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Heat wave? What heat wave? That’s just the government TELLING you it’s hot outside, for its own nefarious reasons.

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You know the (evocative but false) parable about the frog and the boiling water? Rush is the frog standing in the pan, slowly dissolving into soup, wearing a lumberjack hat and yelling “BOY IT SURE IS COLD IN HERE.”

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