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gab13by13

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12. I need to be more clear,
Wed Feb 11, 2026, 03:36 PM
Feb 11

Polls are only as good as the data it gets and the programs it uses.

I'm not saying that the people who crunch the numbers are corrupt, I'm saying they have to go by the information they are getting.

Similarly, I would venture a guess that a lot more Americans died from Covid than was reported for numerous reasons.

I watch articles scroll across my home page about all of the factories, restaurants, businesses cutting back or shutting down. Manufacturing is down. I just get the sense of the climate I see, and it's not positive, not even talking about AI.

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