Well, ya got me.
Confirmation bias. :-)
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What it does illustrate is how we sometimes might fall for something said by someone who spends time building up credibility in order to later spring something false that people will nonetheless believe. Like some of those Paytriots out there, or AJ. That’s not what I was doing though, I was just making a joke that apparently was too close to believable given all we have learned here.