgia, California, Pennsylvania, Nevada, New York and Connecticut, and DHS did not deny it. The sources date the launch to September 1 rather than the post's 'starting today' (September 7), and the claim's core is supported as of the posting date.5 sources →

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14. 14FalseMarkwayne Mullin discovered at least 200,000 non-citizens registered to vote across four states.Mullin, as DHS Secretary, did publicly claim about 250,000 potential noncitizens registered to vote across four states, which is consistent with the claim's 200,000+ magnitude. However, fact-checkers and authorities rejected that figure: FactCheck.org and PolitiFact found it unreliable, and in Nevada DHS's own list of 15,903 shrank to 185 people, all of whom Nevada officials found to be U.S. citizens. The claim that he discovered 200,000+ noncitizens registered to vote is therefore false.10 sources →

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15. 15FalseReal America's Voice conducted a voter fraud investigation in Mandani that found 7% of voters in that election do not exist.Reuters fact-checked the late-July audit by Real America Vote and found it flawed: it did not find 228,000 invalid Mamdani votes and did not tie any specific vote to Mamdani. The 7% non-existent-voter figure appears only in the claimant's own posts and podcast, not in any independent record, and the audit's own reported finding was roughly one quarter of a 10,000-registration sample, not 7%.4 sources →

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16. 16FalseIn the Mandani election, 6% of voters used fake Social Security numbers.The claim repeats a figure from the Real America Vote/NY Citizens Audit of the Mamdani election, which Reuters fact-checked and found to be a flawed methodology that did not establish the claimed invalid votes. The 6% fake-Social-Security figure appears in many sources, but those sources repeat the audit's claim, and the only independent assessment (Reuters) rejects the audit's conclusions. The extraction matches the passage faithfully.8 sources →

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17. 17FalseJohn Sarcone is the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District.Sources show John Sarcone (the post's 'John Sarco') runs the Northern District of New York office, but courts found he was not lawfully appointed or legally serving as U.S. Attorney, as of the 2026-09-07 posting date. A January 2026 district court order and an August 2026 Second Circuit ruling both found his appointment unlawful, and DOJ's own profile lists him as First Assistant U.S. Attorney. The extraction's spelling 'Sarco' is a typo for Sarcone and does not change the referent.4 sources →

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18. 18Can’t tellElection officials failed at a 23% rate in ensuring only qualified voters voted in American elections.No source measures how often American election officials fail to ensure only qualified voters vote, so the 23% figure cannot be checked. The closest figures (a 22% voter-roll match failure rate in a 2008 Wisconsin audit, and a 20% task-failure rate in a 2026 Texas survey) measure different things, and the claimant's own passage cannot corroborate the claim.3 sources →

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19. 19Can’t tellA former Clinton handler is working for Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney to orchestrate trade retaliation against the United States.Only Breitbart-origin coverage (sources 6 and 9) reports that Maia Johnson, a former Clinton 2016 scheduling director, was appointed to a Carney government role in 2026. None of the sources says she orchestrates trade retaliation, and the tier1 reporting on Canada's tariffs does not name her or any such role, so the central claim is neither substantiated nor disputed.5 sources →

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20. 20TrueCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney came to power on an anti-American and anti-Trump agenda.Several sources describe Carney's 2025 election victory as built on resistance to Trump, with Reuters noting his strong campaign critiques of Trump and Sidecar saying he rode 'a wave of anti-Trump sentiment' into office. The 'anti-American' element is looser: sources frame his agenda as anti-Trump and anti-tariff rather than anti-American as such, and the wording mirrors Bessent's remarks, which are not independent evidence.5 sources →

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21. 21Can’t tellMark Carney was 20 points behind in the polls before he started his anti-American agenda.None of the sources gives Carney's polling position before his 2025 leadership win or the anti-American turn, so the 20-point deficit cannot be checked. The only sources repeating the 20-point figure (the Bessent quote in sources 10 and 11) are circular, and the claim faithfully matches the post's wording.6 sources →

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22. 22FalseThe term 'disinformation' was created by Joseph Stalin in 1923.The claim that Stalin created the term 'disinformation' in 1923 is contradicted by Merriam-Webster, which calls such origin claims dubious and unsubstantiated, and by a 2023 Wiley article documenting 'disinformation' in print in 1892. Some sources (Hartford, History of Information) do credit Stalin with coining the Russian 'dezinformatsiya' in 1923, so the claim's Stalin/1923 framing rests on contested secondary accounts. The extraction faithfully reflects the post.5 sources →

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23. 23TrueLetitia James campaigned on the promise to prosecute Donald Trump.Sources show Letitia James campaigned in 2018 on pursuing Trump, including promises to investigate him, sue him, and "take on" him, and a former federal prosecutor (Honig, NPR) says she "at times said she'd indict him." The claim's "prosecute" wording is stronger than her most common promise (investigation and civil suits), but no source contradicts the core assertion that she campaigned on going after Trump.6 sources →

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24. 24FalseThe Momdani study proves that fake people and people with fake Social Security numbers voted in the election.The claim that the Mamdani audit 'proves' fake people and people with fake Social Security numbers voted is contradicted by Reuters, which found the audit used a flawed methodology and did not identify 228,000 unqualified voters or tie any specific vote to Mamdani. The fake-SSN element is further undercut by SSA-based reporting that those numbers are valid for citizens naturalized after 2011. The audit's flagged records are unverified and do not constitute proof, and the claim is an allegation that authoritative fact-checkers have rejected.5 sources →

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25. 25Can’t tellThe Momdani study proves that New York has apportioned congressional representation to fake people and illegal immigrants.No source covers a "Momdani study" or any study that proves New York apportioned representation to fake people. Sources show that the census count, which feeds apportionment, includes illegal immigrants, but none addresses the "fake people" element or the claimed proof.9 sources →

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26. 26TrueAxios reported that the United States is negotiating an ownership stake in Venezuela's oil fields.Reuters, citing Axios, reported on August 27, 2026 that the Trump administration was in talks with Venezuela's interim government about taking an ownership stake in the country's oil resources, and RTHK and the Daily Star carried the same Axios report. The extracted claim drops the post's 'not a lease' framing, which is a fair simplification, and the post's 'Wednesday night' timing is off from the Thursday report date, which is peripheral. Later coverage describes a deal that also includes 100-year rights and leases, but that does not contradict the claim that Axios reported negotiations over an ownership stake.6 sources →

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27. 27Can’t tellVenezuela has more than 90 billion barrels of proven oil reserves.The extracted claim departs from the passage: the post says a dozen-plus producing fields hold something like 90 billion barrels of proven reserves, not that Venezuela as a whole has more than 90 billion. Sources put Venezuela's national total at about 303 billion barrels (EIA, AP), so the country-level claim would be true on the record, but the verdict is unverifiable because the claim's scope was widened from the post.8 sources →

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28. 28TrueThe United States investment in Venezuela oil fields will result in at least 100 billion dollars of investment.Multiple sources (Reuters, AP, White House fact sheet, Inter-American Dialogue) report the Venezuela oil deal is expected to draw about $100 billion in investment, matching the claim's figure as a projected outcome; the claim's wording ('will result in') is an expectation rather than a realized fact, and sources note delivery depends on funding not yet clarified. The post says 'at least a hundred billion,' which the extraction renders as a near-equivalent, and the 'at least' framing is a casual rendering of a stated target.10 sources →

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29. 29TrueAmerican refineries in the New Orleans area and Texas have specialized facilities to process thick Venezuelan oil.Multiple sources report that Gulf Coast refineries in Louisiana (including Norco near New Orleans, Garyville, and Lake Charles) and Texas (Port Arthur, Corpus Christi, Sweeny) are built or configured to process heavy, sour Venezuelan crude, so the claim's core assertion holds as of 2026-09-07. The claim's wording matches the passage faithfully, and the speaker's further remark that such capacity 'doesn't exist anymore' is not part of the extracted claim.5 sources →

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30. 30Can’t tellGasoline prices in Old Town Alexandria are below four dollars per gallon.No source reports gasoline prices in Old Town Alexandria specifically. Alexandria-wide figures near the claim's date straddle $4: the cheapest Alexandria/Arlington regular gas was about $3.79 on Sept 1, while the Northern Virginia AAA average was $4.01, so the claim cannot be graded on the record.5 sources →

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31. 31TrueThe price of oil has not been above 100 dollars a barrel for more than a week.As of the claim date (2026-09-07), the sources indicate Brent had not settled above $100 for more than a week: the AP report says Brent's last settlement above $100 before September 9 was a single day in late July, and Brent first climbed past $100 again on September 9. Oil stayed above $100 for sustained periods after September 9 (Brent averaged $114 in September), which does not change the verdict for the September 7 date but means the claim would be false if read as covering the whole later period.5 sources →

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32. 32Can’t tellThe Iranian currency exchange rate is 2 million rials to the dollar.No source reports the rial's rate on 2026-08-25, so the claim's figure of 2 million cannot be confirmed or refuted for that date. The sources do bracket it: the rate was about 1.5-1.6 million in February, hit a record of 2.2 million on Sept. 2, and was above 2.5 million by late September, which makes 2 million plausible for late August but not established. The post's 'reals' is a typo for rials, and the claim is graded as the post's own figure.9 sources →

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33. 33MixedIran has an inflation rate of at least 80 percent.As of 2026-09-07, the year-on-year headline rate was in the high 80s (June 88.6%, July 87.9%, and the Statistical Center reported roughly 89-90% for September), so the claim holds on that measure. Under the 12-month average measure, the rate was 73.6% for September and 76.8% for October, below 80%, so the figure depends on which measure is used.9 sources →

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34. 34Can’t tellU.S. forces cleared 75 Iranian mines from international shipping lanes.The claim departs from the passage: the post says U.S. forces cleared Iranian mines from shipping lanes and separately that 75 vessels attempted to breach the blockade, not 75 mines. Sources confirm the mine clearing and the 75-vessel figure, but none gives a count of 75 mines, so the claim as extracted cannot be graded.6 sources →

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35. 35TrueThe U.S. Navy is providing guidance and protection to ships leaving Iran by having them turn off their transponders.Sources from August to October 2026 report that the U.S. military shepherds tankers through the Strait of Hormuz with air and naval protection, and that many shippers switch off AIS transponders during transit. The claim's wording, 'leaving Iran', fits the transit corridor only loosely, and separate blockade reporting shows the Navy also turning ships back, but the core assertion is supported as of 2026-09-07.7 sources →

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36. 36MixedSenior IRGC member Namat Alhamadi died of a heart attack while giving a campaign speech.The claim matches the passage, and a Bulgarian report (fakti.bg) and an aggregator summary (ground.news) describe a man named Nemat Elhami collapsing and dying of a sudden cardiac arrest while speaking at a night rally in Bileh Savar, Iran. However, those same sources describe him as a local political activist, veteran and former parliamentary candidate, not a senior IRGC member, so the IRGC element is contradicted. The many US-partisan reposts naming Naemat al-Hami add no independent corroboration.8 sources →

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37. 37TrueThe United States has been friends with Canada for over 125 years.Official U.S. government sources describe a long-standing friendship and cooperation spanning more than 150 years, which exceeds the claim's 125-year threshold. No source contradicts the claim, though the sources characterize the relationship as cooperation and alliance more than explicitly as friendship.5 sources →

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38. 38FalseCanada has an economy smaller than Texas.The claim that Canada's economy is smaller than Texas's is contradicted: Texas's 2025 GDP of about $2.9 trillion exceeds Canada's roughly $2.32 trillion in current US dollars, and Texas also leads on PPP. The C$3.25 trillion figure is the same economy in Canadian dollars, not a larger one, and the claim was made on 2026-09-07 with no later change in these figures noted.5 sources →

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39. 39TrueArmy Secretary Dan Driscoll has resigned.Multiple tier1 and tier2 sources (AP, Reuters, BBC, NPR, PBS, Politico, CNN, ABC) report that Army Secretary Dan Driscoll submitted his resignation and is stepping down, with the White House confirming his departure. The claim's core assertion is supported; the claim's wording matches the passage's reference to his proffered resignation, and the exact effective date is not required to confirm it.9 sources →

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40. 40TruePete Hegseth is removing personnel from the Pentagon.The claim that Hegseth is removing personnel from the Pentagon is well supported: AP and The Hill (Oct 2026) report he fired the top military planner, and Washington Examiner (Apr 2026) reports he ousted the Army chief of staff and other senior officers, with AP noting nearly two dozen generals and admirals fired or forced out during his tenure. The extraction faithfully paraphrases the post's 'getting rid of dead weight' remark, and the sources show the removals predate the 2026-09-07 post date, though the Reuters report on planned cuts came later.6 sources →

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41. 41Can’t tellA federal district judge in the Northern District of New York has stripped Letitia James and the New York State Board of Elections of their qualified immunity in a lawsuit.A GovInfo docket entry shows a Northern District of New York memorandum-decision dated August 7, 2026 in NY Citizens Audit Civic Fund v. James, granting in part and denying in part a motion to dismiss, with Letitia James and the NYSBOE as defendants. The excerpt is truncated and does not say whether the court stripped either defendant of qualified immunity, so the central claim is neither confirmed nor refuted; the other sources concern different cases or unrelated matters.6 sources →

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42. 42Can’t tellA district judge in Albany, New York, issued an opinion stating that a lawsuit against election officials is based on First Amendment retaliation.None of the provided sources covers a 2026 Albany federal district court opinion stating that a lawsuit against election officials rests on First Amendment retaliation, so the claim cannot be graded in either direction. The sources that touch on Albany courts or First Amendment retaliation concern different cases, and the claimant's own passage cannot corroborate the claim.6 sources →

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43. 43TrueDonald Trump is involved in an escalating dispute with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney.As of September 7, 2026, sources show Trump and Carney in an active, escalating trade dispute: Canada announced retaliatory tariffs on about 700 U.S. products on August 26, set to take effect September 8, and Trump had referred to Carney personally. The dispute later eased into talks in late October and early November, which does not change the September 7 assessment.7 sources →

How it persuades

• InsinuationHints at wrongdoing it never states, or states and disownsI mean, are they going to be going to continue with some sort of a terrorist brigade, do you suppose?I mean, they'll be splintered. They'll turn on each otherI don't know the guy, to be quite honest. I really have no idea who he is, but it sounds like, you know, there's a lot of departments like thisI don't know how much the United States government was involved, but certainly OPEC was able to do all of these things.
• Us vs themA virtuous us against an enemy themThe war is sovereignists versus globalists.Curse you, mainstream press. Curse you, neocons. Curse you, defense industrial complexThere are too many homeboys, hillbillies, and Hebrews who are going to allow this nonsense to happen.Homeboys, hillbillies, and Hebrews come together to save America
• ExaggerationFigurative inflation carries the claimnuclear weaponized Armageddon psychopathsThey're Marxists. They're communists.I'm not gonna suffer fools anymoreI'm coming, and I'm bringing hell with me.I'm down 8 lb already.OPEC was able to bend us over their barrel and have their way with us.

What it’s built on

• Hidden knowledge · connect dotsA suppressed truth only the awake can seeThese are all of the shadow effortsThe term disinformation was not an organic term. It was created by Joseph Stalin in 1923.
• Whataboutism · opposing partyAnswers a criticism by pointing at someone elseunlike Southern California, but, ah, you know, cigarettes to homeless people. That's what Democrats do out there.
• Conspiracy · globalist eliteSecret coordination by powerful actorsIt's all orchestrated in a in a well conceived planThese are all of the shadow efforts where cartel money comes, drug money comes, and it's used to fuel regimes47 years of bad guys backed up to the hilt by the City of London and the globaliststhe media, the, the, the deep state, the Justice Department, all going after him.The war is sovereignists versus globalists.the machine that's called Washington, DC.and 2 more in the polygraph
• DistrustCalls courts and police illegitimatethe media, the, the, the deep state, the Justice Department, all going after him.the machine that's called Washington, DC. Doesn't have an aisleall of these departments have just sat back, let everything decline, and enrich their own cronies and themselves.The DSA thinks they're going to take over the country. They're high.They seize language from us. Call them what they are. They want to seize the country. They want to wipe out these institutionsthe fraudulent voter registrations are connected to a large-scale canvassing operationsand 3 more in the polygraph

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