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November 18, 2025 • 37 mins

📡 - Sign up and get your router FREE: https://free.nomadinternet.com/l/ERIC...📱 - Listen to the original podcast🐵 - Check out more Average Intelligence Podcast🖥️ - Visit our website: https://aretemedia.org/In this episode, Atom and Ilea dive deep into one of the most thorough political fact-checks of the decade: The Average Intelligence Podcast’s full breakdown of the 2024 Presidential Debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.With political rhetoric heating up again, we revisit their massive, detailed review—because understanding how political claims work is more important now than ever.We explore:✔️ Partial truths, “technical truths,” and misleading statistics✔️ How candidates weaponize context to shape public perception✔️ The biggest fact-check wins from The Average Intelligence Podcast✔️ Economic flashpoints: taxes, tariffs, inflation & job creation✔️ Social issues: public health, immigration, abortion rights✔️ Claims rated True, False, Mostly True, Misleading, or Unknown✔️ And the single most egregious factual error of the entire debate (verified by the IRS of all agencies)From the sorority-sister allegation…to tariffs and inflation math…to border policy, Project 2025, reproductive rights, and January 6th…this episode cuts through the noise and explains the mechanisms behind modern political messaging.If you’ve ever wondered:“Is that claim actually true?”“What context is missing from this soundbite?”“Why does each side insist they’re ‘technically correct’?”This is the episode you don’t want to miss.Stick around to the end as Atom and Ilea unpack the wildest claim of the night—Harris’s assertion that the U.S. has zero active military personnel in combat zones, despite the IRS listing 17 active combat areas for tax-exempt status. It’s one of the most shocking fact-check moments in recent debate history.⭐ Chapters(Optional—You can delete this if you prefer)00:00 – Intro01:10 – How political rhetoric manipulates “technical truths”05:40 – Sorority sister allegation08:15 – ABC insider “question leak” claim12:50 – Tax cuts & economic framing19:10 – Tariffs, inflation, and $4,000 claim28:22 – Immigration fear-based rhetoric34:55 – Abortion, IVF & new state laws43:30 – Project 2025 explained49:00 – Afghan withdrawal, military claims & accountability56:10 – The “zero combat zones” IRS fact-check1:03:20 – Social Security & deficit models1:08:40 – Final analysis and rhetorical takeaways🔍 Why This Episode MattersPolitical debates aren’t won by truth—they’re won by framing.This episode gives you the tools to understand:How candidates craft claims that sound trueWhy misleading context is often more powerful than dataWhat the AIP fact-check uncovered about hidden assumptionsHow voters can defend themselves against rhetorical manipulationIf you want to be a smarter, more informed voter, this is essential viewing.🔗 Watch More From The Average Intelligence PodcastThey did the heavy lifting on this incredible fact-check. Support their work!#aianalysispodcast #averageintelligencepodcast #trump #kamalaharris #presidentialdebate #factchecked .css-j9qmi7{display:-webkit-box;display:-webkit-flex;display:-ms-flexbox;display:flex;-webkit-flex-direction:row;-ms-flex-direction:row;flex-direction:row;font-weight:700;margin-bottom:1rem;margin-top:2.8rem;width:100%;-webkit-box-pack:start;-ms-flex-pack:start;-webkit-justify-content:start;justify-content:start;padding-left:5rem;}@media only screen and (max-width: 599px){.css-j9qmi7{padding-left:0;-webkit-box-pack:center;-ms-flex-pack:center;-webkit-justify-content:center;justify-content:center;}}.css-j9qmi7 svg{fill:#27292D;}.css-j9qmi7 .eagfbvw0{-webkit-align-items:center;-webkit-box-align:center;-ms-flex-align:center;align-items:center;color:#27292D;}


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