Episode 1174 Scott Adams： Election Day in America and What to Expect
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hey everybody come on in here having a little technical difficulty but I feel
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like I solved it for some reason YouTube doesn't like to connect if I set it up
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too early so I'll adjust on that good morning everybody good morning big day big day the
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future of the country the United States future of the world it's all on today how do you feel
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you feel good well I'll make sure that you feel better by the time you are done with this periscope
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and one thing that will certainly make everything better you probably know what it is it's called
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the simultaneous sip and all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass a tank or chalice or a stein a
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canteen joke or flask a vessel of any kind fill it with your favorite liquid I like coffee and join
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me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day the thing that makes everything
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better including democracy it's called the simultaneous sip and it happens now
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ah I feel the integrity of the elections improving with one sip that's all it took well let's talk
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about all the things there are many things today um one of them is that although our rate of
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coronavirus infections in this country is zooming up there's a surge it seems that the rate of deaths
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is not zooming up it's closer to flat and so I'm curious how could it be that although the infections
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are zooming up the rate that the number of deaths stays roughly the same the only way I can understand
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that is if our ability to you know treat those patients and their ability to hide the vulnerable
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is exactly keeping up with the rate of increase what are the odds of that right because you would expect
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that those two rates of change to not be in balance that being in balance would be the biggest coincidence
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what you would expect is that infections are zooming up and deaths would zoom up even if we're better
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at treating them right you'd expect it maybe not as fast but it would be kind of normal to be you know
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half as fast or something or let's say we were getting so good at treating people that even though the rate of
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infection was zooming up the number of people dying was zooming down or even trending down but that's not
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happening the number that are dying is just this sort of a flat line while the number of getting infected is
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going through the roof it could be a coincidence it could be that those two rates of change how well we
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protect and how well we treat people who get it is exactly keeping up with the surge in infections
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maybe or is it just that there's a several week lag between infections and deaths so you'd need
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something like a one month lag for those numbers to start conforming and that's just about now so if we
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don't see a big increase in in deaths in the united states we have another mystery which is why is it so
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all right i did a walk around last night took a nice walk beautiful night last night and i was looking for
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campaign signs and found in the end i found three biden houses three houses with biden signs on the lawn
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number of houses with uh trump signs in my neighborhood now it's i live in blue california
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so the number of trump signs in my neighborhood zero
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but there were a suspicious number of american flags flying yesterday
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never noticed them before they looked like they had just been put up
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so how would you like to be the candidate let's say joe biden and you're running against a candidate
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whose political logo is indistinguishable from the brand of the country
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trump actually became synonymous with the american flag now republicans already had a bias in that
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direction but because you feel a little uncomfortable putting up a trump sign but you might feel a little
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bit more comfortable putting up an american flag the american flag just became a substitute for a trump
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sign how would you like to run against that i mean really running against the guy
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that's a tough one that's a tough one and if i were
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some kind of a song or sound going through my head
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and they were asking who people expected to win
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you know sort of an optimist versus pessimist sort of a situation
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and trump voters expect a winner today more than biden
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voters do so trump voters are expecting that we'll know the winner today more so than
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yeah that's that's the big difference is that trump supporters expect some something today
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now how would you like to have biden as your champion
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could go either way you know there's an argument
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for the you know benefit of the country because i'm a
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if you know if he thought there would be trouble or something
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so i'd hate to have my champion be the guy that i'm pretty sure would surrender first
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so of course the big question is the shy trump supporters will they will they show up
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and i want to get this on the record in case it's right
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because it would be great to be right about this
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people and by dad joke i mean the the republicans who
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lie to pollsters not because they're necessarily shy
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or not necessarily because they don't want to be in somebody's database
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as a trump supporter but because they think it's hilarious
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and because they don't trust any of the professionals or any of the experts
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at anything anymore and so my belief is that enough people got the idea enough republicans
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and conservatives got the idea of lying to pollsters that it just became a thing
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now when i do my uh my unscientific queries on twitter and ask people how many have lied to pollsters
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there's a lot of you as in hundreds of you responding just to my tweet now
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let's say you were uh you're a democrat and you hear that one person's tweet now i've got 590 000
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followers but on any given tweet they don't all see the tweet right some subset of that see the tweet and
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uh if if you had heard this and you're a democrat what would you feel when you thought wait a minute
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are you telling me that there are two reasons we might not be picking up trump supporters and polls
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one is that they're shy but i wasn't worried about that one because i think the pollsters corrected
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so they figured out how to how to correct for those shy trump supporters so that's not a problem
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but what's this bigger group you're talking about scott this dad joke group who just think
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it would be funny and subversive to lie to pollsters they don't really exist in big numbers do they
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yeah they do yeah they do um now we don't know if it's enough to win do we i mean we don't know for
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sure who's going to win but if you're telling me there are not a lot of dead joke republicans who
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lied to pollsters that much i can tell you i'm very confident about i don't know if it's enough nobody
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knows that but there are a lot of them there are a lot of them let me tell you something else that
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you probably don't realize if you're a biden supporter and you're not good at math let's say
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you believe that biden is up by pick a number let's say you think biden is up nationally by
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four points whatever five points let's say you think that's that's the number he's he's up five points
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nationally do you understand that it would only take a few percent of those people in other words
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all it would take is that half of those people lied two and a half people two and a half percent
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in order to erase the five percent because you understand that if people lied they said they were
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biden supporters so that adds one to biden but it also subtracts one from trump so if you reverse that
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it's a two per it's a two vote swing so that five percent margin you think you have that's not five
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percent that's two and a half percent because if those people leave they're going somewhere and
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they're not going home they're going to trump so it's not really a five percent gap or whatever you
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think it was seven eight percent whatever number you decided to believe it's half that and then when
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you half it you get really close to the margin of error for the polls themselves meaning that you're
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already within striking distance if you just cut it in half so um i think it's it's going to be quite a
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nervous making day for democrats again we don't know who's going to win but i'd be a lot more worried
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if i were a democrat for sure and of course they also have the ptsd of 2016 hanging over them
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so if you were on the winning side in 2016 and you wanted trump to win you just had a good day
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maybe a really good day i know i did but if you were a democrat and it was just a crushing defeat
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and it gave you ptsd and as andrew sullivan said he actually went into a clinical depression after
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trump won he's not alone a lot of people went into clinical depression after trump won i think
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that's definitely a thing um so you would have that in your mind like this gigantic weight because you're
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like oh not again not again but trump supporters don't have that weight because well if you lose you're
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going to be unhappy right everybody who loses is unhappy but you don't have that ptsd thing hanging
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over you it's not it's not going to be twice as bad it'll it'll be new to you if if it happened
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tucker carlson did an episode yesterday that i thought was one of his more brilliant
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monologues in the beginning and he talked about why it is that voters don't just vote for trump but
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in many cases they seem to love him actually be in love what's up with that right because you see a
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lot of people who support joe biden but correct me if i'm wrong you don't really see voters who are in
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love with him and i say in love like it's almost romantic because the affection for trump is really
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really personal am i right the the trump affection is about the person as much as the politics there's
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something they like about him now i get that half the country has a negative reaction and you know
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they're violently opposed as much as people love him but he certainly stokes emotion
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he certainly gets your emotions going yeah he even had a there was a the amish actually had a trump
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caravan with trump signs and their little uh horses and carriages
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if you hear that the amish have gone for uh have gone for trump
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yeah that's what you hear in your mind and so so what uh tucker surmised
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his hypothesis is that the reason that uh trump voters are in love with him and not just supporting
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him politically is that they feel he's the first politician that loved them and when i heard that
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the first time i thought it does feel like that it does feel like that he's he is the the blue-collar
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billionaire kind of guy and if you were in the midwest you'd lost your manufacturing job etc wouldn't
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you feel that trump actually cared about you which is interesting because the biggest complaint about
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trump trump is a lack of empathy right that's the biggest complaint but i would argue that there are
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two ways to show empathy one is the things you say i sure do feel bad for you i will fight hard for you
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words are part of how we detect empathy but trump is not that guy and never has been he's not the
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empathy in words guy and when he does it he has to do it as part of his job but when he does it it's
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it's not as you know doesn't touch you like some somebody else like a like a cuomo or somebody who's
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real good with that emotional type of speech but the thing that trump does is he does what he said he
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would do which is he would help a certain uh class of americans he's basically shoving a boot up china's
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ass for the swing states if you think about it i mean he basically is just putting his whole damn boot
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up to the brim in in president xi's ass to get some kind of relief for people who have manufacturing
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jobs he's taking the manufacturing right out of there maybe put it in puerto rico he says i don't know
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if that's the best idea frankly because of hurricane risk but uh in terms of having a an important
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manufacturing asset there like pharmacies pharmaceuticals but let's say we could protect them from a hurricane
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it feels like that's a pretty plausible explanation from uh tucker carlson that the people who vote for
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him actually feel that he cares about them and it's based on what he does it's not based on it's not
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based on his words which i think is very midwestern wouldn't you say um if you if you don't understand
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sort of that part of the world let me explain it to you it's about what you do it's not about your
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colorful words you know we're not too interested in your flowery explanations and your big vocabulary
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words are good but what did you do you know what you actually do and trump wins on that another
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hypothesis is from an article i tweeted around this morning that i thought was fascinating so you
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have to know that the person who wrote it is a person of color i think i don't know middle eastern
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maybe in terms of heritage uh so i don't know too much about the writer but was not a generic white guy
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that's the only point i'm trying to make so not a generic white guy wrote the following hypotheses
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and his article was which was very good um and he says the thing that people are missing
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now that's why i say it's important that this was not written by a generic white guy there are just
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some messages that sound better coming from different people and so a person of color can write that and
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you can say okay i'll take that seriously if if some generic white guy writes that you say ah racist
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right so and his point was that for example i'll just give you one example that black men i don't know
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if he said men or just black americans are pretty strong on border walls because illegal immigration
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competes for jobs so if you're in the in the black american voter category you're saying to yourself wait a
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minute trump is protecting me i i'm in the exact group of you know workers in america who are at risk
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and trump is protecting me so maybe you feel a little bit racist yourself meaning that minorities often
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have negative feelings about other minority groups and so you shouldn't expect that everybody is just
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because they might might also be anti some other minority group that they think trump is against or at
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least his policies seem to be you know not stacked in their favor so that's that's an interesting
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wild card that i hadn't really thought of uh and getting back to my point about uh people falling falling
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falling in love with trump there are little things that the trump's do that bond you to them and you could easily
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miss them all right you could easily miss them i'm going to give you an example of something that don jr did this
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morning that it's a very small thing it's just the smallest little thing but it's that x factor
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that bonds you to somebody that makes you not just like them but just you're bonded to them and it goes like
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this so you may know that uh mark schneider who's active on twitter and talks about uh nuclear power
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he's nuclear power advocate and he got banned from twitter suspended i guess suspended for the following
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tweet that i'm going to read and uh i think if you get banned from twitter you're still allowed to be on
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periscope that's true right so mark if you're watching and you might be um i'm going to read
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your tweet that they got you suspended on twitter and i don't know why and i'll get to the don jr part
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of this story in a minute so here's what uh mark tweeted that got him suspended he said seems like biden
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is trying to lose at this point lady gaga insulted americans with her redneck video and now she's going
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to campaign with sleepy joe in fracking country pennsylvania will be called for trump at 9 pm eastern
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time now what part of that gets you suspended i i had to like read this 10 times and i still don't know
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what is it about this that gets us suspended because let's just break it down um saying that biden is
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trying to lose does that get you suspended lots of people have said that that's actually a fairly
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common tweet uh lady gaga insulted americans with her redneck video redneck's not a banned word is it
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i don't think so um lady gaga that's okay um she's going to campaign with sleepy joe that's okay in
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fracking country it is and then the last sentence maybe this is what got him suspended
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suspended i don't know yeah suspended from twitter um where he said pennsylvania will be called for
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trump at 9 pm are you telling me that an ordinary citizen can't make a prediction about something
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fairly ordinary what could be more ordinary than predicting a candidate will claim victory and that's
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the most ordinary thing you could say so what about this got him banned or suspended is the right word i
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guess i don't know and being you know and this is extra bad because wouldn't you like to be on twitter
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today if you're if you're a real active twitter user as mark is being banned on election day for
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something this lame is really it's cruel you know today's the day you want to be on twitter so i'd like
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to see that you know certainly reversed today if it's possible mark schneider on twitter all right
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here's the don jr connection so i i saw the tweet somebody else took a screenshot of the of the tweet
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that got mark suspended we think it is maybe it's not that tweet but i think it is that one and i retweeted
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that uh with my own comment which was uh what the f except i spelled out the f word so my only tweet was
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what the f so here's the don jr connection he's he's the son of the sitting president of the united states
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and he retweeted my tweet i'm going to use the full word because we need to use it in this context the
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story isn't this good without the actual f word in use so hide the kids there's an f word coming
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so don jr retweets me without comment just retweets my tweet that says what the fuck
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and in that moment i felt bonded to him to don jr because he's not supposed to retweet that
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because there's an f word there right he is the son of the president he's not supposed to take this
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kind of risk but not only does it of course it agrees with his you know political opinions on
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censorship against uh conservatives but it also seemed supportive of mark meaning that
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he took a little personal reputational risk don jr did to retweet an f word
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supporting mark schneider because he's just a you know ordinary american who seems to be getting
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screwed by a social media platform at the moment so it's such a small thing right because he could
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have easily ignored that tweet just easily would you have known if he had ignored it you wouldn't know
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if he'd ever seen it so ignoring it would be the easiest thing he could have done no risk
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you know doesn't get in trouble for for retweeting an f word doesn't make him look you know crude to
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some people but he didn't he just said i'll retweet that it's so small but it's those little x factor
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things that bind you to somebody because you see he took a risk for a stranger an american
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um and i tweeted this provocatively i said uh you know when you go to vote do you want to vote for
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the the candidate whose followers would stop to help you change a tire in a dangerous neighborhood
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or would you rather vote for the candidate who um wouldn't do that you know basically you could
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break it down you could make it simpler and just say how about the candidate who wouldn't do that
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you know their followers not the candidate and when you watch the uh the rallies do you see any angry
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people at a trump rally you really don't do you and there was a uh a trans um i never know the right
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vocabulary so i'll i will i will couch this by saying i don't know the right vocabulary but i'm not
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trying to be insensitive or anything else but a somebody who identified themselves as a trans person
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said that i'm wrong and that um it would be more dangerous for this trans person to be in a
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republican neighborhood than in a democrat neighborhood do you believe that do you believe
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it would be more dangerous for a transsexual individual to be in a republican neighborhood
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than in a democrat neighborhood you know we're just looking in general as a general average
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i don't feel like that's even close to being true indeed um let me state something that might
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surprise you a little bit but from the first moment that trump was running for president and maybe
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or you can say from the time he got nominated let's say from the time he got sworn in have you heard
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any republicans saying anti-gay stuff because i haven't it's like republicans just stopped caring
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completely and why wouldn't they is there a republican that thinks they should be in your pants
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no no there are no republicans who think that they should have a vote about your genitalia now they were
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concerned about gay marriage at one point that seems to have passed but that was more about their
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tradition you know their religious tradition it wasn't so much anti-gay i know you think it is and
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certainly i'm in favor of gay marriage so i was never on that side but it was it was more about them
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preserving something that they thought was their you know special cultural thing it wasn't anti anything
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in my opinion that's just my take on it but i've not seen anything that would even suggest even
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remotely the republicans are somehow anti-lgbtq i don't see it at all in real life
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all right um if trump wins re-election and i think you will
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the pundits who got everything wrong again how are they going to explain how they were wrong the first
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time they used russia collusion i suppose they could use you know voter suppression again that would be an
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obvious one but i feel like they're going to fall back to well there are more more racists than we
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thought well it turns out turns out i underestimated how many racists there are in the country i think
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that would be their fallback excuse kind of kind of derivative of last year um here's another thought
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fast forward to the future it's uh one month from today and so close your eyes go one month into the
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future and let's say trump won all the democrats
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who thought it was a good idea to run joe biden against trump are they going to look back at that
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decision as possibly a little bit flawed because they chose someone who's decaying right in front of
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us to run against the most energetic force of nature the country has ever seen you know in retrospect
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once you get past you know the the noise of it all as soon as it slows down a little bit and you can
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start to think a little more calmly and objectively about what we've experienced for the past year
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if you're a democrat are you going to say to yourself i think we picked the right person
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i don't feel like it i feel like they're going to feel really embarrassed about the fact that they
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picked biden because uh you know i've told you this story when i when i met the president in the oval
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office in 2018 he asked me who i thought way back in 2018 who i thought would be the candidate
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i said i thought it would be kamala harris he said the president said he thought it would be joe biden
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i said it won't be joe biden because he doesn't stand a chance against you he would be the weakest
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candidate and my my thought at the time goes like this if you if you took president trump
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and then you started selectively removing all the things you like about him it's like all right
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he's you know he's going to be tough with china i like that but let's let's remove that from him
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uh he's going to be a real fighter he's going to be tough on immigration he's going to all the
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things you like about him just take them out of there he's got high energy he's you know he can
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really persuade he can get things done he can kick some butt you take all that away from him and what
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would you have left joe biden you would have joe biden if you took everything that's good away
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from trump that's what would be left now so in my mind he was the worst matchup the best matchup
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would have been somebody different like a hillary clinton because hillary clinton doesn't look like a
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weak version of trump the hillary clinton looked like hillary clinton she was her own person if uh if
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trump had run against let's say elizabeth warren just to pick one example i think she would have
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lost but nobody would have said huh elizabeth warren looks like just a weak version of trump
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nobody would have said that they would have said she's just elizabeth warren uh likewise kamala harris
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they would have just said she's kamala harris but joe biden looks like the version of trump
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after it's been beaten to death you know that's just a bad matchup so that's why i thought he
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wouldn't get as far as he's gotten so i was wrong about how close he would get and if he wins i'll be
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really wrong um i'll be i'll be happy to admit that by the way by the way let me say this as clearly as
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possible if i'm wrong i'm not planning to be wrong but if i'm wrong about who wins the presidency
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i'm not going to be embarrassed about that um and i'm and i'm certainly going to be completely
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public about it because you shouldn't be concerned about being wrong about something you couldn't
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possibly know you know we're all just predicting if the stock market is up today and i think it is
00:33:56.140
last i checked uh it's not because all the smart people are expecting their taxes to go up
00:34:03.580
now you see where i'm going with this why would it be that the polls all say biden's going to win
00:34:09.740
easily but the stock market doesn't usually vote for tax increases which is what higher stocks would
00:34:18.780
be telling you they'd be telling you that they're if the stock market thought biden was going to win
00:34:23.980
then the stocks would be going up on a tax increase that doesn't happen stocks go down if you think
00:34:32.700
taxes are going up so i think the stock market has voted for trump or voted that other people will vote
00:34:39.660
for trump so if i knew that the stock market was up and my candidate was the one pushing for higher taxes
00:34:48.140
for those very people who buy stocks what would i start to think
00:35:06.540
uh gunletch what's his first name is it martin or something a big money manager guy ceo and chief
00:35:15.340
investment offices of double line capital and he's saying uh why is it that uh biden is so worried
00:35:21.900
about trump claiming victory and i thought to myself well why wouldn't he be you know why wouldn't
00:35:29.180
biden be worried that trump will claim victory why wouldn't you be worried about that and gun lack
00:35:35.500
makes a good point if the polls are correct and biden also believes the polls there's not really any
00:35:43.580
chance that trump is going to be able to claim success right if the national polls are even close to be
00:35:51.580
incredible the vote will be just so obviously biden that trump doesn't really have any path to claim
00:35:58.780
that he won so it must be and this is a pretty good pretty good thinking i would say it doesn't
00:36:06.460
have to be right but i think it is that biden's internal polling doesn't show him being that much
00:36:13.740
ahead right because why would biden even care what trump does if he's going to win by nine he doesn't
00:36:22.860
care what trump does trump would be irrelevant forever if the polls are correct so
00:36:32.380
somebody in the comments said i'm bald and so i'm not credible that might be true dr bandy lee do you
00:36:39.260
remember dr bandy lee was the one who was going on television saying that president trump had mental
00:36:45.500
problems uh how long ago a couple years ago and she got in trouble for a tweet now if you ever believed
00:36:55.500
that dr bandy lee was credible and smart because she has credentials and she was saying the president
00:37:02.700
is mentally incompetent uh just consider what she tweeted uh and i guess she had to delete this tweet
00:37:09.740
she got in some trouble she tweeted donald trump is not adolf hitler lee began quote at least hitler
00:37:17.020
improved the daily life of his followers what had discipline and required more of himself to gain the
00:37:23.340
respect of his followers and she goes on but it doesn't matter so dr bandy lee famous trump critic
00:37:35.260
decided decided to go uh with a comparison of trump to hitler and and praise hitler's qualities of uh
00:37:44.300
improving the daily life of his followers his discipline and requiring more of himself
00:37:52.380
how dumb do you have to be to praise hitler on twitter and think that's going to go okay for you
00:37:57.820
so whatever you thought of dr bandy lee when she was criticizing trump
00:38:05.900
just keep in mind that she also uh praised hitler so that's part of the context
00:38:13.340
the the biggest trick that the media has ever sold to the public is the following trick and it's a
00:38:21.660
really good one this is the best trick in terms of brainwashing that i've i've ever seen it's just
00:38:29.740
it's monumental and it goes like this that trump is the one responsible for the uh the country being
00:38:37.500
divided now because he's the most um interesting provocative person because he's the president he gets
00:38:48.060
the credit and the blame for lots of things that aren't exactly all his fault so any president who
00:38:54.220
has a good economy gets the credit even if they didn't do anything any president during a bad economy
00:39:00.300
gets blamed even if it wasn't their fault every president during a pandemic presumably is going to get
00:39:07.100
the credit or the blame based on how the the pandemic goes and it might not all be in their control
00:39:12.380
so it's perfectly natural for the president to be imbued with our feelings of causation i don't know
00:39:22.460
if that sentence made any sense i was winging it there but we think he's the cause of things because
00:39:28.940
he is in our minds and he's the president and he's on tv and he says things and then people do things
00:39:35.580
so you think he causes everything he's the cause but that's the trick because the cause of the division
00:39:42.700
in this country has been for a number of years fake news far and away it's the fake news that causes the
00:39:50.860
division there's a mental mental uh experiment that i ask democrats to do which is that imagine the news
00:39:59.740
had been reported just straight news with no fake news how would they report each of the things that
00:40:06.380
you think is a scandal with trump well the charlottesville fine people hoax would never have
00:40:14.300
happened because if they'd reported what he said he said he disavowed the racist there on the same day
00:40:21.180
they said he was praising him just didn't happen it was fake news so suppose that never been reported
00:40:27.740
right that's very different the country would feel very different without that fake news what about
00:40:35.180
the uh the fake news that he he suggested drinking bleach for coronavirus or the fake news about
00:40:42.540
whole countries or the fake news about any of it you know you can just go right down the list
00:40:49.500
russia collusion how about the fake news about russia collusion if you removed all of the fake news
00:40:55.900
news it would just be trump making claims they'd report on his claims they'd report on what the other
00:41:03.100
people said too but they wouldn't be brainwashing you they'd just be telling you what's happening if we
00:41:09.580
lived in the world with real news trump would not be that divisive he'd be a little divisive but it would
00:41:17.100
be on scale of one to ten if ten is where we're at take away the fake news trump would be a three
00:41:26.620
maybe a four tops the fake news causes the division and they have the power not only to cause the division
00:41:35.740
but they have the power to blame somebody else for it it's like your boss right your boss has the power to
00:41:42.860
give you an assignment and then make sure you fail at it by not having the right resources or information
00:41:49.980
or whatever and then your boss can give you a bad performance review for the problem that your boss
00:41:56.620
created and then your boss can fire you for the problem that your boss created a hundred percent of it
00:42:05.500
that's the situation the fake news has put the country in they can create the problem they can assign it
00:42:11.740
to somebody and then they can make them lose the election just like just like a boss uh so that's
00:42:19.740
the world we're in all right so we're going to see today and unless unless there's a trump blowout
00:42:29.340
that's so overwhelming that it can't be denied and i don't think i don't think that's probably going to
00:42:34.380
happen i think it'll be at least a little bit close uh in the total vote if not the electoral college
00:42:40.460
electoral college might be more of a more of a gap but you're going to see the mainstream media and
00:42:47.020
the democrats running a brainwashing uh psychological operation on the country and it goes like this and
00:42:54.940
they're already signaling it pretty clearly biden has already said that he would um he would take the
00:43:01.980
job of president if the fake news declares him the president think about that biden actually said that
00:43:09.580
without the words fake news so biden has said that if the news organizations declare him the winner
00:43:16.300
that he'll give a victory sort of acceptance speech and declare himself the president prior to being
00:43:22.940
sworn in but the president-elect tonight or tomorrow or whenever whenever there's a result now
00:43:31.500
that tells me that the fake news guessed to decide who's president and if you didn't think that was
00:43:42.060
true consider that they sold the consider all the things they've sold they sold to find people hoax
00:43:49.020
half the country bought it they sold russia collusion all kinds of things drinking clorox just just an
00:43:56.860
enormous amount of fake news has been sold to the public and they have proved the concept works they
00:44:04.380
have proven they can disappear the hunter biden laptop story they could just make it go away
00:44:10.700
successfully they made the biggest story in the country just just go away they have that kind of
00:44:17.100
power now the fake news industry if you will so it seems to me that if trump wins they have plenty of
00:44:25.660
cause to say the there was voter suppression wouldn't you say there's no doubt that there will be
00:44:32.220
enough anecdotal bad things happening in local places that both sides will be able to claim the
00:44:38.620
the the election was rigged even if it's not even if all of those things put together didn't add up to
00:44:45.820
anything both sides will have all the fodder they need to claim it was an illegitimate election you all
00:44:51.820
know that right nobody's going to be surprised when the losing side claims the vote was illegitimate we
00:44:59.740
all expect that given that and given that the mainstream media can create a reality that isn't
00:45:08.780
real but people will accept as real they can simply say biden won and half the country will believe it
00:45:15.900
it and then it's just a question of how many people act that way right suppose just take it down to
00:45:25.340
an employee level at the white house you're just an employee and let's say you work i don't know security
00:45:34.380
or maybe you're one of a facilities people well i'll make it really basic i imagine that there's somebody
00:45:41.020
whose job it is it's fair to say is a facilities um director or manager for the white house there's
00:45:49.340
somebody whose job it is that when there's a transition of government that they get the moving
00:45:54.540
trucks and they they move out the old stuff from the you know the people who were in charge and they
00:45:59.900
move in the new people and there's you know they assign who gets what office and all that so there's
00:46:05.100
somebody whose job it is to make sure that the right people have the right stuff in the white house
00:46:12.460
what if that person is a democrat right what if the facilities person looks at the mainstream news
00:46:20.700
and says well you know the mainstream news it says biden is my president so i'm going to order my
00:46:28.380
employees to move the files and personal effects of the last administration out on inauguration day
00:46:37.820
and i'm going to tell my people to move in joe biden's staff what happens then would the security
00:46:47.260
people say wait wait wait you can't do that because i don't think joe biden won what if that happens
00:46:54.540
what if the facilities person is lining up the trucks to move biden into the white house and the
00:47:01.260
security people are saying he didn't win what then right what then you know somebody is saying in the
00:47:10.860
comments that the most guns win but i don't know that it would come to that because it feels more like
00:47:17.020
a bureaucratic problem it feels more like people with no guns standing in the white house saying
00:47:24.060
but i think biden's the president look at cnn they just declared he's the president
00:47:30.700
and then the other one would say but i'm watching fox news and they're not so sure
00:47:35.980
so what do i do i feel like that's what's coming what we don't know is how individual citizens
00:47:44.540
will act if they're told there are two different presidents i don't think here's what i don't think i don't
00:47:51.900
think it'll be a civil war i think it will be frustrating sometimes hilarious very interesting
00:48:02.460
fascinating from beginning to end a study of human behavior and brainwashing and and everything else
00:48:09.660
but it's not going to be a shooting war i'm not going to say that nobody will get hurt in the next week
00:48:17.580
because it's a big country with lots of crazy people but we're not going to have a civil war
00:48:22.620
it's just not going to happen we will have this bureaucratic supreme court fake news mess
00:48:31.660
probably the only way to avoid it is a is a blowout in one direction or the other but it looks like we're
00:48:37.980
heading toward the fake news running what i call coup two coup two involves the biden people simply
00:48:46.380
acting like they won and the news simply supporting them and then seeing if everybody else will just go
00:48:52.860
along and see if they'll act like biden won too so that would be coup two um
00:48:59.100
and that is mostly what i wanted to talk about checking my notes um i think we're good all right
00:49:12.220
do you have any questions that you would like to ask me i'll tell you there are a lot of things that
00:49:18.380
don't matter in this election and the number of things that don't matter is pretty large for example
00:49:26.620
you heard a lot about the candidates making their their quote closing arguments their closing
00:49:33.340
arguments i don't think their closing arguments mattered at all do you know anybody who even
00:49:39.260
knows what their closing arguments were i don't i saw in the comments i've been asked about this thing
00:49:47.180
hammer and scorecard have you heard those words hammer these are projects project hammer project
00:49:56.300
scorecard have you heard of those so uh on steve bannon's show the war room he had general mckearney
00:50:06.700
retired general who claims to have close personal knowledge to a software program that can change
00:50:14.540
votes after they've been made he claims if i have this right that the our our intelligence services
00:50:22.620
created the software to use on other countries to influence their elections and and the claim is
00:50:29.980
that we've used it and that some election unstated don't know which ones were actually influenced
00:50:36.940
by a software program that i guess could be inserted in somebody's database and and move move votes
00:50:44.860
without anybody knowing it the claim is that the democrats have access to this tool
00:50:51.020
and that they will use it to influence the votes after they've been cast so the votes will get
00:50:58.540
into the database the software will get into the database switch some votes and it'll be just enough
00:51:04.300
to win so they won't make it so obvious that you would know it happened to be you know cleverly
00:51:10.540
picking a person here or a person there spreading it around you know so it's not all in one state
00:51:15.500
or something that would be obvious now the source for this is a retired u.s general who has a
00:51:24.780
excellent resume do you believe it do you believe it i'm finding it difficult to believe not impossible
00:51:36.460
because it falls yeah macchinearney macchinearney is the general um it falls in the it falls into the
00:51:44.860
category of things that totally could be real totally could be but i don't know it also has the the sound and
00:51:58.220
feel of something that's not real but it could be could be so i would say that's a wait and see
00:52:05.900
but we'll be waiting and seeing forever because we would never use somebody somebody in comments
00:52:11.500
is saying they used it in canada i don't think there's any proof of any of that
00:52:16.460
um so let us not assume that just because it was on a podcast it's true
00:52:23.900
um i assume let let me give you a complete assumption my complete assumption is this
00:52:32.060
whenever there's a possibility to do something that has an enormous upside potential now you could gain
00:52:37.740
a lot if you did it not not always but you might gain a lot and the risk of getting caught is minuscule
00:52:45.900
it always happens always so if you have that condition and there are enough people involved so
00:52:51.580
you don't have one honest person who doesn't do it but if you have enough people involved
00:52:56.300
it's possible there's a big upside gain and the odds of getting caught are
00:53:02.300
minimal and i would imagine that they wouldn't make a software that could do this unless it could
00:53:07.580
also cover its tracks really really well because if we made a software that was intended to change
00:53:13.100
elections in other countries and why wouldn't we really i mean think about it do you think nobody at least
00:53:19.900
tried to make a software that would change the elections in other countries of course we did
00:53:25.420
of course if our intelligence agencies had never at least tried to do that i would think they were
00:53:31.420
not doing their job you should at least have the option if you know what i mean so i don't think they
00:53:37.100
would build such software if you because it would have to be quite sophisticated and if you could build
00:53:43.580
something that sophisticated couldn't you also cover your tracks couldn't you also pretty easily make it
00:53:51.900
hard to discover so i don't know that we would ever know we'll just know we'll have an election
00:53:58.140
there'll be a president and who knows all right so uh be smart today be brave and when the brainwashing
00:54:09.660
comes and it will it will come because they've signaled that pretty clearly be immune be immune
00:54:16.220
to the uh the brainwashing the slaughter meter is at a hundred percent and by the way i noticed that
00:54:23.340
fox news is running a uh a little area on their website where they have an actual digital meter like a
00:54:31.260
like a gas meter that's uh that will tell you the odds so on any given time they'll estimate the odds
00:54:39.100
of somebody winning and it's basically the slaughter meter except the fox news version of it
00:54:48.220
somebody says how would this software work given vastly different voting systems among the states
00:54:54.140
that is an excellent question as you know all the states um do their own thing but you would only need
00:55:03.500
to be able to you would only need to compromise the key states and then only a few counties in the key
00:55:10.140
states so you might only have to influence let's say three databases three states where the the election
00:55:19.900
information information is consolidated for the state before it's reported you know at a federal level
00:55:26.540
so you figure all the individual reporting machines etc are going to go into one database
00:55:32.700
in each state i assume right that isn't that a fair assumption every state has one database
00:55:38.780
that ultimately all of the different voting machines the the paper ballots and everything will go into
00:55:44.460
right if you have a database in each state and there are only a few states that are critical you
00:55:52.140
just have to compromise maybe three databases and though they would not be the voting machines
00:56:00.860
they would just be the database that has the data from the voting machines so maybe compromise
00:56:07.260
three of them and you could throw the election um that may be simplistic perhaps they have you know ways
00:56:15.500
to check against exactly that but i don't know um
00:56:23.500
all right uh oh senate predictions here's my senate prediction um i think the republicans will do
00:56:31.900
better than the polls suggest i don't know if they'll hold the senate but they'll do better than the
00:56:37.500
polls suggest because i think that lying about what senator you're going to vote for is sort of
00:56:45.420
so adjacent to lying about what presidential candidate you support that i would expect people to be
00:56:51.500
consistent in other words if they lied to a pollster about who they're voting for president
00:56:57.100
i think they would also take that lie to the senate and say oh yeah i'll be voting for that democratic
00:57:04.460
senator sure so if there's a shy trump supporter or a dad joke trump supporter group i would expect not
00:57:14.140
all of it but some percentage of it to be influencing the polls of this the senators so i think the senators
00:57:20.540
will do better republicans uh did i vote i did not i did not uh because i didn't want to vote until it
00:57:30.060
was the last minute because it's funnier all right that's all i got for now and i will talk to you
00:57:37.100
maybe tonight let's see how things go but i i might be joining you tonight and that's all for now