Oct 12, 2026 · 18 min · 7 segments
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Jennifer WelchHostJosh WelchGuest[cheering] I mean, it's amazing.
When you stand up here, it's just like the love...
I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap, "Oh, I love you so." Oh, it's true.
I mean, he says that they're so stupid that he could say anything, and, and they agree.
Um, what I find more depressing about that particular piece is the fact that none of the major news sources covered it.
A- and the, the bigger story here is the lack of disinformation that's given to Trump's voters, and the way that Fox News and others present the narrative in our country for them to, to even be there, for, for starters.
Uh, and this is a cult, and you say this over and over, but a- and I think you're right.
I mean, it's a cult of people that get something from being in it, that they ignore facts, they ignore, uh, realities in, in order to believe in this thing that's just not real.
And a bigger question that I don't necessarily know the answer to is how do you combat that when people live in another world, when they live with these illusions of lies? How do you combat that? That's a whole different animal.
[cheering] I mean, it's amazing.
When you stand up here, it's just like the love...
I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap, "Oh, I love you so." Oh, it's true.
I mean, he says that they're so stupid that he could say anything, and, and they agree.
Um, what I find more depressing about that particular piece is the fact that none of the major news sources covered it.
A- and the, the bigger story here is the lack of disinformation that's given to Trump's voters, and the way that Fox News and others present the narrative in our country for them to, to even be there, for, for starters.
Uh, and this is a cult, and you say this over and over, but a- and I think you're right.
I mean, it's a cult of people that get something from being in it, that they ignore facts, they ignore, uh, realities in, in order to believe in this thing that's just not real.
And a bigger question that I don't necessarily know the answer to is how do you combat that when people live in another world, when they live with these illusions of lies? How do you combat that? That's a whole different animal.
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